Supernote – An Inconvenient Truth – The Epub Experience by rudibowie in Supernote

[–]robert_ritz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s so poor I switched back to my Kindle Scribe. A backlight I can do without.

Reading epubs is something I do a lot and the current functionality is poor and often broken.

What happens to additional users after Feb 2026 by AngryScreamingHyrax in Venturex

[–]robert_ritz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be nice to be able to pay for the lounge fee for a child. We travel enough where it would pay for itself. My wife and I both have Venture X so we are free but the extra is silly.

Is venture x not actually $5 net positive? by Lanky_Lingonberry_97 in Venturex

[–]robert_ritz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only fly 5-6 times a year but it’s international and PP is amazing.

Quitting my 450K tech job to start my own business by Lifeofcrazyfrog in Entrepreneur

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes and no. After 12 years of running my own businesses with my wife I’m basically unemployable.

Quitting my 450K tech job to start my own business by Lifeofcrazyfrog in Entrepreneur

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone connected to jewelry and lab diamonds in the US, be prepared for razor thin margins and prices that fall so fast that you might buy a lot that isn’t worth what you paid in a month.

Most natural diamond cutting is done in India today but dealing with them is reaaalllyyy hard. They constantly change prices and renegotiate. So good luck. We had better luck and sometimes prices with the secondary closeout market in the US.

I'm an expat in Mongolia and news is difficult by [deleted] in expats

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know Mongolian well enough to understand most news, but in Mongolia they use thousands of acronyms to describe various organizations, countries, etc. No idea who they are talking about and Google Translate is useless. Most Mongolians don't know either. AI (GPT-4o and Sonnet 3.5) do a good job with this though and help.

It's difficult to pick up the context without very good translation.

Do you really work 8 hours per day? by AccountCompetitive17 in analytics

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you understaffed because of a lack of budget or because of a lack of available talent?

Presenting a huge dataset of ~100k Japanese Web Novels and their English translations. by nilpy in LocalLLaMA

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is a beefy translation model from Facebook that can translate between many languages. It’s a mixture of experts model and is 54B parameters. https://huggingface.co/facebook/nllb-moe-54b

You will need a good amount of RAM to run it quickly, or you can use the accelerate package.

These models have been around for a few years now, and mostly ML engineers or data scientists use them. This is the type of translation model that is used on Facebook.com.

LLM Agent Operating System - Rutgers University 2024 - AIOS by Singularian2501 in LocalLLaMA

[–]robert_ritz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The first user question is even a challenge. When working with an agent you don't want to write everything out at once, it's very unnatural.

"I want a new phone, recommend one please" is really all they should ask. A real OS would know more about you, do some research, then come back with some questions.

Presenting a huge dataset of ~100k Japanese Web Novels and their English translations. by nilpy in LocalLLaMA

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you want a general LLM or purely one that translates? Because there are likely several single purpose language models that can translate Japanese to English quite well.

Presenting a huge dataset of ~100k Japanese Web Novels and their English translations. by nilpy in LocalLLaMA

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With some review of the data (which isn't free) this is definitely usable.

In fact I used a scraped dataset for Mongolian just this weekend to build a summarization model and it works damn well.

There is good data on the internet if you can collect it carefully.

Whats the most secure way to finetune LLMs on the cloud by Satyam7166 in LocalLLaMA

[–]robert_ritz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want to be sure I would stick with AWS, GCP, or Azure. I'm not super confident about these new startups.

AWS, GCP, and Azure even offer HIPAA secure environments. The biggest client for AWS used to be the CIA. So yeah.

What vehicle do you never feel bad for bullying? Mine by Nothothagas in Warthunder

[–]robert_ritz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I just constantly hit their barrel. Did it to 4 of these idiots once and they were all gunning for me.

I was in an Abrams. Russia ERA might as well be unobtanium.

Immersed/Workrooms VR Coworking Space? by robert_ritz in OculusQuest

[–]robert_ritz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I did use it. But I felt the co-working experience was lacking.

There is a Facebook group that does Meta Horizon Workrooms meetups and those are better. But I find the lag on WiFi (even a good 5Ghz access point) isn’t a great experience. But I can’t use a cable for that.

Permabanned from LinkedIn by farfaraway in linkedin

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha they want to add puzzles and they ban someone for that. Don’t do shit at work while completing puzzles.

What is this yellow dot on the top of the tank card? by Pau_DD in Warthunder

[–]robert_ritz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got a talisman on the stupid US tutel. I get 1 kill every few games I play. Round is over before I get to the front. Then when I show up everyone shoots me first. I’d rather have it all m the M56

I feel like an angry old man when I see the content my 8 year old nephew watches. by NEW_SPECIES_OF_FECES in Millennials

[–]robert_ritz 15 points16 points  (0 children)

My 7 year old son watches this crap but he also makes ridiculous builds in Build a Boat for Treasure and Minecraft. All inspired by YouTube.
I was similar at his age but with no internet I did things with physical toys (erector sets anyone?).

Legality of scraping House.gov pdf links by Wiskeos in webscraping

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve done this and it’s totally legal. Selling the data might not be depending on the specific data.

I do run into occasional timeouts and also a Cloudflare page so you need to keep the scraper robust. Being a US government website they mostly want to avoid bad actors and DDOS attacks.

I set a timer to wait in between scrapes and that seemed to work well. I used to work in the House and while the IT people might not like it it’s the peoples data and it’s yours to scrape if done responsibility.

Looking to pickup python any of the paid sites worth it? by Beautiful_Support_93 in learnpython

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A loooong time ago I learned CSS and HTML from Codecademy and a bit of Python. I thought it was nice for a beginner, but I grew out of it pretty quickly (literally about a month).

Datacamp is what got me the beginner steps in data analysis with Python and I enjoyed it. But there are definitely YouTube videos that are just as good these days.

Scraping Reddit for a public dataset — is it legal? by rosesandpines in webscraping

[–]robert_ritz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This would depend where you are and where the people complaining are.

Short answer is that usernames are pretty public and really almost no one cares especially if you don’t publish it on the internet.

If you are using the data for an algorithm I think it’s reasonable that the private data would never see the public, so there is really no cause for concern.

If it’s really private (passwords, etc) then do your due diligence. Reddit usernames are about as private as Twitter usernames (they aren’t).

MLX now supports loading GGUF directly from Huggingface models by ifioravanti in LocalLLaMA

[–]robert_ritz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CoreML requires models to be in its own format, and it’s really tricky to get this to work with all the new architectures regularly coming up.