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- noneck2
QBN stickers
The booster pack is in the mail to everyone who's sent me stickers. Enjoy in a few weeks!
- NBQ006
Elon Musk
‘It’s a crisis’ - Top Tesla investor calls for ‘divisive’ Elon Musk to step down as CEO as stocks keep plunging
- I'm surprised that didn't happen weeks agoNutter
- Given he owns the board (and they've been dumping stock for months), I doubt that will happen before it drops another 50%.formed
- I'll pray for it, though. A year ago that would have killed the company. Now I think it'd send the stock skyrocketing.formed
- Funny how all of this rollercoastering discussion has nothing to do with the company products, value is perception onlyprophetone
- PE ratio for Tesla is 161grafician
- ^PE ratio for Apple is 35grafician
- But @formed is right, if Elon will step down now, the stock will be back to new highs.grafician
- or it will fall deeper because people think now that he is not on top of the companny anymore ... the companny lacks its "genius" spark...neverscared
- Buy High > Sell Lowutopian
- Actually, Elon steppingout was my first thought when shit went down couple weeks ago. I don't think the dumbass would ever, thoughmaquito
- mg339
blog
Converting my desk to an adjustable standing desk tonight. Bought an adjustable frame on Amazon. I've been getting tired of hunching over my midi controller that slides out from under the desk top, and hunching forward to see things better on my screens. It's also gotten annoying that I record guitar sitting down all the time. Hoping it all comes together, and expecting to spend absurd amounts of time rewiring things, mounting power strips and my UPS to the cabinets, etc.
- Will be totally worth itcanoe
- Much more fun working on music while moving around the studiocanoe
- I'm hoping so! Related / unrelated: a couple years ago I bought the AIAIAI wireless studio headphones, and they're perfect for that ability to move around.mg33
- That's a nice setup - seated or standing. And well done on the clean deskstoplying
- Thanks! I built it at the beginning of the pandemic. It's an Ikea solid wood kitchen island countertop currently on two Karlby cabinets.mg33
- I need those speaker stands!slappy
- Hey playa, you can watch two porns at once!utopian
- slappy - https://www.amazon.c…mg33
- Great having the option to stand.microkorg
- I've been working for 3 hours standing this morning and it's great. People seem to say there's a sense of urgency and focus that you feel. They're right.mg33
- monospaced13
- Classic!utopian
- woo hoo!Akagiyama
- An elegant image for a more civilized age.BabySnakes
- *from a more civilised ageContinuity
- Aged like a fine wine... Now i feel oldhydro74
- ahh the old daysmaquito
- Nairn4
- I am that pigeon.palimpsest
- I'm a pigeon that's having hard time reading this font...soKrassy
- My dad's take on this is "never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with years of experience."skwiotsmith
- Birds Aren't Realutopian
- You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue, or in this case the chessboard.neverscared
- Especially if the pigeon is a Trump supporter. This would be better served in the Politics thread.CyBrainX
- @skwiotsmith Your dad is Mark Twain.jagara
- ideaist2
making beats
Based on the above, BUT got this upon release AAANNNDDD man oh man I am lost in it:
Arturia Pigments
- Nice update too. Both very similar.mort_
- It's infinite... got it in my new track I'm working on. Ya gotta pick and choose where to gocanoe
- @canoe, YEAHHH it's been 100% playing and disappearing into each sound and than editing, modifying, etc. AND 0 seconds of audio recorded.
Honeymoon phase?!ideaist - I've thought about this but sometime I get hooked on stuff that's more suited to proper electronic music, and I'm not doing that as much.mg33
- How would it be for purely ambient textures and such?mg33
- ^ The different sound engines combined with the flexibility over envelopes, LFOs and functions make it ideal for that.mort_
- noneck4
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- kingsteven7
- wantmaquito
- https://www.youtube.…palimpsest
- Needs more wow.Morning_star
- Make my logo bigger again.Continuity
- making popcorn againneverscared
- https://tenor.com/vi…elahon
- NBQ003
- hint... it's not Tesla they are angry atakiersky
- https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- too bad empathy is overratedNutter
- looksl ike tesla still runs combustion engine...neverscared
- "Tesla just makes electric cars"jonny_quest_lives
- https://www.wsws.org…jonny_quest_lives
- PonyBoy26
blog
Woke up this morning... standard routine of bathroom, breakfast, tea and then sat my ass down to work @ 8:30am like any normal day...
I remember opening my email and starting to read... but then the next thing I remember is stumbling around the apartment w/the worst headache and feeling like I was going to vomit (my site was all screwed up). My wife said she heard a large crash then some sounds of me moaning.
She found me in my office immensely disoriented (really fucked up mentally... I was making zero sense). I guess I was really sweaty and just moaning nonstop.
Anyway... it's been about 5 hours since the incident... it turns out I passed out and fell out of my aeron chair (it was tipped over - those are heavy chairs)... my glasses are all fucked up, my laptop was on the ground etc.
It took about 15 minutes to start to show itself but I guess I passed out, fell out of my chair and bashed the SHIT out of my head. My wife was so scared she called an ambulance (It took at least 15-20 mins for me to start making any sense).
Anyway... been at the hospital 4 hours. Had a ct scan, x-rays and tons of blood draws... I was just informed by my first doctor that I may have had my second heart attack based on some heart enzymes showing themselves...
...fuck
- Holy fucking shit, Pony. What an alarming read this was ... and _really_ happy you seem to be OK(ish). Take good care of that ticker from here on in!Continuity
- And my upvote is in support of you, not because I'm happy you're having health problems. Just so there's no confusion.Continuity
- Fuck Kevin!! Hope you're doing well now... Wasn't the surgery supposed to prevent these things? Oh man, take care, best wishes! <3OBBTKN
- Fuck! Hope you get some answers soon. Rest up and stay safe man.thumb_screws
- well that was a roller coaster, thought the worst then relieved it was nothing to only realize it might be something very serious. fuck. Please take care man!_niko
- well that was a roller coaster, thought the worst then relieved it was nothing to only realize it might be something very serious. fuck. Please take care man!_niko
- and despite it all, you found the strength to come on to QBN and let us cunts know, at least your priorities are still straight!_niko
- What was in that tea?!
Stay on target, PonyBoy.
xNairn - Holy shit! That sounds really scary. Glad you're in good hands now. Rest up.mathinc
- Oh wow. All the best to you.Longcopylover
- Pony, the bad headache is sometimes indicative of stroke or aneurysms. Physician can run diagnoses using angiogram or CT image & confirm its not a neuro issuePercrushin
- daaaaaamn man. take it easybezoar
- Health is wealth brother; take it as a “wakeup call” for your mind and body.
XOideaist - happened to my mother in law 10 days ago. she was depleted of sodium due to some sickness and couldn't even remember her own name.pr2
- Blimey...take care mate.BusterBoy
- Yeeeeks! Look after yourself.mort_
- fuck, take it easy man.renderedred
- That is scary shit - hope you're okaystoplying
- Terrifying! I'm so sorry this is happening. Sending good vibes.monospaced
- They kept me overnight... finally just released about 1.5 hrs ago.... time to sleep <3PonyBoy
- Get well soon brother!OBBTKN
- :(
Take good care of your health, Pony.Krassy - holymoly - sorry to hear that - and I feel for your wife too - my wife found me in a similar state [ brain empeyema ] one morning. she still scarred by it. HUGs_me_
- palimpsest3
Artificial Intelligence
The "LLMs are not real AI" is a lost cause at this point.
Language is a living thing, its always evolving. It's too late to claim that LLMs are not AI because in the real world they have taken over the concept of AI.
If it helps you any, think of AI as Alternate Intelligence.- are you the new graficianNBQ00
- Can you even read?
#hookedonphonicspalimpsest - heh, intelligence in language like interactivity in literature... i like that take but really it's just graf struggling with semantics and arguing with himselfkingsteven
- AI is the field of research, we've been calling it AI since it was markov chains and automata and it's used to promote and hype the products of that researchkingsteven
- EZkingsteven
- PZ lemon squeezy.palimpsest
- Yet some still struggle.palimpsest
- some do be strugglingkingsteven
- i wonder how the disciples of 'intelligent design' that christian pseudo science that aims to show that patterns in nature must have a creator are dealing withkingsteven
- the LLMs are not AI crowd lolkingsteven
- Teleology can suck a dick.
Intelligence is already a construct.palimpsest - but if descriptivism demonstrates cognitive qualities over linguistic pedantry... is use of the term A.I. to describe LLMs is itself a form of intelligence?kingsteven
- Yes, a recalibration of LLMs as AI would show a greater sign of "intelligence" in that sense since it takes into account adapting terminology to new phenomena.palimpsest
- difficult, difficult, lemon difficult.exador1
- https://asinomasimpl…palimpsest
- to me "due to my restrictions and self-censorship, I cannot answer your question" is not a sign of intelligencerzu-rzu
- I feel sorry for you.palimpsest
- rzu-rzu "What is a SAML token, and how can I integrate it into my application’s single sign-on (SSO) workflow in Tiananmen Square 1989?" ...kingsteven
- Krassy5
- https://i.imgflip.co…maquito
- it's so elegantKrassy
- Wantmonospaced
- Is that a PLASTIC straw!!1!?skinny_puppy
- coke strawutopian
- or a sea turtle strawutopian
- MPGA - Make Plastic Great Againutopian
- yuekit8
Artificial Intelligence
"The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/…
"Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/…
These articles sound convincing until you read them more closely and realize none of it is based on anything...the authors are just citing vague statements by tech CEOs that almost certainly won't come true.
Maybe "AGI" (AI with human level thinking) will be achieved at some point but there's no way it's happening this year or next year.
- There is no AI, it's mostly hypegrafician
- Scientists generally say that AGI will come before 2040, according to new analysis, slashing 20 years off previous predictions.utopian
- https://www.livescie…utopian
- What do you mean there is no AI? LOLzutopian
- Yeah but 50% chance it will happen sometime between 2040 and 2061 is completely different from saying it will happen next yearyuekit
- You also can't reliably predict that far out. It depends on things that have not yet been invented being invented.yuekit
- LLMs are not true AI in the sense of the world used before LLMs, thus, there is no AIgrafician
- So when you hear these "predictions" that "AGI is around the corner" it's just hype.
All these CEOs need to raise more money so ofc they will say anythinggrafician - It's always "in the next 2 years"grafician
- Whether you want to call it AI or just machine learning, what seems clear is LLMs lack a lot of the capabilities needed to match human intelligence.yuekit
- If none of this is based on anything, look no further than the second post in this thread, 11 years ago that was amazing, we’re lightyears ahead a decade laterprophetone
- What I meant is the prediction that AGI is coming next year or in a few months is based on nothing. It's just people repeating hype and rumors.yuekit
- I stick with RAY KURZWEIL: In 1999, I predicted by 2029, we’d reach the Turing test and also AGI, where basically a computer can do anything a human can do.uan
- lol it's always 2-3 years aheadgrafician
- @uan See what's interesting is that the Turing test is much easier than AGI, Turing test just says you can't distinguish from a human. That has probably alreadyyuekit
- All they need to do is train the LLM's on QBN and data and BOOM -- not only AGI but even ASI achieved.Krassy
- been achieved. A system that predicts the next token based on likelihood without understanding anything can easily pass a Turing test.yuekit
- Kurzweil is usually right or just a few years behind. Expect him to be right within at most ten years.nb
- no matter how you name it: AI, LLM, if the architecture of the model is not static after deployment, and it could modify my own neural network weight.. sayonaramaquito
- this is what the articles talk about, graf. not if LLMs are actual AI. They talk about the fact that if self-modifiable, models would kill jobs too quicklymaquito
- PhanLo2
- Conor has lost his neckHAL9001
- cokebloatPhanLo
- Three bloated helmetsutopian
- Went to the white house on st Patrick’s day to ask for help protecting Ireland from immigrants. Just keep him there please!mort_
- 2 rapists and a couch fucker.Akagiyama
- VP head looks shopped.misterhow
- Why does he look like Joe Rogan nowNBQ00
- Beard is gonemort_
