They already stated they can only generate 57,600 tokens per hour locally (expressed as 16 tokens per second). So that's the limiting factor here.

Originally, the word "computer" referred to a human being. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

Over time, when digital computers became commonplace, the computing moved from the person to the machine. At this time, arguably the humans doing the programming of the machine were doing the work we now ask of a "compiler".

So yes, an LLM can be a compiler in some sense (from a high level abstract language into a programming language), and you too can be a compiler! But currently it's probably a good use of the LLM's time and probably not a good use of yours.

I don't know, having done a lot of completely pointless time-wasting staring at hex dumps and assembly language in my youth was a pretty darned good lesson. I say it's a worthwhile hobby to be a compiler.

But your point stands. There is a period beyond which doing more than learning the fundamentals just becomes toil.

No

Current AI is much, much better than current search engines (which themselves seem worse than they were decades ago, for some reason).

It really isn't. AI has nothing on a good search engine like Kagi.

This is easily disproven. I mean how can someone still believe this? Wow!

I can come up with many examples that would take you ages to search in Kagi vs one prompt in ChatGPT.

You really should be updating.

Let's see a bull open a very complicated garbage dumpster in a national park. Maybe bears are actually smart and not just looking smart?

> Said one park ranger, "There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

I think they are probably referring to marketplace bears and bulls.

It's a horrendous example.

Bears are the same thing as bulls. Just the opposite.

You can look like a degenerate wallstreetbets gambler, being a bull, buying puts.

You can equally look like a degenerate wallstreetbets gambler, being a gay bear, shorting the stock.

The "beauty" of our modern stock market, is it provides both sides the avenue to lose stupid amounts of money.

Does anybody seriously think that communication is something an LLM can do for you?

(Hint: if you have to prompt it to write an email -- you could have saved everyone some time and emailed the prompt instead.)

The thing about the military is, once you join, you don't get to decide whether you fight for this kind of oil imperialism -- it's follow orders or go to military prison. (You might, separately, be able to sue from military prison claiming the orders were illegal, but good luck with that.)

You definitely don't get to just quit.

I thought you could resign your commission or something? I've heard of that.

I'm not in the military of course and I couldn't be, I'm not a team player and tou unstable, I would spiral out of control in such an environment. But I thought there were ways of getting out of it.

It's only a few hundred MB, and hopefully they're using a CDN.

> hammer their website unnecessarily

This is what a CDN will prevent

Thank you! Going to try to 3d print some of these and see how they come out.

I'm a couple weeks into giving up coffee because of heartburn, and yeah, this tracks... unfortunately. I've replaced heartburn with heartache (having given up a beverage I've enjoyed daily for over 20 years).

What kind of coffee were you drinking? I replaced filter coffee with espresso and my heartburn went away.

Good luck, my friend. I’m right there with you. It’s not the physical effects but the rituals and the social connections that I miss. I felt the same with coffee as I did with smoking, which I quit about 20 years ago. It’s remarkable how much these simple vice shape our daily lives.

Yup. Discovered me and my dad have ADHD at pretty much the same time. In our case (very stimulant sensitive) we had to quit coffee to use ADHD meds. While I eventually switched to Inka (a roasted grain coffee substitute) when I saw how my heart results get better without coffee, he still struggles. He recently quit meds for some time due to unwanted symptoms and told me how he was away with some friends and deeply relished being able to normally drink coffee again.