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I don’t want to be ungrateful complaining that they dont give us everything.

For sure.

But I guess it’s still kinda… interesting? Like you’d think Qwen3, Gemma 3, Falcon H1, Nemotron 49B and such would pressure them to release Medium, but I guess there are factors that help them sell it.

As stupid as this is, they’re European and specifically not Chinese. In the business world, there’s this mostly irrational fear that the Deepseek or Qwen weights by themselves will jump out of their cage and hack you, heh.

You misinterpreted my, to be fair, vague statement. I meant AA is seemingly a bad source to read about opposition parties like the PKK, because of the obvious conflict of interest.

I mean, AP is a pretty decent source. It’s a nonprofit coop stretching back to 1846 in a country with, err, could-be-worse press freedom history, while AA has been explicitly state run since 1920, somewhat akin to VOA, BBC, Al Jazeera or RT I guess.

And yes, I know, AP is still an objectively bad source for specific topics, you don’t have to drill that in. So would whoever shills for the PKK, in some respects. But I’m not playing the game of “they did this and this, they can’t be trusted like them and them!” either. One has to look for conflict of interests everywhere, but it’s also okay to respect the good work long running institutions have done (like AA and this article).

What if they need to hire to fight spam? What if they need to pay for legal?

Just saying, it can get complicated real quick.

Not really, heh.

There are different degrees though, and different environments for each one, which is what I meant to convey. Like, AA is a better source for Gaza information than, say, Turkish political opposition parties.

Could happen. Imagine the hosting costs of .world exploding if it becomes too big a target.

I’m pretty sure I got shadow banned twice for just linking Lemmy?

AFAIK it’s mostly not Redditors themselves, but the system they’re stuck in.

Sorry, but… why link mediaite instead of the original source?

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3924

It’s title/writing is more grounded, and it’s the source of the poll.

Interesting source. It’s basically a nationalized Turkish outlet:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anadolu_Agency

After the Justice and Development Party (AKP) took power, AA and the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) were both restructured to more closely reflect the administration line. According to a 2016 academic article, "these public news producers, especially during the most recent term of the AKP government, have been controlled by officials from a small network close to the party leadership."

Still, the writing is flat in a good way? I have found that reporting from politically captured sources (say, RT) can be conspicuously good, if it’s on an international subject that aligns with their incentives. For instance, Turkey's AKP is no fan of Netanyahu, hence AA is motivated to produce (seemingly) original reporting like this.

They're still holding back bigger ones, unfortunately.

I hate the excuse "people are stupid."

That's both a truism and misleading. We've always had monkey brains. The issue is that humans are psycologically vulnerable to technologically enhanced attention-grabbing feeds; regulating that is on business and government, and it has little to do with the education system or gun laws.

It's more that, as it turns out, guns can't protect you against Fox News and Facebook feeds.

If Biden were president in this exact situation, there would be some guns out.

Agreed, agreed, agreed. Thanks

Some may seem arbitrary, but things like the NFT/crypto comparison are so politically charged and ripe for abuse that it's a good to nip that in the bud.

The only one I have mixed feelings on is:

Rule: No comparing artificial intelligence/machine learning to simple text prediction algorithms. I.E statements such as "llms are basically just simple text predictions like what your phone keyboard autocorrect uses, and they’re still using the same algorithms since <over 10 years ago>. Reason: There are grains of truth to the reductionist statement that llms rely on mathematical statistics and probability for their outputs.

The reasoning is true. I agree. But it does feel a bit uninclusive to outsiders who, to be frank, know nothing about LLMs. Commenters shouldn't drive by and drop reductionist hate, but that's also kinda the nature of Lemmy, heh.

So... maybe be a little lax with that rule, I guess? Like give people a chance to be corrected unless they're outright abusive.

This is like a perfect model for a Strix Halo mini PC.

Man, I really want one of those Framework Desktops now...

I’m saying fuck the system. Social media, and the perception that it’s some kind of open, fair forum, is what’s screwing over the world right now.

I want people to act out however they can as long as it’s not on a platform that literally controls their voice, who else hears it, and how. And I want activists and leaders to stop pondering what’s going wrong out loud as they walk through a sea of people glued to their feeds.

Vindicating Tweets like this article is not helping. It’s like praising party-approved dissent in the Gestapo newsletter.

In short:

Don’t feed the trolls.

I hate these headlines of “social media heroes rag on jerk.”

Good job! You fed the troll! You all get a pat on the back. Now go back to corporate controlled algorithmic scrolling and keep fighting the good fight…

People believe that shit, too. Like, I see a lot of sentiment on Reddit for staying on Reddit just to counter the “other guy.” Yes, that is exactly what Reddit wants!

Good thing Trump is a wimp.

As others have pointed out, he may talk loud and roleplay as a dictator hard, but (so far, in the business and political world), Trump shrinks when faced with a fair fight. He'll jawbone and bully and blow little guys up to look good. He cares about himself, and will brag about every loophole he exploits.

But it's much harder for him to, say, cross the line of arresting Newsom. Other dictatorships, even modern pseudo ones, feels eerily similar, but look closely, and it appears the leaders pushed the envelope strategically. Hitler, for instance, was relatively tame at first and took calculated, increasingly drastic and brutal steps, wheras Trump consistently backs down from the Machiavellian solution. See: the response to Elon's betrayal (so far).

At least that's my hope.

And I hope someone with a spine doesn't follow in his footsteps. The apparatus built around him is much scarier than Trump.

That’s a premade 8x 7900 XTX PC. All standard and off the shelf.

I dunno anything about Geohot, all I know is people have been telling me how cool Tinygrad is for years with seemingly nothing to show for it other than social media hype, while other, sometimes newer, PyTorch alternatives like TVM, GGML, the MLIR efforts and such are running real workloads.

Because it’s a separate physical die.

Taping out, aka simply designing a large GPU chip for production is at least a 9 figure cost. Hence Nvidia/AMD offer a relatively small selection of physical dies in products, as each die has a huge fixed cost. But AMD has specifically taken the approach of splitting up chips into smaller sections, and linking them together by placing them right next to each other, stacking them, and so on.

Hence, if AMD, say, acquire a niche ASIC company, theoretically they can slap a variant of their design next to existing GPUs, or even next to existing CPUs, and have it share the memory bus, general compute, and other functions, without paying the full 9 figures for a massive new chip. There’s still testing costs, but it’s not so prohibitive.

• Tinygrad is (so far) software only, ostensibly sort of a lightweight PyTorch replacement.
• Tinygrad is (so far) not really used for much, not even research or tinkering.

Between that and the lead dev's YouTube antics, it kinda seems like hot air to me.