Gemini Links 18/03/2024: LLM Inference and Can We Survive Technology?
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Re: Can We Survive Technology?
Neumann is quite optimistic and claims that "technologies are always constructive and beneficial". Problems, if any, are consequences that tend to increase instability. ("It's not my department as to where the rockets come down," said von Braun). Economists also, by definition, ignore those annoying externalities.
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Stamp, addressing, physics
For a while I wondered about a language for state machine programming, simply defining state transitions, but approaching something practical by introducing wildcards and references. Finally tried it out, and it turned out usable for stack machine programming at once. Well, "usable" as in "working", but not necessarily "practical".
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🔤SpellBinding: ABCDKWR Wordo: GISMO
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Technology and Free Software
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LLM Inference - the state and outlook
This post is a draft for a lecture I'll be giving later this year at National Sun-Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Where I'm a guest lecturer, at a course by Prof. Chang. Whom is my advisor during my college years. Making a slide deck is hard without a script, hence this post where I blabber on about the topic and collect my thoughts. I'll share the slides once I've gave the talk.
At least parts of it. The field is moving too fast that I bet my legs that something big will happen between the time I write this and the time I give the talk.
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209
Yesterday I checked on my RPi hiding on the shelf below the router. It has already been up for 209 days. I only use it maybe once or twice a month to backup my work keepass database and make it accessible from home and also to upload other work related stuff that I need.
It offers webdav that I use with WinSCP as that is part of the workplace Windows install. I am contemplating the switch to using sftp instead of webdav. I already experienced some strange behavior when using the built-in client in Finder.
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Usage of smartwatches
What do you folks think of smartwatches?
Apart from the health/fitness tracking built in into most of them and sometimes playing music via earbuds without hassle of a phone, I don't use them for anything else. I don't think either my sleep hygiene or health has improved despite the copious amounts of data these devices serve. Do you think these are just another tech gimmick that a person can do without or is it an essential part of your life?
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