This is awesome. Thank you 🙏
While whether LLMs are intelligent or not is still hotly debated. I think the author's thoughts are very interesting.
This is crazy to me. You can read in a stream of meaningless numbers (tokens) and incidentally build a reasonably accurate model of the real things those tokens represent.
The implications are vast. We may be able to translate between languages that have never had a “Rosetta Stone”. Any animals that have a true language could have it decoded. And while an LLM that’s gotten an 8 year old’s understanding of balancing assorted items isn’t that useful, an LLM that’s got a baby whale’s grasp on whale language would be revolutionary.
Then they know who's the poster (you), they can know your username if they want to. A lot of people use the same username in many places, so unless you use different usernames in different social media, it's still valuable data.
If not that, seeing how the content spreads through social media and analyzing the reach is interesting data by itself.
There are services like https://nextdns.io/ that makes it super easy to use DNS-based tracker blocking on most devices.
For local gallery. Simple gallery is better.
But for searching your photos, Google photos is still pretty great.
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There are plenty of great apps developed by one or only a few people. I'm personally not surprised.
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Same deal with my two cats when they come back from the groomer. They went to the grommer together, they see other getting fur cut, went home together, still don't recognize each other 😑
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