Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • It's a package management system in the same way that Flatpack, yum, apt-get, snap and dozens of others are.

    If you use MacOS and Linux, it's not inconceivable that you might want to use the same package management system across both.

    I've used it, didn't particularly warm to it and didn't install it on my most recent MacOS install after it shat all over itself on a previous installation.

    I didn't know that it was available for Linux. Not tempted to try.

    I'm a firm believer in apt-get and failing that, Docker with side journeys into podman.







  • What will it take until people get it through their thick skulls that ChatGPT isn't intelligent, doesn't learn and is a tool that can only generate plausible gibberish.

    Using the same tools to detect such gibberish will give you more gibberish.

    Garbage in, Garbage out has been true since the difference engine, it's just that today the garbage smells like English words, still garbage, but not knowledge, intelligence or anything like it.

    The machine learning approach for building models, used to produce so called large language models like ChatGPT is also used to create weather forecasting models that are bigger, better and orders of magnitude faster than available until now.

    The tools have changed life, but I'm unconvinced that it's a suitable, sustainable or realistic way to create artificial intelligence, despite claims to the contrary.











  • Start with reading Wikipedia articles.

    This won't answer all your questions, but it will give you paths to investigate.

    Some articles will be written as if you already know the subject matter, but they should give you enough stuff to keep digging.

    This won't give you a degree in any of this, but it will give you plenty of puzzle pieces to build on as you see fit.