@c721880c there are a number of models that run locally, but 32GB ram seems needed to get decent results. Large NNs are resource hungry! My 6x2 core 16G i7 just does the simple stuff.
@c721880c I don't like this schema. It paints a lot of OK things as negatives. Everything Susan Cain says about how, particularly US, culture treats introvertion. As something to be cured. 🙄
@b43cfc26@b32610c7 For me, the coolest story about him is how he took Pile-1 critical, watching the gauges, and doing calculations on a *6" sliderule*, and giving instructions. There was a team of people calculating as well, but they were 10 minutes behind - a long time for a critical nuclear reactor!
@c721880c sometimes, yes. The conscripts I knew had no sense of that. Either naked racism, or just going with the flow. But the trauma and the pain were real. Seeing friends pass out from excessive PT, the mental break downs, the abuse of power. For every 1 soldier in the front line, there are 9 in support. No sense of purpose, just plodding, waiting to get out, to be able carry on with life. It was very close to a jail sentence.
@c721880c I grew up in apartheid South Africa in the 70's and 80's. You have no idea how powerful these forces are. When you're staring at 6 years in jail if you refuse to serve in the army, for instance. You get quite careful about some stuff.
@425a31b8 in 1994 I set up a community computer centre on the edge of a South African informal settlement (Ivory Park, Midrand) using Linux and some old corporate PCs and a printer. Ran for like 9 months between reboots. I think a few careers got started there, writing up CVs and applying for jobs via email.
@b92dcc07 pulls no punches in today's piece, but persevere - read it to the end - he comes out the other side of nihilism with a message of hope and action.
"a muscular belief in democratic, publicly run planning and action - offers a tonic to nihilism"
Let us not give up, but find the real levers that make a difference.
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