Posts by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
(DIR) Post #AhpFXQ0TRkpMj6omGm by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-05-01T09:19:50.513298Z
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No need for WiFi or Linux to do that -- ZigBee bulbs have neither direct IP access nor a general purpose OS to exploit. My general rule is to avoid IP-capable devices that are not in some way actively supported.
(DIR) Post #AhpFXRhP9clJyXuZpA by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-05-01T09:25:03.589542Z
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I was in Lidl just the other day -- their smart bulbs are Zigbee. Ikea too, although they're not exactly "high street".
(DIR) Post #AhpFXSYDzF0scMcl9c by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-05-01T09:37:22.354700Z
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But in any case, I definitely don’t disagree with your assessment – just with the suggestion that WiFi is required for any kind of smarts.
(DIR) Post #AhqG3iKh2YshzMdQx6 by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-04-30T19:46:21.405893Z
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That's amazing! The performer is Aleksandr Hrustevich, on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWuEnjfYTE#Aleksandr_Hrustevich #Accordion
(DIR) Post #AhqOtDdrC0jfUhfY4O by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-03-18T08:29:50.438197Z
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@ianbetteridge Worse, there's no guarantee.Which always struck me as the odd thing about Marvel's Thanos - the films had "wipe out half of all life" as a one-off fix, but surely the cycle would repeat and he'd need to do it again in a few years? Maybe exponents work differently in that universe; after all there's something stopping people from remembering how to make something if the original inventor isn't around.
(DIR) Post #Ahs9CX1g8Y54AHv0Qi by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-05-06T16:58:54.462780Z
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I’m not so much pro-monarchy, as reluctant to tear down the status quo while the current crop of loonies would get to decide what to replace it with.I am against the arrest of people because they want to protest, especially when the protest is against a specific one-off event.
(DIR) Post #AhwIODidQGH9ynUzuS by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-04-03T19:01:55.221297Z
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The model is immutable at the point of use, so (use of a RNG or timing data notwithstanding) the output should be entirely deterministic? Not letting the caller pick a random seed seems to me to be a design choice.Controlling all sources of entropy is hard if no-one has deliberately decided to try to make a process repeatable, but that doesn’t make the LLM non-deterministic.(Back when I worked on a compiler, we carefully didn’t depend on any randomness – and on a single thread, the same input with the same compiler build should always give the same output. But change anything and all bets were off)
(DIR) Post #Ai6nuH2JfE5rh94IG8 by andrew@social.aylett.co.uk
2023-03-19T15:56:02.591614Z
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If someone is lied to by a person they trust, there are two hurdles to overcome -- even if they might be happy knowing the good news that they don't actually owe that money (or that the person they're rescuing isn't really in danger, or whatever the scam might be), admitting that they've been deceived is hard. And why should they trust you, rather than the person who has built up their trust?It's hard to do, but helping them work it out for themselves is more effective than trying to reason against them.