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shebang@chaos.social ("Shebang 🔜 FOSDEM") wrote:

hello i am new to the stock market is it good when the nvidia x account starts praying

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• Falsified screenshot of the NVIDIA account on X sharing a bible verse. (remote)

jwz wrote:

Recent movies and TV.
I've got good news for you! Enterprise S02 is no longer the worst Star Trek!
https://jwz.org/b/ykgw

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lety@doesstuff.social ("Lety Does Stuff") wrote:

A “model“ is not its “dataset“ and “open-weight“ is not “open-source“.

How DeepThink trained its models (read: software's ability to statistically quantify the relationship of information in their datasets) is unique and performant. That DeepThink-R1 has reasoning comparable to ChatGPT-4o when other competitors haven't come close is no small feat.

Further, DeepThink allows you to inspect and modify its models' biases and the weights they use to decide what information to present. They chose to be open-weight, which is broadly more commendable than OpenAI's decision to keep everything proprietary.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

GayDeceiver@mstdn.social wrote:

“I’m your worst nightmare”
“The one where the nurse keeps trying to take my blood but she can’t find a vein so she keeps poking and pocking and poking.”
“No”
“Oh no. Not the one where I am on a 3-day road trip with Jar-Jar Binks?”
“What? No!”
“The one where I’m about to get married but my soon-to-be father in law is making a pass at me and everyone is encouraging him?”
“You know what, you’re pretty messed up. Never mind.”

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nathanolsenart@mastodon.art ("Nathan Olsen") wrote:

The Kickstarter for Tiny Dracula #1 will launch on Monday, January 27th!

Watch the launch trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_-Zm05JmQ4

Sign-up to get a FREE 10-page preview of the comic:
https://tinydracula.com/

Launch Page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nathanolsenart/tiny-dracula-1

#comics #comicbooks #indiecomics #kickstarter

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mush@flipping.rocks ("lake 6:30am 12/24/24") wrote:

large language model the size of a small language model is completely hurting the stock market

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If only there was an endogenous model of economic growth that could have predicted this! Alas.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

AI hypers: whole industries better get ready for disruption. Market incentives gonna unleash Schumpeter up in here...

[ market incentives creatively destroy basis for hype ]

AI hypers: no, not like that

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/27/deep-seek-ai-markets-nvidia/

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aniki21@dice.camp ("Paul C") wrote:

Happy "Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder" Day to all who observe.

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• A screenshot of a tweet from San Miguel Sheriff, posted Jan 27, 2020. The text reads "Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area", above a photo of a rock on a snowy road next to a police car. (remote)

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petebrown@social.lol ("Pete Brown") wrote:

Sadly, I’m out. https://explodingcomma.com/posts/sadly-im-out

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eedly@mindly.social ("E. C. Bigribs") wrote:

@Daojoan The metaphor that's been gestating in my head is a clown, on fire, running comically through a forest, flapping his white-gloved hands, setting the whole thing alight. Sure, he is a clown, and he makes silly honking noises as he runs in his ridiculously large shoes, and occasionally he comically tries to put the fire out with his squirting flower, but to just say "He is a clown" doesn't really do the situation justice.

As I type this, I realize it's an army of clowns. Still not funny.

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AlSweigart ("Al Sweigart") wrote:

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• "One fun way of getting your Republican family member to acknowledge that Musk made a Nazi salute is to ask them if you can film them making the gesture."

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erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:

Hey, he's coming to tour a bit in the U.S.!

https://www.venjent.com

After I've left, of course :sunglasses_cry:

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erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:

Venjent and a beautiful kettle.

https://youtu.be/NudylaHRXgM

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

with the attacks on undersea cables continuing, I fear Putin has decided Trump will refuse to act if Russia tries to pick off the Baltic States.

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emma@fedi.emmajuettner.com ("Emma") wrote:

Today I went to a freecycling party hosted by a friend! We all brought clothes/books/art supplies/etc we didn't want, perused everyone else's stuff and took what we wanted, and then divided any remaining items into categories to donate (e.g. one person takes all the art supplies to our local used craft supply store, another person takes all the clothes to a local thrift store, etc).

It was very fun! And I never would have thought of throwing a party like that, so I'm posting about it here to pass along the idea to others :)

#freecycling #buyNothing

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ahermitforhire@pagan.plus ("a hermit for hire :plantmage3:") wrote:

I almost missed this. Some of you may remember me posting a link to Tom Waits guesting with Iggy Pop on Iggy’s BBC Radio 6 show. Well, they reposted it!

This expires Tuesday at 6pm! HURRY AND LISTEN!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001st7l

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GeofCox@climatejustice.social wrote:

Two hundred UK companies sign up for permanent four-day working week - more than 5,000 workers to benefit from reduced hours with no loss of pay... https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jan/27/two-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-permanent-four-day-working-week

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I assume at some point the histories of these git repos will be wiped. Can't have a record of what happened sitting around.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I mean, they attempt to do it in a lot of ways (e.g. public school curriculum), but it's wild to watch them edit the transcript of past discussions:

https://github.com/nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science/commit/bb7560bd1c35f6e2e200a1ad78f4c78d28ab282b#diff-90ec3c142ac23b2fc386e0464bcc8f652f2022526488bf66880836a4692b3611

(The speed (and lack of discretion) at which this is happening makes me think LLMs are involved. I'm so glad my... *shudder*... peers built these bullshit machines.)

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geerlingguy ("Jeff Geerling") wrote:

Apple wants you to pay $800 for 2TB of NVMe storage.

But if you want that, why not pay $269 and upgrade your M4 Mac mini yourself?

See how in my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLtE2kMTVOQ

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raek@tilde.zone ("Rasmus SA5RJS") wrote:

I just discovered this treasure trove: "Basic Linear Design" / "Linear Circuit Design Handbook"

It's available for free on Analog Devices' website!

https://www.analog.com/en/resources/technical-books/linear-circuit-design-handbook.html

#electronics #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Don't follow a diet that has yellow nodules of cholesterol oozing from your skin. That seems like reasonable medical advice.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/27/the-nice-thing-about-all-meat-diets-is-they-kill-my-appetite/

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erosdiscordia@onycha.monster ("Mystery Babylon") wrote:

Hey fediverse friends,

Today's the last day for me to try and buy a week at a cheap discount at the guesthouse my cat and I are staying at, before I have to start paying by the night.

I'd love to stay here in safety while I continue applying for a work visa and looking for permanent housing. If you have any cash to spare, would you consider donating it? You'd be helping a trans person build a new safe life outside America.

Any amount of money is welcome, small or not, and boosting would be kind too. :blobcattransheart:

https://www.paypal.me/tmvshek
https://venmo.com/onychamaze
https://ko-fi.com/erosdiscordia

:boostRequest:

#mutualAidRequest #mutualAid #trans #transgender #transMutualAid #lgbtcrowdfund @mutualaid

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MattPalmer ("Matt Palmer") wrote:

One of my favourite #abandoned places that I have photographed Dagverðará, #iceland

While photographing it a large Icelandic Raven snuck up on me and cawed loudly right behind me, scaring the crap out of me! It's part of my book Icelandic Echoes, which you can find pretty easily with google.

The house has unfortunately been vandalised externally since I was lucky enough to photograph it here in Winter, 2017.

Hope you enjoy this beautiful old building!

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• An old abandoned Icelandic farmstead missing its roof sits in snow near the coastline of Iceland. Above a distant snowstorm is illuminated in golden tones from the low afternoon light.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I feel like I've already posted all the good stuff last year, so I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel until I can go somewhere and take some new pictures.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Last summer, Ambleside.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria

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• Under an overcast sky, a grey stone house with multiple tubular chimneys is covered almost entirely in vegetation, including some pink flowers.

rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

This was an homage to Carrie Fisher.

In my head I hear her saying this with the contextless, perfectly neutral intonation of a speaking dictionary

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• Screencap of a tweet by Carrie Fisher posted at 2:52 AM on September 20, 2009. It simply says, "Gay" with no punctuation

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I have been temporarily distracted by those lovely, sexy sex combs.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/27/sex-combs/

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tanepiper@tane.codes ("Tane Piper ⁂") wrote:

Are there any freelance Visual Designers on #Fediverse that have experience with motion design? We are looking for someone to come join the #ikea design system team to help work on our new expressive design elements.