It’s interesting axios specifically calls out the Homicide vs Violent crime statistic reliability:

The big picture: Homicides are more straightforward to compare year-to-year from pre-2021 to the present because the criteria for classifying them have remained the same while police have changed their methods of recording other violent crimes. Beginning in 2021, the FBI and police departments started shifting to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) from the decades-old Summary Reporting System (SRS). That allowed law enforcement agencies to submit more details on crimes like aggravated assaults but resulted in reported surges in violent crime in cities like Chicago and Minneapolis.

I read a (weirdly antagonistically conspiracy-themed) article about the FBI recently having to revise their statistics in 2022: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html

It makes me wonder if we need to go back and revisit the last few years of crime statistics since they switched reporting structure to get a better idea of what’s going on…

The fact they pulled ROCM support for older cards boggles the mind.

This is why I like playing games through proton on Linux and the steam deck. Being able to “pause” an unpausable game by hitting the power button is great.

Reminder that all these Chat-formatted LLMs are just text-completion engines trained on text formatted like a chat. You’re not having a conversation with it, it’s “completing” the chat history you’re providing it. By randomly(!) choosing the next text tokens that seems like they best fit the text provided.

If you don’t directly provide, in the chat history and/or the text completion prompt, the information you’re trying to retrieve, you’re essentially fishing for text in a sea of random text tokens that seems like it fits the question.

It will always complete the text, even if the tokens it chooses minimally fit the context, it chooses the best text it can but it will always complete the text.

This is how they work, and anything else is usually the company putting in a bunch of guide bumpers to reformat prompts into coaxing the models to respond in a “smarter” way (see GPT-4o and “chain of reasoning”)

All LLMs are text completion engines, no matter what fancy bells they tack on.

If your task is some kind of text completion or repetition of text provided in the prompt context LLMs perform wonderfully.

For everything else you are wading through territory you could probably do easier using other methods.

You don’t need to run the LLM on the device. It supports 13 different protocols for both text completion and chat completion.

There’s also RisuAI which has some nicer features like better integration with function calling. Sillytavern is working on Function calling more but it’s not quite there yet.

The nice thing about Sillytavern is that it also has plugins for Alltalk for TTS and ComfyUi/A1111 for image generation directly from the roleplay interface.

It also has support for RAG through upload of documents and web scraping and a shitload of other features it would take awhile to list here.

Somebody hit the token chain jackpot

Bluesky is not great, but it’s at least (for now) a better platform than X and the AT protocol is actually very well written. (For instance having a moderation service separated from the service that provides the posts I think is a hands-down better way to handle it than most ActivityPub servers having their admins handle all incoming and outgoing moderation)

Bluesky federation is just now getting started so it’ll be interesting to see if it goes anywhere/where it goes.

From one post-communist Mixed Socialist-Market economy to another.

USB-C is pin-compatible with every single other USB plug, so you should be able to get away with all USBC cables and some adapters for whatever plug type you’re trying to plug in.

There are only 3 types of pin sets, USB-C(USB 3.0 pins + 3 extra pins), USB-3.0(USB 1.0 + 5 extra pins) and USB-2.0 and lower. Everything else version wise is the controller on the actual board, not the cable.

Cable-wise you only need one to get the benefit of every other plug on the market.

The thesis also elicited that elite overproduction tends to favor political change in the dispossessed elite’s favor

It posits most revolutions, including communist revolutions, were pushed by elites who weren’t given the station they were promised.

It’s good that nobody knows how to use a sextant or a fax machine.

Modern Naval officers are taught to do navigation by starlight for backup purposes. Cause GPS ain’t that infallible.

And then right after he posts this fucking video of himself playing Diablo 2 while in a SpaceX launch review meeting:

https://x.com/joroulette/status/1849917452202934572

The faith people have that shotwell is insulating SpaceX from Musk’s incompetency feels more hopeful than factual.

What’s great about lawsuits like this is you really only have to prove intent and they have a record of them asking for similar imagery.

Yea one of the big ironies of history was that Abraham Lincoln was that he wanted to ship all of the newly freed slaves out of the US and back to Africa or South America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linconia

Alongside the EPA for constantly getting in the way of the FAA trying to slip his SpaceX flight licenses through with a wink and a nudge instead of properly following regulations, and the FAA for trying to keep a semblance of legality through the whole process.

I used to sweat trying to explain nitter to people (RIP).

Less like surrogates and more like The Muppets

no rocket as powerful as this one.

So I’m confused on this because people still seem to be using Starships’s old estimates of 100 tons to LEO orbit, which the SLS can put 145 tons to LEO.

Then 6 months ago Musk got on stage and updated the specs to Say that Starships’s current design can only do 40-50 tons.

This feels awfully familiar for anyone that’s seen early Tesla specs/presentations/promises and I can’t help but wonder as to the validity of everyone saying SpaceX is mostly insulated from Musk’s “influence.”