Significant outdoor exposure is essentially the only relevant factor for preventing myopia. I would be interested in seeing any studies that showed any meaningful relevance of low light reading, while controlling for time spent outdoors.

Main factor is genetics.

I was gaming on a blurry CRT and reading on a dim light while hardly ever going outside during my teens and I only have light myopia on one eye.

I don't know if it has ever been studied, but I suspect eye socket morphology from my own family anecdata.

large eyes + small socket = squashed eyes.

It could be different genetic factors for different populations too.

I agree that genetics can protect you from developing myopia. For people who are genetically susceptible, outdoor exposure is critically important. Most people won't know which group their children are in.

Let's just say I knew soon enough for the ones that were in the myopic group.

It's not that I don't believe these studies or that I don't recommend children and even adults going outdoors and trying to watch something far away without glasses whatever their supposed genetics may be but I think it is nowhere close to a silver bullet.

A large model (100B+, the more the better) may be acceptable at 2-bit quantization, depending on the task. But not a small model. Especially not for technical tasks. On top of that, one still needs room for OS, software and KV cache. 8GB is just not very useful for local LLMs. That said, it can still be entertaining to try out a 4-bit 8B model for the fun of it.

100B+ is the amount of total parameters, whereas what matters here is active - very different for sparse MoE models. You're right that there's some overhead for the OS/software stack but it's not that much. KV-cache is a good candidate for being swapped out, since it only gets a limited amount of writes per emitted token.

Total parameters, not active parameters, is the property that matters for model robustness under extreme quantization.

Once you're swapping from disk, the performance will be quite unusable for most people. And for local inference, KV cache is the worst possible choice to put on disk.

Comcast.

Controls were great, didn't see whatever it is that people love about the story, and the game loop made me quit.

Before we can survive "powerful AI", which we haven't even the faintest idea how to create, we have to survive the present era of mega-billionaires, Facebook, Twitter, and the propaganda capture of thereof. I want to know the answer to that question.

I ditched Pinboard a few years ago because I had a lot of difficulty getting my data out and there is no support. Marciej (idlewords) snarkily brags about not answering email (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23789426).

Yeah, I've read similar complaints, but I haven't had any issues.

The only data I need—my bookmarks and tags—are already backed up in a JSON file. You can get this via the API. It would be good to have the crawled archives as well, but I don't really need it. A large number of my bookmarks are probably dead anyway, and could use pruning, so an archive of these is not that valuable.

I *do* have a home theater with calibrated receiver, etc etc. Nolan sound mixes are still atrocious.

Tenet is the only one that I have issues with, but that movie sucks anyways.

As someone with a dedicated center speaker, people doing audio mixing do not effectively use it. I even have it manually boosted. Sometimes it's 10% better than without one, but nowhere near enough to make a real difference.

I revisited Assassin's Apprentice recently, as an audiobook, having read the series 20 years ago. Personally, I will not be continuing. The best term I came across to describe it is "injustice porn" or "misery porn." Fitz and the other protagonists are stymied and beaten at every turn, through the entire series (I checked summaries to see if there would ever be any payoff in continuing). If you're in the mood for an extremely depressing read with no positive outcomes, this is the series for you. I have been in that place before, but I have no tolerance for that at this stage of my life.

Yeah, second and third book in Farseer trilogy can be hard to consume, but at the same time in comparison Robin Hobb just damn can write good. It's little-bit in comparison if you read some more amateur writers, coming back to this.. Can't say it's wholly perfect, but it is well written -- Nighteyes for one. Fitz can be emo, but Nighteyes just delivers.

There sure are positive outcomes in Elderling series. In the long run. The characters and their life. It's not easy laid back reading, but in the end it is one of the best series. (Minus the four books of "Dragon ...", these are slop, not sure why Hobb wrote those).

Jeff Hays is an incredible narrator. It appears he only narrates LitRPG. Of which, DCC seems to be basically the only readable series. Would love to see him branch out.

That is odd. Most audiobook narrators narrate anything they are paid to.

I guess he really likes litrpg and gets plenty of work from that genre, perhaps? Maybe as he achieves minor fame from DCC he will find broader opportunities.