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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report FindsEnglish
11·2 months agoI would say absolutely in the general sense nost people, and the salesmen, frame them in.
When I was invited to assist with the GDC development, I got a chance to partner with a few AI developers and see the development process firsthand, try my hand at it myself, and get my hands on a few low parameter models for my own personal use. It’s really interesting just how capable some models are in their specific use-cases. However, even high param. models easily become useless at the drop of a hat.
I found the best case, one that’s rarely done mind you, is integrate the model into a program that has the ability to call a known database. With a properly trained model to format output in both natural language and use a given database for context calls, and concrete information, the qualitative performance leaps ahead by bounds. Problem is, that requires so much customization it pretty much ends up being something a capable hobbyist would do, it’s just not economically sound for a business to adopt.
Personally I’m quite big fan of self-hosting, but if you want less a hassle, def try some of the other suggestions.
Since you’re interested in anon file sharing, I’d really recommend you take some time to really think out just what your personal definition of anonymous is, and how well it fits in modern digital infrastructure. True anonymous activity is nearly impossible, you can be fingerprinted by even writing a file to a drive to hand to someone. Every action taken online has some trace to it, while IP is generally not precise information, with enough data overlap you can be reasonably guessed depending on how much effort someone is willing to put into it.
So you know, good luck finding a balance lol.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Where does Palantir get the data from to begin with?
1·2 months agoI used to run in consulting circles, long enough time around execs and you start to see just how well the good ol boy clubs, and know-a-guy chains can make business deals between firms. Once you get the ball rolling on a project as a large enough entity, it doesn’t take much to consult the digital equivalent of their rolodex to find vendor upon vendor for this part, this data broker, etc.
Cheaper in bulk too.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Trump’s Golden Dome: Costly, Wasteful, With Contracts for PalantirEnglish
4·2 months agoWhat’s the old metrics?
Private industry costs three bucks to do what public does for one.
The Department of
DefenseWar hasn’t passed an audit for 8 years straight, high percentage of contract deliverables being immediately retired, resold domestically, or outright never delivered.Of course they’re going to stuff their pockets as much as possible. It’s the only thing they’re actually able to do, and barely competently at that.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers SayEnglish
51·2 months agoModern internet for you.
It may be far from perfect, but it’s why I have such a soft spot for alternative to modern social media. If I’m going to put my through a slog of keeping these sorts of official social media accounts ip and running, I might as well make it a nicer experience.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-DroidEnglish
3·2 months agoBest part: the better names in the alt os and device scenes don’t sell in us markets.
Unless you do the legwork of flashing your own device, most of us are out of luck.
I just love a good market stranglehold.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew CantorEnglish
8·2 months agoI can understand why he’d like the concept, he can’t think for himself afterall.

Still do.
Its a matter of principle.