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Wouldn't including models with open weights where you control the hardware as controls be superior to covariance?

How much factory data have you worked with? Factory data should be squeaky.

Shouting that you’re in your 60s while having this attitude is just embarrassing for you. Quit defending the haphazard use of antibiotics, nobody with SUFFICIENT medical training to formulate a differential would say “oh yea if you reckon you have a UTI just pop whatever rando full spec abc you have laying around and skip the doc”. You are quite clearly as well trained as you think you are. Dunning meet Kruger.

Cool, I've been seconds away from ending my laziness and ditching lmstudio for more cli work. Now I don't have to, yay!

Where did I suggest anything otherwise? Antibiotic resistance adds to collapse, it's a valid critique. I questioned the action of taking shotgun antibiotics in a non emergency situation, i.e. one in which you could have access to physicians and pharmacies for medical guidance. Antibiotic misuse is the leading cause of antibiotic resistance, antibiotic resistance could more or less cripple our current medical infrastructure, we have no remaining tools to fight these infections with, and we're losing the battle with a fairly dry solution pipeline. So yea keep your apocalypse abx but just don't take them unless apocalypse.

Please tell me you aren’t just deciding when to give yourself antibiotics in non-emergency situations…

$10 says it's model assessment tools.

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Not sure I totally agree with you here — Trump is more clever than people give him credit for. It’s easier and feels safer to call him dumb than admit the American people were duped. I think the “Trump is dumb” lines make his political efforts seem less sinister. Trump + team can absolutely pull that off, and I think are doing so before our eyes.

Isn’t that the point? I recall Theil and Trump both talking about “freedom cities” — seems like that’s what this is racing towards.

Source?

I think theyre making most of their money from users like me who keep forgetting to cancel sub they don't use

Freakin' finally--I've been using a system I hacked together and it was driving me crazy. Thanks LM Studio team, wherever you are.

Use em together like me. Lmstudio shredding MCP tools through obsidian is a game changer.

You can connect your IDE or Claude Desktop or whateverthefk directly to Hugging Face with a set of tools that allow whatever model you have managing tool calls to access the resources on hugging face (models, spaces, etc).

Hey, how'd it turn out? i'm on the struggle bus over here!

Truth told, it's been freeing for me. If my most useful assets were knowledge, creativity, synthesis, etc, are now entirely commoditized, no amount of pressure on myself can change outcomes so it's like--liberating.

10 points to gryffindor

How are you measuring their risk in your mind? Just.... vibes?

Prions keep me up at night. I think "prions as great filter" ain't it, but prions are fucking terrifying and yes could wipe us out without being "the great filter".

Car tires don't contain polyethylene. While tire dust appears to comprise the majority of microplastic dust measured in at least one study, which of course means we're breathing it in, it doesn't follow that the tire dust is what is accumulating in our brains the most. So, you can breathe a huge sigh of relief about that. Tire dust probably accumulates in our kidneys instead.

Friend, just believing your thoughts harder doesn't make them true. Surprising data is surprising because it defies intuition. You're welcome to take the 9 seconds it takes to Google, or 4 seconds it takes to ChatGPT, measurements of indoor vs outdoor air quality and make your own decisions.

Yes what you were referring to is clear. Indoor air pollution is still probably worse than walking around outside in a city, was my point.

I await better data, but the stats I've seen cited are that indoor air pollution is like 8x worse than outdoor air pollution. I reckon that varies based on proximity to interstates, factories, etc, but it's still concerning enough to keep my windows open.

I disagree that it's ridiculous given the differences in fat composition and the lipophilicity + size of PE

Start with step 2

Nihart, A.J., Garcia, M.A., El Hayek, E. *et al.* Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains. *Nat Med* (2025). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03453-1](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03453-1)

We have at least on average the equivalent of a plastic spoon, or plastic quart baggie, in our brains. 90% of it is polyethylene, and we’re eating half and breathing in half to get there. To solve this problem simple stop eating foods from plastic, and stop breathing.

Yikes, my bad, I see whatcha mean now, thanks :) “My motives weren’t apparent” is also a very elegant phrase I will be adopting—thanks for that.

I didn’t mention weeds or suggest neonics compared to the impact varroa mites. Not sure where you got that. Have a great day!

This is such an insightful response and I co-sign 1000%. Varroa mites are the devil in the details here. I’d never heard the volleyball sized tick comparison and it’s so spot on. THAT SAID—neonicitinoids are still very bad for many pollinators in general, do wreck their nervous systems, and contribute to wild pollinator decline across other major species like butterflies, moths, flies, and wasps. Habitat fragmentation also causes major issues to local communities. Tie it all together with climate change and it’s still a nasty outlook for our bee buddies. :(

You're debating with yourself at this point lol, let it rest.

Perhaps abusing psychedelics has drifted you away from reality camp dude, you're all over the place, half contradicting yourself and half proving my points. I encourage you to review your high school World History class text book (if you're out of high school in your country, I'm not sure), as well as review the flow of logic in debate. I'm not spending more time on this, good luck out there.

I'm gonna be honest, and I mean this kindly: you sound like you have little idea what you're talking about. Talking about billionaires as "masterminds" belies you have some illusion of them as supervillains cackling behind the scenes as they plot to control the world. It doesn't need to be that literal -- they're already the richest and most powerful people on earth, it's not something they have to aspire to or "mastermind" their way into -- they already did it. They aren't really individuals in the purest sense anymore, they're organizations in and of themselves. And the very nature of their existence means systems are already in place for billionaires to continue to dominate and expand power/control. If it wasn't these specific people grabbing power, it'd be someone else. There's an inevitability to it in today's world. Either way, you're kind of missing the point, no? As I suggested twice above, China as a soverign nation-state would already have to be an illusion for Yarvin to be successful in the first place, meaning if China is actually as coherent as you suggest Yarvin wouldn't be successful and this hypothetical scenario would go up in dust.

I don't disagree -- I'm saying IF Yarvin is successful, it would require those conditions, not that those conditions currently exist.

If Yarvin is successful, it will be because nation-states are already corporate illusions at this point, and China won't be an entity to struggle with.

Imma just hop in here since we're all talking about intelligence: kindly, there is no link between creative capacity and logical capacity, thus your being "a creative person" doesn't preclude logic as a strength. It's a myth. Logic can fuel creativity and vv. You can learn and apply as much logic as you want--don't limit yourself friend.

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My question, as someone about to snag a new flap top—is it worth it?

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If I'm honest, I don't know exactly what I'm looking for. Career changer who hasn't aggressively programmed since the late 90s/early 00s looking to pivot my consulting priorities into leveraging agile ML applications in small/med business use cases, as much of the my last 10 years has been in business building/consulting. I'd like to buy a laptop that's solid for 4/5 years at least. As I understand it, we're rapidly entering a phase where frontier models require robust remote GPUs and smaller LoRA models are leveraged for local runs. That said, I don't have the depth of hardware knowledge to translate that motif into a consumer grade machine I'm not paying out the ass for. I've been MBP-bound for 20 years and don't particularly want to switch OS either.

How’s the MBP handling the local models? I’m about to purchase a new laptop and am not confident on which model to snag given that I intend to use it to experiment with models as they come out.

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