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Wow, that must be a very secure password to be so long. :P

Weird. Just like passwords, all I saw for your ssn is asterisks. Must be a Fediverse security feature.

Sure, but OP is talking about fingers as representation, not markings. Your point is exactly why they did it in writing.

I see what you’re saying, using one hand for the entire sequence. XI is still a pain. The real problem is that there is no mention of doing this in any Roman text. A bit of an omission, or was it a state secret?

IV and IX don’t make sense when it could be done more intuitively by IIII and VIIII.

I think he saw the one possibility early on but because Tony sacrificed himself there, Strange was trying to find anything else. That he couldn’t after so many tries would certainly drive a person crazy, and it’s reasonable to consider that if you only found one and no others, the probability must be virtually zero.

You don’t have to use fossil fuels. Just pointing out.

I stopped at speech recognition. That’s the only important part of this that needs to involve any complex AI. The rest is basic programming and doesn’t need a neural net at all. Think of a modern phone tree. There’s some things that will get recognized as menu items, and anything beyond gets dumped to the human still monitoring the activity.

Good luck with the first part though. Having worked drive thru in my days (long ago, but nothing much has changed) the noise level on the input is all over the place. The human ear is very good at picking out things, so usually you can piece together what the order was, but even today’s phone trees that I mentioned or even a smartphone that’s tied to Google/Siri in real time can screw basic words up, and that’s from an algorithm that learns the user’s voice, not a different person with a different accent/ volume, car sound, etc. each time.

Also let me add - even though the human ear is far superior at picking out nuances in a high noise environment, many people working the drive thru still suck at understanding even clear speech. To get AI/LLM/whatever past even the basic incompetent human order taker will be a monumental accomplishment that could filter into so many other things. Read that as sarcastic - it hasn’t happened yet, it won’t happen via a drive thru cost replacement to increase bottom line profits.

I wish that commenting would automatically upvote a post. It’s far too late to fix the use of an upvote as approval of subject discussion and not just an agree arrow, but I often…no, I almost always forget to upvote the initial topic even after leaving a few paragraphs. One would hope whatever algorithm is used also considers activity and number of comments in a rating or suggesting it to others.

Looks like just posts from Lemmy instances. Now, are replies posts? I don’t think so, I think it’s original topics. But many replies from Lemmy users are going to be to outside sources, so there’s a lot going on!

Usually there’s enough context and it’s recent enough I sort of remember. I haven’t had a lot of ancient replies here, but Reddit was great for that, and that’s exactly what I would think. What the hell are they talking about? What was really surreal was rereading what I wrote and vaguely remembering it, but sometimes the wording being a bit different than what I might say now. Not necessarily the point, just how I said it, as people do change with age. I don’t regret anything I’ve every said though, it’s why I’ve left my Reddit account alone, that plus it would probably be undeleted anyway and I’ve moved on.

The brain is good at taking the information given it and creating a virtual image, including filling in missing parts. Both for touch and for the mention of hearing to calculate location. It can also be fooled because of this wiring, as it tries to find patterns where they may not exist.

Right. I don’t mind people wearing certain red hats. It lets me know right up front what to expect. Reddit had the same dilemma once upon a time where specific subs were banned, and that just forced the roaches to hide in unknown areas where once you knew exactly where to find them all.

“Sammie lovers”

I think there are other conspiracies within the automotive industry that are true, i.e. could have done better for fuel economy but would have impacted profits. The water car is not one of them. There are applications that use water to change engine dynamics that are viable (my dad had a patent on one and lived his life battling people who didn’t want to hear about it), but running on water is too far from reality.

What’s the point of having multitasking abilities if you don’t use them?

No, it’s a fallacy. What is true is called “creeping normality”, and it’s absolutely what humans do to large scale and/or slow changes.

Which is exactly what happened when things started growing quickly due to the first Reddit exodus. OP should try and set up their own instance without any filtering and if it gains enough users and attention they’ll see what full openness gets them. Have to remember, sometimes censorship doesn’t mean you’re being repressed, it just means most people don’t care for or are ignoring your viewpoint.

I’ve run a local LLM on my PC for a while, so I’m familiar enough with Ollama to understand what’s going on. I’ve tried this with my Samsung Tracfone, not really expecting a lot. Surprisingly I’ve gotten all the way to getting a prompt, but then things crash and I’m kicked back to the starting terminal. Pretty sure it’s memory, so I’m now trying to use virtual memory to bump it up to the 4GB you’ve had success with (the phone looks to have 3GB actual memory, plenty of storage though).

If it doesn’t work, I’ll try some of the others, perhaps they’re a bit smaller.

I did get the 0.5 Qwen to run well. I’m surprised how fast it is even using CPU mode, but maybe being smaller also helps with the processing.

Just a tip (maybe obvious to experienced users): while you do have to run the terminal, login to debian, start the server and then run the model, remember that you can use the arrow keys in the terminal to repeat past commands, so it’s pretty quick to do. I actually missed the arrow keys the first time around because they aren’t very distinct or highlighted, but then when I had to look for how to do CTRL, I realized they were right in front of me.