That Pavel Grudinin guy sure looks a lot like reincarnated Stalin.

Good point. I’ve been dabbling with Khoj myself, which connects with Obsidian, the Markdown notemaking software I use. This lets the AI draw from my notes on the fly.

I’m waiting to build a PC with the RTX 5090 or something before diving deeper into local AI. The integrated GPU I’m using right now is just too slow.

The test tracks used for launch testing are the same ones cited as “for hyperloop testing” here (notice that the track mentioned in both is built by CASIC in Datong, Shanxi, is 2 km long, and is inside a low-vacuum tube). Space launch is a much more logical use for this kind of technology than rail transport. It’s nice to see that the same equipment can be used for research in such different fields.

This does mean that this track technically isn’t a “railgun”, as it uses magnetic levitation and not the Lorentz force for propulsion.

This isn’t really a significant player in the space yet. This field of local LLM frontends is extremely active right now, with many new projects popping up and user counts shifting around. Here’s a good article that reviews the most prominent ones right now, with rankings for different uses: https://matilabs.ai/2024/02/07/run-llms-locally/

TLDR from the article:

Having tried all of these tools, I find they are trying to solve for a few different problems. So, depending on what you are looking to do, here are my conclusions:

• If you are looking to develop an AI application, and you have a Mac or Linux machine, Ollama is great because it’s very easy to set up, easy to work with, and fast.
• If you are looking to chat locally with documents, GPT4All is the best out of the box solution that is also easy to set up
• If you are looking for advanced control and insight into neural networks and machine learning, as well as the widest range of model support, you should try transformers
• In terms of speed, I think Ollama or llama.cpp are both very fast
• If you are looking to work with a CLI tool, llm is clean and easy to set up
• If you want to use Google Cloud, you should look into localllm
• For native support for roleplay and gaming (adding characters, persistent stories), the best choices are going to be textgen-webui by Oobabooga, and koboldcpp. Alternatively, you can use ollama with custom UIs such as ollama-webui

That explains a lot. I was wondering why I started seeing a bunch of western media reporting on Xi Jinping’s secret stockpiles of cash in another dimension.

I’m pretty sure waxing pulls at the hair root, which does sometimes damage it and cause the resulting hair to come out weaker than before.

You might have to try waxing. That should murder the hair roots. Laser is definitely the best solution if you’re sure about it.

The Biden campaign also suddenly brought up abortion rights again. They had 4 years to do shit about it and did nothing, so another 4 years will definitely fix it, right?

Next, let me sum up how to pull off this scam. First, buy a couple of commercial dehumidifiers. Next, put the equipment inside them into new, cool-looking equipment boxes. Third, call news stations saying you’ve solved water forever.

This tech is just a reskinned dehumidifier. The scientist Youtuber Thunderf00t has made a number of videos debunking these types of claims. Their issues can be summed up as the following:

• they extract very little water while using a shitton of energy. The amount of energy required to condense water from gas into liquid equals the amount of energy required to boil said water, which is a lot. This is dictated by the laws of physics.
• they work best in humid conditions. These conditions only exist in places where you would ALREADY be able to find water, or when it is right about to rain ( as the natural humidity condenses to form rain clouds), in which case you can just catch and drink that.
• the water they produce is not clean. Do you want to drink the moldy water out of your dehumidifier? Model and bacteria grow on the cold, wet metal fins where the water condenses.

Speaking of He Zhao, it seems he got deplatformed. Does anyone know where I can read his stuff other than archive.org? We might want to set up some backup location on prolewiki for these kinds of deplatformed writers (with their permission of course).

Mexico desperately needs a better military to withstand this kind of bullshit. At the current rate, the US is gonna try to coup Mexico soon. Once the US starts collapsing for real, Mexico is the first place American fascists are gonna expand into. The current Mexican air force is composed of 40 propeller plane fighters, and the other Army and Navy don’t look much better.

Simple solution: we use AI to fill our resumes with the right fucking keywords so that eventually, both sides are talking and reading nonsense.

This is great progress! IDK if they should take the Apple closed ecosystem route or eventually go open source and compete with Android.

It’s ridiculous that this needs to be done. Water utilities are the definition of a public good and natural monopoly. Any developing country whose water utilities are privately owned will have water access and shortage issues, as the “costs” of the infrastructure to provide drinking water to all threaten the easy profit of sitting back and forcing people to pay, lest they die from disease or dehydration.

The issue is that dollars do not make weapons via alchemy, Europe spent shittons of money on of artillery shells to Ukraine, just to raise the price of existing shells without making any more new ones.

I believe China had a number of world’s fastest supercomputers in the Top 500 list before, and probably has the world’s fastest supercomputers right now. They stopped posting them on the list because they got tired of the West freaking out and sanctioning every time they built a bigger one.

See here: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3234495/us-guru-says-chinas-supercomputer-power-may-exceed-all-countries-flies-under-radar-because-sanctions

For milder forms of autism, treatment should be left up to the person and definitely isn’t necessary.

However, I also know people who have extremely severe forms of autism, which are debilitating and require 24/7 care, for which such a treatment would be a godsend.

The DPRK is only able to take such a principled position because most of their trade is with the PRC. If China didn’t thread the diplomatic needle, DPRK would have no one to trade with.

That’s hilarious.

Israel: “Oops, we accidentally sniped your military outposts. Please continue being our ally though.”