>If AI is going to become a threat to humanity, then we have a moral obligation to murder it immediately.

Why are so many people still getting CS degrees when the tech industry is pretty much dead and you have an almost zero percent chance of ever getting a job now? When the dot com crash happened in the early 2000s, CS enrollment fell off a cliff, but this time it just keeps growing. Is it just delusion at this point?

So where are millions of compsci graduates gonna get a job from

Why do people who get less than 50 views a video upload videos continuously for years with no return? Why make content

>>100043389
Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™
>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)

Why ThinkPad?
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap
>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet
>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop
>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain
>Excellent Linux & *BSD support

ThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specs
https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

Model generations:
>Classic IBM: T40, T41, T42
>IBM/Lenovo Transition: T43, T60, T61 (T42 - T43: significant difference in specs)
>"Classic" Lenovo: T400, T410, T420 (T61 - T400: 4:3 to 16:10)
>Transition to old modern: T430, T440, T450 (T420 - T430: membrane to chiclet)
>Old modern: T460, T470, T480 (T450 - T460: significantly less thick)
>New modern: T490, T14g1, T14g2 (T480 - T490: design change)
>New new modern: T14g3, T14g4, ... (T14g2 - T14g3: second design change)

BIOS replacement:
https://coreboot.org/downloads.html
https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/
https://canoeboot.org/docs/hardware/

Additional resources:
https://dankpads.com/tpg/
https://biosimage.booru.org
https://1vyra.in

Patches:
https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patches
https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec

Chat:
##ibmthinkpad on libera
#/tpg/ on rizon

Why is this allowed? Win 11 isn't a free OS.
Are they preparing people for a subscription model os?

>Only hires American citizens
>Employees are 95% white males
>Decent paycheck
>Overtime pay available
>Private offices
>Laid-back atmosphere
>Tons of available positions
>Easy to transition to private sector afterwards and make a FAGMAN salary
>With a clearance you can potentially make more then FAGMAN
>Get to work on cool projects
>Did I mention no pajeets?
>Offices are usually in LCOL or MCOL areas
Why do zoomers always cry about no job opportunities when the answer lies right in front of them? Take the defense contractor pill. It will give you a lot of valuable life experience. It's where I started, and now I have a comfy WFH consulting job.

/aicg/ - A general dedicated to the discussion and development of AI chatbots

It never ends edition

>News
llama 3 8b and 70b https://llama.meta.com/llama3/, among other developments in local
opus on aws https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/anthropics-claude-3-opus-model-on-amazon-bedrock/
gpt-4-turbo finally out of preview, not as fucked as the last preview snapshot
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4-turbo-and-gpt-4
news: https://rentry.org/aicg_chronicles
additional info: https://rentry.org/aicg_extra_information

>Bots
https://chub.ai
https://chub-archive.evulid.cc
https://booru.plus/+pygmalion
https://rentry.org/meta_bot_list

>Guides
https://rentry.org/tavern4retards

>Jailbreaks
https://rentry.org/jb-listing

>Frontends
https://sillytavern.app [SillyTavern]
https://agnai.chat [Agnai]
https://risuai.xyz [RisuAI]
https://docs.miku.gg [Miku]
https://character.ai [Cai]

>Models
gpt: https://platform.openai.com/docs
claude: https://docs.anthropic.com
gemini: https://ai.google.dev/docs
local: >>>/g/lmg
https://rentry.org/meta_golocal_list

>Botmaking
https://rentry.org/meta_botmaking_list
https://desune.moe/aichared
https://agnai.chat/editor

>Meta
OP templates: https://rentry.org/aicgOP
services assessment: https://rentry.org/aicg_meta
fun JBs and prompts: https://rentry.org/weirdbutfunjailbreaksandprompts - https://rentry.org/jinxbreaks
sultra: https://github.com/kingbased/gemini
logs: https://chatlogs.neocities.org
aicg botmaking events: https://rentry.org/meta_event_list
Previous: >>100168428

/lmg/ - a general dedicated to the discussion and development of local language models.

Previous threads: >>100154945 & >>100166886

►News
>(04/24) Snowflake Arctic Instruct 128x3B MoE released: https://hf.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct
>(04/23) Phi-3 Mini model released: https://hf.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct-onnx
>(04/21) Llama3 70B pruned to 42B parameters: https://hf.co/chargoddard/llama3-42b-v0
>(04/18) Llama3 8B, 70B pretrained and instruction-tuned models released: https://llama.meta.com/llama3/
>(04/17) Mixtral-8x22B-Instruct-v0.1 released: https://mistral.ai/news/mixtral-8x22b/

►News Archive: https://rentry.org/lmg-news-archive
►FAQ: https://wikia.schneedc.com
►Glossary: https://rentry.org/lmg-glossary
►Links: https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
►Official /lmg/ card: https://files.catbox.moe/cbclyf.png

►Getting Started
https://rentry.org/llama-mini-guide
https://rentry.org/8-step-llm-guide
https://rentry.org/llama_v2_sillytavern
https://rentry.org/lmg-spoonfeed-guide
https://rentry.org/rocm-llamacpp

►Further Learning
https://rentry.org/machine-learning-roadmap
https://rentry.org/llm-training
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsPapers

►Benchmarks
Chatbot Arena: https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard
Programming: https://hf.co/spaces/bigcode/bigcode-models-leaderboard
Censorship: https://hf.co/spaces/DontPlanToEnd/UGI-Leaderboard
Censorbench: https://codeberg.org/jts2323/censorbench

►Tools
Alpha Calculator: https://desmos.com/calculator/ffngla98yc
GGUF VRAM Calculator: https://hf.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator
Sampler visualizer: https://artefact2.github.io/llm-sampling/index.xhtml

►Text Gen. UI, Inference Engines
https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
https://github.com/turboderp/exui
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp

are there any white mice with hyperscroll?
I've got the Logitech mx S3 but it's a wireless only office mouse with super high latency and I need something for gaming.
I'm addicted to hyperscroll now though so my options are limited and I really want a white one