Computers and stuff...

[guerney]

old gold

What did you say your address was? Gold and weed sounds like a good crack. A few of these will render your Samurai sword useless.

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[guerney]

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Don't weedsters (and mercenaries) demand:

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[soundwave]

What did you say your address was? Gold and weed sounds like a good crack. A few of these will render your Samurai sword useless.

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[guerney]

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Your don't know how to use it - your shoulders are soft, I can tell you don't do proper martial arts drills. I'd simply roll some of those magnets near you and it'd be game over.

 

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im pissed but i have a 9mm hand gun

 

[guerney]

There's bound to be Kendo and Ninjitsu classes near you. Usually full of nutters.

 

[guerney]

im pissed but i have a 9mm hand gun

You don't have a 9mm hand gun. And my skull is too thick for a puny 9mm.

 

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[guerney]

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You win - keep your gold, weed and sampler.

 

[soundwave]

i still want a 50cal tho

 

[Woosh]

Have you heard of ECRAM? EC stands for Electro Chemical.
Development of those devices is progressing so fast that they are attractive to develop brain-like computer systems for deep learning AI. Their development is much helped by our understanding of Lithium Ion batteries.
These devices remind me of Data's positronic brain.

quote from IBM:
We demonstrate a nonvolatile Electro-Chemical Random-Access Memory (ECRAM) based on lithium (Li) ion intercalation in tungsten oxide (WO 3 ) for high-speed, low-power neuromorphic computing. Symmetric and linear update on the channel conductance is achieved using gate current pulses, where up to 1000 discrete states with large dynamic range and good retention are demonstrated. MNIST simulation based on the experimental data shows an accuracy of 96%. For the first time, high-speed programming with pulse width down to 5 ns and device operation at scales down to 300× 300 nm 2 are shown, confirming the technological relevance of ECRAM for neuromorphic array implementation. It is also verified that the conductance change scales linearly with pulse width, amplitude and charge, projecting an ultralow switching energy ∼1 fJ for 100× 100 nm 2 devices.

MNIST simulation: that's the dataset used to train systems for OCR. AI systems can read hand-written texts much better than humans.

 

[guerney]

They'll surely sell like hot cakes if packaged oblong - straight lines signal "Modern" - pillars vs caves, Arial, Helvetica vs Times New Roman, today's multithings' totally flat and straight with smallish rounded corners vs Xerox Alto's slightly curved but kinda straight lines:

Are we heading for a world filled with devices all as utterly flat and sharp cornered as Kubrick's monoloith from 2001? Will it feel like the future when someday, everything is made that way? And when it finally looks and feels like the future, will that signal the end of human life on earth, as we sense within our collective subconscious that we've reached the zenith of all technological progress possible here, having doomed life this planet? I expect most everyday objects which feature in our colonies elsewhere will be round and become progressively more monolith-like, as the cycle begins again, and continues until all objects in the entire universe are made oblong. And that's all the meaning there is to your life. (Space telescopes should be looking for polygons made by competing alien civillisations, which will herald The Polygon Wars)

 

[jonathan.agnew]

They'll surely sell like hot cakes if packaged oblong - straight lines signal "Modern" - pillars vs caves, Arial, Helvetica vs Times New Roman, today's multithings' totally flat and straight with smallish rounded corners vs Xerox Alto's slightly curved but kinda straight lines:

Are we heading for a world filled with devices all as utterly flat and sharp cornered as Kubrick's monoloith from 2001? Will it feel like the future when someday, everything is made that way? And when it finally looks and feels like the future, will that signal the end of human life on earth, as we sense within our collective subconscious that we've reached the zenith of all technological progress possible here, having doomed life this planet? I expect most everyday objects which feature in our colonies elsewhere will be round and become progressively more monolith-like, as the cycle begins again, and continues until all objects in the entire universe are made oblong. And that's all the meaning there is to your life. (Space telescopes should be looking for polygons made by competing alien civillisations, which will herald The Polygon Wars)

Had a more banal version of the same idea, I rather like old analogue shapes hiding new technology, street sleepers, beaten up old series land rovers hiding ev running gear. Suddenly found myself looking at the ample space inside the big boxy old 486 laptop and wondered whether there is enough room in there for a 4090 card, small mobo/daughter setup, somehow external power supply, like a gpu enclosure with screen and keyboard.

 

[guerney]

It's hard to find very small mobos which support powerful enough CPUs for gaming (again, I'm glad I'm not a gamer), which can be interfaced easily with a 4090. I recall that particular laptop case as thick, unsure if it'd be thick enough.

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[jonathan.agnew]

It's hard to find very small mobos which support powerful enough CPUs for gaming (again, I'm glad I'm not a gamer), which can be interfaced easily with a 4090. I recall that particular laptop case as thick, unsure if it'd be thick enough.

iKOOLCORE R1 - The Smallest x86 mini PC with 4 Intel i226-V NICs

Intel® Celeron N5105/Pentium Silver N6005 Quad Core / 4 Threads at 2.0GHz (Turbo up to 3.3GHz) 4 x Intel® i226-V 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet NIC ports M.2 2242 slot with NVMe or SATA (NGFF) support (NVMe is the default, but SATA requires a different BIOS to be flashed) 8GB/16GB 4233Mhz LPDDR4 Samsung...

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Framework Mainboard breathes new life into the classic ThinkPad 701C with a "butterfly" keyboard - Liliputing

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Gaming is a curious phenomenon, a bit too avoidant, aspergery when it becomes about getting lost alone in a fabricated digital world without life. But I can recommend something more interpersonal, unhinged, heretic like say wreckfest, that include seriously offensive, but sometimes surreal and meaningful dialogue, conversation with other humans

 

[guerney]

Gaming is a curious phenomenon, a bit too avoidant, aspergery when it becomes about getting lost alone in a fabricated digital world without life. But I can recommend something more interpersonal, unhinged, heretic like say wreckfest, that include seriously offensive, but sometimes surreal and meaningful dialogue, conversation with other humans

I avoid games like the plague these days - I get too involved if the game is good. Decades sober now lol, I think the last chunk of time I lost to a game was two weeks in Forsaken, V1:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsaken_(video_game)

Never again I could have gone on holiday! But I can understand and accept that others enjoy the things.

 

[guerney]

I was about to offer @Woosh my programming services, for millions of pounds, but then he posted that horrifying ChatGPT conversation. Unemployed angry middle-aged programmers will wreak havoc.

 

[guerney]

Possibly because of my being over 18, I've received an invitation to try Google's Bard, but I'm not interested in training "AI" overlords to enslave us all, by the time I'm 20:


" Meet Bard, an early experiment by Google.
You can think of Bard as your creative and helpful collaborator, here to bring your ideas to life using generative AI. We’d like to offer you the opportunity to be among the first to sign up for the new experience and provide feedback.

You might ask Bard to outline a blog post about summer mocktail recipes, draft a packing list for a weekend fishing and camping trip, or help you understand if lightning can strike the same place twice.

We can’t wait to hear how people start using Bard, but we also know that large language models will not always get it right. Input from a wide range of experts and users will help Bard improve. Bard is currently only set to provide US English and US-localised responses, but we want to ensure people in the UK can experience it and share their feedback. "

Bard: Google's rival to ChatGPT launches for over-18s

The tech giant is rolling out its new AI chatbot, called Bard, to users in the US and UK first.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Woosh]

I have received the same invitation stuff but didn't register when l realised how much more information google will get from me. The AI field receives so much investment at the moment, promoting exponential progress.
Recently, Stanford's Alpaca shows how to create your own AI on the cheap, by using other AI systems to train yours:
You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi | Ars Technica

They created 'GPT 3.5' in 3 hours by training it with GPT3. The cost of AI is bound to tumble rapidly.
Another outfit in Australia grew human neurons on top of an FPGA. A number of neurons are naturally in contact with the FPGA and develop natural exchanges of signals. Their programmers somehow managed to teach the neurons to play pong. The human brain has about 100 billion neurons so they have some way to go but I guess it wouldn't be long until humans will only live with their brain, their body discarded. The Australian team developed their neuron chip first with mouse neurons but later with human neurons. Apparently, human neurons are about 30% better than mouse's.

 

[Woosh]

Has anyone tried out Stable Diffusion yet?