antithetical to the spirit of silicon valley

Tell me you haven’t been paying attention without telling me you haven’t been paying attention.

No worries! I have reasons for not installing Telegram myself, but I’m curious what your reasons are? What arguments have you made to him so far and what were his responses?

Dissuade = discourage. Is that what you mean?

I laughed out loud when I read the title of this post. When I’m helping my customers with their domain DNS records, I always analogise DNS to “a phone book for the internet”. I love that we’ve come full circle and phone books are “DNS for the phone system” 😂 (also goddamn does this make me feel old 😭)

“Death to plastic”

“Here drink from this plastic-lined can” (https://www.plasticstoday.com/business/liquid-death-may-murder-your-thirst-but-it-won-t-kill-plastic-no-matter-what-the-ads-say)

No pretty to influence it is incorrect. You do not have the power to change it. However, if you leave, you are a data point. If lots of people leave, they are also data points. Data influences decisions at most companies. This statement does not imply the data is read correctly, nor that the decisions made in light of the interpretation of the data are the best ones.

Whaaaaaaaaat the fuck. That is a Shopify store, and their terms of service explicitly state

You can’t breach the social contract of commerce.
There are activities we don’t allow on the platform because they breach the social contract of commerce. This means you can’t call for, or threaten, violence against specific people or groups. And you can’t sell products that facilitate intentional self-harm.

https://www.shopify.com/legal/aup

Pretty sure this shirt calls for violence against Jewish people. Anyone who cares to join me in reporting it can do so here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/tools/report-an-issue/report-a-merchant

Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders that respect biological reality in areas from medicine to sports to intimate spaces, and protect the right to speak about the harms of gender ideology

That was as far as I needed to read to know that the author doesn’t deserve credence in this or anything else. I bet if pressed in court this “Professor of Psychology” would deny ever claiming to be an educator. “No, I mean I profess to know about psychology, not that I have a degree in it!”

An absolute and unmitigated wanker.

Get this bigoted science-illiterate op-ed bullshit the fuck outta here, and keep it the fuck out.

It is not massively popular. Don’t let yourself be fooled into thinking that. These mouth-breathing troglodytes are in the very slim minority as far as the whole population goes. A lot of the people voting for him actually did not know what they were voting for - I was just talking to one of my friends overseas and they had no idea about quite literally ANY of the things Trump and Musk are doing. I told them about the Department of Education, USAID, the Treasury access, and the concentration camps, and then they interrupted to offer to let me stay with them and seek asylum from the government here.

Many people in the US were in the same boat. The Fediverse gives the people on it a lot of information most people don’t ever see, and the more people learn about what’s actually going on the more people will start to oppose it.

Oh, right, there’s the issue. It’s not a “how to distill” video. That video has the description of what’s going on under the video player: “Demo showcasing DeepSeek R1 Qwen 1.5 Q4 K M model running on an AMD Ryzen™ HX 370 series processor in real time”

The team releasing this already did the distillation for us; what follows the video are instructions on how to run these new distilled models on your AMD system, not how to distill the models yourself.

I understand what you’re saying now, and I of course still agree there are lots more questions to be answered. I might have ranged a little far with my examples, but it’s still largely relevant; being found frozen and close to dead would absolutely be cause for a general physical checkup, inside and out, in trying to figure out what the hell happened and what else you might need treatment for. Where you were found wouldn’t really impact that bit, so I don’t think it’s surprising that they checked for internal injuries and I don’t think it’s surprising that the family would take finding such injuries as a sign of malfeasance. Your point about the injuries on her hands and forearms stands unchallenged, by the way - tissue damage could 100% look like contusions or lacerations. If it turns out she has broken bones in her hands, though…

Distillation happens separately from question answering - it’s like rebuilding a car engine for better performance, you’re not driving at 100km/h while you’re rebuilding the engine.

It seems like you might already know that though from your other posts so I fear I’m misunderstanding you. Could you explain what you mean by

the distilling itself should take longer, not just like being able to immediately answer questions faster.

? Distilling doesn’t just make it faster at generating tokens (though it definitely should, running on the same hardware, because the model is smaller and has less data to sift through in writing it’s answer). I guess my last answer was a bit narrow - in addition to making it faster, the main reason for distillation is to improve performance in a specific task. As an example, a distilled model might produce more detailed answers with fewer hallucinations than the undistilled version of the same model.

I’m not sure I understand the question. The demo video is showing the model answering questions, e.g. a demonstration of how fast it can generate tokens. The distilling part is to make the “faster” happen. As I understand it, this works by trimming out content from the base model.

How is that determination made?

The determination is made by the circumstances under which the body is found; I was trying to imply this in my last post. If a body is found with no evidence as to how it got there or why the person in question is a corpse, we don’t just shrug and go about our business.

We are indeed missing a lot of information. I’m not speculating about anything. I’m maintaining my original point that frostbite/hypothermia do not cause internal bleeding on their own, which is patently true, and answering what seem to be questions. I’m not a doctor or a police officer, but I have some baseline knowledge from first aid and forensics courses (my interests are… eclectic, let’s say), so I share when I can.

Yes it does, it has quite clear instructions in fact. People just aren’t willing to do what’s necessary to follow those instructions… Yet.

The hypothesis behind your statement, you mean? Well, you just said your wife fell in frozen water and went hypothermic, and they didn’t check for internal injuries. That’s because they didn’t suspect foul play, and they had no reason to look for internal injuries. But if there’s a possibility of internal injury, medical staff will check for it. A possibility like if someone had in fact died of exposure and murder, instead of dying of only exposure. This is a possibility that must be considered when you just find a body in the snow.

There would be no specification of where the internal injuries came from because nobody has a crystal ball to know. Even if the police investigate, it’s still going to be a “best guess” at what happened based on things like the coroner’s report. Before an investigation it would be actively irresponsible for an official to speculate in public. (Source: reddit detectives thinking they found the Boston bomber)

You can get the Ryzen 5 7600X (6 core, 4.7GHz, AM5 socket) + Gigabyte B650m + 32GB DDR5-5200 RAM for US$382 here, which may or may not qualify as “a lot of money” to you: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-7600x-ryzen-5-7000-series-raphael-zen-4-socket-am5/p/N82E16819113770?Item=N82E16819113770

Also includes a 1TB SSD (only PCIE4 though) at no charge, in case that matters. It’d make for a decent upgrade kit, in my estimation; you get more modern performance plus headroom for another AM5 upgrade down the track.

Also, anecdote time! My 3700X just blue-screened the other week with a fatal hardware error in one of the processor cores. I feel like I upgraded just in time. Don’t fall into the trap of believing your current hardware will run forever! You might not need an upgrade now, but far better to do it while you still have old hardware you can reinstall so you at least have a working system.

Ahh, we need an /s for deadpan. I’d use it often. I appreciate you taking the time to explain though! Sometimes, I need it 😅

No, it’s been broken; the original design wasn’t bad, but they told us not to let a two party system happen and we did it anyway.