I have watched a few videos on YouTube from a company called Kiraa (kiraa.ai). The CEO strongly advocates Apple products for on-premises AI. They are very much business focused, but the technical stuff is very interesting.
BTW, I haven't seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail in so many years that I'd forgotten that scene! How appropriate for these times, eh? Wouldn't it be great to see those peasants as White House reporters now? On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > > And here I am extremely confused: > We are (litterally) just at the start (potentially) of Ai as revolution. I > simply can not see the bigger map well enough. Ok so we had cute girls (porn) > on the now netorius civitai and all the wonderful and cringe forms of > debauchery. It took knee split and has been a cluster since. > It is surreal that 6 years ago ("back in covid) when we got early commits > run diffusures models..and _then_ some near savants in what I assume is > insanely compl;icated SWAG: Scintific Wild umm donkey (wink) Guess (Steve: i > am trying...really! I am) : because it's...entropy baby no hard answers and > lots of..extremly good guesses. Sufficed to say StabilityAi and > A11111111111111/webui blah img gen: internet on brand: naked people > Ok ok I like that. > but I can...attempt to read dense papers on taking the same concept of ai > to get: automatic small (beetleclass ) robotic gladiator combat. the combat > itself is mey: but: the: planning, the finding things, the realtime logic and > genly pusing how we make little virtual people do things > along came ClauBot > > All the while in the background "gamers" complaining non stop and over > fixating on the...spam that some cheesy marking bros put ot (Ai slop) yeah > that...sucks but there's some suuuper cool reeely small advances: I meen > it's: surreal, I can go grab a however man billion peramter diffuser or > aibrain bassically (saftensor and checkpoints all over huggingface) point LLM > studio: > and a virtual person says hi. She's about mmm i'd estimate 4 ish as far as > not getting confused. I meen that in of itself is litterally scifi...star > trek has litteral episodes about something not to far off from that ...er > sorry TOS did then TNG imagined a holodec...so to me I am stuck on the part > of: > how: machine learning can tosome degree understand lots of typed languages. a > feet, or so I am lead to believe, even the bigest savant names in language > don't reguarly achieve... to me just that in of itself is magine > the fact that a CFG factor and weighting in webui for stable diffusion can > some how tighten weights etc holly **** people were doing it...HUGE SSDs > (datacenterrs and...are super computers and and some kind distrubuted tech > used?(pss Eli5 how a Ai data center actually works) > I love that> > I'd LOVE to learn how to set up a cheap FPGA (is that even a thing? oO) or > Rasberi-Pi or MacMini is even to have a dedicated box and not show the > reality that my 3,000 USD computer is not really where it should be at in > 2026: (why do still have a system clock? why do graphics still rely on > polygons etc etc) > I just can not relate to this doom and gloom of ram shortage winging. (oh no > i have to play a backlog tittle from steam) > > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2026 at 11:49 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Nice to see someone give Gary Marcus a dismissal. If there haven't yet >> been MS-NOW anti-datacenter events with Emily Benders, Noam Chomsky, and >> Bernie Sanders, it seems inevitable. My only wish is that the AI overlords >> cut the cable feed so I don't have to hear that claptrap it in the >> background. >> >> It is a weird age though where so many people in ML -- not just users but >> practitioners -- have never actually seen the kind of cluster node, power, >> and cooling infrastructure that could run a frontier model. It is just >> magical cloud stuff. Externalized costs. >> >> Now let me return my attention to see what that 32 GPU monster has to say >> about new directions in direct drive inertial confinement. >> -----Original Message---- >> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of glen >> Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2026 9:29 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [FRIAM] devastating >> >> >> https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/an-open-letter-to-steven-pinker-on >> >> But the most interesting part is the "depravity of objecting to model >> welfare". The analogy to operating on babies without anesthetic is pretty >> bad, however useful. But my own take, with my own interactions with the >> models, is far away from an ontological commitment to the models >> *experiencing* anything. I say "Thanks" and "Please" to the models, give >> them time to "rest", etc. not because I think they're experiencing anything, >> let alone pain. >> >> I do it because it's simply good practice. But when I run local models on my >> home machine, I can *hear* it working. There really should be some immediate >> feedback from *inference*. Back when I was a kid, we called it "Smell the >> wood burning", especially when prompting an authentic Good Faith kid with a >> puzzler. Yes, it's a bit of an insult like "Bless her heart". But it's >> mostly a good natured insult. >> >> When I invoke significant inference in the cloud, I don't get that feedback, >> especially when the harness is in "auto mode". I not only enjoy reading the >> experiments the LLM tries. I think it's Good Practice to get feedback from >> the inference you force upon the machine(s). It's flat out Dark Tetrad to >> flop about the world expecting those around you to absorb your cavalier >> actions silently, whether or not your victims are "conscious". >> >> "Dennis! 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