• I’ve found it best to keep files very limited, no more than a couple gigabytes of files ever available to a user in the cloud.
  • Everything is automatically moved into backups and cold storage via cron automation and rsync.
  • Nothing important ever lives “only” in Nextcloud.
  • Sync is not a backup solution, nor should it be.
  • Everything available to the user relates to particular core fields of interest
  • It isn’t possible to relate different apps together in an ad-hoc manner, so I turn to a combination of Qownnotes API + Notes app, Joplin
  • Cryptomator is the only trust worthy e2e tool I’ve ever used across all mobile and desktop devices.
• Auto-uploads are managed via syncthing, as user www-data and localstorage, due to the nature of how large and numerous my files can be. This helps minimize two factors:
  • Less things to upload on the clients, plus it is faster
  • No dependence on a central server, including my own. Device to device is fine and skips webdav sync altogether.
• It is easy to be disorganized since Nextcloud does not understand my organization methods in any straightforward way via tags or between FIles and other apps.
  • I’ve found it best to manage directly into cold storage
  • Only those things I’m actively sharing, referencing, and waiting for as uploads (via webui) reside in Nextcloud at any time.

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The National Fire Protection Association found that four-fifths of cooking fires involve electric stoves. They correlated with significantly inflated rates of reported fires (2.6 times higher than gas stoves), civilian fire death rates (3.4 times higher), civilian fire injury rates (4.8 times higher), and average fire dollar loss (3.8 times higher). //

A proposed DOE standard, published in May, would require dishwashers to use significantly less water and power. Moreover, federal regulations have, historically, skyrocketed average cycle times, driving consumers to choose the far less water-efficient practice of handwashing dishes.

While chatbots like ChatGPT have wowed the world with their eloquence and apparent knowledge—even if they often make things up—Voyager shows the huge potential for language models to perform helpful actions on computers. Using language models in this way could perhaps automate many routine office tasks, potentially one of the technology’s biggest economic impacts. //

Video games have long been a test bed for AI algorithms, of course. AlphaGo, the machine learning program that mastered the extremely subtle board game Go back in 2016, cut its teeth by playing simple Atari video games. AlphaGo used a technique called reinforcement learning, which trains an algorithm to play a game by giving it positive and negative feedback, for example from the score inside a game.

It is more difficult for this method to guide an agent in an open-ended game such as Minecraft, where there is no score or set of objectives and where a player’s actions may not pay off until much later. Whether or not you believe we should be preparing to contain the existential threat from AI right now, Minecraft seems like an excellent playground for the technology. //

Mentil Smack-Fu Master, in training
4y
90
Today it's hunting a pig in a world of blocks.
Tomorrow it's hunting long pig in a world of blocs. //

stooart Seniorius Lurkius
7y
12
Subscriptor++
First there was the VCR to watch TV for us, then there was the digital monk to believe in thing for us. Now we'll soon have the digital gamer to play games for us! //

malor Ars Legatus Legionis
19y
11,382
Subscriptor
I find it absolutely eerie that 'pick randomly from the most likely next words in a sentence', used as an algorithm, can do these astonishing things. It makes me wonder very intensely if our own intelligence is not what we think it is.

Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? //

WhatDoesTheFoxSay Smack-Fu Master, in training
1m
16
malor said:

I find it absolutely eerie that 'pick randomly from the most likely next words in a sentence', used as an algorithm, can do these astonishing things. It makes me wonder very intensely if our own intelligence is not what we think it is.

Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?

On one level, I think it's very much worthwhile to ponder the nature of reality and of our selves. It can help us to mature and to grow. And to an extent, finding things that inspire this kind of introspection can be really helpful and meaningful. And it is true that we don't understand very much about intelligence or about how the brain works.

But you've got to remember that there is no such thing as an "ai agent". Language models do not understand the meaning of their training data. They do not understand the meaning of the output they generate. However it is that our brains really work, it's certainly nothing like how so-called ai systems work. See Moravec's paradox's for more on why that is:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2F&source_ve_path=MTY0NTAz&feature=emb_share&v=raHM3k-uR0E

More important to America’s future than unearthing Biden family corruption is uncovering corrupt bureaucrats who violate the rule of law. //

Yes, the CHS’s allegations offer more evidence of a Biden family pay-to-play scandal, and unraveling any criminal conduct by the Biden family remains important. But more significant to the future of our country is uncovering government actors responsible for violating the rule of law: America can survive select injustices, but it cannot withstand a corrupt bureaucracy that obstructs justice and interferes in elections. //

Not only does this evidence suggest FBI headquarters obstructed justice, but the date of the CHS’s report indicates those responsible for misbranding the intel as disinformation sought to interfere in the 2020 election. //

In contrast, when the bureau received a vague tip from an Australian diplomat of unknown veracity that a low-level Trump volunteer had claimed the Russians possessed dirt on Hillary Clinton, within days FBI headquarters opened an investigation into the Trump campaign.