KiwiJohnno

Sweet, I'll give it a go! Thanks dude.

Interesting. I have a mac mini I run headless dedicated for LLM inference. Do you know if I could run project nomad on a linux box but use qwen on the mac for the AI stuff? I can't find any info on if this configuration is possible.

Yeah before Qwen 3.8 27b all local LLMs did feel like not very smart chat completion models. You would hit the limits of their intelligence all the time. Chatting with Qwen 3.8 is night and day, and it can do some pretty damn good coding and agentic work for its size. IMO its better than where frontier labs were at about 18 months ago, which is mind-blowing for a small locally hosted model.

Looks like it isn't on the android play store though? Any info on this? Play tells me there is a version for a prior version of android, which is won't let me install. Not helpful...

Yeah me to... Also I love plexamp for the android auto support.

Not just the first AGI, but the book deals with a (very) hard-takeoff scenario of the singularity. The AI, Prime Intellect starts recursively increasing its capabilities and things rapidly spin out of control. This is actually a small part of the book, most of the book is about what happens after this - Its a fantastic read, yes as other posters have said there is some extremely graphic sex and violence in this book, but it is not gratuitous. I highly reccommend.

Yes, I think you are correct in reducing the argument to its basic factors. Yep, its fucked up.

However if we’re going to talk about moral responsibility for vaccine mandates, we also have to consider moral responsibility for non-vaccination leading to spread of a dangerous virus during a pandemic.

If you are going to hold one group responsible for vaccine-related deaths of mandated vaccines, you must also hold the group who refused the vaccine responsible for any deaths of other people who were infected as a result of their vaccine refusal.

Vaccine deaths were real, and very rare. COVID deaths from preventable spread were also real, and much more common. Public policy had to weigh both, not pretend either side of the risk didn’t exist.

I ordered a mac mini m4 pro with 48 gb of ram a couple of weeks ago. Apple said 8-9 weeks.

I ran the 26B model on my i5 which has no discrete graphics card. It ran about 7 tokens/sec, and appreared to be a very capable model.

We do not. Elections here are run very smoothly, with no questions whatsoever about their integrity.

>means debris that debris that is flung up is going to have a more oval orbit, so the high point (apogee) increases and the low point (perigee) decreases. And a lower perigee means more atmospheric drag, which will help deorbit the debris.

Not quite.

If you are at apogee and accelerate, your perigee will be raised. If you are at perigee and accelerate, your apogee will be raised. You can't increase your apogee and perigee at the same time.

If the impulse is in the direction of orbit, then the altitude of your orbit 180 degrees from your current position will raise. If the impulse is against your orbital direction, your height 180 deg away will be lowered. Once you complete an entire orbit (360 degrees) you will pass through your current position again.

If you wish to move to a higher, circular orbit two impulses are required, 180 deg apart.

That is not how orbital mechanics work.

It may seem counterintuitive, but if something in orbit gets a push that isn’t strong enough to make it totally escape orbit, it will stay in a new elliptical orbit. That new orbit will pass through the point where the push happened, so it will come back through that location again, just with a different speed and direction.

I read a quote somewhere that said democracy does nothing to promote good leadership. The point of democracy isn't to elect a good government, the point is to quickly get rid of a bad government

Correct. Core came from Pentium M, which actually came from the Israeli team who took the Pentium 3 architecture, and coupled this with the best bits from the Pentium 4