Sure, but I'm an atheist. I got to being an atheist by growing up in a religious community that I ultimately rejected. But I understand the experience of that which people crave and I understand why they feel sorry for atheists.
I'm not saying a soul is given by God or that one needs to believe anything in order to find a soul in oneself. What I'm saying is that the poster's comment is darkness and hopelessness and a hatred for his own species rolled up into one, and that such a perspective is both painfully inexperienced and profoundly awful for the person and for whoever they are convincing or it, because life contains much more richness (religious or secular) than what is disdained by this person.
What you find condescending in my statement isn't that it's religious, it's that I'm willing to tell them that they're missing out on life. In that respect, I don't mind being condescending, because not all philosophies or ways of living lead to equally happy results.
I would say opus was in some ways more accurate, but missed the higher level curvature feel of the site that astra picked up on.
It sounds completely trivial and likely I'm wrong here, but could it be that opus saw the reference image squished? That might explain the sharper horizontal curvature
I've been vary of using ai to search considering all the spam out there. I think I'd rather, perhaps naively, whitelist wikipedia, reddit, arxiv, some news sources, etc than include everything.
Is there nothing out there that does this? I'm paying for kagi and I can see that it has an api, is that maybe sufficient if configured properly?
If you use Kagi Assistant, you can pick one of your lenses (i.e. lists of domains to restrict searches to) in chats. Not sure if their API has that as well or some other way to restrict searches. Also not sure if the Assistant (or API) respects blocked domains when searching.
I direct them to search for discussion on fora. There are still legacy sites on niche topics that the bots don't post in. This is particulaly useful for reaching into the past because traditional search doesn't surface anything but new content.
ThinkingCap is a 3.6 27b finetune that claims to halve thinking tokens while maintaining the same output quality. I've used the model a lot and I'd say it holds up. Since 3.6 has the same architecture as 3.8, the lora can be applied.
With the prompt "create a fancy circle in html", these are the results for xhigh, medium, low and xhigh + thinkingcap lora
(Note that the gists are bloated because they contain the full chat and launch params in text/plain script tags for transparency)
I'd say xhigh looks a little better than xhigh + lora, but the lora variant has 40% less thinking tokens. Both seemed to take the same approach with adding random details that weren't explicitly specified.
Medium and low (no lora) are close to each other but are much simpler results.
This is just me testing a single turn. I haven't tested this on multi turns and whatnot, but I thought the result was interesting enough to share anyway.
Scale 35 felt a bit noisy and incoherent, but 30 seemed nice. (they use the same seed, but idk how reliable seed in llamacpp is)
I use a python test script that captures the answer and renders it to a html page along with the llama-cli log, launch parameters, the chat log, and the python script itself for maximum transparency. :)
Whenever I stop drinking coffee for a few days or even months, I find that it becomes harder to wake up. I seem to sleep a lot heavier, but in the morning it's difficult to open my eyes as they feel heavy.
It doesn't matter if I have 1 cup in the morning or drink coffee all day. As long as I have it in my system from the previous day, it's very easy to wake up the next day.
Do you track exactly how much sleep you actually get? Like with a device, not with a journal. That sounds like you may be aren't getting enough sleep, consistently.
I've tracked it for a few years with whatever the latest samsung watch is, and it usually says it's good to excellent.
My total sleep time is about 6 hours.
deep sleep is about 1 hour and 30 min.
rem sleep is about 1 hour and 20 min.
I usually go to bed around 11pm and wake up at 6 am (give or take, I'm married)
It does however warn me about bad sleep if I've been drinking, have a fever, traveling across timezones, or staying up very late for some reason. One of these things may happen every 2 months or so.
I feel mentally good, I'm in shape and in general good health according to yearly checkups.
I've been drinking coffee for about 18 years now.
You have good habits. I think six hours may be leaving you with sleep deprivation, though. Despite a lot of pop science about different people needing different amounts of sleep, it seems pretty likely that the overnight chemistry just takes a certain amount of time.
Agreed. This sounds like someone whose system is very out of balance and would benefit from a coffee detox (and significantly more sleep) of at least 2 months.
Something that bugs me about these new demos is that they benchmark the model and harness at the same time. The harness steer the model to expand the vague prompt, self correct with tools, etc.
I think it's useful when evaluating "model+intended harness", but I'm more interested in seeing raw model improvements than harness improvements.
I think nothing can be done anymore, but I don't buy that security through obscurity never worked in practice. A better way to look at this is effort rather than obscurity. The effort it takes to do something with AI is going down, not up.
Almost everything was possible given you put in the effort, but few people possess the will to put in the effort AND pursue a malicious goal.
I think an obvious example is all the fake ai content flooding the internet made to trick people in exchange for money (ad revenue, scams, likes, etc).
This existed before ai, but I think it's fair to say pumping out content now requires less effort than it did before.
Most physical locks are an example of security through obscurity/effort. You can after all just pick a lock if you go through the effort to learn the skill. But once a universal lock picker is made available to everyone, you will simply see more locks getting picked.
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