merari42

joined 5 months ago
[–] merari42@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is one of this places that were built by anarchists without any license and look, smell and feel quite funky. The audience though is really nerdy. So the closest that comes to mind is a Hacker space in a large European city.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Same, probably also got me a good early dose of radiation in Romania

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I really appreciate that people in my city place their old books in small boxes with a "zu verschenken" (free to take) sign when they want to give them away. I've found many great books this way, along with a few quirky and unusual ones too.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Weird little drinking related story about finding my glasses from my college times: Got accepted for a PhD and wanted to party. Met a good friend and went to a Balkans party with loads of cheap booze. Wake up at 6am in a night bus out of town and can't find my wallet on me. Run like crazy to the club/bar where the party was. Last people there let me search for my wallet. Only find my glasses in the bar toilet that I didn't notice I had also lost. Lock credit card and go home happy that I at least found my glasses.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Don't forget to rub it with lemons to make the invisible ink visible

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You now have a hyper-technological hunter society like the star trek Hirogen (or the predator they are a ripoff of)

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sentient dinosaurs that destroy their planet in a ecological catastrophe like in downer finale of the eponymous series?

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Feddits appear to be a stable currency at first until the chief administrator disappears in the neutral zone and is rumoured to be a prisoner on Romulus. Then the federation needs to restart feddits as feddit.org.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There are tons of statistical methods to get reasonable conclusions without an RCT. Some things can not be detected with an RCT, because the experiment is just impossible to run, so sometimes you need methods to do causal identification with observable data. Here you do not even need causal identification methods for observational data. You just need to do some descriptive statistics for a large group of people well to find interesting patterns. Whether this aging pattern in the mid-40s is causal it coincidental is not important at first. The pattern itself is interesting.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (12 children)

If you make it from coal it is vegan because coal is just plants. If it's made from petroleum it is not vegan because it is made from dinosaurs.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For a user without much technical experience using a ready-made gui like Jan.ai with automatic model download and ability to run models with the ggml library on consumer grade hardware like mac M-series chips or cheap GPUs by either Nvidia or AMD is probably a good start.

For a little bit more technically proficient users Ollama is probably a great choice to start to host your own OpenAI-like API for local models. I mostly run gemma2 or small llama 3.1 like models with that.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that the lawyer from silicon valley?

 
 
 

For me it's gotta be something from ARTE (the French/German culture television channel). Either it's the one about Chodorowskis weird Dune project or the three-part series about the history of racism. Both were extremely well-made documentaries.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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