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This happened a while back, but I was directed towards here
As a part of my law course, I was tasked with presenting an argument against a certain legal case. I had spent the previous two nights planning to present it verbally on zoom. Yet, I had made the unlikely mistake of doing them in pencil, and leaving them on my desk chair.
My family and I very recently trained my lovely Bulldog/Staffie mix to collect post from the front door whenever it came through the letterbox, and whenever she did so, we’d give her a treat.
She’s always been well trained, and is an unusually smart dog. She figured out that, if you leave random papers around the house, she could bring them to us for extra treats. Even if it was a random magazine, we’d always reward her.
When I arrived home in the morning, shortly before my presentation, she had taken my work from my desk and paraded it around the house for at least an hour, looking for someone to reward her for bringing the ‘post’.
She must’ve found it early, as it was coated in drool and had bite marks all over them. There were papers missing, as she’d chewed out the staples, and tear marks all over.
I’d managed to scrape whatever I could together of the notes, and my presentation went alright all things considered. But my teachers and colleagues had a good laugh at the fact that ‘my dog ate my homework’
Ah well, it was my fault for leaving me work out. I love that dog too much to stay mad at her.
TL;DR: I taught my dog to collect post from the letterbox for treats, she began bringing all papers to us, and mistook my uni work for post and took it apart.

Hi There, I'm quite stuck on this and am quite stressed out.
I made a booking with an online travel agent for a trip in 2 weeks time, it included flights and hotel.
The flights connect in Dubai overnight which means I arrive in the city a day after departing from the UK.
The online travel agent booked the hotel for the day of departure and the check-out date as the day of arriving back to the UK, 2 nights longer than needed. The hotel in question is popular so could potentially re-sell my room if i don't check-in on the day. There is a language barrier issue speaking to the hotel directly.
The travel agent are refusing to take responsibility because I should have checked this before booking, however, there wasn't a breakdown of this on the checkout page. I only noticed it when they sent me the confirmation 2 days later. I didn't do anything unusual when looking for the hotel/flights. I literally booked it straight from their search function.
I've spoken to my travel insurance provider and my bank who have said I need to resolve it with the travel agent. The travel agent aren't willing to discuss it further. The travel agent isn't an ABTA member but my booking is ATOL protected.
What should my next steps be?

Computer Type: Laptop
GPU: RX 6700XT / RTX 2060
CPU: Intel i71370p
Motherboard: N/A
BIOS Version: N/A
RAM: 32GB DDR4-3200
PSU: N/A
Case: N/A
Operating System & Version: Windows 11 Home 22H2
GPU Drivers: Adrenaline 23.5.2 / Game Ready 535.98
Chipset Drivers: N/A
Background Applications: Discord, Steam
Description of Original Problem: I recently got a Framework Laptop with a i7-1370p and was intending to use it as my main system. For this purpose I got a Razer Core X (non-chroma) and a new Radeon RX 6700XT (ASUS Dual). After some testing, I found a noticable difference between the two cards when running in the Core X.
The 2060 was first in my round of testing and after it was done, I used DDU to fully remove the NVIDIA driver and installed the AMD drivers, restarting the computer whenever prompted during this process. For both I used the gaming optimized drivers, so "Game Ready" and "Adrenaline" respectively, though I did not install the software, being "GeForce Experience" and "AMD Software" respectively.
Below is a table with some average FPS measurements, collected using Steam's inbuilt FPS counter. I am aware that these are less common titles.

	DirectX Version	2060	6700XT
Cities: Skylines	11	50-60	30-40
Satisfactory	12	80-100	70-80
Scrap Mechanic	11	100-150	40-50
BeamNG.drive	11	160-180	70-90

Apart from the card installed in the Core X and the graphics driver, there was no difference between the systems. Both cards were connected, via HDMI, to a 1080p 144Hz display,
Any ideas what could be causing this? Please feel free to ask the most basic questions, even if I have mentioned something, feel free to ask for more details. This is my first experience with AMD Radeon, eGPUs and DDU.
Troubleshooting: I've tried reinstalling the AMD drivers, once with and once without the additional software, which produced no change. I don't know what else to try.

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There is a common misunderstanding here that the Hard Problem is, somehow, scientific...it's just that we haven't yet figured out how to solve it. Another misunderstanding is that the problem concerns consciousness itself – that there is “no way to explain it” or “it just doesn't make sense”.
The truth is that hard problem is purely conceptual. It arises purely from a contradiction between two different concepts, represented by words, and the reason it is “hard” is because it is impossible to resolve the contradiction without breaking the concepts. So it is the same sort of problem as “How is it possible for a triangle to have four sides?” This isn't just hard; it is impossible. When Chalmers called it “hard”, he was contrasting it to “easy” – it might have been better to call them the “impossible problem” and contrast it with “possible problems”.
The two concepts which mutually contradict are materialism and consciousness, and they arise directly from the only reasonable definitions of the words that refer to them.
“Consciousness” refers to experiences – both ours and those of any other conscious entities, which presumably includes most animals.
“Materialism” means “the belief that reality is made only of material entities, and nothing else” (which obviously includes what they are doing). This concept in its modern form is directly connected to science, but it goes all the way back to two pre-Socratic philosophers (Ancient Atomism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)). The concept of a material world is derived from the material world we directly experience, but that isn't the material world of materialism. It can't be, because that “material world” is dependent on our senses and our brain. The real Sun – the Sun of materialism – isn't the one we experience shining down on us. It is necessarily entirely independent of anything we experience, and would exist even if life on Earth had never evolved.
Once we have established that these are two valid concepts, and that the words in question do indeed refer to those concepts, then the hard problem is unavoidable and impossible to solve. If we try to define the word “consciousness” to mean anything other than subjective experiences then it doesn't make the actual thing disappear. That's just an empty word game, and forces people to define something like “qualia” to explicitly prevent any further word games. It doesn't solve the problem. So the only option left is to try to change the definition of “materialism”. But how could we possibly do that? The material world of mainstream science really is completely independent of any consciousness – it is an inherent part of that concept that it would exist even if the cosmos contained no life or no conscious animals. So materialists are left with two options of how to try to escape from the contradiction. The first is to deny that there is any such thing as consciousness – either that “it is an illusion”, or that it simply doesn't exist (which is eliminative materialism). Neither of these approaches works. If it is an illusion then you still have to explain how the illusion is possible, which just leads straight back to the hard problem, and claiming it doesn't exist convinces almost nobody, for very obvious reasons. The second is to accept that exists, and then try to find a way to eliminate the contradiction, which is impossible, because the contradiction has arisen from mutually contradictory concepts. Materialism logically entails that consciousness doesn't exist.
The reason materialists can't get their heads around this is that the belief that science is true – or the closest thing to truth that we can ever get – forms the foundation of their belief system. Everything else they believe is built on top of this foundation, which they believe to be unassailable. Therefore, when presented with the above contradiction they have a choice between:
(a) Denying the contradiction, even though they have no idea how to back up the denial with a rational argument.
(b) Accepting that the foundation of their belief system is fundamentally broken, which means they are going to have to go back to square one and rethink everything they believe.
The reason this argument won't go away is that there will always be materialists who choose they easy option of denying logic instead of the much harder option of accepting the logic and rethinking their belief system. The irony is that the very same people are usually very scathing of other people who refuse to rethink their belief system when some scientific or logical problem in its foundation is exposed.
Accepting materialism is false may seem like it shatters the whole of science, but this is not actually the case. Some specific areas of science may need a rethink – especially the evolution of consciousness and some aspects of cosmology – but the overwhelming majority of science is left untouched. The only other area of science that is directly relevant is quantum mechanics (which is why I said "mainstream science" above). QM throws serious doubt on the question about whether the material world really is independent of our experiences of it. This is another materialistic taboo – one is not even allowed to consider that consciousness might have something to do with quantum mechanics, even though the act of observation – what a “measurement” means in QM – is causing as much conceptual confusion as the hard problem. In fact, these two problems are directly related, and it is only because of the ongoing prevalence of materialism that people refuse to consider that it is possible they are related. In both cases, what is missing is a Participating Observer.

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Talking of being mugged I was at marble arch yesterday afternoon, went in to hyde park for a walk towards piccadilly along by the bridal path.
2 morrocans came up to me whilst i was rolling a cigarette. They asked if i had a spare. Immediately i got a sketchy vibe off them.
I said ok and pulled out a wad of tobacco and offered it to the guy closest. He would not directly take it from me. he seemed to be waiting for me to stretch my arm out to hand it to the other guy. they then asked for cigarette papers and extras but the guy closest to me just would not take the stuff and was trying to position himself.
I was aware something was off. Just when he had fucked his best opportunity. He then made a grab for my arm. I pulled his pinky back at right angles. and went form 0-11 and screamed at them. I suffer from PTSD so When i get lit, it happens quick and explosively.
They hesitated & backed off, and were like whats the problem as if they hadn't done any thing
I again screamed at them as loudly as i could FUCK OFF YOU THIEVING CUNTS. I thankfully scared them enough & they thought better of it.
Funnily enough I had just been in the flagship victorinox store on oxford street and bought a large lock knife for my tool box. I never normally carry a knife besides a tiny keyring swiss pen knife. It stayed in my pocket thankfully.
But yeah things are well sketchy in london these days. (Had a sub date on, vsf)
The guy who grabbed my forearm had a heart or m shape tattooed on his hand between thumb and finger. I carried on my walk and saw a cop van a bit further in to the park and gave them a description of them and went on my way to lust over the watches on piccadilly & bond street lol.

I am following LOA since 2017 and manifested many things. But in 2020 due to some reason like Health issues I stopped every thing about LOA. Meanwhile few months ago I met a girl online sharing somewhat same Health issues. And we became friends. Every day we used to chat on how miserable our individual life is and all that. But from April I got back into LOA again and I am almost recovered(because of it). I tried telling her all about LOA, positivity and manifestations but she is stubborn on her negativity. I am trying to involve into the same LOA techniques as before. But she messages me daily the same negative stuff. And it is becoming a hindrance in my positivity. I don't want to directly cut her from my life but also I want to stay away from toxic people. How can I raise my vibration so she herself will stop messaging me about negativity. [She is the most negative person I have seen. And also she is almost a stranger to me ].

I was reading through the Occultist v1.3.2 section on Witch Hexes & Curses, but I'm a little confused about the wording of Upcasting Curses. The text is exactly the same as the one in Bestow Curse which is a 3rd level spell. Upcasting other 3rd level curses is easy to understand, but does the text as written directly apply to the 1st and 5th curses and hexes in the section?
For instance, the Enfeebling Hex is a 5th level spell. Following the upcasting rules it would by default have a duration of 8 hours and wouldn't require concentration. I imagine this isn't as intended and instead the upcasting should be relative to the original level of the spell. Upcasting Enfeebling Hex with a level 7 spell slot would instead grant those aspects and you would never be able to obtain a permanent Enfeebling Hex since there is no level 11 spell slot.
However, that also mean upcasting Rotting Curse with a level 3 spell slot would grant an 8 hour duration and no concentration. That seems awfully powerful for a 3rd level spell slot and makes the Master of Curses feature redundant.
Just wanted to make sure there isn't something obvious I'm missing from the rules.

Hi everyone, I moved from Notion to Craft a while ago and I haven’t found a button to lock a page, like in Notion. Is there a way of locking a page, so i can read it directly from the app without the worrying of editing it, other than opening the sharing link in the browser?

3-Apr-2023

• Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser? (https://simonwillison.net/2023/Ma17/beat-chatgpt-in-a-browse )
• HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17580)
• Make loading weights 10-100x faster (https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/613)
• AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects (https://simonwillison.net/2023/Ma27/ai-enhanced-development/)
• Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT (https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-bans-chatgpt/)
• Vocode–an open source library for building LLM applications you can talk to. (https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python)
• Join the Responsible AI Challenge (https://future.mozilla.org/builders-challenge/)
• Twitter recommendation source code now available to all on GitHub (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1641876892302073875)
• Docker and Hugging Face Partner to Democratize AI (https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-and-hugging-face-partner-to-democratize-ai/)
• GPT-4 saves doggo’s life (https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-saves-doggos-life/)
• 'He Would Still Be Here': Man Dies by Suicide After Talking with AI Chatbot, Widow Says (https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkadgm/man-dies-by-suicide-after-talking-with-ai-chatbot-widow-says)
• Interact ChatGPT via phone call (https://callsam.ai/)

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4-Apr-2023

• 30B model now needs only 5.8GB of RAM? How? (https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1642726595436883969)
• SudoLang: A Powerful Pseudocode Programming Language for LLMs (https://medium.com/javascript-scene/sudolang-a-powerful-pseudocode-programming-language-for-llms-d64d42aa719b)
• Adobe Firefly vs. MidJourney AI image generation (https://twitter.com/DrJimFan/status/1642921475849203712)
• State-of-the-art open-source chatbot, Vicuna-13B, just released model weights (https://twitter.com/lmsysorg/status/1642968294998306816)
• Introducing Agents in Haystack: Make LLMs resolve complex tasks
• Models guide (https://github.com/Crataco/ai-guide/blob/main/guide/models.md)
• Marvin: a batteries-included library for building AI-powered software. Marvin's job is to integrate AI directly into your codebase by making it look and feel like any other function (https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin)

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5-Apr-2023

• Stanford just released a MASSIVE 386-page report on the state of AI. (https://twitter.com/nonmayorpete/status/1643012248720523264)
• Large Language Model Observability (https://monitoring2.substack.com/p/large-language-model-observability)
• Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/03/31/goldman-sachs-predicts-300-million-jobs-will-be-lost-or-degraded-by-artificial-intelligence/?sh=a8d292b782b4)
• Believe Your Assignment is AI-Immune? Let's Put it to the Test (https://automated.beehiiv.com/p/believe-assignment-aiimmune-lets-put-test)
• Growth of AI Through a Cloud Lens (https://mitchellh.com/writing/ai-through-a-cloud-lens)
• Someone Added ChatGPT to a Furby (https://twitter.com/jessicard/status/1642671752319758336)
• you can greatly increase GPT-4's effective context size by asking it to compress your prompts using its own abbreviations. (https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1642909851947810817)
• Microsoft Semantic Kernel Enables LLM Integration with Conventional Programs (https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/03/microsoft-semantic-kernel/)
• Open-source IDE powered by AI agents that do the work for you (https://github.com/e2b-dev/e2b)
• Converse with ChatGPT inside VS Code (BYO OpenAI API Key) (https://github.com/yagil/ChatIDE)
• Promptr is a CLI tool for operating on your codebase using GPT. (https://github.com/ferrislucas/promptr)

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6-Apr-2023

• CAMEL: Communicative Agents for “Mind” Exploration of Large Scale Language Model Society (https://github.com/lightaime/camel)
• Improving Large Language Models with External Knowledge and Automated Feedback (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/group/deep-learning-group/articles/check-your-facts-and-try-again-improving-large-language-models-with-external-knowledge-and-automated-feedback/)
• AI is entering an era of corporate control (https://www.theverge.com/23667752/ai-progress-2023-report-stanford-corporate-control)
• Simulating an FTP server at ftp.disney.com with ChatGPT4 (https://www.filestash.app/2023/04/01/chat-gpt-acting-as-a-ftp-serve)
• OpenAI's approach to AI safety (https://openai.com/blog/our-approach-to-ai-safety)
• Segment Anything: model from facebook (https://ai.facebook.com/blog/segment-anything-foundation-model-image-segmentation/)
• Chinese Gaming Firm Appoints AI Robot As CEO, Sees 10 Percent Growth In Share Price (https://news.abplive.com/technology/chinese-gaming-firm-netdragon-websoft-appoints-ai-robot-as-ceo-sees-10-percent-growth-in-share-price-1589029)
• The Language Wars Are Over: ChatGPT Won (https://bourgoin.dev/posts/programming-languages/)
• JARVIS, a system to connect LLMs with ML community (https://github.com/microsoft/JARVIS)
• I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what I found when I asked ChatGPT to diagnose my patients (https://inflecthealth.medium.com/im-an-er-doctor-here-s-what-i-found-when-i-asked-chatgpt-to-diagnose-my-patients-7829c375a9da)

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10-Apr-2023

• The LLama Effect: How an Accidental Leak Sparked a Series of Impressive Open Source Alternatives to ChatGPT (https://thesequence.substack.com/p/the-llama-effect-how-an-accidental)
• Stanford benchmarks and compares numerous Large Language Models (https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/latest/?group=core_scenarios)
• Fine-tuning with LoRA: create your own avatars & styles! (https://www.kix.in/2023/04/07/sd-lora-finetuning/)
• Thinking companion, companion for thinking (https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/thinking-companion-companion-for)
• How ChatGPT is changing the job hiring process, from the HR department to coders (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/08/chatgpt-is-being-used-for-coding-and-to-write-job-descriptions.html)
• Harness the power of ChatGPT inside the GDB debugger! (https://github.com/pgosaChatGDB)
• DoctorGPT diagnoses your software's failures (https://github.com/ingyamilmolinadoctorgpt)
• Self-hosted AI coding assistant (https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby)

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11-Apr-2023

• GPT-5 arriving by end of 2023 (https://www.reddit.com/ChatGPT/comments/12gkt3z/gpt5_arriving_by_end_of_2023/)
• 5 Lessons Learned from Adding ChatGPT to a Mature Product (https://blog.trymito.io/5-lessons-learned-from-adding-chatgpt-to-a-mature-product/)
• ChatGPT with long-term memory (https://the-decoder.com/memorygpt-is-like-chatgpt-with-long-term-memory/)
• GitHub Copilot stealing other people's copyright comment blocks (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516887)
• Lost big client because of ChatGPT (https://www.reddit.com/freelanceWriters/comments/12ff5mw/it_happened_to_me_today/)
• LLMs won't eat the world-they will just homogenize it (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23674696/chatgpt-ai-creativity-originality-homogenization)
• Edit Anything by Segment-Anything (https://github.com/sail-sg/EditAnything)
• A curated list of awesome ChatGPT resources, including libraries, SDKs, APIs, and more (https://github.com/eon01/awesome-chatgpt)
• TurboPilot: self-hosted copilot clone which uses the library behind llama.cpp to run the 6 Billion Parameter Salesforce Codegen model in 4GiB of RAM. (https://github.com/ravenscroftj/turbopilot)
• Multi-task Language Understanding on MMLU (https://paperswithcode.com/sota/multi-task-language-understanding-on-mmlu)
• Telegram ChatGPT Concierge Bot (+ Voice!) (https://github.com/RafalWilinski/telegram-chatgpt-concierge-bot)

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12-Apr-2023

• Jailbreaking AI Chatbots Is Tech’s New Pastime
• OpenAI’s Bug Bounty Program (https://openai.com/blog/bug-bounty-program)
• GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500,000 and 20,000 hours (https://www.artisana.ai/articles/gpt-4-outperforms-elite-crowdworkers-saving-researchers-usd500-000-and-20)
• GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam! (https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7209)
• GPT-4 is highly susceptible to prompt injections and will leak its system prompt with very little effort applied (https://twitter.com/alexalbert__/status/1645909635692630018)
• Chinese tech giant Alibaba to release ChatGPT rival (https://www.dw.com/en/chinese-tech-giant-releases-chatgpt-rival/a-65275609)
• Generative AI-enabled compliance for software development (https://github.blog/2023-04-11-generative-ai-enabled-compliance-for-software-development/)
• Chunking Strategies for LLM Applications (https://www.pinecone.io/learn/chunking-strategies/)
• Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering (https://www.ruxu.dev/articles/ai/maximizing-the-potential-of-llms/)
• Summary Of Adapter Based Performance Efficient Fine Tuning (PEFT) Techniques For Large Language Models (https://smashinggradient.com/2023/04/11/summary-of-adapter-based-performance-efficient-fine-tuning-peft-techniques-for-large-language-models/)
• GPT–LLM native macOS app with time travel, versioning, search (https://thellm.app/)
• Microsoft Kiota: CLI for generating an API client to call OpenAPI-described API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openapi/kiota/overview) (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/you-can-now-use-microsoft-kiota-within-visual-studio-code/)
• DeepSpeed Chat: Easy, Fast and Affordable RLHF Training of ChatGPT-like Models at All Scales (https://github.com/microsoft/DeepSpeed/tree/masteblogs/deepspeed-chat)
• Distributed² Machine Learning notebooks with Elixir and Livebook (https://news.livebook.dev/distributed2-machine-learning-notebooks-with-elixir-and-livebook---launch-week-1---day-2-1aIlaw)
• Large language model evaluation and workflow framework from Phase AI. (https://github.com/wgryc/phasellm)

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13-Apr-2023

• Dolly 2.0: Open Instruction-Tuned LLM (https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm)
• Building LLM applications for production (https://huyenchip.com/2023/04/11/llm-engineering.html)
• AI search engine for developers (https://www.phind.com/)
• Midjourney AI Guide (https://enchanting-trader-463.notion.site/Midjourney-AI-Guide-41eca43809dd4d8fa676e648436fc29c)
• Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05128)
• Decreasing cold boot time in serverless GPUs(https://www.banana.dev/blog/turboboot)
• Use ChatGPT from WhatsApp (https://brightbot.chat/en/home)
• Yet another cache, but for ChatGPT (https://zilliz.com/blog/Yet-another-cache-but-for-ChatGPT)
• Excited by hype, CEO tells staff to use ChatGPT to build database of diseases (https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2023/04/chatgpt-hallucination-enterprise-use.html)
• I'm dating a chatbot trained on old conversations between me and my ex (https://www.reddit.com/OpenAI/comments/12696oq/im_dating_a_chatbot_trained_on_old_conversations/)
• Scaffolded LLMs as natural language computers (https://www.beren.io/2023-04-11-Scaffolded-LLMs-natural-language-computers/)
• Robot powered by GPT4 (https://twitter.com/DataChaz/status/1642558575502405637)
• ChatGPT – Who Owns the Content Created? (https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/chatgpt-who-owns-the-content-generated-2891692/) (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191206)
• Collection of LLM resources that can be used to build products (https://github.com/imaureawesome-decentralized-llm)
• OpenAI releases Consistency Model for one-step generation (https://github.com/openai/consistency_models)
• GPT4 gets a 0 on Steven Landsbrug's undergrad econ exam (https://twitter.com/ATabarrok/status/1646185259866939394)
• emergent abilities of large language models (https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/emergence)
• Praetor, a lightweight finetuning data and prompt management tool (https://github.com/gkamer8/praetor-data)
• Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages (https://www.izzy.co/blogs/robo-boys.html)

So ive been going through the teaching tech callibration guide and am pretty confused by my acceleration test results.
On all the previous tests ive gotten things dialed in pretty well, and have had almost zero stringing even on settings id expect it
But when running the acceleration test in increments of 100, from 300 (A layer) to 800 (F layer), the results dont make any sense to me compared to the guide.
I got stringing at every layer (despite almost none on any prior tests) and weirdly im seeing more ringing/ghosting at the lower settings
Also, it seems like my corners are bulging considerably at all levels
Pics of both are in the imgur link https://imgur.com/a/V3Zmyp6
Id greatly appreciate any direction on figuring out whats going on here! Thanks

I got a cheap stick welder and wanna weld some L brackets to a frame for a go-kart. The entire frame is painted in a thick/heavy duty paint. Can I just use some hose clamps to strap L brackets to the frame and directly weld the brackets on? I don’t think there is lead in the paint (go kart is from like 2008) but if there is I can hold my breath.
TLDR: can I stick weld steel brackets to a heavily painted steel frame?

hi, i’m 17 and i have diagnosed ocd but also susoected autism. (also sorry if my eng is bad it’s not my first language) i have that thing from when i remember and i can’t find anyone who would experience something like that, neither with ocd nor autism. my psycholog described it right as i need strong incentive/stimulation? idk how to say that. i have to tighten my muscles or touch something in a ”right” place but it can never be fulfilled and my body ”hurt?” but it is not a pain it’s like taut maybe¿ i don’t think it’s stimming because i also experience that and it’s different. if anyone is experiencing something like that or know what it could be, how to cope with it because there were situations where i got hurt because of this. i am taking my meds (it have sertraline in it) but they don’t help, maybe like 10% but idk i don’t think that they do...

Hi guys,
I get in touch with the Apple support on a regular basis, because of TV-Show X or Movie Y is not available and they usually tell me that it's none of their business and direct me to the Suggestions Form or write to the distributor / studio.
I wrote to studios a couple of times and used the suggestions form a couple of times and I don't feel like either way did anything.
Here is why I find this behavior odd. iTunes is the face to the customer, they take 30% on every purchase. So shouldn't it be in the studios interest to hear what customers who are stupid enough to spend money on their stuff actually want to buy? And isn't in in Apple's interest to sell as much as possible and take their 30% cut?
It feels like it should be minimum effort on their side, since they are already in touch with he distributors / studios. Instead they alienate customers and withhold a profit opportunity from their b2b customers.
Ultimately they lose money and make their store less attractive. It feels like a lose:lose.
And it's all digital anyway, so it's not like some smaller movie is competing with a blockbuster about shelf space...
Curious about your thoughts on this.

hi, i’m 17 and i have diagnosed ocd but also susoected autism. (also sorry if my eng is bad it’s not my first language) i have that thing from when i remember and i can’t find anyone who would experience something like that, neither with ocd nor autism. my psycholog described it right as i need strong incentive/stimulation? idk how to say that. i have to tighten my muscles or touch something in a ”right” place but it can never be fulfilled and my body ”hurt?” but it is not a pain it’s like taut maybe¿ i don’t think it’s stimming because i also experience that and it’s different. if anyone is experiencing something like that or know what it could be, how to cope with it because there were situations where i got hurt because of this. i am taking my meds (it have sertraline in it) but they don’t help, maybe like 10% but idk i don’t think that they do...

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