The Steam Big Picture mode we have at home:

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I get not wanting bloated programs but only using a small portiom of your RAM isn’t a goal to aim for.

If you’re on Linux, The kernel is likely using all available RAM. It uses that space to store the page cache because reading from RAM is faster than reading from disk.

You could have all of that RAM go unused if you wanted, but your system would suffer.

First, this is a peer-reviewed result not me expressing my hopes.

Second, this application does not replace radiologists. It is a tool for radiologists in one specific type of diagnosis.

If you have some hypothetical future outcome in mind, then the burden of proof is on you to prove your position, not on me to disprove it.

The data shows that this system works.

Machine Learning isn’t restricted to neural networks.

Radiologist and pathologist have always had a massive error rate because of human cognition bias.

Seems like that’s a bad thing and we should be happy that there are tools which improve their accuracy.

Predict protein structures better than any other methods.

Here we provide the first computational method that can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even in cases in which no similar structure is known. We validated an entirely redesigned version of our neural network-based model, AlphaFold, in the challenging 14th Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP14)15, demonstrating accuracy competitive with experimental structures in a majority of cases and greatly outperforming other methods.

Are you confident that the American healthcare system wouldn’t declare experts to be a redundancy and simply replace them with the AI?

Yes.

Nothing about this tool replaces experts any more than a calculator or computer can replace a human mathematician.

I would love to live in a utopia where AI can be used ethically, but it is dangerous to promote the assumption that it magically just will be.

I don’t assume that AI will always be used ethically (see: War, LLM propaganda bots, etc). Like every technology it is possible to do bad things with it and it will require regulations and laws addressing this.

Dismissing a technology because it is used by bad people, if you actually applied that standard consistently in your life, would have you living naked in a cave without access to fire or tools.

You don’t need to believe in a utopia to understand that a world where 70% of pancreatic cancer is detected 3 years earlier is better than one where 30% of pancreatic cancer is detected 3 years earlier.

Sure, tools make people worse at doing the thing without tools.

Using AutoCAD made draftsmen worse at drafting, that doesn’t matter because there is no occasion where you need to draft complex plans without a computer. If AI diagnosis makes doctors worse at reading MRIs… that would only matter in a world where they’re reading MRIs but also don’t have access to a computer. There is no hospital that has a functional MRI machine that wouldn’t be able to access these tools.

The important thing is that the doctors, when using these AI tools, are measurably more effective. The result is the thing that matters for public health, not any individual’s ability to operate without their tools.

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-ai-detects-pancreatic-cancer-up-to-3-years-before-diagnosis-in-landmark-validation-study/

Researchers used the AI model to analyze nearly 2,000 CT scans, including scans from patients later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer — all originally interpreted as normal. The system, called the Radiomics-based Early Detection Model (REDMOD), identified 73% of those prediagnostic cancers at a median of about 16 months before diagnosis — nearly double the detection rate of specialists reviewing the same scans without AI assistance.

Doubling the early detection rate of one of the most deadly types of cancers will result in many more lives being saved.

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LLMs are a useful tool but they’re no where even close to the level of computers or the Internet.

LLMs are not, certainly.

But neural networks (“AI”) can do pretty incredible things and the money being poured into LLMs is being spent on AI research (and all of the RAM/graphics cards in the world).

We’re only seeing LLMs and image generators because it’s what we have the most training data of. The Internet doesn’t have hundreds of billions of MRIs or robotic motion plans, so those uses of AI take longer to appear.

If you can mentally separate the technology from the capitalist orgy around trying to shoehorn LLMs into every possible thing, he’s not wrong.

The technology has promise, but the reality of what it can be useful for is complete overshadowed by the hype frenzy declaring the end of all knowledge workers and creatives.

LLMs are significantly better at translation than anything we’ve been able to design, for instance. But that’s not flashy, it doesn’t generate seed funding or lure investors so it’s largely not what people think of when they hear “AI”.

It really is.

I’m just closing my eyes and praying to Gabe that I made the right choice.

I’m not disagreeing with any of that.

That doesn’t change the fact that this story has fuck-all to do with AI so the comment is ridiculous in the context of this post.

Much like how the Right tried to insert “Thanks a lot Obama” into every possible event no matter how unrelated.

It was dumb when they did it and it is dumb here.

You may as well have complained about the price of Horchata at Burning Man if you’re just going to insert random non-sequiturs.

It’s the new “Thanks a lot Obama” for the unvaccinated crowd.

I don’t see the problem.

Just leave it attached to the controller that’s moving between devices, the connection to the puck is USB-C so it’s not like you’re moving a bunch of cable and the magnetic attachment is strong enough to not worry about it falling off.

On the other hand, If they have a Steam controller and their GF also has one then they’d have 2 pucks.

It’s a neat mashup of genres.

They did a good job of making each of the heroes promote a unique kind of playstyle even though you’re using the same cards.

They changed their name so they could apply for AMD’s partner program.

I’ll keep an eye out 👀

RIP Chester

If you’re going there, there’s also VR porn. If you see someone on Steam playing DeoVR, they’re watching SLR.

…I mean, so I hear

Index is great, I don’t regret buying it at all.

Half Life: Alyx made me ‘get’ VR. I look forward to future AAA releases.

I haven’t tried Skyrim VR. I did not know that was even a thing until now, thanks!

Here’s some recommendations in exchange:

VTOL VR is DCS where you don’t need a 50 hour tutorial to start the jet or $1200 in control hardware and head tracking (just a $1000 VR headset!).

Iron Rebellion is still early access/in development, but VR is begging for a good mech shooter and they’ve been making steady improvements.

XSOverlay is great, basically lets you access windows from in-game (I pin my Signal client, for example) just by rotating your wrist like you’re looking at a wrist watch. It’s a good way to get access to media controls/see who’s at the door without going through the process of getting out of the VR setup.

My wallet fears the answer to this question.

Everything is a game.

They’ve just turned this one into cat-and-mouse.

Pareto in shambles

I think vanadium block screenshots by default as part of the security model.

Very on brand for the ‘if AI, bad no matter what other rational considerations or nuance may exist’-crowd

I always wait until it’s at least 300%, 400%, 800% off. Just like my prescription drug prices.

That is correct, the fix targets the AMDGPU kernel driver so nvidia users will have to wait/implement it ourselves.

Yeah, exactly. If they ever try anything you can just fork from just before that update.

While they play nice, their contributions are welcome and improve software for everyone.

It’s on the AUR but you need a patched kernel which you can grab from catchyOS

Instructions are in the developer’s blog post: https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/

Q: I use another Arch-based distro! What now?

The dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster utilities are available in the AUR as well (plasma-foreground-booster carries the package name plasma-foreground-booster-dmemcg), so you can install them from there.

For the kernel side, you can either use the CachyOS kernel package on a non-CachyOS system by retrieving the package from their repository, or you can compile your own kernel. Installing linux-dmemcg from the AUR will compile the development branch I used to develop this. Being a development branch, this carries the risk of some stuff being broken, so install at your own risk!

If you want to apply the kernel patches yourself, you need these six .patch files: [links in blog]

I’m not sure how easily they apply on specific kernel versions, but feel free to leave a comment if you run into issues and I’ll try to help out.

Lots of for-profit commercial entities contribute to open source projects.

The code they’re contributing is covered by the same license as the code contributed by volunteer developers.

I understand why we should be cautious about these things, but the current situation is that Valve is contributing a lot and their contributions are open source. Yeah, they’re doing it for a profit motive, but not to the point where they’re trying to kill open source projects or hide the updates behind proprietary binaries.

Valve is, currently, not being evil. GabeN has plenty of yacht money.

If you could you could be a Psythlete

Physical exercises, physical sports, or physical games.

eAthlete would probably fit better.

Since Athlete means

1. One who participates in physical exercise or sports, especially in competitive events.

2. One possessing the requisite strength, agility, and endurance for success in sports.

“This is a shit sandwich, but at least it is human shit we’re eating.”

Waiting for the “Whoops, we ‘forgot’ to remove it”.

Yeah, it’ll be horrible. We’ll have terrible art inflicted upon on us, for the first time in gaming history.

It’s super pointless, but there are people with a lot of money and no self control. Those people are the ones that keep these services in business.

The fast object detection aimbots are a pretty good budget option if you’re into that kind of thing.

essentially a manager game? but how does the multiplayer fit in? it can’t have the social depth a real mmorpg has

It reminds me of idle games.

Specifically, IdleOn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBFRDuNRoo). The progression is in progressing every character individually and also in ways that are shared among characters.

This just seems more WoW-like while IdleOn is MapleStory-like.