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[PItiful Boar]

2 hours after i wake up and i still have no energy ok time to go for a run

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i think i know what the issue is... i haven't been taking fish oil and i think thats the reason ive been making me depressed for no reason...

I've took two pills of fish oil just now and i feel a lot better

went for a jog

Edited by PItiful Boar, 24 March 2024 - 07:58 PM.

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monday time

I dreamt i was going to a war zone. There were four or 5 spots of enemy combatants. They were going to send like 20 of us. Interestingly the place where I was to be sent had a code name "Corazon", heart. I saw people getting their combat gear, readying the troops. 

Time to grab some fish oil... a new future is possible

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95 i think it's 95 anyway... wow... what a time, at this rate i should just quit

the entire day and only 3 customer phone calls ... and more calls from the boss than from customers

[pokari]

96 (probably)

94 Indeed, who knew.Im feeling a lot of dopamine deplete and a lot of guilt for not doing what i shouldve been doing yesterday ie looking up taxes ... it's like doing pushups but a lot worse
and i can't even begin to fanthom how much fun i'll have monday
WTF is wrong with me...
is there any motivation left within me

I mean, the ol' "death and taxes" quip isn't morbid for nothing. They are not happy-making!

i think i know what the issue is... i haven't been taking fish oil and i think thats the reason ive been making me depressed for no reason...
I've took two pills of fish oil just now and i feel a lot better
went for a jog

Fish oil isn't... Supposed to be like that? (Like, something like Vitamin D if deficient, yes, but fish oil...?)

But you know what, if it's working it's working :3

95 i think it's 95 anyway... wow... what a time, at this rate i should just quit
the entire day and only 3 customer phone calls ... and more calls from the boss than from customers

Hang in there!

(Not with the job. Feel free to quit that. It's your well-being and sanity I'm rooting for here ~w~)

*hugs*

monday time
I dreamt i was going to a war zone. There were four or 5 spots of enemy combatants. They were going to send like 20 of us. Interestingly the place where I was to be sent had a code name "Corazon", heart. I saw people getting their combat gear, readying the troops.

That parses as oddly melancholic to me. I think I'd be hard-pressed to fully explain why, though.

Maybe something subtle about the tragedy of killing for a heart.

Edited by pokari, 26 March 2024 - 09:48 AM.

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97 well like the Intel ceo andy grove famously said only the paranoid survive (in a jungle, where everyone is always trying to eat you)

the human brain is incapable of processing Big Data that involves maybe more than 50 people but AI can... it'll eventually get there I think, where we can rely on our AI overlords to know the exact exchange rate of country X's currency to country Y's currency in order to achieve world peace

Having said that, I'm not hopeful that AI (or at least that kind of AI) will be there in the next four or five years, maybe four or five decades? And we would need the REAL public cloud, not cloud by public companies, which is really misnomer in itself, ie companies that can raise funds via general public.

 

I want aliens to come in and take over my personal data tbh

[pokari]

I'm under the vague impression the "only the paranoid survive" quote generally wasn't supposed to be about "law of the jungle", or anything edgy like that, but rather an astute observation that once organizations reach a certain point of success and sense of security, there's a danger they get too comfortable and become reluctant to try new things — in essence, "Don't become IBM", as it were.

98

It's really hard to guess at how fast AI will grow. I think we're maybe starting to maybe eke tantalisingly one tip-toe at a time into the territory where fancy AI can be used to help overcome the challenges posed in developing the hardware and software to run itself. We're not really quite there yet, but we're close enough that things could start snowballing really quickly at some point very soon (...or not, as the case may be).

I'm reminded of something a professor once said, about thier work on the Human Genome Project—the attempt to map the "whole human genome", starting back in the 80's when that was a herculean international task as opposed to something you could do fairly casually like nowadays.

Specifically, about the amount of skepticism the project was getting about halfway through it's projected time and funding — this was a huge decade-long project — and they were only 5% done. And the professor was like, "No, you don't understand. This is going exponentially faster as we go, between techniques and computing power advancements. 5% is halfway done time-wise". Which turned out to be accurate.

Now. This is not the mid-90's. Moore's Law (speaking of Intel CEOs) is a shadow of its former self. But I do wonder if AI isn't like that right now—it's genuinely orders of magnitude better than it was a few years ago, presently. Already so easy to forget that GPT-2 and Dall-E were completely flabbergastingly uncannily good when they were unveiled a handful of years back. Is all this advancement because of some one-off collection of breakthroughs hitting at once? A temporary byproduct of all the money and attention we're pouring into things?

Or are we on an constantly accelerating curve and about to be in for a Really Wild Ride?

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99 are you training models on your rig these days? just curious

 

i'm seeing new papers coming out about how you can easily run a new model on a new rtx 4090 which costs roughly $2K... is not crazy insane expensive, but certainly aint cheap.

We might be at the cusp of a wild ride, or we might be derailed completely and just lose a lot of money doing random shit thats not really worth it

I still don't see how openAI and chatGPT can continue to burn a million dollars a day or so doing this 

The only platform thats big enough to handle such a loss would be the government, or the Pentagon and their 800 billion dollar budget a year, and they can just print money now 

or not because of inflation... it's hard to know what will happen first, commercialization of AI or budget crisis

[pokari]

It's really quite simple.

A million dollars a day isn't too bad for operating expenses if you've got a few billion to burn. A few billion to burn isn't too much to invest if you're a multi-billionare reading the tea leaves and hoping to own all the production in the world if AI pans out to anywhere in the vicinity of maximum potential.

If you're a bit cynical but the math checks out, easy.

And like, perspective: Musk burned more a hundred times what it costs to run OpenAI for a year, in order to make Twitter into the world's most expensive shitpost. We're at a point of wealth inequality where the most uber of uber-rich have the disposable income of nations.

We might be at the cusp of a wild ride, or we might be derailed completely and just lose a lot of money doing random shit thats not really worth it

Why not both?

They aren't mutually exclusive. We can waste untold billions on shiny toys and useless implementations of things that aren't even remotely viable yet, and still be on the cusp of a revolution. Remember the dot-com crash? How the investments leading up to it were a complete batshit frenzy of stupidity and dumbass billionaires setting money on fire, notwithstanding that the internet did pretty much everything it was promised to in changing the world? (Both the good and the bad)

99 are you training models on your rig these days? just curious

Not right now. I figured out that I don't know how to do what I want to do and rather than go in blind I'm starting to take online courses (the San Jose Library system has access to some for free, so long as you're capable of waiting around noon Mondays to refresh a certain page to get one of the program slots)

I figure I'll take a shot at figuring out what I'm actually doing XD

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100 >w<

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101 i had a dream last night that started out ok, but quickly turned thrilling. i was back in high school. a friend asked me for my old flip phone, think it was a sanyo, because he lost something and had to call his mom ordering food.  Then i went into the main office trying to help him find something and through the window i could see the tip of an assult rifle and he was herding a group of student hostages. Then I realized at the end of the hall way was a chair and an another gun, presumably left by the hostage taker. I decided to sneak around the corner and grabbed the gun and quickly went down stairs. I heard a voice behind me questioning who took his gun. I was looking for a place to dump the gun when i woke up

life as war 

Edited by PItiful Boar, 29 March 2024 - 03:33 PM.

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102

Wild. And entirely too spicy.

Also interesting that dream-you wanted to get rid of the weapon instead of hang on to it. Not necessarily wrong—hanging on to it introduces a lot of extra immediate danger if seen—but you'd think lizard brain might be like "I have big stick I am safer with it" instead.

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103 Yeah not sure why I did that

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104 Today was an interesting day where I actually went to church and not as a volunteer but out of respect or solidarity with the people who take the things seriously

I'm glad my dad is able to cut my hair , save some dollars... what else is these old folks good for

[pokari]

105

I mean, we can't be held accountable for choices our dream selves make because half of it's just random synapses firing as they recalibrate during the night, and the remaining half are choices actually made but still while literally asleep.

That said: It makes sense enough. Holding a firearm whilst another person is holding a firearm with malicious intent is arguably much more likely to shorten your life rather than extend it!

104 Today was an interesting day where I actually went to church and not as a volunteer but out of respect or solidarity with the people who take the things seriously

Taking what seriously? Life, death, community? Cheese-making? Suppression of minorities, or perhaps their uplifting? Foisting half one's problems on a man who's been dead for 2,000 years? Scraping together a patchwork security-net for the destitute? Televangelism, or readying for a fantasized apocalypse? There are so many options!

Edited by pokari, 01 April 2024 - 02:02 PM.

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106 wow somebody is up early 

 

all of the above ... wouldn't be a complete package 

want to sleep tho

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107 i think yesterday was overall not a bad day...or was it

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108 am i alive 

i guess the question should how am i alive

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109

The ongoing shamble of millions actually, looking at it, quadrillions, of self-correcting chemical-reaction processes that make up a single human body at any given moment, are shambling on without critical failure.

Or in short: I dunno man, it's pretty wild.

Edited by pokari, 03 April 2024 - 01:20 AM.

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110 laifu

ok time for a brand new day

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111 I've recently came across two novels that are psychological thrillers. One is about a person who iseikai into a serial killing madman believing he had a split personality - kinda like dr jerkyl and mr hyde. And he had a diary that detailed all the horrific "art" he has done. He found out he has a helpful dad/world-renowned psychologist who helped him hide bodies before. Then he uses his gosu detective-like skills to kill of copy cat admirers and a dogged policewoman. He thought he finally won his peace only to find out that maybe dad was the real killer and was the one who made him believe he murdered pepole. Maybe instead of a dual personality his murdering psychopath personality as made up all along. Very kewl.

 

The other one I just started, is about a gamer who gets iseikaied by a video game and is put into a hotel with lots of rooms inside. He was told to play a game where players take turn to go out individually and try to meet up with a lot of other people, and at the end of the game the one room with the most number of people in it is declared the winner. 

again a lot of mind games and guessing