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  • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eetoBuy European@feddit.uk•Trump's 'anti-migrant rhetoric' gives the UK's tech industry a competitive edge, say expertsEnglish
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    7 months ago

    As a well qualified software Dev, I left the UK ten years ago. One of the many experiences that led to that decision was being ‘in the front row seats’ shall we say, of a software startup that tried everything to get some support from the government.

    All it did was earn us extra, inconvenient attention from tax auditors - who naturally found us completely clean. Great demonstration of how much UK Gov cared about innovation to me, at that time.

    UK Gov appear obsessed with two things: 1) Their financial sector - which produces nothing of material worth, and 2) strutting on the world stage. Both great hobbies of a hard-core elite who look down on the lower (+middle) classes with contempt.

    Consequent decades of domestic policy failure due to this high-level corruption, and the media’s projection of those failures onto Europe, are what led to Brexit: Moreso than any real racism - an easy charge that unjustly deflected the elite’s brief flash of geopolitical shame onto ‘gammons’.

    The now tragic UK could have chosen to become a progressive beacon of academic excellence in Europe had it not been for greed of a few (sale of ARM as another bellwether, anyone?).

    Ever thus, I suppose.

  • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eetoFediverse@lemmy.world•The best thing you can do for the fediverse is just be kindEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If you’re out there suggesting political stances can be adequately expressed along a single line, then you’re not doing much better I’m afraid. Engage with the nuance, friend, it’ll build understanding and be better for all of us.

    ‘Left’/‘Right’ need to go, they’re losing any meaning they once had - instead: “What’s your policy on X”? “How do you feel about Y?” “Do you agree with Z’s policy on A, B & C, and why?”.

    Curiosity, followed by grounded opinion, over tribalism.

    Now excuse me while I go and try to practice what I just preached 😅

  • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?English
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    10 months ago

    Are there any AI apps that will index markdown documents with a vector DB, then allow you to run natural language queries using some kind of RAG approach with a local LLM?

    Closest I’ve found is LlamaIndex, but this is still more of a ‘foundation’ than a turn-key solution and right now I’m too time-poor to do the assembly required…

    I realise I’m describing close-to-frontier tech, but is there anything more turn-key (Dockerised) out there yet?

    My use-case is pretty ‘vanilla’ in this space: Having a knowledge base and wanting quick answers to questions like “How should screen X behave if I am not a registered user?”.

    Thanks for any suggestions!

  • Darkmoon_UK@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful ModelsEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been an enthusiastic adopter of Generative AI in my coding work; and know that Claude 3.7 is the greatest coding model out there right now (at least for my niche).

    That said, at some point you have to choose principles over convenience; so I’ve cancelled all my US Tech service accounts - now exclusively using ‘Le Chat Pro’ (+ sometimes local LLM’s).

    Honestly, it’s not quite as good, but it’s not half bad either, and it is very very fast thanks to some nifty hardware acceleration that the others lack.

    I still get my work done, and sleep better at night.

    The more subscriptions Mistral get, the more they’re able to compete with the US offerings.

    Anyone can do this.