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New comment by throwaway18875 in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

throwaway18875 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:36:49 +0000

Currently running it using LM Studio. It can download it from Hugging Face. It generates incoherent text though

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You:

I pray you, who is this Master Newton?

timecapsulellm-v2-1800-1875-mlx:

TI offer to pay you the very same fee as you did before. It was not in the power of your master to deliver the letter to your master. He did. I will be with you as soon as I can keep my word. It is not at all clear, whether the letter has been sent or not. It is not at all clear: but it is clear also that it was written by the person who gave it. "No," I said, "I cannot give it to you." There, the letter was sent to me. "The letter is yours, I believe," I said. "But, I hope, you will not refuse to give it to me?

New comment by throwaway18875 in "Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration"

throwaway18875 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:59:28 +0000

It might be true, but could you be more specific as to what qualifies as easy access to capital? Because EU does have VCs https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/which-country-has-the-mo...

New comment by throwaway18875 in "Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration"

throwaway18875 — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 09:49:47 +0000

> Europe can't even build its own tech companies

I'm not sure where this notion comes from. First, Europe does build its own tech companies — Bolt, Bol, SoundCloud, and Spotify, which started in Sweden. Second, do we really consider companies like Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, Netflix, and Twitter as pure progress?

I think the case is that the US has been really good at promoting its domestic products. Another reason why the US has more tech companies, and why more companies move to the US, is the lack of legislation for worker protection. However, this is the same argument as to why most products are manufactured in China.

> GDP per capita in western Europe remains stagnant

First, this is clearly not true [1]. Second, GDP per capita is a poor metric for assessing wealth and quality of life [2].

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?.... [2]: https://time.com/5118026/gdp-metric-success-wealth/

New comment by throwaway18875 in "The Porsche Macan EV is being recalled because its headlights are too bright"

throwaway18875 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:43:27 +0000

And it turns into an arms race, with everyone buying increasingly larger cars to feel safer.

New comment by throwaway18875 in "EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany"

throwaway18875 — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:57:18 +0000

I once worked at a small pen-testing firm that also conducted PCI DSS compliance tests, and I can confirm that this is an accurate depiction of the industry. A majority of the staff were recent grads, and it was disheartening to see that most clients were primarily interested in obtaining the compliance certification rather than genuinely improving their product security. This, in turn, creates a perverse incentive for auditors to grant compliance, as clients who don't get the desired outcome may simply switch to a different auditor. In such a setup, it's difficult to ensure that security standards are genuinely upheld. On a positive note, these compliance tests do help in making sure that card data isn't stored in plaintext, but beyond that, the overall impact on security seems rather limited.