MajorSomeday
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MajorSomeday
9mo ago
Has anyone successfully ran an LLM fully offline, and still actively uses it? easy to keep using and be confident it’s not sending stuff out? how is it compared to gpt4?
I’d like to take advantage of LLMs for my personal note taking / organization / todos, but I’m generally pretty risk-averse from a privacy and security perspective and I keep some fairly private stuff in there.
MajorSomeday
9mo ago
Congrats! It’s really fun, you’ll probably have a blast.
You’re about to lose a lot of your personal time, especially if you have two. The excitement and lack of sleep will keep it from hurting much for the first few months, but after that you’ll be like, alright, I’m ready to read/videogame/code/do whatever, and the kids keep taking my time. Just keep in mind this is a relatively short time in your life. When your kids turn 5-6 they’ll start school and have their own lives, and you won’t see them quite as much. By the time your children are 12, you’ll have spent 75% of all the time you’ll ever spend with them.
I’d nudge you to have more kids than you’re thinking. There’s a book about this, but the argument roughly goes: Most people optimize for the amount of kids they want to have when the kids are young. But that time doesn’t last very long, relatively. Optimize for some mixture including how many kids you want to have when the kids are 10 / 15 / 20 / 25.
Your own emotional control will likely be a major factor in your ability to be a good parent. Parenting is frustrating and sad and scary and all that. But the kids need you to be reliable, and able to handle the tiny disasters they’re throwing at you. If you can be a rock under pressure with kids screaming at you, you’ll make a better parent.
Also, for whatever reason, being outside is magical for young kids. I can have them inside with a million toys, and they’ll be bored, but outside in a plain yard with an old soccer ball, and they’re happy for hours. Other families have concurred. shrug
MajorSomeday
9mo ago
We had a breach baby and they did an ECV to flip them around, so that we could do a vaginal birth. Basically a doctor pushes on the belly in certain ways to get the baby head-down. Worked for us! Though I hear a lot of doctors won’t do it because there are risks.
I think the most annoying stage so far is the one where they can walk with a hand but not otherwise. They then want to walk all the time, so you’re stuck in a hunched over position to keep them happy.
MajorSomeday
10mo ago
This is an important aspect of economics that lots of people seem to misunderstand: prices are not determined by costs.
They’re determined by what consumers are willing to pay for your product. That’s it.
The manufacturer sets its price based on what will bring them the most profit, I.e. what the consumers are willing to pay times the number of customers willing to pay it. Notice how cost is a pretty minor factor in that.
Supply and demand has an effect because it reduces the amount consumers are willing to pay (because they can get your product elsewhere)
So your argument that software should charge less based on what it costs them is just a misapprehension of how this works in the economy in general.
MajorSomeday
10mo ago
This thing drives me crazy. LEDs are better than the other alternatives in every way except price.
So why don’t they tax them instead of ban them? Just seems idiotic to not let people who want the worse thing to pay for it. And the whole point is to avoid the tragedy-of-the-commons inherent in climate change, so figure out what the diff is in switching, then set the tax at that rate. Bam, now you’ve properly incentivized everyone to do the right thing.
I just don’t get why the govt refuses to make use of the economic engine we have at our disposal.
MajorSomeday
11mo ago
From this exchange it became clear to me that no one bothers to investigate the etymology of words, where they came from, how they are defined, and what they actually mean.
Why do you believe that etymology helps you to know what a word actually means?
Etymology is interesting, but it’s almost totally unrelated to meaning. Even Websters dictionary doesn’t try to do that — they’re explicitly descriptive, not prescriptive.
Words are defined by how they’re used. That’s it.
Yes, it’s frustrating when people intentionally use the wrong word trying to sway public opinion, and it’s frustrating when you can’t pin down people on what they mean because of shifting definitions. But none of that is new nor unique to the left.
Something to try: Max yourself out, then switch to negatives. i.e. use a chair to get to the top, then slowly let yourself descend.
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