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I run a local LLM on my gaming computer thats like a decade old now with an old 1070ti 8GB VRAM card. It does a good job running mistral small 22B at 3t/s which I think is pretty good. But any tech enthusiast into LLMs look at those numbers and probably wonder how I can stand such a slow token speed. I look at their multi card data center racks with 5x 4090s and wonder how the hell they can afford it.

Okay, replace “mod” with “third party tool” then. The point is, using a calculator removes a lot of human skill and cognitive calculation that contributes to fallibility.

You could make similar arguments about using programs to calculate optimal chess moves and how its “just doing what’s human could do”. We all know theres a difference. A human can’t exhaustively compute billions of possible moves to find the best one the way a calculator does. Even card counters with photographic memory are prone to making suboptimal plays. Is it theoretically possible for a human to play mathematically perfect hands the whole run without tool assistance? Yes. Is it likely? Not really.

I personally don’t see those numbers as legitimately achieved through pure human skill and cognition when you use a computer to brute force it and fish for lucky seeds.

The moment someone achieves those numbers on a random run without a calculator I will be very impressed.

Ive never seen anyone achieve those numbers legitimately through normal vanilla play, every screenshot ive seen with E tier numbers involve a mod that calculates all possible moves picking the mathematically best one probably also cherry picking a favorable seed.

Is it possible for a super card-counter analytical person to play balatro perfectly or lock down a seeded run to get to those numbers? Sure. Is it likely the average gamer™ is going to without the help of a mod to brute force calculations? Mmmm…

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Thank you for saying this. I had similar thoughts when I read this when considering over my personal situation but was worried it was copium thinking. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks these kind of statements as un-nuanced.

Do people who think like this consider those with depression or severe ADHD or insomniacs who take their medication daily as evidence of addiction as well?

I can stop any time without symptoms of severe withdraw, but when I do stop my quality of life diminishes greatly due to the legitimate medical problems I suffer which the pot helps alleviate. Its MEDICINE with relatively few side affects compared to pharma shit.

Now when I smoked cigarettes and had severe body jitters and constant nicotine craving for weeks when I quit? Yeah, thats actual addiction.

Also just subjectively two to three months is not ‘a few weeks’. 8-12 weeks is not a short amount of time. I shouldn’t have to suffer significant fractions of a year just to jump through arbitrary hoops set by insurance companies.

Hey @deranger@sh.itjust.works thank you very much for the great reply. This is valuable information that took more than a moment of your time to write and I’m grateful.

If you drink a ton of water to detox your pee turns from yellow to crystal clear as its almost pure water without a chance for your body to put in the stuff that make it yellow. Crystal clear piss is one of the tell tale signs of dillution so to hide it people take niacin or vitamins to put some color back in the pee. Hope that clears it up.

Would you be comfortable giving some more information on the exact detox procedure and the kit used? Do you have to take niacin to make your pee yellow?

Just a friendly reminder to anyone looking for free website hosting that dozens of Public Access Unix Systems exist and would love to have you as new members.

Almost all of them offer free membership that comes with web hosting, email, and other useful services. Some like SDF and midnight pub come with web browser interfaces allowing easy access to non-geeky users. Some pubnixes do have a small barrier to entry in which you may need to learn how to navigate a conputer through command line terminal.

https://sdf.org/?signup

https://tildeverse.org/members/

https://midnight.pub/

https://envs.net/

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/cdg.thegonz.net/infrastructure/hosting/ (this last one is a really large repository for all known pubnixes that also allow for gemini capsule hosting, most of them also have regular https/webpage hosting options as well.

Unfortunately handing pot to big pharma means adding legitimacy to it as an actual medicine for society as a whole. Your neighborhood pot grower isn’t held to safety standards, double blinded peer review test on actual efficacy while minimizing potential biases, or forced to print out lab results showing vauable information like terps and thc level.

As pot smokers we get defensive and circle jerky about our precious plant medicine that can be grown anywhere, and roll our eyes at how its been treated.

Its important to take a step back and realize theres a difference in standards between the neighborhood dealer going “oh yeah its alternative natural herbal medicine that cures any disease and just makes me feel good maaan IDK how it works but I heard if you have bad prostate cancer you can shove rick simpsons oil up your ass as a supplementary and the stage 4 clears right up through the power of Jahs blessing bro.”

and " we just released a big peer review study spanning hundreds of participants with riggerous analysis. Pot works for these diseases including helping to suppress pancreatic cancer in many cases, we have done the research and the consistent results back it up. Your national health and safety administrations will receive recommendations to update their guidelines."

Having medical colleges with P.H.D graduates doing extensively studies, writing research papers to be published in journals, really having the science nerds pick at the interaction between chemistry and neuroscience to create valid enough theories and frameworks for effective diagnosis to combat serious medical problems. These are things that aren’t happening by just throwing seeds in grounds and having potheads smoke or ea their own flower.

Having doctors confidently be able to prescribe it as a medicine in a pharmacy really helps towards social acceptance for older conservative people taught it was the devils lettuce as dangerous as heroine.

My parents and I had a lot of static during my teenage years because they REALLY hated pot. That started to change when

• 1. It started to be legally buyable over the counter
• 2 they got really old and in constant pain to the point traditional meds like aparin started failing to do the trick. Suddenly they were much more open to the idea of trying CBD and even a minute amount of the devils chemical THC.

Handing it to pharma is a big first step, one its deemed an actual medicine you can talk about recreation and comparing it to alcohol or cigarettes with more bite behind your arguments.

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Its homemade bubble from type 1 thca hemp trim I order in bulk. you could say many different mixed ‘strains’. Not fancy hash but it gets the job done and taste okay :) very economical too I get about 1.5-2g dry hash per process and the flower is 10$/oz even cheaper in higher bulk.

It smoked as good as any dryed hash! It tasted same as usual too. Really powdery though more like grinder kief not compressed like a temple ball which made it vape different I think.

It depends on how low you’re willing to go on the quant and what you consider acceptable token speeds. Qwen 32b q3ks can be partially offloaded on my 8gb vram 1070ti and runs at about 2t/s which is just barely what I consider usable for real time conversation.

One of the top two cheese jokers let you do straights and flushes with only four cards, the other lets all cards played score. I would do a flush on the four pepper jack slices and include the shiny foil cheddar slice on the far left. That should get you where you need to be.

Qwen is super powerful but the CCP endorsed lobodomy to censor it make it useless for my needs. Mistral 22B > qwen 32B all day any day just because it won’t shriek at me in rejection when I ask the wrong question.

I understand the sentiment and agree that an individuals abstenance or lack there ofay not have an visible impact on the macroscale. Reddit will exist and be used with or without me or 10,000 like me.

I judge myself by my own actions and their relation to my personal philosophies. If I violate my priciples or don’t even try to uphold them then what kind of person am I? Someone who talks the big talk to get in on a morally superior circle jerk but won’t walk the walk when nobody’s looking, thats who. And thats wrong, to me. Even if nothing else is achieved through reddit abstinence, I do feel good about upholding my personal values by participating in a personal protest. It matters to me.