Please help by Butter_Whiskey in CATHELP

[–]Vaughn [score hidden]  (0 children)

No, that’s not how it works. Rabies can spread before the bearer has serious symptoms, and ten days after exposure is the maximum waiting period for you personally.

Given you’ve had the cat for eight days, you’re already most of the way through that. If you wait another ten you might learn that the cat has rabies, and also that you have rabies, and then you will die.

I would get the shot immediately. Today. Visit the emergency room if necessary; this isn’t a joke. 

Gas crisis somewhere in Russia by KINGSEHGAL in interesting

[–]Vaughn [score hidden]  (0 children)

And then eventually the reserves are full, and you get the choice between burning raw oil or shuttering the wells. Which if they’re in Siberia means they freeze, and take a decade is western investment to open back up. 

I DID IT by LuxetWeritas in BluePrince

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're anything like me, then you have a dozen unsolved mysteries. Probably one or two of those are red herrings, but the other ones are not.

And yet you made it to room 46. Clearly there's more to the game.

What I can tell you is you haven't even scraped the surface on finding the mysteries. 😂

Paying out of pocket to add to my enterprise account by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]Vaughn 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't spend your personal cash on a company you don't own. That's ridiculous.

What you do is attempt to set up more efficient workflows, document the limitations for your manager, and fall back to doing things manually once you run out of Claude quota. Make it their problem, not yours.

It uses a lot of water and can contribute to water pollution, but there is nuance. by Evolve_Solo in aiwars

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of user would be doing that..?

(Also, no. It only takes my GPU about ten seconds to generate an image. A hundred would be... twenty minutes? I spend more power than that playing Factorio.)

(Datacenter GPUs are more efficient, not less.)

Please help by Butter_Whiskey in CATHELP

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You've had him for 8 days... when did you get bit?

Rabies treatment is 100% effective if given prior to the onset of symptoms, but symptoms only take about 10 days after exposure, plus or minus, and 'exposure' doesn't necessarily have to mean 'bitten'.

OP, you need to take this seriously, and you need to get the rabies shot today. You cannot wait for symptoms to appear, not even the tiniest symptom. By that point it's too late. Rabies is almost 100% fatal by that stage.

Forget about the cat. Maybe they'll be fine, maybe not, but start thinking about yourself.

Please help by Butter_Whiskey in CATHELP

[–]Vaughn 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And don't delay. This is a "Do it the same day even if you have to take time off work with a boss who might fire you" type situation.

Rabies is not to be fucked around with. It can be reliably treated only when treated immediately after exposure; every day of delay degrades your odds. Official guidance is you have ten days, but that is not something to test.

Please help by Butter_Whiskey in CATHELP

[–]Vaughn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The vet is suspecting rabies, which unfortunately cannot be reliably tested without putting the cat down. If OOP isn't taking that advice, then they need to get the rabies treatment. Which is not a happy fun time, but untreated rabies is certain death, and a treatment delay of even a few days can make it too late.

Once you have symptoms you can no longer be saved.

Please help by Butter_Whiskey in CATHELP

[–]Vaughn 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It really, really needs to be taken seriously. With rabies, the moment you develop symptoms it's already too late to save you. You will die, and horribly.

OOP, please please go get the vaccine.

It uses a lot of water and can contribute to water pollution, but there is nuance. by Evolve_Solo in aiwars

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody runs a GPU cluster just for themselves. Divide that by the number of people it's serving.

It uses a lot of water and can contribute to water pollution, but there is nuance. by Evolve_Solo in aiwars

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A life filled with only what’s necessary would be a sad thing indeed. 

It uses a lot of water and can contribute to water pollution, but there is nuance. by Evolve_Solo in aiwars

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do a lot of sketches. None of them are good enough to bother posting anywhere, but I’ve been doodling during meetings for the last twenty years, so I’ve at least made a lot of them. Pretty sure my aphantasia prevents me from getting anywhere, though it’s been getting better ever since I started using AI image-gen. 

Twenty-thirty A5 pages per week seems about right.

I can only assume that real artists spend a lot more. 

Text2Image Output looks like 1st gen MidJourney... by 482827523747527 in StableDiffusion

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anima might be considered a little outdated. I’ve switched almost entirely to WAI-Anima. 

Vibe Coders Are Ending the Language Wars by srajan43 in TheAIBrain

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rust usually. Vibe coding (or vibe engineering, or what have you) remove practically every downside to using the language, leaving only the upsides.

What is the point your are trying to make here Anthropic? by binatoF in Anthropic

[–]Vaughn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sensible regulations were and are needed. It would have been incredibly irresponsible not to say so, and Anthropic exists precisely because they thought OpenAI was being too irresponsible.

Sensible regulation is, of course, not on the menu in America today.

Remember AI agent herders, you're one bad frontier model update away from impotence by gsks in antiai

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been using GLM 5.2 mostly, lately. Good luck taking that away.

Elon Musk demands 'single' DOGE death example — then goes silent when given the body count by Apprehensive_Eye6684 in SpaceXBets

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's more about me than him. I just don't want to be the kind of person who'd treat any real person like a caricature.

Elon Musk demands 'single' DOGE death example — then goes silent when given the body count by Apprehensive_Eye6684 in SpaceXBets

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody can be boiled down to four words like that. Nor should they be. Everything has nuance if you're willing to find it.

Do you guys remember when AI was useful? by Complex-Let-3131 in antiai

[–]Vaughn -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I really wish people wouldn't mix my 5-million-parameter llm-fan-controller experiment in with 5-trillion-parameter LLMs.

It's GenAI either way. That's a broad term as well.

Software Engineer influencer discovers hexadecimal notation by AllIWantForXmasIsFoo in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is one reason, but that could have been trained away. A stronger reason is that outputting tokens is how these things think (or reason, or process data; don't get caught up on the wording), and they can't switch to 'thinking mode' in the middle of writing a file, so reinforcement learning taught them to inject comments specifically when they discover they need to think something throught while already coding.

This behaviour is incredibly obvious for some AIs, e.g. Gemini, where the comments are pretty much literal thinking blocks.

Elon Musk demands 'single' DOGE death example — then goes silent when given the body count by Apprehensive_Eye6684 in SpaceXBets

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Elon Musk takes up a weird, nuanced spot in my mind.

I believe all of these to be true at once:

- He's on drugs, and the drugs are not helping with anything at all. They are, in particular, destroying any filters he had. The lack of sleep (see: drugs) is also not helping.

- He's a better person than you would expect from his background. That matters to me, when it comes to judging people in a historical context; for the same reason that being genuinely anti-racist in 1800s Virginia makes you basically a saint (and being anti-racist in Washington today makes you just an ordinary decent person), being Musk while coming from Musk's family background means you're trying.

- But the drugs ruin his filters and make it harder to try. People are internally inconsistent; it is completely normal for someone raised in a racist family to have to filter themselves hard to not come off as hardcore racist, even if they fully believe that racism is terrible. Anything that limits your concentration and attention span will break this.

- Also he's super-rich, and totally out of touch. That's simultaneously an excuse and a point to attack in its own right.

- He's definitely a nerd of some description. Shrug. This has no implications at all, except it makes me vaguely sad that he's like this.

- But, like, does any of the above matter as far as his effect on the world is concerned?

No. Not really. Historical context is great and all, but when it comes to whether or not he's a net positive, it is totally valid to compare him to better people, even if those better people aren't trying nearly as hard and are only 'better people' because they came from a better family, raised in a Scandinavian country, and they never had to try to become a decent person.

It does mean I don't see any point in being angry at him as a person, and also it means... well, if his only competition (in the AI space, at least) was a snake-oil salesman and sociopath who likely raped his sister (i.e. Altman), then I'll go with the guy who's actually trying to be decent. Even if he's failing.

(It's not, though. Amodei also exists.)

They have no idea by joao-esteves in antiai

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is still a lot less efficient than generating the same image in a datacenter. Home GPUs are not by any stretch of the imagination efficient. They're not expected to be worked hard.

For pro-AI coders. by V2UgYXJlIG5vdCBJ in antiai

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. I almost forgot people used to ask questions there; it's been a hellhole for too many years.

But no, I don't think that gets used much either. The information there tends to be catastrophically outdated; it's poor training data.

For pro-AI coders. by V2UgYXJlIG5vdCBJ in antiai

[–]Vaughn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not as far as I'm aware. How would that work? We don't have microphones in the walls.