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I think it's reasonably likely. There was a research paper about how to do basically that a couple years ago. If you need a basic LLM trained on a specialized form of input and output, getting the expensive existing LLMs to generate that text for you is pretty efficient/inexpensive, so it's a reasonable way to get a baseline model. Then you can add stuff like chain of reasoning and mixture of experts to improve the performance back up to where you need it. It's not going to be a way to push the state of the art forward, but it's sure a cheap way to catch up to models that have done that pushing.

I do love games, but most of what I do at my computer is maker projects. CAD, 3d printing, electronics design, coding. Lately I've been building a puzzle box for my niece's birthday.

Interestingly, I did upgrade my GPU a year and a half or so ago (to a used 3070, I'm not made of money) and since then the main thing I've used that GPU for is actually AI experiments rather than games. E.g. for the puzzle box, I got Stable Diffusion to generate images for a puzzle for me. It's four images, and when you combine them in the right way they reveal a fifth image. I don't think I could have done the same puzzle without AI.

I do still play games, though. I'm just kind of off the big budget stuff these days.

I wouldn't really say Republicans deliver what they say they'll deliver. A week before election Trump was saying he'd have grocery prices lower on day one, and then as soon as he was elected he suddenly became aware that was complicated and the wouldn't be anything he could do about it. Part of his campaign the first time around, too, was that he would provide a brilliant replacement for Obamacare, but after four years he'd done absolutely nothing on that front, and four years after that he still insisted he was going to do that, but admitted that he only had "concepts of a plan."

They carry out a lot of the culture war aspects of their promises. And they carry out the promises they make to their billionaire megadonors. Everything else they hope gets forgotten about.

Yeah, that's plausible for cooking in general, but boiling vs poaching is a pretty fine distinction.

I'm also intrigued as to why they think hard boiling vs poaching the egg has any bearing on its calorie content.

Hey, it's not just that! It's also decimal 88 in the ASCII table.

You are agreeing. They said we must be INtolerant of intolerance.

The open display of oligarchy at the inauguration has a bunch of people suddenly turned off of corporate social media sites in general. It's a meme, basically, but one that could have a positive effect. I'm happier about this than the people flocking to BlueSky.

Sure, but you've got to build that habit of checking the app. Gotta lure people back for more little hits of dopamine. The men aren't going to subscribe (or at least stay subscribed) if they aren't getting that illusion of lots of options for people to date.

At this point I actually wonder whether Steam Deck owners might represent the majority of Arch users.

Less than half of all eligible voters voted.

According to Ballotpedia it was 63.7% of eligible voters, which is a very good turnout by US standards.

https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election

Still means that only about a third of eligible voters voted for Trump, but, y'know, that's really quite a lot.

There are a lot of reasons people might want to switch to Linux from Windows, but I don't think it's usually the GUI that's the main problem on the Windows side. I think it's pretty reasonable to want the GUI to work in the way you're used to but still want an OS that doesn't shove ads at you, install AI without your permission, bug you about Teams and OneDrive, reboot every time it needs to update anything, etc.