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I mean you do not need load balancers as much as you think. Yes you should build your architecture to be horizontally scalable but I have seen major apps successed and not need them.

This is why I flagged them as an overengineering trait


la problemo

W choice lol. I hope you do it on codeberg lol /jk. nice choice

Well, I tried remmaping ctrl to capslock and holding down ctrl for everything just hurt my pinky


actually it does. We do not predict words lol.


I find your certainty to be unwarranted.


Well, I failed to predict the "lol" at the end of your comment; touché.


Then what do we do? lol.


We understand the meaning that we wish to convey and then intelligently choose the best method that we have at our disposal to communicate that.

LLMs find the most likely next word based on its billions of previously scanned word combinations and contexts. It's an entirely different process.


How does this intelligence work? Can you explain how 'meaning' is expressed in neurons, or whatever it is that makes up consciousness?

I don't think we know. Or if we have theories, the error bars are massive.

>LLMs find the most likely next word based on its billions of previously scanned word combinations and contexts. It's an entirely different process.

How is that different than using one's learned vocabulary?


How do you know we understand and LLMs don't? To an outsider they look the same. Indeed, that is the point of solipsism.


Because unlike a human brain, we can actually read the whitepaper on how the process works.

They do not "think", they "language", i.e. large language model.


What is thinking and why do you think that LLM ingesting content is not also reading? Clearly they're absorbing some sort of information from text content, aka reading.


I think you don't understand how llms work. They run on math, the only parallel between an llm and a human is the output.


Are you saying we don't run on math? How much do you know of how the brain functions?

This sort of Socratic questioning shows that no one truly can answer them because no one actually knows about the human mind, or how to distinguish or even define intelligence.


So do neurons.


Interesting take from richard.


I am simply referencing. I am just asking why does OSS have to be based around this.


this will definately ruin software. I mean people act like this software is only used in EU and america. FOSS should be a time to contribute not nitpick each other's beliefs I mean.


I mean currently I see it alot with people trying to make forks of OSS just because of there political stand. I mean the reason to leave software should be because it is bad quality not because of someone. I mean why are you not open to people having different beliefs on something.

So whats next? No software made by christians. I am not trying to justify devs actions but most of these movements act like sofware is used only in US and EU regions. I mean why are you forcing people to move from twitter because you do not like elon musk.

I see this also in the linux community and alot of OSS projects its being pushed.


> EU regions

Which ones exactly? I live in an EU country (part time anyway) and DHH's views would be considered centrist at most...

Edit:

> So whats next? No software made by christians.

Well, Matz is a devout Mormon, so hopefully all the crazy people realize this and just leave the Ruby community and ecosystem.

Also, I wish these people would just fork and be done with it. Instead they try to bully others on social media.


> DHH's views would be considered centrist at most

That's not very accurate.


Come to the Eastern part of the EU lol... It's an understatement if anything.


can't pinpoint it. But I simply mentioned countries who have this sort of "left wing" vs "right wing" thing.


OSS is a bit different because of the lack of profit-making, so I'm excluding that in my comment here.

In general, I don't think there's anything at all wrong with deciding that the goals a person or company is working towards are so objectionable to you that you don't want to contribute to their income streams and thereby support those goals.


Yeah there's nothing wrong with not supporting people you don't like. Fork and move on.

However what the GitHub repo is an example of is straight up bullying. They're trying to force the Rails org to fall in line...


I am not saying that if someone has poor leadership skills they should stand all I am saying is it should not be because of their beliefs. I mean why are they referencing his blog posts and not github issues of poorly handled pull requests.

I mean why does the leader have to align with your faith. If this escaletes youll realize that people will discriminate patches of contribution because they came from some who is "muslim" or "christian".


I mean it's divisive. When you divide people up, it creates more divide and hate. So have fun with that.


I don't see what's divisive about it. I'm not talking about evangelizing for or against anything, I'm talking about personal choices about what you want to contribute to. I don't see why people should feel obligated to support things that they think are wrong or dangerous.


Are you supporting the software or running a purity test for others involved.

It seems backwards to leave a blogging platform project because other people helping make that blogging platform have different views. They might even use it to make a blog about something you wouldn't. They might say something dangerous like the right sucks or the left sucks.

The internet was better without real names. The less people know about you the less prejudices you face.


So you mean firing up ollama and them later if it scales. going for llm service?


Yes. I have seen examples of servers for developing countries that host local copies of Wikipedia and other open data sets, as well as an aggressive caching proxy for low bandwidth internet uplinks. Same idea, but local serving of LLM inference.


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