Brewing coffee despite the longstanding rule* forbidding** afternoon caffeine consumption because: wow, rain. Again? Really. Okay.
#rain #coffee

*never ratified
**more like, limiting. And actually more like, sure go ahead.

#helene model is drifting west sooner and weakening faster. Fingers crossed that's the deal.

@Zevon called Sili Con Valley for a reason

@Graci I can relate, periodically rest my left pinky finger on the CTRL key which causes all sorts of random behaviors

@XSGeek oooh what does Draft Anything do?

@Zevon "Sam is extremely good at becoming powerful"
What does that mean?! Can he absorb solar radiation?🤣

@Zevon mixed feelings about Gartner but the hype cycle is for real. Note GenAI heading to the trough of despair.

@Zevon I think llama is neat. Even the little (7B) local multimodal models can do useful stuff and can run from a USB stick (!). Find all my dog pictures, go.

@Zevon can't see a way to ROI for OpenAI. They took on so much debt. Don't know what they're cooking though.

@LnzyHou That's a lot of people about to receive a lot of rain and probably power outages. I'm sure the generator trucks are already rolling.

Atlanta's on the wrong side of the storm track at at the moment. Good time to leave. Got someplace else to go, now's a good time.
#hurricane #Helene

@elbutterfield buckle up Atlanta.

Helene's looking Frantastic.

No? Too soon?
#hurricane

Had a little epiphany around using large language models locally; how the number of parameters relates to amount of GPU VRAM. The relationship is indirect and exponential so dial-twiddling is fussy. Upshot is larger parameter models working reasonably well on a laptop with an NVIDIA GPU. No smoke.
#LLM

@MHS_Jenkins @Madken65 What are you referring to? I lived in CA and thought Harris had a nuanced approach that was if anything criticized for not being "tough". https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/23/18184192/kamala-harris-president-campaign-criminal-justice-record

LibraryThing's natural language search is fantastic! Use the search box or the API to finally answer the FAQ, "What was that book with the dog, it had a blue cover"
#books #search
https://www.librarything.com/developer/documentation/talpa

@yadayadayada the paper cited and discussion in it are interesting, seems to me the sound board aspect is weak, barely different than random and difficult to trust the citizen science. But dogs clearly understand a lot of nuanced scent and pointing cues. IMO more impressive than the word buttons.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11355551/

@Zevon right up until the galactic cosmic ray exposure induced myeloid leukemia and acute lymphatic lymphoma kick in. Sorry, that got dark.

Mars reconnaissance orbiter data lets us virtually visit.

The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars is a 5.7 trillion pixel image of the surface of Mars, rendered at 5.0 m/px as a 3D globe. Crazy cool. Works on mobile or PC

#mars #caltech
https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCTXmosaic.html

@raspberrypanda @stueytheround @th3j35t3r
"Boots"
I see what you did there