Gregory's ServerI really hope to see some actual cool tech stuff getting some time in the limelight after all the douchebro hype of the last 15 years.
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@thomasfuchs Society glorifies the stories of successful salesmen, not the engineers whose innovations they sold.  @ganonmaster @thomasfuchs I remember thinking this as a child after reading the story of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs in a computer magazine!   @ganonmaster @thomasfuchs "society" has nothing to do with it. don't blame everyone for the lousy behavior of a handful of rich sociopaths who've captured the media @walruslifestyle I just see this as the net result of the system we exist in. Please don't misinterpret my post as an indictment of all the people who make up our society. There are obvious nuances to be found that a simple statement like that one doesn't express. @ganonmaster OK i understand. i just wonder what the value is in implicating society at large when it'd be not so hard to name individuals. if anything i feel like society pushes us in the direction of not naming names especially when they're the names of the powerful. but i get it.  @asdflushy @ganonmaster I never get over how good humans are at solving certain super hard problems I feel the same every time a techbro tries to tell me a shit 1080p camera is better than a human eye. Not just at resolving an image but for image processing as well. The crass and gross understanding of how good even a poor human is at doing stuff is why these people think they can replace them, or pay them slave wages.  @thomasfuchs My wife was volunteering at Lighthouse for the Blind and one of the other volunteers had a thing he wore on his head that was an interactive wayfinding tool that described everything he saw and read signs. It was mindboggling. (It's gotten better since.)  @glennf @thomasfuchs could you provide me more info on Lighthouse for the Blind? Is it this one? https://lighthouse-sf.org/   @DeltaWye @thomasfuchs Apparently the normal version is OpenCL and ROCm. Still, batch computing on the GPU when you aren't using it for graphics is getting a lot of power out of the hardware that we just didn't utilize before. @Raccoon @DeltaWye @thomasfuchs OpenCL was an early attempt at an open standard. The current-gen standand is Compute Shaders, which is integrated into Vulkan, Metal, and DX12. The wgpu (rust) and dawn (C++) libraries provide cross-platform access to this interface.  @thomasfuchs on the one hand, i don't want to be *that* sort of gatekeepy hipster asshole, but on the other i end up being that sort of gatekeepy hipster asshole all the time just because time and again i'm forced to learn that the best sign that something is actually (still) good is if nobody knows about it
@thomasfuchs @thomasfuchs  Unfortunately.. #SurveillanceCapitalism: An increasingly faster way to throw slow, inefficient technology into society to ensure insane capital flows to the already hyper wealthy and keeps them in power. @smallcircles @thomasfuchs A person can setup Lightning channels between their friends, colleagues, organic growers to do the fast stuff like fast payment, messaging etc. Yes, paired with SATs, Lightning eliminates spam so a proper back and forth convo costs **nothing** but bandwidth 🙂 @smallcircles @thomasfuchs There's symmetry here. We should not all jump on the bandwagon that something is bad because securing it is expensive. All good things require some energy to maintain, and the #bitcoin network will require half the energy of existing #banking. 1/2 @smallcircles @thomasfuchs NB: We call for #GlutPlug, a decentralised media-delivery network on fedi, based on media boosted/posted/faved. We think those action can result in participants serving such media to others over I2P. @dsfgs @smallcircles @thomasfuchs Even if at one time there might have been some value in bitcoin and blockchain, it’s been tainted forever by the culture. It’s even bled into making decentralized sound dirty…Sorry but anything around it, even assuming best intentions, is a very hard sell. @dacig @smallcircles @thomasfuchs @dsfgs @smallcircles @thomasfuchs I want scams like bitcoin to progress slower than that. Like, to a full stop. You do you, as long as you mine with a pedal powered rig.  We're in a lull just now. I believe the New Hot Thing will arise from technologies such as Apple's Neural Engine. All this hoopla over LLMs - their limitations are coming into focus - they're very good for what they do. But there's a new neural network model, the Attention model: I started looking at this and my jaw dropped.  @tuban_muzuru @thomasfuchs The attention mechanism *is* what LLMs are built on. That paper you cited is what started LLM research. I'll be the first to say I don't know much. I worked with vision systems and QC/QA and I'm just now coming to terms with what it means. So I'm reading.  @thomasfuchs I think the retro computing world is where the interesting ideas are forming right now Cool tech stuff? Look at the database Larian Studio implemented to model the relationships between game mechanics for Baldur's Gate 3. That is cool vibes modern Prolog like genius @thomasfuchs You're on the cool stuff. Making tech work for people instead of billionaires bank accounts. And btw ... I riffed on your toot.  @thomasfuchs is there any reason to expect the market to change, such that "producing a good or service that solves a problem for somebody" will become a valuable and rewarded economic activity? @thomasfuchs cool tech is made by courageous people who challenge social norms and not careerists... to curb your enthusiasm... |
(There’s a ton, but we barely ever hear of it.)