Edit: magic 8-ball, who downvoted this?
Why is the character holding a bowling ball instead of, ya know, a billiard 8-ball?
- He’s just that stupid
B) 8 balls are significantly smaller than magic 8 balls so it would ruin the joke in the first panel
I think he’s stupid.
Source: magic 8-ball
Why is he holding a single ball instead of 8?
Heads up, AI related bonds are imploding. Taking the entire bond market with it perhaps. There is a very real chance of a recession very soon.
If you’re working class the recession is already here
Ya ordinary people have been broke since before covid, but that’s their problem. But when the stock market tanks, it’s everyone’s problem and we are all in this together.
WelfareBailouts for me not for thee.
Recession soon™️
spoiler
Bitch it’s been here lmao
What are “AI related bonds”?
Bond yields are mostly being driven up by pensions cashing out.
AI companies have no reason to invest in government bonds afaik, much too long-term for their immediate investment needs
Data center build outs, and whatever else. When it implodes the government will bail them out for concessions to fuck us.
AI companies don’t buy government bonds, but some AI companies sell their own bonds. Google and Oracle for example and I believe SoftFail is also looking to sell bonds so they can refinance a loan they used to get a stake in ClosedAI.
Google’s most egregious bond is one that matures in 2126. You’ll only be paid interest until a century from now when you’ll get the principal back. A ridiculous investment if you ask me, but they say it’s fine because thanks to AI they’ll earn a gazillion dollars by then and surely won’t go bankrupt.
It should also be mentioned that a large proportion of bonds aren’t government bonds at all, companies selling bonds isn’t anything new, there’s basically two ways for a company to raise funds: Sell bonds or sell equity. Bonds are preferable if you know you can pay them back easily because nobody gives up any shares.
archived? i assume you mean achieved
Well In my defense you can technically use Wikipedia and Obsidian to archive information about AI so Im still technically correct.
Haven’t you heard of the archival formats .8bal .duk and .zim?
Someone tell Arthur Weasly the rubber duck actually has a function!
And at least 60% of AI could be done in a lounge on a cocktail napkin, without a subscription.
industry spend
Remember, when you’re off the car lot, you have to drop the salesbrochad jargon. It’s ‘spending’ .
People really feel some type of way if you’re not impressed with AI. But it just isn’t useful enough for day to day and makes up stuff along with being destructive to the planet.
This is the dotcom bubble on steroids. These chat bots have a low barrier of entry. The hardware shortage is the only reason they can charge charge excessive amount for access.
In 10 years your phone will be able to run ChatGPT locally. They know this and it’s why they need to sell everyone on these models constantly improving but cannot provide metrics that satisfy anyone who isn’t all-in.
So what is up with the duck?
Not sure with the ball either but seems to me it is a bit folk loreish in the US for some reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
The ball is called a magic 8 ball and it’s a toy popular in the US, you ask it a question and it gives you a random answer
Ah, you beat me to the reply. But yes, the implication is that a random answer is a good as AI, and if you explain your problem to a rubber duck you often find the solution by forcing yourself to think about it step by step.
Speaking of good notes apps, does anyone know one that is on linux?
Obsidian, featured in the meme, is on Linux, and for a while now free of charge (but with paid official plugins for syncing and web publishing), and I’d say is pretty good.
I honestly just take notes in sublime text myself, which is paid, but I’m paying for it anyways and often have it open in the background. It can store unsaved tabs in some session file, so I can just put unimportant notes in a tab and have them available to open later.
I also want to mention nextcloud notes, I don’t use it for much so I don’t know how good it is, but I have a nextcloud instance and use the notes for simple notes I want to be able to access from my phone.
I completely missed that
I find that the default gui editor that comes with each desktop is good enough in most cases (xed with cinnamon, mouse with xfce, kate with kde, etc). But if you’re looking for a terminal editor, a lot of people are praising micro as very user-friendly with solid functionality.
Micro all the fuckin way. *pumps fist like a crazy-person *
I opened Micro out of curiosity as it’s installed on Garuda Mokka by default. ROFL It’s just an unseasoned barebones window, but some people like that kind of note taking. I would prefer Kate over Micro. If I had to choose (Kate is better for configurations or Python scripts that you don’t need to debug yet).
micro is surprisingly powerful and has a good chunk of plugins you can use. it’s def my favorite and it’s really approachable.
I guess it doesn’t seem like it to me on the surface, as there must be a config file that needs to be edited to get those enabled because I couldn’t find evidence of that on my basic inspection. So I decided to try out Obsidian, as I have been using Standard Notes, Filen and other such things for my notes. I might give it a go again at some point…
Do it! Plugin list is Here!
Well, that’s interesting I might try it someday soon…Just to say that I have, and I am partial to anything that embraces Fish!
an unseasoned barebones window
That’d be because micro doesn’t do a window, or at least doesn’t need one. It’s a terminal text editor, which some people prefer in general, but it can also be used without a graphical environment - like when SSHing into a server or recovering your system if the graphical environment breaks. Or if you’re editing critical system configs with sudo and want to do it from tty with a simple editor to minimize points of failure.
Yeah, I did mention that some people prefer a more barebones experience…But, I also recognize that it doesn’t fit my own use case. Based on what you said, Micro has a solid use for situations where there isn’t a graphical environment or need to minimize complication when working with critical system configs. There are levels of minimalism that I can’t truck with, so I will let people enjoy Micro without serious critique. Just casually poking fun at the idea…
How hard is it to learn from a scale where 0 is VS
codeslop and 10 is VIM?Considering how many buttons vs code has, micro seems easier to use
I prefer Standard Notes, can be used for free and offline, full on backups. I have transferred the same set of notes from countless machines. Sadly it is pretty locked down in terms of features, they really want to get that cash out of a user. It’s still pretty useful and has access to basic features. Which are enough for me…
I’m a big fan of triliumnotes.org.
Single application, or if you want to wire it up as a server you can do that as well. Few small quark’s - the biggest two are a mediocre mobile experience (to me) and lack of multi user support.
I was going to try out trilium notes, but there was a recent post on this community about how much ai generated code was used and that problems have recently appeared
Welp. That’s good to know. I’m terrible at updating so I guess I’ll just not.
Why would anyone wanna archive what an AI does?
For when we put the tec bros on trial for destroying our planet.
More like 99% of what AI does.
Now, how is an 8-ball supposed to burn trillions of dollars, pollute the air and ruin the water?
The rubber duck, obviously.
A rubber duck can do no harm. I thought we knew that. Now the companies that made rubber ducks well fuck them, they should pay heavy fines
When has the duckocratic oath prevented anyone from doing anything?
Cmon this is getting ridiculous. How is this any different to being anti-vaxx at this point you are just straight up denying science for… Similar reasons to anti-vaxxers I guess? Keeping in mind anti-vaxx is psychological warfare and you are being crowbarred here for similar reasons.
There was companies that overhyped medical breakthroughs that doesn’t make me hate medical science whats up with you guys? This crap has fallen on DLSS literal ethical AI that uses the GPU you are running a game on… It’s just nonsense anti-intellectualism.
And don’t get me wrong there is plenty of problems with AI, but they have never been addressed here in the same way problems in medical research aren’t addressed in anti-vaxx spaces.
Your argument can be applied onto literally anything. If you dont drink Pepsi your an anti-pepsier and a anti-intellectual because it has so many proven productivity benefits!
No it cannot. The guy I replied to literally referenced a paper they didn’t understand. It’s actually a perfect comparison. Nice try science denier
Current “AI” is actually shitty tho’.
Any frozen weight models are architecturally unable to lean anything new, while dynamic weight models require entire datacenters to run for every instance. The scale of low-effort slop has crippled the internet as a knowledge source, and we are currently poisoning entire towns and the earth at large making up problems to solve.
Look at Nvidia, look at Huggingface. Huggingface literally offers their AI detection right next to their AI obfuscation. Meanwhile Anthropic is constantly hyping bullshit. I just read the “J-Space” article, and holy crap, LLMs use hidden layers to encode and infer relarionships, wow. I thought this was the whole idea behind machine learning, but I guess, saying that won’t secure another billion dollars.
The entire space is full of people without any idea what they are looking at, and with LLMs taking up all the space and money, actually good ideas, like probabalistic proteine folding, are tossed to the side.
The only kinda good thing I see is Markdown making a comeback. And that’s just “good”, because I like Markdown.
Any frozen weight models are architecrurally unable to lean anything new
The sky is blue.
while dynamic weight models require entire datacenters to run for every instance
Erh wrong.
The scale of low-effort slop has crippled the internet as a knowledge source, and we are currently poisoning entire towns and the earth at large making up problems to solve.
AI is a force multiplier here yea but these are pre-existing problems target the source if you want a solution flailing your arms around in ignorance gets ya’ll nowhere.
Huggingface literally offers their AI detection right next to their AI obfuscation
Yea they are machine learning subjects Huggingface is a hub.
I just read the “J-Space” article, and holy crap, LLMs use hidden layers to encode and infer relarionships, wow. I thought this was the whole idea behind machine learning, but I guess, saying that won’t secure another billion dollars.
Are you trying to trick these people into thinking you understood what you read? Be careful with that, they will believe you.
The entire space is full of people without any idea what they are looking at, and with LLMs taking up all the space and money, actually good ideas, like probabalistic proteine folding, are tossed to the side.
Exactly my point, against you.
The only kinda good thing I see is Markdown making a comeback. And that’s just “good”, because I like Markdown.
So you have no integrity when it comes to Markdown being written for you okay.
Why would you replace " with “ ?
You’re actually alluding to another good point here. Humans are naturally equipped with perhaps one of the most complex computers we know; free for life! Yet a bunch group of people are now increasingly unable to use it. Thanks to relying on LLMs, even for the most basic of tasks.
You wouldn’t take medical advice from an anti-vaxxer that wilfully misinterprets research papers.
Just stop… Go learn so you can have discussion with decision makers and researchers then you can effect change. This place is bad for you. These are NPC’s that will reinforce stupidity evidently it is not an AI problem.
The medical research takes up less than 25%, so it is well within the statement of this meme.
Running a local llm in obsidian is actually pretty useful but I’m not asking it to do much. Just search my human notes and find/summarize them. Is it a useful tool yes, would I let a cloud provider touch my notes absolutely not.
