starweasel [it/its, comrade/them]

i mean, clearly it isnt that easy cuz they keep asking for help " hey have you found jesus" “would you like to hear about jesus” like cmon just put up a missing persons poster already.

forbidden fidget toy

the mythological lure of AI is so strong that many engineers believe that nothing should stand in their way. Not even the basic task of writing efficient software.

teaching sand to think was a mistake

two recs, nextcloud notes using the quillpad app (you need a nextcloud instance tho) or SilentNotes. Silentnotes has the downside of not having a desktop app (yet, its apparently in the works eventually) so if thats a concern, nextcloud with quillpad is probably a better bet.

scripts that NVIDIA distributed to clients so they could automatically download and preprocess The Pile dataset.

sounds like they allegedly wrote some stuff to get faster downloads/avoid throttling while they were allegedly pirating books from shadow libraries for their AI