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I’m only half joking when I say this could be the modern replacement. I’ve caught both myself and the S.O. using “no take only throw” in conversation, often about unreasonably demanding people.

I’m currently using Tuta, but the complete inability to do SMTP has pretty much guaranteed I’ll be finding an alternative before my plan expires.

Apologies if I’m reading too much into what you’ve said here, but it reads to me as if you’re implying search engines couldn’t keep up with the volume of the internet and AI is the logical next progression.

Search engines actually worked pretty amazingly at one point, but then were kneecapped because Google et al were more interested in advertising money than useful search results. Then when they needed an excuse to justify ludicrous spending on AI, they shoehorned AI into web search where it is very much the wrong tool for the job if you want accurate, high relevance results.

For AI, it’s as though the library were just a massive pile of books tossed around haphazardly and the librarian had to make sense of it enough to pull whatever you’re looking for out of the chaos. Is it at all surprising, then, that it takes a huge amount of energy and computing resources to make any of this work?

It’s more like the librarian has taken it upon themself (for some reason) to write a book that is the mathematical average of every other book in the library. Then when any patron comes looking for a specific book, the librarian just hands them this slag instead hoping they won’t notice the difference.

Now that said, I 100% agree that running a good “old-style” search engine does still take a huge amount of computing resources, but I’d be surprised if the requirements were anywhere near what is being thrown at training LLMs.

That depends upon how narrow your definition of “right” is. Sort of reminds me of this parable.

Question for those of you who have read it:

I tend to exclusively read books electronically. Am I correct in assuming that because of the idiosyncrasies of this particular story, it’s essential to read it in physical book form?

Yep. https://github.com/latchset/clevis#pin-shamir-secret-sharing

Very true. Since it probably wasn’t clear, that wasn’t me trying to talk shit about the culinary skills of lunch ladies so much as situations like this. But in retrospect, this is probably not the thread for that discussion anyway.

Food, in a lot of places.

…oh, you meant things they won’t learn in school? My mistake.