Doing the Lord’s work in the Devil’s basement
I don’t know about other STTs but if you’re using whisper you can “prompt” it for consistent spelling. If you put “todo” in the prompt it should always spell it like that.
Have you tried using a vector DB with an embedder ? It may give decent performance without the need for a full blown LLM
I have this but explaining business situations with analogies to history
Supabase unironically do exactly that. You’ve got your client, you login through OAuth, then use your JWT to connect directly to postgres.
Your JWT contains your user id, which is used with row level security rules to determine which rows you can and cannot access. It’s pretty amazing what you can do with PG alone. The tooling is not quite there yet but that’s probably where we’re headed.
The problem with being a pragmatic LLM user is that you have on one side corporate America shoe-horning the tech in mediocre products none wants, and on the other side a large portion of the internet who loathe it but don’t use it and don’t even know what it does. Those conversations never go anywhere man. You’re talking to someone who thinks accuracy of 57% on SpreadsheetBench means the model gives wrong answers 42% of the time.
Hate to agree with Microsoft but yeah, Excel is probably a great place to introduce an LLM. It’s in that sweet spot between natural language and light programming, in an environment with math baked in so you don’t really care about the model’s accuracy or exact recall. All the data is here, and the model only has to manipulates cell numbers and writes formulas in this dumbed down language.
I’m sure you can get away with pretty small models too. It doesn’t need super human knowledge to implement 90% of common Excel use cases, and i suspect in real world scenarios the accuracy must be pretty interesting.
I think you may have personal feelings against christianity mixed up with the historical stuff and it doesn’t make for interesting discourse.
Yeah well fuck those platitudes you must have me mistaken for a 13 year old on TikTok.
I don’t see how baiting a conversation then refusing to partake in it is “living your life” but hey good job Kerouac you’ve got this
I honestly don’t understand the point here and your sarcastic mode makes the whole experience tedious and confusing.
You seem to be arguing that Jesus shouldn’t be considered a historical figure, for reasons that somehow do not apply to other historical figures, but you don’t wish to engage with actual discussion on the matter. I’m at a loss here and suspect you may be experiencing a critical shortage of slack.
Yeah i don’t understand what’s so controversial here. This time and place was home to a million apocalyptic militant movements, and Jesus’s just was the most successful of his generation.
Such criteria is commonly applied to virtually EVERY significant figure in history
That is simply not true. There’s a lot of historical figures from Antiquity for whom we have zero archeological evidence, it’s kind of the norm in fact. Literary evidence is fine if it can be corroborated from multiple independent sources. If we go by your standards then Socrates and Pythagoras are not historical figures, neither is Tacitus, or Hannibal, or most people who were not kings and did not have steles or coin to their name.
Y’shua ben Josef during his lifetime, who later got turned in to an almost impossibly, legendary figure by political, financial and religious institutions
A couple centuries before his embellishment by the roman state, the so-called Jesus movement was flourishing and started to expand in pretty much every direction. The existence of this movement is abundantly attested in independent sources from very distant places.
Are you saying this movement did not exist and the sources that attest to it are not reliable ? Are you saying there was a movement but it wasn’t founded by a guy named Y’shua ben Josef from Galilee ? Why would that be ? Do you think they lied, or forgot the name and origin of their founder ? I understand the idea but what would be the point, and how would those various sub-groups, some of which were very distant geographically, have coordinated their lie so perfectly ?
At one point Okham’s razor says the most probable thing is that a guy named Y’shua from Galilee did indeed start a religious movement. It’s happened before, it’s happened again, why would this specific occurrence need an esoteric explanation ?
Actually no, they have some sort of “circuits” that approximate math, which is even more interesting imo. Still not reliable in the slightest, of course.
But then you’re making up new standards of evidence for historical characters, and only applying them to Jesus.
All evidence points to a jew who, under roman occupation, organized a political and religious movement around his person with a message so powerful that it immediately started replicating. Otherwise, how can we explain the sudden outflow of missionaries from Galilee ? Whose message were they spreading, which travelled as far as Asia and Ethiopia with relative unity and consistence ? What reason do we have to doubt that a revolutionary mystical prophet such as Jesus existed (they were legion at the time in that region), and why should we subscribe to some more exotic, laborious explaination ?
The question is not whether Jesus’ story was embellished and distorted, because it was, with 100% certainty. But then that’s true of everything we know from that time period. We have 0 archeological evidence of most historical characters existence, only hearsay and unreliable testimony. But we don’t doubt their existence because the alternative would have to be far fetched and contrived to fit the evidence.
When I learned that MacGyver was American, knowing full well I saw him speak French in every episode, it made me very angry for some reason.
I don’t think I could cause I lack strategic thinking and would get easily outmaneuvered by some other faction
At uni our US literature professor kept referring to that Flannery O’Connor book as “a hard man is good to find” and I found her hilarious for that
There was a script that was considered at some point for alien 3, where newt lives to see another day. I think it was by William Gibson. It’s been produced as an audio only by audible and is honestly not that bad!
I honestly wouldn’t recommend it if you don’t have a minimum of security knowledge. The moment your home server pops up with a domain name it will get scanned by shady actors and possibly exploited.
And if it bugs you, you can bug Jack Barron about it
Right now there’s probably someone making killer music and posting to YT or peertube with like 3 views because everyone just accepts the algo slop and no one looks for the gems
Respectfully, i think this is the wrong conclusion. There are more sophisticated listeners today than there have ever been and sub-genre communities are great at spotting new gems. But while the number of listeners grew linearly, the number of bands has grown exponentially, making discoverability very difficult to achieve. That’s not anyone’s fault unless you consider musicians are at fault for creating so many good bands.
I use exclusively sshfs, including in my lan, is there some downside to it?
Imagine if you will a browser with infinite attack surface 💀
Honestly I’m pretty bullish on ai but that’s the step too far. I had the same when they released warp (ai enhanced terminal). I finished installing it then before even starting it once I realized I was about to give an ai access to my dotfiles etc… that was the fastest I ever uninstalled something.