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Talk with friends. Get some support and/or sympathy.

Sure. I took "the blockchain" to mean bitcoin. It certainly depends on the implemetation. And on the use-case. In recent years people have put blockchain into everything. But that's not useful either. There are different kinds of blockchain, some more or less useful to certain tasks. And there are applications where blockchains aren't useful at all. so generally it depends on the specific problem we're trying to solve.

[Disclaimer: I'm not a professional and this is just my (uneducated) opinion.]

That's a bit unfortunate but understandable. We all have things we want, it's subjective and you're as entitled to be happy and get what you want, as anybody else... Unfortunately the universe doesn't exactly 'owe' that to us.

In that case I'm not sure what I'd like to advise you. It's kind if a bummer and maybe I can sympathise. And both of your problems are big ones and not something that gets solved over night. Generally there are two options: Give up or don't give up. The first thing isn't really an option and the second requires you to put in some effort and try to change things around. Sometimes it's really hard to get what you want and you fail over and over in the process. That's not unique to your situation. But I think I can empathize how it feels if you already tried that and always failed.

On the flipside, I don't know your exact situation. But it seems you're quite down. You write you're 34. I think that's a common time to get a mid-life crisis. To reconsider your life 'cause now you're not young anymore and you have to consider how to finally achieve things that life didn't grant you until then. That's not your fault.

I think it's hard to get out of that. But I'd like to encourage you to think over with a broader perspective. It's now that you're not seeing any way out. That's not necessarily true but it's how you feel now. You somehow need to dig yourself out of that. You owe that to your future you, in case there is the slightest possibility that there is a way, you just don't see it now. You fail until you don't. And there is no way to know in advace how many more times you have to fail.

Get professional help. Call one of the helplines and just talk to them. They're more skilled than internet strangers and they have some contacts they can connect you with. Maybe you need a doctor, I don't really know.

As of now I think you need some coping strategy to get into a position where you're able to do something (again) and not just feel down and dwell in that. I know that's easier said then done...

I mean isn't there something you're interested in aside from the stereotypical women, family and a nice job? Maybe you can find something that is fulfilling to you specifically? Idk, working out and getting in shape, learning something maybe coding, history or some (niche) fandom. You could build something, take pride in gardening or do artsy stuff and maybe sell it on Tindie. Write stories...

That'd help if you're not like all the other people and you're just following the beaten path, but it's just not for you. In that case you'd need to explore what is right for you. That's certainly not easy.

Other possibilities include: You've in fact lost that game. Or you have some sort of mental illness like depression or a mid-life crisis and need treatment for it to get better.

Well if they properly embraced it, you wouldn't get one PGP key implanted at birth. I mean if that private key ever leaks, you're screwed for the rest of your life. And the blockchain has sever shortcomings, too. It's not anonymous, everyone can see every transaction and it's not fast enough for lots of applications.

It'd need to be implemented properly. And most importantly include privacy. You can't just expose millions of people to every attacker. And please think of the not obvious cases... How someone operate it who's in the hospital and unconscious... What if you lost your phone... How can you keep secrets from your (abusive) partner... What about separation of state and private companies... How to prevent a scifi dystopia...

I think if like a few hundred millions of people are subject to it, it needs to be done properly. And I think that'd be possible if the government payed some experts to come up with a really good solution.

Keys need to have sub-keys, IDs be randomized, there needs to be some human in the loop in case something goes wrong. Attestation and not just giving out everything to every company...

You should als mention the country. Helps if you're a business and not just looking for the cheapest. And maybe get a all-in-one solution if you don't want to set up and maintain mail yourself.

hetzner.de uberspace.de all-inkl.com netcup.de inwx.de are some I use or used.

Btw: Might be that you're behind a NAT (router) and that's why bittorrent doesn't connect. You'd need to figure out which port your torrent client is configured to listen on and then do "port forwarding" of that port to your machine in the router you got from your ISP. Or use something like UPnP that does this automatically.

Not sure if that applies in your case and it's unsolicited advice... But a fairly common issue with bittorrent.

I think most people use something like exllamav2 or vllm or use GGUF to do inference and it seems neither of those projects have properly implemented multimodality or this specific model architecture, yet.

You might just be at the forefront of things and there isn't yet any beaten path you could follow.

The easiest thing you could do is just use something that already exists, be it 4bit models, wait a few weeks and then upgrade. And I mean you can also always quantize models yourself and set the parameters however you like, if you have some inference framework that supports your model including the adapters for vision and has the quantization levels you're interested in...

Yeah, the internet is an echo chamber. You get lots of bad advice here. And urban myths are regularly being upvoted to no end. Especially here on Lemmy.

Usually a doctor should know things, they studied medicine for years.

And there are people with certain attitudes... People who only respond well to arguments of authority... And people who have a different perspective on subjectivity/objectivity and the factual world. Lots of people just want to believe something. And they'll search for any fake news supporting them or letting them believe whatever supports what they're set on.

I'd say if you're intelligent and know how to do research, and have the time to do so, look up things and learn things. If you can't do that: Stick with authority.

And most importantly: Don't ask on Lemmy or Reddit if you don't want to talk to random people and listen to them.

Entirely depends on how it'd work. If it's a good one and makes me able to access all of humanity's combined knowledge... Sure, why not? If it's a bad one and makes me hooked on some virtual world, or I have a good chance of getting hacked and walk around like a zombie or ends me in a scifi dystopia... No. I don't think I can decide without knowing more details.

I think color theory is esoteric and at least subjective, if not completely made up. I occasionally see some red mood lights in peoples' homes on the window sills when I go out in the evening. I more or less associate that with 'red-light district' if it's more than one window. But I like it. Blue would be more a color a gamer or live-streamer uses to light their gamer's den. But it's also the color of the night and the endless sky or ocean. Also more blueish hue adds to concentration. I'm split on the whole topic. If I want to concentrate or get some work done, colorful light is too distracting. I need proper white light for that. Other than that I just choose what I feel in the moment. And I like amber.

If it's free, I'd get something large as housing. A proper mansion in the middle of the city. And then have a café and community area on the ground floor. Also a workshop/lab like a hackerspace. Then I need one bedroom and all the other rooms get converted into escape rooms. I'd spend the time building them and spend time with people and build silly things. Optional: a bed and breakfast and rehersal rooms. I think maintaining that and baking for the cafe will be a full-time job.

Well, I'd say there is information in language. That's kinda the point of it and why we use it. And language is powerful. We can describe and talk about a lot of things. (And it's an interesting question what can not be described with language.)

I don't think the stochastical parrot thing is a proper debate. It's just that lots of people don't know what AI is and what it can and cannot do. And it's neither easy to understand nor are the consequences always that obvious.

Training LLMs involves some clever trickery, limit their size etc so they can't just memorize everything, but instead are forced to learn concepts behind those texts.

I think they form models of the world inside of them. At least of things they've learned from the dataset. That's why they can for example translate text. They have some concept of a cat stored inside of them and can apply that to a different language that uses entirely different characters to name that animal.

I wouldn't say they are "tools to learn more aspects about nature". They aren't a sensor or something. And they can infer things, but not 'measure' things like an X-ray.

I'm currently reading the paper. I occasionally debate here on Lemmy whether LLMs are just stochastic parrots, or if they actually grasp the concepts they're talking about. There's also evicence for that.

Ultimately I wonder if and when we'll get LLMs that address 'hallucinations' and expose a setting to adjust the factuality of the answer. I suppose that's somewhere in the model or at least possible to learn for the model. But certainly not controlled or factored in in the current generation of LLMs.

Is there an alternative? Anything that's widely adopted an lets you give out and receive contact info reliably and in like 15s max?

Donate it to an Escape room or some artsy installation that's set in that time.

Look at the USA, UK or countries like China. I think they're all ahead if us. Leading in different fields. A skewed balance between capitalism and citizens rights, surveillance in general, and a dystopian surveillance state.

Thanks for taking the time to explain it to me. The Github issue also is very helpful. Seems that's exactly my answer to "Why do I need a fourth store in addition to F-Droid, AuroraStore and Obtanium" 😉

Have a nice day, thanks for the STT keyboard! I didn't really engage in the discussion because I'm exactly in the same situation as other people here. I already have the FUTO one and Sayboard... But eventually I'd like to replace FUTO software with free software alternatives. I don't like their licensing. So this is very welcome.

Thanks.

Sure. There isn't any paragraph on how it compares to other appstores or why the author started the project in the first place despite several other stores being available.

So I'm looking for the selling point. (Aside from your App being available there.)