I honestly thought that we were agreed on the definition of AGI. My understanding classified it as a model that can build on its knowledge and better itself, teaching itself new tasks and techniques, adapting as necessary. I.e., not simply knowing enough techniques to impress some humans. By this definition, it doesn't matter if it's super-intelligent or if its knowledge is rudimentary, because given enough add-on hardware and power, it could become super-intelligent over time.
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snarg commented on Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair asahi.com/ajw/articles/15... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
It’s quite a reasonable metric. It ignores water and non-dietary fiber.
It ignores the practicality of human consumption, too.
snarg commented on Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair asahi.com/ajw/articles/15... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
https://www.intake.health/post/37-luteolin-rich-foods-ranked...
Radicchio looks to have the highest content of Luteolin.
What kind of insane metric is mg/kcal when comparing foods like radicchio vs. sweet green peppers?
> "A friend of mine is a teacher and kids are already delegating their learning to ChatGPT and their learning isn't sticking."
What about this:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to...
"students took a pen-and-paper test to assess their performance in three key areas: English language—the primary focus of the pilot—AI knowledge, and digital skills."
So... not a biased assessment, or anything.
Haha, we should coding with one hand and lift weights with the other :)
You jest, but when i was in school, i used to do pushups, situps, planks, curls, etc. while studying. It helped quite a lot with data retention.
snarg commented on Using SQLite as storage for web server static content clace.io/blog/sqlite/... · Posted by u/ajayvk
I did some experiments around this idea a few years ago, partly inspired by the "35% Faster Than The Filesystem" article: https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html
Here are the notes I made at the time: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/30/fun-binary-data-and-sq...
I built https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-media as a plugin for serving static files from SQLite via Datasette and it works fine, but honestly I've not used it much since I built it.
A related concept is using SQLite to serve map tiles - this plugin https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-tiles does that, using the MBTiles format which it turns out is a SQLite database full of PNGs.
If you want to experiment with SQLite to serve files you may find my "sqlite-utils insert-files" CLI tool useful for bootstrapping the database: https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/cli.html#inserti...
Using sqlite keeps a persistent open database connection, so you only have to send requests for content that sqlite has probably cached. When reading static files, you open, read, and close a file with every request, meaning more context switches, even though the filesystem layer will have cached the file content. If you want to speed this up, the appropriate solution is to add a caching front-end, not to turn everything into a database. It will be faster than using sqlite and easier to maintain and troubleshoot.
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snarg commented on GMC made a motorhome that pumped sewage through its exhaust on purpose thedrive.com/news/culture... · Posted by u/cebert
Dogs puts excrements everywhere: parks, streets, even restaurants and grocery stores. This society loves poop!
Edit: Many people do not collect their poop. Or leave it behind on fence wrapped in thin bag. And most just pick up like 70% and leave rest. And diarrhoea is just smeared thin all over the floor.
But by "excrements" I also mean urine. And small bits that fall from exposed dirty but-holes, like when dog sits down, and leaves brown marks on white seat.
I don't know about where you live, but in my town, people are required to pick up their dogs' poop, wherever it may be.
snarg commented on GMC made a motorhome that pumped sewage through its exhaust on purpose thedrive.com/news/culture... · Posted by u/cebert
Dogs puts excrements everywhere: parks, streets, even restaurants and grocery stores. This society loves poop!
Edit: Many people do not collect their poop. Or leave it behind on fence wrapped in thin bag. And most just pick up like 70% and leave rest. And diarrhoea is just smeared thin all over the floor.
But by "excrements" I also mean urine. And small bits that fall from exposed dirty but-holes, like when dog sits down, and leaves brown marks on white seat.
I don't know about where you live, but in my town, people are required to pick up their dogs' poop, wherever it may be.
If they can be used like that, why couldn't they be used... as phones?
Changing phone every two years is not sustainable, even if the old phone is used as an IoT wall terminal: it's still "consuming" one phone every two years. In a sense, an old phone in a drawer uses less energy than an old phone staying powered to control a lightbulb.
> planned obsolescence
Nitpick: I like to call it "premature obsolescence". Planned obsolescence is the idea of engineering the product to not last more than some time. I think nowadays it's often not the case; rather we engineer the product to last for the time of the warranty (1-2 years) and not more. And a product dying after 1 year is "premature", even though it was not actively engineered for that.
To facilitate planned obsolescence, manufacturers stop providing OS updates after a relatively short time. And then they cease providing security patches after a... still relatively short time.
If you unlock the device and install a custom ROM, which may or may not function adequately for you to begin with, then you're probably also compromising secure boot, which is a problem for the security model of how many people use phones -- and many apps simply refuse to work with this setup (whereas the obsolete OS with no security patches is considered fine, apparently).