Their cell phones will rot a generation, but they've got an AI horror bot to really screw up the kids. Will it help them with their suicide note ? or will it help plan the mostly justified revenge killings of the school council ? How about instead of the billion dollar AI bot we pay the teacher a few bucks and hire 2 of the mom's as class aids ? I liked Woz, mainly because he kept his fat ass out of the media and didn't make stupid grandstanding gestures.

There's nothing wrong with storing some things *also* in cloud services.

But when it comes to copies of important things, two is one and one is none.

In the so-called fire-storm(2017) in the California Bay Area, I was out of power for 8 days. Several houses on my street were on an isolated grid and it blew 3 times in a week. Once while the PG&E guy was still on the pole. It was kind of like camping for a couple of days then it began to suck. Luckily we didn't have medical machines or such. We had a huge BBQ the 2nd day because the freezers were thawing in the extreme heat. I live in Yuma Az now and looking back 104 wasn't that bad :)

Denied for not being human enough...Because those kids are way better in an institution than in a home with imperfect humans. I almost gave up once during the adoption process, but my wife held the line and I am so glad. Our daughter is the best thing in our lives.

THIS THIS THIS. Bands used to make money in several ways...That isn't so anymore. The record labels FSCK'd everyone when they signed blanket agreements with the online services. Amazon/Temu killed the merch marked with Chinese knockoffs. All there is left is the show and the stuff they sell there, and bands are getting squeezed out there by fee's and tax's from everywhere. Corporations will own everything eventually.

That's very funny in a sad way. I volunteer at the Humane Society and we have a long questionnaire and review before we allow someone to adopt a dog. I adopted a child myself and the process was long, detailed and painful. Yet somehow any breeding couple can have a kid.

As you obviously fall into the proactive responsible parent I can't do anything but respect the choices you make for your kids. If more parents were like that there would not be this issue. I genuinely wish you the best.

It is all or nothing. We can't seem to do middle ground, or reasonable. There is plenty of good to be had online and used in the correct manner, but that would require parents to be RESPONSIBLE rather than abdicate to TV or whatever else is handy.

Any quantization beyond Q4_0 goes mad (losing context, making category errors, malforming markup tags, mangling and inventing words) long before the context reaches a size I would consider "useful". I've tried running 31B at IQ3_XS and it looks alright from a distance, for a few prompts at a time. Unfortunately the errors compound and semantic drift goes into runaway. I have no interest in playing with quantizations any smaller than that. The only thing "massively wrong" is the suitability of a 2-bit quantization for my actual use. I've investigated it, and it can be an amusing toy, but it is far from usable for any meaningful work.

Even Q4_K_M was too error-prone for meaningful use, and I was using Q5_K_M as my baseline of "usable for a while". Fortunately, most of the heavily quantized models are based on QAT releases now, and a 4-bit QAT model is pretty much on par with a 5-bit non-QAT model.

DeepMind has released Gemma 4, which doesn't include their largest models, but 31B is a creditable model. I wish I could say the same about the 26B-A4B model, which is just smart enough to be entertaining for a few days or weeks, then everything it does starts to sound the same. Unfortunately, 31B on my hardware (i5-8500, 48 GB DDR4, 12 GB RTX 3060) runs at 0.3 to 1.2 t/s. So while I'm not a big fan of Alphabet's business practices at large, they aren't regressing. Switching to the MIT license basically means they're abdicating all control over derivatives.

The only thing Grok ever really did for open weight AI was show up for the party a couple times. At first, this helped establish a baseline that could never be retracted, but it hasn't proven to be particularly important. Everything since has been far off the bleeding edge, but they collect their participation trophies. I think their subsequent actions have gone a long way toward demonstrating their purposes, which are wholly selfish. They'll do as little as they can to contribute while retaining the benefits of being perceived as open and competitive.

Our AI which is nothing like a brain or neural network, but we're going to tell you they are even though no one knows how a brain functions. I begin to think these guys are drinking the kool-aid.

So if someone posts your image to an Instagram account without your permission Meta suddenly owns your likeness and the ability to derive images from it ?
What if you are in media and your image is your income ? Does Meta get to remake the images of "Models" for ads on their platform ?
Will you find your own image in some ad ?

This exists in the Mac world as well, but the primary reason I'm tied to Windows for my DAW is because I can't register my instrument because Native Instruments never bothered making a registration app for Linux.

I wonder if I could use on of my old Kindle displays ? Not that I have or am going to have a steam machine but the concept is really cool. I use my old Gal.Tab3 with their desktop emu now to handle messenger and email when I am gaming.

I've got a Oneplus tab 2 and I love it. When my Galaxy Tab3 died I picked it up for quit a bit cheaper than a comparable Samsung. I really like the active stylus.