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  • I don’t think you’ll ever find a scientific consensus which “about all” are in agreement with, and especially so when you look deep into history.

    Take for example the idea of the earth being a floating ball rather than a flat plane. You’ll often find people saying that the ancient Greeks knew the world was round often with an implication that everyone used to accept this, it’s only in recent times that the flat earth idea has become popular.

    But the reality is that even after Herodotus had done his experiment showing shadows were cast at different angles in different places at the same moment, there was still a large contingent in the scientific community that held on to the idea of a flat earth.

    There was never really even a singular scientific community before the modern age. Just think how slow and difficult it used to be to share ideas and knowledge around the world.

    Then of course there were all the varied religions of the world, where followers will not tolerate interpretations of the world that conflict with their particular set of myths.

    The vast majority of normal people - living in small villages and so on - would never have heard of such experiments and if asked, would almost certainly say the world was flat and how stupid you are for even asking.







  • I catch myself too often thinking that this is what it’d be like to be mauled to death in the jungle by a tiger.

    Me: “Oh aren’t you a cute little kitty hey?”
    Tiger: *pounces*
    Me: “Blurrgh oof gosh your fur is sooo soft!!”
    *violently mauls with paw*
    Me: “Oh wow such huge toe beans!!”
    *continues violently mauling and biting*
    Me: *happy gurgling sound of blood filling up my trachea*




  • rollin@piefed.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    5 months ago

    At first blush, this looks great to me. Are there limitations with what models it will work with? In particular, can you use this on a lightweight model that will run in 16 Gb RAM to prevent it hallucinating? I’ve experimented a little with running ollama as an NPC AI for Skyrim - I’d love to be able to ask random passers-by if they know where the nearest blacksmith is for instance. It was just far too unreliable, and worse it was always confidently unreliable.

    This sounds like it could really help these kinds of uses. Sadly I’m away from home for a while so I don’t know when I’ll get a chance to get back on my home rig.


  • This is what I’m doing. I recently switched from the email service offered by my web host to Zoho Mail. I pay them $12 a year for a couple of gigabytes storage (which isn’t a whole lot but enough for me and I’m cheap).

    As someone else says elsewhere, as well as changing the MX records to the new server, you need to add SPF, DKIM and D-MARC records in your DNS to ensure mail you send is accepted by the receiver’s mail server.