rubikcuber

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I once worked for a company who had an accountant who used a gaming laptop. They didn't play games, but it was the only decent one they could get with a number pad.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Given the cluster of sacked misogynists at GB News, perhaps they should also have Committee A and Committee B reviewing their shows and presenters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed The Quarry. Although I killed pretty much everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ooo. I haven't listened to most of those, might to give them a go. I did enjoy The Doctors Daughter though. Jago & Litefoot probably still my favourite BF spinoff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I haven't used Twitter much in years really. But after switching to Lemmy during the reddit API debacle I thought I'd give it a go and am really enjoying it. I've set up a ton of filters to block out stuff I don't want to see, and joined a couple of instances for two different personas. I'm not using the official mobile client. On Android I use Tusky and Megalodon. Tusky is my daily driver and feels like how I remember the Twitter app from 7 or 8 years ago. Megalodon is nice for cross instance discovery, but has a couple of UI quirks that prevent me from using fully. My SO uses Ice Cubes on iOS and that looks pretty sweet. Personally I found the switch comparable to Lemmy. It took me a month or two to build up a good number of active people to follow to get to the stage of having an interesting feed. It also seems to have got a lot more active in the last week. When I have dropped into Twitter it's a dumpster fire on top of a cesspit. I don't think I could go back. I'd absolutely recommend giving Mastodon a go.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The research specifically looked at lossless algorithms, so gzip

"For example, the 70-billion parameter Chinchilla model impressively compressed data to 8.3% of its original size, significantly outperforming gzip and LZMA2, which managed 32.3% and 23% respectively."

However they do say that it's not especially practical at the moment, given that gzip is a tiny executable compared to the many gigabytes of the LLM's dataset.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I felt the same at first but I think it works because Nicola Walker is brilliant, and it got to the point where those parts were some of my favourite parts of the show.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And not even monetizing it!

... although maybe my adblocker is working

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Came here to say this! But still - thank you! I have a feeling it will be invaluable, at least in the short term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks. Yes the startrek.website instance is a good shout. Lots of good stuff on there and "official" communities migrated from the bad place.

Not all of S1 is great, I thought. A few wonky episodes, and some wonky parts to good episodes. But then, that's just classic Trek for you. Like the good old days of Those Old Scientists and TNG.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I know I've been banging on about slogging my way through the Star Treks before cancelling my Paramount+ subscription, but the most recent episode of Strange New Worlds where La'an and Kirk travel back to 21st century Toronto was great.

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