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Comment TCE... (Score 1) 88

While you techies ramble away about your favorite political motivations... Consider...

TCE used to be used in bulk by mainframe and mini operators as tape head cleaner. My Dad brought home a quart can from work with a stack of patches for my sister and I to use to clean our walkman's. (I know dating myself here...) And no he didn't wear gloves in his DC, and neither did we. It was believed to be completely harmless.

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Comment LLM's eat RAM... (Score 5, Informative) 87

Most people don't realize how much of a pig LLM's actually are. All the focus is on the big AI machines PSU's, multi kW fan boards, GPU's, etc... Most of them have maybe 8 2.5" disk slots. They're not storage beasts. But what they do have is HBM processors with multiple Tb's of registered ECC DDR5. The OS boots locally, and then the RAM receives the training data from a remote data lake. It gets loaded into RAM and stays there. Multiple Tb's per node.

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Comment Re:Sucks but I'll work around it (Score 3, Informative) 21

While it was good info back in the day, I've used it myself. That blog is almost a decade out of date at this point. It has some updates, but it kind of needs a complete rewrite. Fully a 1/3 of the ciphers, MACs, etc... have been deprecated & replaced.

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Comment 2014 called?? (Score 2) 18

TFS doesn't even mention Java in its "anyone familiar with" list, but Java streams have been around since 2014 and are much a more disciplined and formal implementation of a very similar concept of chaining operations together like this. I'd call this Python pipe operator nothing more than syntactic sugar. Seriously, honest question...does it actually do anything functional other than change the *syntax* of how you chain calls together?

Comment Re:oh this will be fun (Score 1) 217

Can you cite any sources of lesson plans pushing this gay and trans agenda?

That's really not how it's done. Seriously, you're distracting by trying to push the obvious.

I can't speak for other states, but here in Texas it's done under the auspices of counseling & mental health. When you enroll your kid in the local ISD, they have all kinds of parental consent forms. Two of these forms permit the school to offer your kid counseling, and the other is a medical consent form for the school nurse. That one is loaded, because it covers everything from simple knee scrapes to full blown mental health treatment. You have to read it very carefully, and only select the items you want to permit. We chose not to allow mental health counseling for both our kids and they hounded us about it for years. Our answer was always simple "We have great healthcare, if they need evaluation & treatment, we'll get the best care. But we're not going to substitute your opinions for ours as parents". And the thing is they kept trying, particularly for our daughter.

Many of her friends parents were not as discerning. Her friends all got counseling, wither they really needed it or not. The mental health evaluation have no curricula restrictions, they'll flat out ask if you're gay/trans, fell maladjusted, questioning, etc... Then they start steering the kids to various activity clubs to help them sort themselves out. Those activity clubs are where the grooming presumably happens. Worse still, as far as I can tell the whole sequence is profoundly homophobic, in that if you are gay, they'll push you to be trans. Out of my daughters circle of roughly 9 biological female friends from grade school... We have 1 trans-boy that committed suicide at the end of 8th grade, 1 non-binary who went so crazy her(?) parents moved her to a very rural county where she was completely ostracized by the religious wingnuts, 5 lesbians, and exactly two straight girls, one of which is my daughter. But the statistics alone are just completely at odds with the old 3 - 5% LGB numbers of even 20 years ago.

Honestly I don't know what else to make of it. I'm a Californian, I'm quite comfortable around the LGB community from the SF Bay area, but the T's seem to be predatory. I'm watching this go on right underneath most parents noses, in a very red state...

Comment It is NOT autoconplete the way you think it is (Score 1) 211

You're confusing the task with the mechanism. Classic autoconplete uses statistical methods, often using some variant of a Bayesian algorithm. The task is to predict the next word, the method is statistics.

But if I asked *you* to predict the next word in a sentence, you would not be using a simple statistical method. Neither is the AI. It doesn't have the breadth of multi domain training data that your neutral network has, so it doesn't really think like a human does, but the way it functions is much closer to your brain than it is to a classical autoconplete.

It's hard to stress enough how profound that difference is.

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