When you're with someone long enough that calling them girlfriend feels immature and partner feels emotionally sterile...
The best meme of the week π nostr:note1tny5m8juvvmlsmxudqneuatrk4afflk864jy60r2pagdtlyz7mysf6knq9
Not what I was expecting to see! Time to start reconsidering my follow list π€ π€£
If you could only advise people to follow 5 people on Nostr, who would they be?
Can we reduce that by increasing weight to amount to an equivalent volume?
Okay... I've had too much gin tonight
They were discontinued years ago. Turns out it's not worth making a penny when you tell everyone its worth 1/10th the cost of production π
And I appreciate denying a bitcoin only dogma π Tools are tools and we need to use the best for what it is built for.
Give to Caesar what is Caesars, but fuck having what's ours.
There is a reason Canada doesn't have pennies anymore...
But you're correct! Some fiat will become collectors items at some unknown point in time.
The sounds are the easy part, imo. 7 vowel sounds versus English 21, roughly.
The actual concept that the word is supposed to represent is hard to find in an equivalent English word/concept
I'm slowly trying to learn Italian and the word "Che" is probably the hardest thing so far for me wrap my mind around. Sure, verb conjugation may be odd... but the single word Che is another animal altogether...
What, how, and that are seperate concepts and words in English and Italian... yet Che is all of them too. Why?! How?!
Someday I will understand properly.
Very cool global protest happening right now. #makeamazonpay https://video.nostr.build/0b11f494a68673706e40acfa34be51339b8262b153abf343b14e6f1f00b74582.mp4
I wonder how close the tech is to replacing many of them with humanoid robots and self-driving vehicles π€
A Black Friday freeze up will still hit the bottom line of the company a four amount, I would think.
Oops. I read Fluoride π
Yep! Even the US government recently admitted current fluoride levels were making less intelligent to a detrimental degree.
Finally? I guess it's good taht they finally entered,l the industry, but it's looking like AMD will always play the catch-up game. How long can they keep that up for, I wonder? π€
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AMD unveils its first 1B-parameter large language model, AMD OLMo, with strong reasoning capabilities
β’ AMD has introduced AMD OLMo, its first series of fully open-source 1-billion-parameter large language models (LLMs), trained on the company's Instinct MI250 GPUs. These LLMs offer strong reasoning, instruction-following, and chat capabilities, aiming to enhance AMD's position in the AI industry and enable clients to deploy them with AMD hardware.
β’ The AMD OLMo models were trained on a vast dataset of 1.3 trillion tokens, utilizing 16 nodes with four AMD Instinct MI250 GPUs each. The training process involved three steps: pre-training on a subset of Dolma v1.7, supervised fine-tuning on various datasets, and alignment to human preferences using Direct Preference Optimization.
β’ In testing, AMD OLMo models demonstrated impressive performance against similar open-source models in general reasoning and multi-task understanding benchmarks. The two-phase supervised fine-tuning approach significantly improved accuracy, and the final AMD OLMo 1B SFT DPO model outperformed other chat models by at least 2.60% on average.
β’ AMD also evaluated the models on responsible AI benchmarks, such as toxicity, bias, and truthfulness, and found that they were comparable to similar models in handling ethical and responsible AI tasks.
Oh great, pollution synergy exists.
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Combined Impact of Microplastics and PFAS on Aquatic Life: Study Reveals Greater Environmental Harm
β’ A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Birmingham has shed light on the combined impact of microplastics and PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) on aquatic life, revealing that their combined effect is more detrimental than either chemical alone.
β’ The study utilized Daphnia, commonly known as water fleas, as a model organism due to their high sensitivity to chemicals, allowing researchers to assess the long-term effects of chemical mixtures on their entire life cycle.
β’ The findings indicate that the combination of microplastics and PFAS leads to severe toxic effects, including developmental failures, delayed sexual maturity, stunted growth, and reduced reproduction in Daphnia.
β’ The study highlights the importance of considering the chronic effects of chemical mixtures, as previous exposures to other chemicals and environmental threats can weaken organisms' ability to tolerate novel chemical pollution.
β’ The research emphasizes the need for regulatory frameworks that address the unintended combinations of pollutants in the environment and calls for a revision of current methods for assessing environmental toxicity to better understand the risks posed by emerging contaminants like microplastics and PFAS.
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-microplastics-pfas-daphnia-combined-impact.amp
Is that Gene Wilder? I'll need to check this out
Sounds a little like Immanuel Kants morality.
When asked how he would reply if a serial killer asked him where one of his friends or family lived (I forget which) he also answered with omission.