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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you're interested in finding out, why don't you buy one and try for yourself? They're not that expensive (at least the non-electronic ones)... I hear some people like it. And I mean if you're not fond of the current situation, you should switch up things and try something different anyways.

(Edit: I'd get a cheap one, see if I like it and the either throw it in the trash or have learned something and then decide if I want some $250 device with all the bells and whistles and buttplug.io integration. But YMMV on that.)

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

GDPR for Dummies. GDPR is DSGVO in German, "Datenschutz-Grundverordnung".

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think what you mean is compound words vs other words?

Wikipedia says there are lots of compound words in English.

Plaintiff is borrowed from Old French. Litigation from Latin...

I suppose it boils down to when and under what circumstances a term was needed to describe something. Sometimes there was a word from another language available. Or the whole subject came from a different culture. And sometimes they just described it with a compound of what it resembles. And how to make up terms probably also depends on what is en vogue at the time.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

My summary is oversimplified. I still think it's the correct answer to OP's question: is there physical evidence. Because there isn't anything physical. But there are written records from a bit later, suggesting that somebody with that name must have existed. Glad someone else thinks I picked the correct article. Seems it's not that easy to find good information. The English speaking internet is filled with low quality efforts to portray the facts in a way they'd like to have them.

I have a few good books though. Back when I was young (and became an atheist,) I used to read a lot about philosophy, the political message of the New Testament. And what life was like in that time.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Agree. But that specific article seems pretty alright. Also talks about the relics and history records for example by Tacitus.

There also is a Wikipedia article which I think is not written that well. And a lot of education material by churches or religious organizations which I did not cite for obvious reasons.

(And the German Wikipedia article about sources for the historicity of Jesus seems very good. But it's not exactly OP's question and I don't know if it helps: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au%C3%9Ferchristliche_antike_Quellen_zu_Jesus_von_Nazaret )

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

https://www.history.com/news/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence

Tl;dr: No.

My opinion: It's a nice story. And with stories the most important thing is what it teaches us or makes us feel. Not that it's true. Maybe they took inspiration from several preaching hippies who lived back then and made one story out of that. Exaggerated everything and made stuff up. Probably all of it because the bible was't even written close to his supposed lifetime. It'd be like you now writing a story about a dude who died in ~~1870~~. Without any previous records to get information from. [Edit: The first things have probably been written down like 40-50 years after his death.]

And I mean if Jesus existed, he would certainly disapprove of what people do (and did) in his name.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 months ago

American values aren't important to them. They want different things. A strong leader, be heard, simple truths and/or some people below them to hate and pick on.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, Back when I was a kid we used to roam those point and click adventures a lot. We'd get stuck all the times. Sometimes a friend would have an idea and we'd make some progress. But the internet was slow and we still had dialup. I guess there weren't that much walkthroughs available. At least not in the parts of the internet I knew my way around... Yeah, and English is my second language. So information was kinda scarce antways, before I learned the main language of the internet in school... Everything developed and now I have everything available. I even have those old games sitting on an SD card on a Raspberry Pi and waiting for me. I really should finish that game at some point. On the flipside, I'm an adult now and it's difficult to find the time to play point and click adventures all day long 😆

And regarding the items: I tried ManiacMansion, which I believe is included in DOTT. That's properly impossible without an expert at your side.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

It's a hashtag. Pretty much invisible but I can still see it.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well that shouldn't happen. I guess it's technically possible because I can also change my own comments and they're not signed or anything... But changing other people's comments is kind if lying and being disingenuous. Either it's a technical issue, or your comment was so offensive that it warranted an exception to the rule, or the mods/admins don't know what is right and what is wrong.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rufus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

In the last few weeks, I frequently see some empty comments. It's just the username and no text beneath.

Is there a deeper reason behind this? Do people nowadays strip away the text instead of deleting a comment? Or did some script surface that 'makes the internet forget'? First I thought people did this before deleting a comment and the deletion just didn't get federated. But I scrolled through some older posts and they also still have comments like that, so that can't be it. Right?

Can anyone educate me?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rufus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/matrix@lemmy.ml
 

Does it work well? Which one to choose? The official Matrix site shows 3 that seem maintained:

Does anyone have some insight? I don't want to try all of them.

Edit: I don't need anything super fancy like double puppeting. I just want the data from the several Discord communities I joined available through my Matrix server. And it's just me using it. But it should bridge the rooms properly and include the popular media formats, reactions etc.

 

"Alice has N brothers and she also has M sisters. How many sisters does Alice’s brother have?"

The problem has a light quiz style and is arguably no challenge for most adult humans and probably to some children.

The scientists posed varying versions of this simple problem to various State-Of-the-Art LLMs that claim strong reasoning capabilities. (GPT-3.5/4/4o , Claude 3 Opus, Gemini, Llama 2/3, Mistral and Mixtral, including very recent Dbrx and Command R+)

They observed a strong collapse of reasoning and inability to answer the simple question as formulated above across most of the tested models, despite claimed strong reasoning capabilities. Notable exceptions are Claude 3 Opus and GPT-4 that occasionally manage to provide correct responses.

This breakdown can be considered to be dramatic not only because it happens on such a seemingly simple problem, but also because models tend to express strong overconfidence in reporting their wrong solutions as correct, while often providing confabulations to additionally explain the provided final answer, mimicking reasoning-like tone but containing nonsensical arguments as backup for the equally nonsensical, wrong final answers.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by rufus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/matrix@lemmy.ml
 

Hey, I'm fortunate enough to upgrade my home-server. I'd like to make some future-proof decisions. Which Matrix server do I choose? Dendrite? Conduit?

I like the candidate to be halfway well maintained, have active development during the next 4 years... Would be nice if it had a solid technological base and wouldn't hog that many resources. I'm okay if it still has some rough edges as long as they get ironed out in the near future.

It needs to provide service to me and a few friends and family. Audio calls would be nice and I definitely need it to connect to the Mautrix-WhatsApp/-Signal bridges.

Did I miss something? Is there another good server implemention apart from Synapse/Dendrite/Conduit?

Bonus questions:

  1. Is Synapse the only server that can connect to SSO? Ideally I would like to maintain the user accounts via Authentik/LDAP/...whatever...
  2. Is there a server that can handle multiple domains? Like an e-mail server that I can just tell "you handle mail for the following 5 domain names?"
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Which *arr for file hosters? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rufus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

I'm German and seems 'we' rely more on file hosters than torrenting. There are lots of tv series and movies with both the original audio track and the dubbed one on sites like funxd, serienjunkies, serienfans... They mostly redirect to a filecrypt.cc folder and then I get a DLC file to download the parts from turbobit or rapidgator (one-click hosters.)

What setup am I looking for, if I were to automate this? I'm aware of the Megathread but I didn't find the correct software to index those sites and then what kind of download manager people use nowadays. (Ah yes, and I don't want to pay for premium accounts.)

Edit: Replaced "one-click hosters" with "file hosters"

 

From the abstract: "Recent research, such as BitNet, is paving the way for a new era of 1-bit Large Language Models (LLMs). In this work, we introduce a 1-bit LLM variant, namely BitNet b1.58, in which every single parameter (or weight) of the LLM is ternary {-1, 0, 1}."

Would allow larger models with limited resources. However, this isn't a quantization method you can convert models to after the fact, Seems models need to be trained from scratch this way, and to this point they only went as far as 3B parameters. The paper isn't that long and seems they didn't release the models. It builds on the BitNet paper from October 2023.

"the matrix multiplication of BitNet only involves integer addition, which saves orders of energy cost for LLMs." (no floating point matrix multiplication necessary)

"1-bit LLMs have a much lower memory footprint from both a capacity and bandwidth standpoint"

Edit: Update: additional FAQ published

 

I'd like to play around a bit with an online shop. Nothing professional with proper requirements, just a hobby project. When googling for open source e-Commerce solutions, I can find the usual software. But I don't like open core models, and all the projects seem to want to make some money with an add-on marketplace. And most of the times the basic product seems very limited and they want you to extend it with proprietary extensions to get it usable in real-world scenarios.

Is there a project that does things differently? I mean for invoices I can choose between several platforms that won't push me to buy anything. I just can't find an online shop solution like that. My requirements would be something along: Sells products and keeps track of remaining stock, maybe sells services like online courses and software/pdf downloads. Can generate invoices and ties into payment providers. Maybe generates shipping labels. Isn't too bloated, a small, nice and clean hobby project will do. I'd like to avoid running a Wordpress/Drupal/Joomla underneath it if possible.

I get that companies have different requirements and commercial products are somewhat the obvious thing if you're doing commerce. But there has to be something aligned with the virtues of the free software community. Something I'd like to use to sell Tux stickers and power my Etsy shop with.

 

Today, OpenAI - the company behind ChatGPT - does their first developer conference. They said the keynote will be livestreamed at 10am PT.

I don't know if they have anything new to show off, but I thought I let you know as this is one of the major companies regarding AI.

Not sure if anyone has time to watch a conference in the morning or at noon on a monday, but it's going to be the evening in central europe where I live.

 

"This feature utilizes KV cache shifting to automatically remove old tokens from context and add new ones without requiring any reprocessing."

This means a major speed increase for people like me who rely on (slow) CPU inference (or big models). Consider a chatbot scenario and a long chat where old lines of dialogue need to be evicted from the context to stay within the (4096 token) context size. Previously the context had to be re-computed starting with the first changed/now missing token. This feature detects that, deletes the affected tokens from the KV cache and shifts the subsequent tokens in the KV cache so it can be re-used. Avoiding a computationally expensive re-calculation.

This is probably also more or less related to recent advancements like Streaming-LLM

This won't help once text gets inserted "in the middle" or the prompt gets changed in another way. But I managed to connect KoboldCPP as a backend for SillyTavern/Oobabooga and now I'm able to have unlimited length conversations without waiting excessively, once the chat history hits max tokens and the frontend starts dropping text.

It's just a clever way to re-use the KV cache in one specific case. But I've wished for this for quite some time.

 

They are referencing this paper: LMSYS-Chat-1M: A Large-Scale Real-World LLM Conversation Dataset from September 30.

The paper itself provides some insight on how people use LLMs and the distribution of the different use-cases.

The researchers had a look at conversations with 25 LLMs. Data is collected from 210K unique IP addresses in the wild on their Vicuna demo and Chatbot Arena website.

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Mistral 7B model (mistral.ai)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rufus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works
 

Yesterday Mistral AI released a new language model called Mistral 7B. @justnasty@lemmy.kya.moe already posted the Sliding attention part here in LocalLLaMA, yesterday. But I think the model and the company behind that are even more noteworthy and the release of the model is worth it's own post.

Mistral 7B is not based on Llama. And they claim it outperforms Llama2 13B on all benchmarks (at it's size of 7B). It has additional coding abilities and a 8k sequence length. And it's released under the Apache 2.0 license. ~~So truly an 'open' model, usable without restrictions.~~ [Edit: Unfortunately I couldn't find the dataset or a paper. They call it 'open-weight'. So my conclusion regarding the open-ness might be a bit premature. We'll see.]

(It uses Grouped-query attention and Sliding Window Attention.)

Also worth to note: Mistral AI (the company) is based in Paris. They are one of the few big european AI startups and collected $113 million funding in June.

I've tried it and it indeed looks promising. It certainly has features that distinguishes it from Llama. And I like the competition. Our world is currently completely dominated by Meta. And if it performs exceptionally well at its size, I hope people pick up on it and fine-tune it for all kinds of specific tasks. (The lack of a dataset and detail regarding the training could be a downside, though. These were not included in this initial release of the model.)


EDIT 2023-10-12: Paper released at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06825 (But I'd say no new information in it, they mostly copied their announcement)

As of now, it is clear they don't want to publish any details about the training.

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Pygmalion-2 has been released (pygmalionai.github.io)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rufus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/localllama@sh.itjust.works
 

I might be a bit late to the party, but for those of you that like ERP and fiction writing:

Introducing Pygmalion-2

The people from Pygmalion have released a new model, usable for roleplaying, conversation and storywriting. It is based on Llama 2 and has been trained on SFW and NSFW roleplay, fictional stories and instruction following conversations. It is available in two sizes, 7b and 13b parameters. They're also releasing a mix with MythoMax-L2 called Mythalion 13B.

Furthermore they're (once again) announcing a website with character sharing and inference (later in october.)

For reference: Pygmalion-6b has been a well known dialogue model for (lewd) roleplay in the times before LLaMA. It had been followed up with an underwhelming successor based on LLaMA (Pygmalion-7b). In their new blogpost they promise to have improved with their new model.

(Personally, I'm curious how it performs compared to MythoMax. There aren't many models around, that excel at roleplay or have been designed specifically for that use case.)

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