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rufus , (edited )

Probably called cockoo clock or pomodoro timer, or interval timer. A quick search shows there are multiple such apps, I haven't tried them so I'm not sure which to recommend.

rufus , (edited )

Concerning the proof, I'd consider that at any given point where both objects haven't converged yet, there has to be a next point that can be reached by the ship with the higher maneuverability but not by the faster ship. It's probably calculus from that point on and I'm not really good at that. If there's always such a possibility, the slower ship can always outmaneuver the other one. And seems to me like vectors in a polar coordinate system would be made for this.

Set vector1 equal to vector2 plus an arbitrary distance. See if there's a solution for phi2 < phi1.

rufus ,

Sure. And I mean the "sufficiently small" distance is exactly the question. I mean it's not really an interesting question to ask if they're still 12 nautical miles apart... The initial distance isn't really of concern. It just has to work for any given initial state. And the next question is, are we talking about entering a ship or using cannons? Then it's either can the distance become 0 or can it get less than something.

rufus ,

Feel free to extend that problem to fighter jets or ballerinas playing tag 😆

However, I'm pretty sure it's already solved. Doesn't seem difficult to prove and has had applications for centuries already. And I've played the Robots Game when I was 12 or something...

rufus , (edited )

Entirely depends on the software you install on it?!

I mean the OS and UI don't give you "smartness". And I'm not completely sure about the definition. I for example think it's smart not letting big tech companies steal all your data. So I might choose a different OS and different Apps than somebody else.

Concerning AI: I think ChatGPT runs on all of them. And I think all the assistants also run more or less in the cloud and don't depend on the exact phone model. However, there are AI things that run on the phone itself. Camera picture enhancement and speech recognition for example.

Manufacturers often advertise with new AI features and unlock them on their newest flagship models. So the answer to your question regarding AI in preinstalled apps is probably: The current most expensive flagship models of Google/Samsung/Apple. One will have a slightly better camera AI, one a better photo editor and one a better AI assistant.

rufus , (edited )

Kids should use their own creativity, practice reading, creating something. Play outside, get dirty. Do sports, maybe learn a musical instrument. And do their homework themselves.

I'd say many things are alright in the proper dose. I mean ChatGPT is part of the world they're growing in to...

And 16 isn't a kid anymore. They can handle some responsibility. I don't see a one-size-fits every 16 yo solution. I think you should allow them and decide individually.

I'd say at 16, give them some responsibility and let them practice handling it. But that means supervised. You can't just give them anything and hop they'll cope on their own. And AI has some non-obvious consequences / traps you can run into. Not even most of the adults can handle or understand it properly. So your focus should be teaching them the how and why, in my opinion. Alike you'd teach your kid how to use the circular saw at some point that age. As a parent you should lokk at them and see if they're ready for it and how much supervision is appropriate.

rufus , (edited )

I think that's a good take on things.

Ultimately it still holds true. Information does want to be free. You just can't mix that with misinformation, have everything on the same level and a general audience completely oblivious to the fact and uneducated.

Things have changed. Back in those times it was a small elite on the internet. People who could afford computers and an internet connection and make some use out of it. You needed some amount of intelligence because you had to put some effort in to get online, learn about the tools because that wasn't easy or provided to you. So you'd generally be at least somewhat intelligent if you ended up on the internet. And that's beneficial when it comes to receiving unfiltered information. Combined with the fact that there were comparatively more academics and students, because that was the origin of the internet.

And it wasn't that common to push your agenda there or advertise for your skewed political views in the way people do it nowadays. Due to the nature of the internet and the amount of people there, it wasn't worth the effort. You'd be better off focusing somewhere else where you could influence more people. So the dynamics were just different due to history and circumstances.

Things have changed. Nowadays everyone is online all the time. It's the place to influence people and make money. And that's the other part of the problem. The actual people, connecting them and providing information to them (or to each other) isn't what's most of the internet is about, anymore. Motivations are gathering data about people and selling them, making people become addicted to your platform so they spend more time there and you can make more money. Everyone is competing for attention. And bad, emotional stories are what works best. Giving people the "simple truths" they seek instead of an intellectual and nuanced view. Factuality just gets in the way of all of that.

I sometimes like to compare that to the Age of Reason / Enlightenment. Back then it was monarchs, bad dynamics and missing education. Now it's big tech companies, bad dynamics and insufficient education. People need to get emancipated, educated and leave the current "immature state of ignorance" (to quote Kant.)

Information and education are key. And the internet, algorithms and AI are just tools. They can be used for progress, or to enslave us. At least the internet has the potential (and was build) to connect people and provide a level playing field to everyone. But it can be used for a variety of different things. And choosing the right things isn't something that can be solved by technology alone.

rufus , (edited )

I applaud your optimism. And you're right. The design of the fediverse encourages these properties. But there are also other dynamics at play.

I wouldn't describe Lemmy as an intellectual place. It's more a cross-sectional take on society. It's a diverse place of common folks, a few nerds, people posting the news, sharing memes or asking questions...

It depends a bit on the specific community. Some have nice people and active conversation, some don't. Especially niche topics are a mixed bag. We're just 50.000 active users so that means for some smaller hobbies you can't really get a conversation going. But you included some broad topics. I'm sure some of them work well here.

!technology regularly has good posts. Debate and politics work very well all across the platform... I'm not really an expert on the communities here, I hope other people can give good recommendations. Art, literature and ecology also have healthy communities. Sometimes entire instaces dedicated to it.

I think if you're willing to share this place with a diverse group of people, you can get happy here.

rufus ,

I think the burden with complying with the law is mostly on the instance owners and less so on you. But you're also responsible for what you do.

I'd be more concerned with the responsibility this comes with. You absolutely need to moderate it properly. And you need to do it right or you're doing your audience a disservice.

I don't think there is any shame in trying... If you can assure you're doing it somewhat properly.

rufus , (edited )

I'm not sure when it gets to the legal side of things. It's probably really difficult (as it's always the case with law ;-) depends on the jurisdiction of the harmed user, the instance's jurisdiction and yours. And the case-specific details.

I'm not a lawyer but I'd say it's not necessarily you in the line. Even if you willed the specific community into existence. The instance owner is providing the service. And it's also them having the final say in things and they have the logs if something goes wrong. And the actual offense is also commited by somebody else. So it's primarily their responsibility.

I think I'm more concerned with the ethical side. And if I were you I'd pay attention it doesn't interfere with the career. So I'd stay pseudonymous and not use my real name.

You're probably more qualified than some other random person. And always thinking about the negative extreme isn't getting people anywhere. It's more the people who just try things who succeed. And sometimes great things come from it. That'd be arguments to do it. In your cases there are bad consequences if you do it wrong. This isn't the case for casual conversation on Lemmy, but you can also really help people.

Some Ideas: Try distributing the responsibility over more shoulders. Some communities have mods spread across the ocean so there's someone awake most of the time. And on Lemmy there are lots of people from the USA and from Germany. And you can manage expectations. Tell people what to expect and how to handle negative experiences. That enables them to make a decision for themselves.

I'd like to add that is just my opinion and what my common sense provides me with. So despite me wording this a bit factually, it's just my 2 cents.

rufus ,

Good luck. And thanks for trying to help people.

rufus ,

This isn't a new thing. It's been a long time ago that the internet shifted from being a level playing field and a means of connecting people, to a place where the big companies make money. And it brought some of the currently biggest companies on earth into existence.

Things changed a bit. Harvesting private data and selling information about the users used to be the dominating business model. It still is, but now it gets mixed with selling their content to train AI. I'd argue that in itself isn't a dramatic change. It's still the same concept.

But I also always worry about centralization, enshittification and algorithms shaping our perspective on reality more and more.

rufus ,

I'd say you're fucked. Best thing I can come up is fake being sick and hope there's another try available in a few weeks. And use that time to prepare. In proper maths, it doesn't really if they test your knowledge or calculation skills... Both requires you to learn.

Concerning the cheating: Entirely depends on the situation. Usually there are people watching and making sure no one cheats... They might have seen some attempts and be better at spotting it than you are doing it if it's your first rodeo. I wouldn't try unless it's a single 65 yo dude who doesn't care.

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What should I add to my '90s website?

So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.

Some of the most important elements are already in place.

Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!

In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.

(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)

You can see the page so far here: https://that90ssite.neocities.org/

There are a few things that I want to add to make it complete, and I'm looking for suggestions.

The first, is to embed a midi file that plays automatically. Any suggestions on the best way of doing this?

Second, it's just not going to be complete without a guestbook.

Third, any webring suggestions?

Fourth, what's the best way of adding a java chat room in 2024?

Finally, anything else that really needs to be a part of a great '90s website?

UPDATE: Thanks for all the feedback! I've added more annoying GIFs, a guestbook, a links page, and a cyber cat hangout.

UPDATE 2: And added even more gifs, an amazing Amiga demo, and a ton of links.

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rufus ,

BOOTSTRA.386 (okay, on second thought, that's more the 80s and doesn't really fit.)

rufus ,

Currently there is a Humble Bundle with Cory Doctorow's books. I liked Little Brother and read it twice. Maybe I'm going to read some more of his work.

rufus ,

Define "soul" or the answer is entirely meaningless. I'm pretty sure I'm sentient and can feel emotions and think and reason.

rufus , (edited )

I rarely see it but it happens every now and then. And I sometimes get paywalls or videos are georestricted. And some websites don't want to implement the GDPR and refuse service to european users.

And Project Gutenberg (the book archive) had been blocked in germany for years.

Btw there is a dedicated http error code proposed instead of just the 403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451

rufus ,

Legal issues. I think they got sued and geoblocked the whole country for years. We don't have the same concept of 'public domain' here. I think it's 70 years after the death of the author here. And Project Gutenberg uploads books way earlier since it's a fixed (and shorter) amount of years after first publication in the USA.

rufus ,

Ah, I didn't know, thanks. So at some point in the future it'll become a bit more similar. I've looked it up and the court case was about books from Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin, who died in 1950, 1955 and 1957...

rufus , (edited )

I think people are far too concerned with airplane seating. Concerning boarding: The plane takes off at exactly the same time, whether you're the first or the last person entering it. And upon arriving, the people are way quicker leaving. It's maybe a difference of 3-10 minutes. This might matter if you're in a hurry or want to be the first person in the customs line. I like to stay relaxed when travelling.

The noises are everywhere. There might be a minor difference and it probably really depends on the airplane model. The slight vibrations, engine noises and air-con noises are audible from front to the back. At least that's my observation. Most annoying thing I had happen is a crying and vomiting 5-year-old in the row next to me. But I don't think there is much you can do about that. I've sat right over the wings and it's fine. And I think I've read those are better concerning safety, but you don't need to worry about safety too much.

rufus ,

True. Sadly the article is over 2 years old and not much has changed since.

rufus ,

Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

rufus , (edited )

I think that's baked into all the abrahamic religions. The Old Testament says so, and the Quaran also doesn't like heretics, especially apostasy is considered really bad. As far as I know the death penalty is how to deal with apostates in Islam. But it's not really better in christianity or judaism, the same tribal concept of extinguishing rival tribes is in the Old Testament and Torah. All these religions believe in the same god. So theoretically they're more compatible with each other than for example with atheists or people believing in different or multiple gods. Or people renouncing their ways.

You can have a look at buddhism, hinduism etc to find a different perspective, indigenous beliefs, pantheism or agnosticism. Or the ancient greeks, romans or egypts or maya civilization. They all have a very different view than we have with our abrahamic God.

I personally like science. Just because it's the only sane approach to knowledge. And it has proven to be the way that delivers the goods. And I think this and the observations I made contradict with the existence of any God. And we should not base our decisions on ancient tribal beliefs, so I'm not okay with any of the Gods who tell people what to do and what not to do. I link proper philosophy and progress in what we deem to be our current ethics.

rufus , (edited )

And you can't escape this. Of course whether your neighbor goes to church on sunday is their choice to make. But in my opinion the state, schools etc should be secular. And they're not. Religion influences politicians and people to have biases, for example towards abortion, gay marriage etc. and that definitely has an influence on law, my life and that of my fellow citizens. I think lots of christians forget what the word 'evangelion' (the gospel) means. It translates to "Good News". And not not prohibition and trying to tell other people who they're allowed to marry.

rufus ,

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rufus , (edited )

With catholicism you're pretty much allowed to make up anything. We just have one god. But that's obviously not enough so we made up the holy trinity, so he/she is one... But also three. And we've incorporated pagan holidays and beliefs. There it fairies, monsters etc, we just call them angels and deamons and such. And you can pray to god... Or saints or whatever you like. There is a process to it. It has to by accepted by the pope and the vatican. And it takes some time. But they're not opposed to contradicting dogma. And don't believe in logic in the first place. So I'd say go ahead... You can simultaneously have gods before and after and at the same time have it the other way around. It doesn't need to make sense. If you're catholic, talk to the pope. He's infallible. Just don't introduce "making sense" to anything. We can't have that with religion.

It's just a few very old books with how people tried to make sense of the world back then, plus a few thousands of years of extra lore added on top, varying politics during the times and a few old men running the business.

rufus ,

I mean the Age of Enlightenment happened in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. That's a long time ago. I believe it's (still) not part of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany / constitution, where I live. It's somewhat different for the USA due to their history. But they have the more annoying conservative politicians and parts of society. I think as of now, major parts of the population don't care anymore about what the founding fathers came up with in the late 18th century. So there's no advantage there.

rufus , (edited )

And we were a bit late to the party with same-sex marriage because of the party with 'christian' in the name...

What I think is outrageous is that we have denominational hospitals, schools and kindergärten, and they don't have to abide by the same labor law as literally everyone else. They can - and will - fire people for things like divorce. Or being gay. All whilst being (sometimes entirely) funded by the state or health insurance.

And in my opinion we shouldn't allow them to openly discriminate against women and gay people... Have a look at what the danish people did and force the catholic church to do same-sex marriages... and accept women as priests. I really don't get why they get a special treatment when it gets to hating on people and they're the only ones allowed to do it professionally.

rufus ,

Are you something like mormon? I didn't know that there are christian(?) denominations that allow for the existence of other gods. I was raised catholic and my first of the 10 commandments was "I, the Lord, am your God. You shall not have any other gods besides me." So that rules out any other gods. Along with the continuation of the story where god outlaws idols and sends plagues and burns down cities for worshipping anything besides him.

But I think I agree. Technically you're just not allowed to worship them. They may exist. It'd be a bit strange since the bible goes on and on how god created all the animals, angels, satan, humans, does all the things and some get lengthy enumerations... but somehow they forgot to mention that other gods exist... Just slipped their mind as they were writing it down.

rufus ,

100% agree. God can't be subject to the law of the universe or he wouldn't be God. He'd be a human then, have to abide by physics and logic. Wouldn't be omnipotent, not all-knowing and supernatural things wouldn't exist. Couldn't have created the universe in the first place. So he obviously can be anything and its opposite at the same time if he so likes.

In addition there are lots of religions with the same basis and same god. We just disagree on whether Jesus or Mohammed or whoever was his last messenger.

rufus , (edited )

I'm afraid you're wrong, though.

https://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2021/11/death-sentence-for-apostasy-in-nearly-a-dozen-countries-report-says

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam

https://web.archive.org/web/20060116103512/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2-1470584_1%2C00.html

And I've talked to refugees who fled countries in fear of being killed for who they are. Ever heard of ISIS, the jihad? islamic state or sharia law? Wikipedia tells me it doesn't happen that often in countries like Saudi Arabia or Qatar... And it's mostly extra-judicial, not legal executions. But it's in the scripture. And also part of the law of a dozen countries. And I'm pretty sure there has been some genocide out of similar reasons in the wars in Syria and Afghanistan in recent times.

And regarding the christians: What's with the entire medieval times? And what was the whole point of the crusades? Christinity was in an open, bloody war against the heretics for centures. And I think they tortured apostates to death. Currently most of us don't do corporal punishment or death penalty any more. But we sometimes shun apostates and make their lives miserable.

I don't see a myth here...

rufus , (edited )

I don't think it is very important what exactly is written down. These books contain lots of contradictions. And they're made to a degree so people can find what they're looking for. It's all interpretation and the same book can and has been cited to start wars, kill the neighbors, sell them to slavery, torture people. Or be nice to them. Considering societal norms and killing people: It's all in there, you can oftentimes pick.

And I'm not sure what's in the old testament. As I know it, it probably also doesn't talk negatively about killing apostates. It's probably at least allowed to kill them. I haven't opened a bible in 20 years, I'd need to look it up. if it's there, it's probably with all the "their blood shall be upon them." lines in leviticus.

rufus , (edited )

But if the literal meaning of one word is important, we have to factor in the original hebrew meaning. I don't know what it says. But you cant pick an arbitrary translation you like best. My translation of the bible with "besides me" is equally as valid.

rufus , (edited )

Which one is a bad source... secularism? wikipedia? the times? feel free to enlighten me. i know i sound a bit negative, but i'm not opposed to learning new things as i think this is somewhat a topic that is important for humanity as a whole. i mean the terror groups like ISIS aren't seperate to the whole religion thing. wars and terror are part of that and can't be viewed seperately. of course if you exclude all the bad parts of religion and just view the moderate ones that do less harm... it looks way better. but both are a part of the whole story.

And the question was if the death penalty for apostasy is part of islam. And I said yes, it is part of law of countries, additionally people do it in the name of God. And it's written in the hadith. So whether you or I like that or how my neighbor practices islam or what the secular people think... doesn't change the facts.

rufus , (edited )

You're entirely changing the topic here. That was not what we were talking about. But I feel for the people living there. The whole situation is just bad. And it doesn't get better. You're right with the history. The USA and USSR were fighting and funded the most heinous and evil people, gave specifically them money and weapons out of their own political motivations. Oil and other interests added to it over the years. Lots of that did not have the intended consequences, they could have seen that coming and all of that brought the current situation into existence. And they added yet more bad decisions on top in recent times. It's mostly politics and not religion. However I think some of the mujahideen and isis terrorists who actually do the murdering are fueled by religion. At this point it probably doesn't matter much since all they've seen since they were 14 and started fighting is violence and death... I don't have a point to make here. It's bad. I'd change it if I could.

rufus , (edited )

You're right. My brain kind of skipped a bit on the fact that what we call the Old Testament is also an accumulation of texts from a larger timespan.

I was under the impression that all of that was more a tribal thing. This is the story of the descendants of Jacob, the Israelites, Samaritans etc. Versus Babylonians, Egypts, Assyrians... And group identity was very important. You can't rob your direct neighbor who is part of the same group. That would leave everyone in anarchy and chaos, not a somewhat stable society. So instead you burgle rivaling groups of people, steal their food, donkeys, women, and make them your slaves. It's not really about ethnicity or religion. All of that is more a means of having a strong cohesion within your group and have them fight against the rivaling groups, not amongst themselves. Or a stronger group will take your things. Tribes also are friendly towards some other tribes and might share a common enemy. The content of the stories and traditions isn't that important, but it's what makes you distinct from your rivals, regulates who you're allowed to enslave and gives a feeling of belonging to your group and also reassures you that you're right. But in my view it's more a means of forming stable tribal structures, and not a cause of something. I'm not a historian, though.

rufus ,

Oh that's unfortunate. Something made to get things unstuck in the pipes gets itself stuck there...

rufus ,

That it's in other places like it is in the USA. I think being an atheist or christian here in central europe is very different to what americans experience in their lives. And it's yet another story in other countries.

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    rufus ,

    $24.300 is a lot of money... A bank loan? Rich relatives? Selling something big like a new car or a part of a house?

    rufus ,

    Depending on where you're located a kidney could get you anything form that amount of money and more, to jail time. The internet says most people get less... So it's probably the illegal organ selling that gets you a good amount of money. But I doubt it's quick easy and clean... You could sell your blood, sperm and participate in clinical trials... That won't get you as much, though. And I don't know if you have to wait for that money.

    I'd say sue some company if you're in the US... But that also takes years...

    I dont think there is a method that is both legal and quick.

    [Paper] The Era of 1-bit LLMs: All Large Language Models are in 1.58 Bits ( huggingface.co )

    From the abstract: "Recent research, such as BitNet, is paving the way for a new era of 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a 1-bit LLM variant, namely BitNet b1.58, in which every single parameter (or weight) of the LLM is ternary {-1, 0, 1}."...

    rufus OP , (edited )

    As far as I understand, their contribution is to apply what has proven to work well in the Llama architecture, to what BitNet does. And add a '0'. Maybe you just don't need that much text to explain it, just the statistics.

    They claim it scales as a FP16 Llama model does... So unless their judgement/maths is wrong, it should hold up. I can't comment on that. But I'd like that if it were true...

    rufus OP ,

    Reading up on the speculation on the internet: There must be a caveat... There is probably a reason why they only trained up to 3B parameter models... I mean the team has the name Microsoft underneath and they should have access to enough GPUs. Maybe the training is super (computationally) expensive.

    rufus OP ,

    I think we're already getting there. Lots of newer phones include AI accelerators. And all the companies advertise for AI. I don't think they're made to run LLMs, but anyways. Llama.cpp already runs on phones. And the limiting factor seems to be the RAM. I've tried Microsoft's "phi-2", quantized and on slow hardware, it's surprisingly capable for such a small model. Something like a ternary model would significantly cut down on the amount of RAM that is being used which allows to load larger models while also making it faster, everywhere. So I'd say yes. And it would also allow me to load a more intelligent model on my PC.

    I think the doing away with matrix multiplications is also a big deal, but has little consequences as of today. You'd first need to re-design the chips to take advantage of that. And local inference is typically limited by memory bandwidth, not multiplication speed. At least as far as I understand.

    I'd say if this is true, it allows for a big improvement in parameter count for all kinds if use-cases. But I've also come to the conclusion that there might be a caveat to that. Maybe the training is prohibitively expensive. I don't really know, at this point there is too much speculation going on and I'm not really an expert.

    rufus OP ,

    They claim it performs at 1.56 bit about as good as something with 16 bits. I don't quite get your question. Seems we can do with less precision / different maths and arrive at the same quality. The total count of parameters isn't affected. But the numbers now don't take 16 bits each, but less.

    rufus OP , (edited )

    I can't find that mention of "8-bit models" anywhere in the paper, just by skimming it again I only see references and comparisons to FP16.

    I know these discussions from llama.cpp and ggml quantization. With that you can quantize a model more and more and it becomes worse the lower the precision gets. You can counter that by using a larger model that was more "intelligent" in the first place... With that you can calculate the sweet spot and what gives you the best quality at a certain compute cost or size... A more degraded bigger model, or a less degraded smaller model...

    But we don't have different quantization levels here, just one. And it's also difficult to compare, as with ggml you take the same model and quantize it to different levels... We also don't have that here, you can't take an existing model with this approach and quantize it and compare it to another... You have to train a new model from scratch. And then it's a different model.

    I can't find a good analogy here... Maybe it's a bit like asking if the filesize of an JPEG image is more important than the resolution... It's kind of the wrong question. You can compare different compression levels of the JPEG image, or compare the size of the JPEG to a BMP file... It's really not a good analogy, but a BMP file with 20 times the size looks exactly like a smaller JPEG file on the screen. And you can also have a 7B parameter LLM model give better answers than a poor (or older) 13B model. It's neither just parameter count nor presision alone.

    So if they say they can do with less than a third of the RAM and compute time and simultansously score a tiny bit higher in the benchmarks, I don't see a tradeoff here.

    Generally speaking you can ask the question: What delivers the best results with at a given compute cost. Or the other way around: What has the lowest cost to arrive at a certain point. But this is kind of a different technique, same parameter count, same results, but significantly lower computing cost on inference.

    (And reading all the speculation elsewhere: There might be a different tradeoff. The authors didn't talk about training and just made very small models. A more complex and expensive training process could be a tradeoff.)

    rufus ,

    I think that's alright. Some of us still use Reddit. I'd think about including some backlink to Lemmy to advertise for this community, but I'm not sure if that gets your post shadow-banned. So I'd be a bit careful with that. Hope you get some engagement.

    rufus ,

    I think you're completely right with that assessment. Journalist used to be a reputable profession. And explaining things and processing raw information into something that can be consumed by the reader, deemed important. Especially getting it right. There is a whole process to it if you do it professionally. And curating content and deciding what is significant and gets an audience is equally as important.

    Doing away with all of that is like replacing your New York Times with your 5-year-old and whatever she took from watching the news.

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