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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • Thank you very much for that personal answer!

    I was kinda afraid people would come back with the typical life lesson bullshit, on how I can turn everything around.

    Your answer was really unexpected and I very much appreciate it :⁠-⁠)

    I know, that I’ll survive that time and my cat is doing his best as well.
    Sadly not much more that I can do for him, but try to find the right food and juggle the additives, so he is able to eat a bit.
    But he mostly isn’t complaining and happily jumps on the couch to us to cuddle. And as long as he shows us this happiness, we will fight on - together.

    Thank you very much again!


  • Thanks for asking.
    My cats health is my main concern. He is only skin and bones anymore, and tried so many different things, but can’t find a food, that won’t lead to puking, when either he eats enthusiastically for once and then pukes the next day, or he doesn’t and gets sick because of his gastritis.
    This is now going on for over 9 months. All vets are out of ideas and I have started to drift into depression and couldn’t really work anymore - which is shit, because my company is running out of money now and I can’t pay myself from time to time. But that doesn’t concern me as much, as the hardship my little buddy needs to go through.
    He is a fighter though, and as long as he doesn’t give up and still comes to us to snuggle and is happy, there is no way I’ll put him down.
    By now we’re at least prepared for that and talked with the vet, so we can sedate him at home and then bring him to the vet to finalize it.

    Was a really hard year altogether, with cancer popping up and relationships ending in my family - and I’ve heard that a very good school friend of mine, where we lost contact, is pretty much in the last stage of cancer as well and seems to lose the fight.

    At least my wife still loves me and somehow still tolerates me, although I always isolate myself, when I’m getting depressed, and that has taken a toll in our relationship. But I do know, that we’re able to work our way out of it, as we’ve gone through worse and decided to stick together no matter what.

    So, all in all, like a cascade of shit and I try not to drown in it.
    I’m currently in a better state than 2-3 months ago - and my cat the same. So I try to slowly get a grip on things again and get my shit together.
    But it’s quite exhausting and I only manage to resolve one thing after another. And some relapses in behaviour hurt that much more, because I know how time and energy consuming it is to get back out of it.

    Hard to see the positive things, when everything goes to shit.
    And looking at the worldwide and local political developments…I just don’t understand how we can ignore global problems, like climate change and (plastic) pollution, but then put so much energy into attacking minorities…

    Thanks again for asking.
    It sometimes is nice to just vent a bit :⁠-⁠)




  • That reads kinda meh

    Robo Taxis are mostly bullshit, because we can’t even handle scenes for robots in a controlled environment.
    What will this robo taxis do, if snow or dirt disrupts their view?
    What will they do, if they can’t scan a speed limit sign at a road construction site?
    That stuff doesn’t work for most current automobiles that show you the speed limit, which they think is right, how should an automatic system adapt?
    Even if you preprogram them for the cities, you want to use them in, there are still ever changing things like constructions.

    And the AI stuff reads like the last years.

    Somehow we seem to not have anything really new and exciting


  • At least in Austria it’s even more stupid
    Immigrants from outside the EU have a real hard time to be even allowed to work legally.
    And then people complain, that they’re only here to receive social benefits - or younger people sometimes get into illegal drug trade, because they also want to join their Austrian friends in partying or having a smartphone.
    What the hell else should they do, when they’re not allowed to work?
    Fucking hypocrites…

    I took in an Indian immigrant in my company with a finished PhD (in Austria), because else he’d be forced to leave the country.
    There were quite some hurdles to get over, so he could even start. Because you need to argue why you give the foreigner the job and they also need a quite high start salary, else they aren’t allowed to stay.
    Seems to depend on the country of origin and what their immigration status is, but it’s at least not easy for them to even get a job.




  • As I said, the architectural changes are quite cool

    As far as I’ve understood it mostly comes down to splitting it up into multiple expert systems, so you don’t need to activate the complete system with every request

    But I’ve only scratched the surface…

    Also, open source… The weights are made publicly available.
    None of the training data or systems

    Edit: regarding “open source”:
    Also Meta’s Llama is on huggingface, just like deepseek. I still wouldn’t talk about transparency here