MEEP MEEP

I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, – and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.
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  • 25M

    West country separatist

    C programmer

    roadrunner97#8412 <= talk to me pls

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    • 11 months ago
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    • #just so i can move it out of my bio
  • ow-my-stomach:

    boopsloop565:

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    FTMs be like “we demand to be taken seriously.”

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    (via p1sswallet)

    • 2 hours ago
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    • #sad but what did they expect
  • sloppystyle:

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    • 3 hours ago
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  • wifestre:
“roadrunnerposting:
“wifestre:
“wingsfromwhere:
“spencerthefredder:
“ uisce-bitch:
“I’m confused
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It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or...

    wifestre:

    roadrunnerposting:

    wifestre:

    wingsfromwhere:

    spencerthefredder:

    uisce-bitch:

    I’m confused

    It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or silver standard. Currently our bills are fiat money which means they are not backed by any tangible item. They’re just based on the strength of the economy. The economy can fluctuate so it makes the actual value of a bill unstable. These Mcdonalds coins, however, would be a currency that are redeemable for a Big Mac. This would make them a technically more stable currency as they are always have the value of a Big Mac they can be redeemed for.

    Google ronald mcdonald inflation to find out more

    At last a Dutch Tuple Bubble that Americans can understand

    Is a dutch tuple some kind of python trick?

    It what happens why you let autocorrect fix tulip for you

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  • wifestre:
“wingsfromwhere:
“spencerthefredder:
“ uisce-bitch:
“I’m confused
”
It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or...

    wifestre:

    wingsfromwhere:

    spencerthefredder:

    uisce-bitch:

    I’m confused

    It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or silver standard. Currently our bills are fiat money which means they are not backed by any tangible item. They’re just based on the strength of the economy. The economy can fluctuate so it makes the actual value of a bill unstable. These Mcdonalds coins, however, would be a currency that are redeemable for a Big Mac. This would make them a technically more stable currency as they are always have the value of a Big Mac they can be redeemed for.

    Google ronald mcdonald inflation to find out more

    At last a Dutch Tuple Bubble that Americans can understand

    Is a dutch tuple some kind of python trick?

    (via wifestre)

    • 4 hours ago
    • 60672 notes
  • 2007xbox360:

    Unassuming woman: Nice, dude. That hot dog is ketchup-pilled AND mustard-pilled

    Strange man whose son died in an accident he could have prevented: I guess

    (via macroclit)

    • 6 hours ago
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  • zindagigulzarhaii:

    I read somewhere that “When you choose a life partner you’re choosing your eating companion for about 20,000 meals, your travel companion for about 70 vacations, your retirement friend, career therapist, & someone whose day you’ll hear about 18,000 times” and I really can’t stress this enough.

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  • to think one of the cars i wanted was a hyundai

    • 7 hours ago
    • #i was gonna get the i20
    • #the dealer kinda just ignored me to talk to customers buying more expensive cars
    • #fuck you i'll buy a Seat instead
  • charlesoberonn:

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  • memorycycle:

    how to eat a tomato

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    hey everybody. today were gonna be teaching you how to eat a tomato. first just find a tomato and then eat it. its easy. some people dont like tomatos because they dont like the slimy part of it. it makes them feel like theyre eating a slimy disgusting snail they just picked up off the ground or something. and i dont blame them. it is disgusting. tomatoes are disgusting and that means youre disgusting for eating one. dont eat tomatoes.

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    • 12 hours ago
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  • cupofteaandstars:

    betweenthemustypages:

    So, I’m a bartender at a good ol’ fashioned pub in England - the type that’s predominantly frequented by middle-aged retirees with beer-bellies who come to escape their wives for a few hours and watch the football.

    And there’s this one group who’re there almost every few days - all rowdy old lads in their 60s. They spend most of their time sloshing their beers and jokily insulting each other and roaring at the footie.

    Except that, whenever any one of them leaves, that person goes around and gives a tender forehead kiss to each of the others before they go? At first I thought they were doing it as a joke but I soon realised that they all do this, every single time. It’s genuinely just a gentle and sincere show of affection and i don’t know what to do with this information

    Reblog to give a tender forehead kiss to all your rowdy old mutuals.

    (via javob)

    • 12 hours ago
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  • everythingfox:

    Tiny unit

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  • fartshals:

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    Yeah, sure, show me the fucking moon chudjak

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    • 13 hours ago
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  • tonyalmeida:

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  • seaps:

    don’t ever put them in a situation

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    • 1 day ago
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    • #me renaming <feature>_test_interface_common to spingus_common and submitting it for a review today by accidnent
  • di–es—can-ic-ul-ar–es:

    nostalgebraist:

    Honestly I’m pretty tired of supporting nostalgebraist-autoresponder. Going to wind down the project some time before the end of this year.

    Posting this mainly to get the idea out there, I guess.

    This project has taken an immense amount of effort from me over the years, and still does, even when it’s just in maintenance mode.

    Today some mysterious system update (or something) made the model no longer fit on the GPU I normally use for it, despite all the same code and settings on my end.

    This exact kind of thing happened once before this year, and I eventually figured it out, but I haven’t figured this one out yet. This problem consumed several hours of what was meant to be a relaxing Sunday. Based on past experience, to the bottom of the issue would take many more hours.

    My options in the short term are to

    A. spend (even) more money per unit time, by renting a more powerful GPU to do the same damn thing I know the less powerful one can do (it was doing it this morning!), or

    B. silently reduce the context window length by a large amount (and thus the “smartness” of the output, to some degree) to allow the model to fit on the old GPU.

    Things like this happen all the time, behind the scenes.

    I don’t want to be doing this for another year, much less several years. I don’t want to be doing it at all.

    —-

    In 2019 and 2020, it was fun to make a GPT-2 autoresponder bot.

    Hardly anyone else was doing anything like it. I wasn’t the most qualified person in the world to do it, and I didn’t do the best possible job, but who cares? I learned a lot, and the really competent tech bros of 2019 were off doing something else.

    And it was fun to watch the bot “pretend to be me” while interacting (mostly) with my actual group of tumblr mutuals.

    In 2023, everyone and their grandmother is making some kind of “gen AI” app. They are helped along by a dizzying array of tools, cranked out by hyper-competent tech bros with apparently infinite reserves of free time.

    There are so many of these tools and demos. Every week it seems like there are a hundred more; it feels like every day I wake up and am expected to be familiar with a hundred more vaguely nostalgebraist-autoresponder-shaped things.

    And every one of them is vastly better-engineered than my own hacky efforts. They build on each other, and reap the accelerating returns.

    I’ve tended to do everything first, ahead of the curve, in my own way. This is what I like doing. Going out into unexplored wilderness, not really knowing what I’m doing, without any maps.

    Later, hundreds of others with go to the same place. They’ll make maps, and share them. They’ll go there again and again, learning to make the expeditions systematically. They’ll make an optimized industrial process of it. Meanwhile, I’ll be locked in to my own cottage-industry mode of production.

    Being the first to do something means you end up eventually being the worst.

    —-

    I had a GPT chatbot in 2019, before GPT-3 existed. I don’t think Huggingface Transformers existed, either. I used the primitive tools that were available at the time, and built on them in my own way. These days, it is almost trivial to do the things I did, much better, with standardized tools.

    I had a denoising diffusion image generator in 2021, before DALLE-2 or Stable Diffusion or Huggingface Diffusers. I used the primitive tools that were available at the time, and built on them in my own way. These days, it is almost trivial to do the things I did, much better, with standardized tools.

    Earlier this year, I was (probably) one the first people to finetune LLaMA. I manually strapped LoRA and 8-bit quantization onto the original codebase, figuring out everything the hard way. It was fun.

    Just a few months later, and your grandmother is probably running LLaMA on her toaster as we speak. My homegrown methods look hopelessly antiquated. I think everyone’s doing 4-bit quantization now?

    (Are they? I can’t keep track anymore – the hyper-competent tech bros are too damn fast. A few months from now the thing will be probably be quantized to -1 bits, somehow. It’ll be running in your phone’s browser. And it’ll be using RLHF, except no, it’ll be using some successor to RLHF that everyone’s hyping up at the time…)

    “You have a GPT chatbot?” someone will ask me. “I assume you’re using AutoLangGPTLayerPrompt?”

    No, no, I’m not. I’m trying to debug obscure CUDA issues on a Sunday so my bot can carry on talking to a thousand strangers, every one of whom is asking it something like “PENIS PENIS PENIS.”

    Only I am capable of unplugging the blockage and giving the “PENIS PENIS PENIS” askers the responses they crave. (“Which is … what, exactly?”, one might justly wonder.) No one else would fully understand the nature of the bug. It is special to my own bizarre, antiquated, homegrown system.

    I must have one of the longest-running GPT chatbots in existence, by now. Possibly the longest-running one?

    I like doing new things. I like hacking through uncharted wilderness. The world of GPT chatbots has long since ceased to provide this kind of value to me.

    I want to cede this ground to the LLaMA techbros and the prompt engineers. It is not my wilderness anymore.

    I miss wilderness. Maybe I will find a new patch of it, in some new place, that no one cares about yet.

    —-

    Even in 2023, there isn’t really anything else out there quite like Frank. But there could be.

    If you want to develop some sort of Frank-like thing, there has never been a better time than now. Everyone and their grandmother is doing it.

    “But – but how, exactly?”

    Don’t ask me. I don’t know. This isn’t my area anymore.

    There has never been a better time to made a GPT chatbot – for everyone except me, that is.

    Ask the techbros, the prompt engineers, the grandmas running OpenChatGPT on their ironing boards. They are doing what I did, faster and easier and better, in their sleep. Ask them.

    You rule so hard dude.

    (via javob)

    • 1 day ago
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