This video came up in my recommendations randomly and now I'm fully on board.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/hledger !hledger@discuss.tchncs.de

I recently discovered hledger and setup importing for all my accounts over the course of a weekend. The clarity is amazing and it's changing how I view my finances.

All that's missing is a community around this fantastic tool, since it's got incredible depth. So here it is!

Money - it is quite important.

I discovered the world of plain-text accounting and specifically hledger just recently. With some perseverance I managed to import a whole year of transactions for just one bank account and it's already eye-opening.

It is also a real rabbit-hole, hence this community.

I always hear the ai companies clamoring for gigawatts of "compute" so they can finally "grow" due to the immense "demand". But somehow people can just start up clawbot and burn through millions of tokens just fine, I never hear about anyone being denied access to LLM usage. The same for businesses, they're being sold ai crap left and right and there is never a bottleneck or a queue. In fact, there seems to be plenty of "compute" to go around, far more than needed, really.

Has this ever been pointed out to the ai CEOs? Has this been discussed or explained?

Didn't expect someone to make it into a game, but ok.

... but still, it's such a satisfying achievement. It took me so many attempts, but now I known I can do it. Next time I'll be prepared even better.

A nice bonus was using my insanely overpowered wand, it just destroyed everything in it's path. If I kept using it for too long, my framerate would seriously drop, it was glorious. I also got the achievement for the gods being "enraged", which is nice.

Noita is such an addictive game, really one of the best.

After a long absence someone mentioned Noita in passing and now I'm back in. Starting runs every evening, getting slightly better over time. I'm still a novice, but I feel like I'm getting the hang of things slowly. My biggest enemy is my own greed. I'm sure I can get much farther once I can discipline myself.

From the Wikipedia page about elections in 1933 Germany:

The resources of big business and the state were thrown behind the Nazis' campaign to achieve saturation coverage all over Germany. Brownshirts and SS patrolled and marched menacingly through the streets of cities and towns. A "combination of terror, repression and propaganda was mobilized in every... community, large and small, across the land".[1]: 339  Irene von Goetz wrote, "In a decree issued on 17 February 1933, Göring ordered the Prussian police force to make unrestrained use of firearms in operations against political opponents (the so-called Schießerlass, or shooting decree)".[4]

To ensure a Nazi majority in the vote, Nazi organisations also "monitored" the vote process. In Prussia, 50,000 members of the SS, SA and Der Stahlhelm were ordered to monitor the votes as so-called deputy sheriffs or auxiliary police (Hilfspolizei) in another decree by acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring.[4]

Full page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election

Does this remind you of anything? Anything at all? See you in November.

What has been bugging me for a long time is the fact that LLMs are called AI when they are very clearly not.

The promised capabilities are just not there, LLMs are never going to magically turn into AGI. And yet, CEOs promise exactly that although they surely must know better by now.

Just to make it abundantly clear: they are making claims about the technology that are patently false, misleading and vastly exaggerated. They're selling snake oil.

It really reminds me of Theranos, where the idea sounded good but once they tried implementing it they realized it wasn't feasible. And yet, Elizabeth Holmes continued, there was just too much money going around.

"AI" is just the same. LLMs looked amazing in the beginning, but by now we know how limited their application really is. And yet, there seems to be no limit in how much money can be sunk in the whole "business".

It's not a bubble when everyone is lying about the product, it's a scam.