It's humorous how debased from reality John roger's quote is. It doesn't challenge Rand's ideas it just insults it's readers. There's this stigma among her work as if it's dangerous, just like any other right wing idea. But reality is she only asks that one better themselves. She doesn't tell her readers to make a tort against another to right some perceived systematic wrong. Unlike many modernly accepted ideas her works have never been used to justify throwing people in the gulag, ethnic genocide,or insurrection. She tells one that you are not entitled to money, sleezy money grabs do not pay in the long run, and that being hardworking + innovative will payoff in the end.

Also Tokens works are now considered xenophobic and racist by many people as well because the orcs are portrayed as this dark evil race that invades this quent European landscape. so nothing really passes the purity test.

With Sony soon to stop making blue ray it makes me fearful in what to use for a long term archive.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/sony-stops-produc...

If you lose your ability to become objective based on your view no amount of philosophical discourse is going to be meaningful. It's comments like this why "cope & seeth" has flourished in the modern lexicon

Some of the worlds greatest thinkers and innovators suffered social execution from their peers and were deeply depressed.

My cynical side was quick to point out that I would fire up my crypto miners if electricity was free for a few hours a day. After talking to him more I realized we both had different take aways from the story of "the tragedy of the commons" I lightened the conversation up by informing him he could do folding from home for a few hours to make sure his excess power went to a noble cause & thwart my zero sum approach.

Ask anyone about there political merchandise and they will never see it as just "merch" but as a fundamental truth that is pivotal to there way of life they they feel is being threatened. It's much like calling someone's religious garments or iconography just merchandise and is a very closed minded point of view.

Yes men can have unrealistic standards at times but if you ever go to your local strip club and see the low attractiveness of your average striper you will notice men can be a lot more "accepting".

I made a random number generator in Automate that takes takes the end digits that are really just noise and put that into a random seed.

What chumps, just use https://freepeoplesearch.com

Ya it has ads but out of all the hundreds of "free" sites it has actually the most amount of free information.

Makes me want to strengthen my opsec big time.

While it really resonated with my management I felt worried I wouldn't be able to replicate these kind of results on other projects.

THE ONLY REAL ADVICE I CAN GIVE ON AI PROJECTS IS . . . don't let your managements expectation of LLMs out weigh its capabilities.

I'm sure I speak for many people here when your non-tech fluent directors get together and think GPT4 is some sort of deity. GPT4 smart (or used to be at least) ill give it that, but small locally hosted 7b/13b LLMs are very limited and people for whatever reason get AI infatuation the second they finally see you show direct value in it they will lose there shit in its assumed capabilities. you got to be direct with them that no matter what dumb video they saw on Sam Altman, what your are proposing is not that. Be very clear in its possible scope because there is some idiot in our organization that will assume assume you can programmatically answer prayers. I actually had this guy from our networking team try and raise a concern about the LLM going sentient and us having a "Skynet" problem. granted this was back in march/2023 so AI histira was a little more rampant but still.

tl;dr my recommendation for your pdf project is run https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui. if your can get a 30 series GPU in your company Then run a 13B 4bit model that can pull info, assign tags, run minor analysis on your text. else find a spare 16gb machine and do the same but but over a longer time scale.

run a prompt that checks for hallucinations. "does the following text make sense? previous prompt + text if yes then keep else make intern do it.

GPT-j-7b is still one of the best models because it has indexing & categorizing at the main prosperous. other models are great but core idea behind LLMs is that its just a high level auto complete

> how is the performance/cost of running vs more specialized models trained for the task. most models are GNU licensed so thats not an issue. But I imagine you meant the age old question of hosting yourself vs using openAI. Truth is as of now it currently is not foretasted to beat using one of the less intelligent models on openAI. hardware cost alone yes but Dev time is very expensive. Lucky were a small company & our CEO sees this as training. Because LLMs are so new there really isn't a large labor market for it yet. If our devs and engineers get in this early then we can beat others to market as the technology develops and new opportunities come to light. on top of having possible HIPPA, GDPR, or other security laws to follow that OpenAI has been very shooty about, we do not want be at the whim of OpenAI or another SaaS provider on a mission critical part of a vertical. They have talked about depreciating old model. As well they have had content changes in there models to placate political critics, well not realizing that this pulls the rug out from under developers that need any sense of stability from there product.