Posts by Forum McForumface

Everything you need to know to start fine-tuning LLMs in the privacy of your home

Re: Fine tune

I think the intent is along the lines of tuning an engine - what you do depends on whether you want to race or pull a caravan or just cut fuel costs. In AI terms, that is.

Re: Fine tune

If you want the model creator to fine tune their model to your specific use case, with your data, using your money (assuming you have enough of it to convince them to take the job), then talk to them. Maybe they will.

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

Re: AI Doctor

If he only has six fingers on one hand, he’ll be in for one heck of a swordfight.

OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT's internet browsing privileges

Voices

I’ll be more interested when I can converse with Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Obscure internet boutique Amazon sues EU for calling it a Very Large Online Platform

Re: Amazon should be on there

Pretty sure Amazon are catering to the sellers - you know, the ones who are paying fees.

ChatGPT creates mostly insecure code, but won't tell you unless you ask

Re: My biological wife asked me an intelligent question about copilot

It’s there an answer to this question that you would be any happier for reading?

GoDaddy joins the dots and realizes it's been under attack for three years

Re: Green hats, really ?

I thought green hat referenced a military connection? It’s not unreasonable in that context - well, not to me at least.

Edit: I think I’m wrong about this, and it refers to relative newbies. Oh well. There’s still some utility to the distinction.

Fujitsu scrapping fuel card benefit to cut costs, threatens dissenters with fire and rehire

Re: As a FJ customer

Speaking as one of the many departed, I’m amazed they have any in-house engineers left. Last I heard was that swathes of them were being outsourced.

Regarding fuel cards: this article seems to be referring to cards issued as a perk, not cards issued as a response to business needs (I.e. customer service engineering).

The engineer lurking behind the curtain: Musical monitors on a meagre IT budget

Re: Flying Windows screensaver

Please tell me there’s an Android variant.

Fujitsu gets ready to eat its own dogfood as company-wide digital transformation project kicks off

Redundancies incoming!

Because a transformation in Fujitsu means job cuts and outsourcing.

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Whatever else 5G is, it isn’t safe hex - more of a bit overflow if you ask me.

What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you

I haven’t read all of these; has anyone suggested ‘Bingpiece’ yet?

Describing them as a ‘Minecraft purveyor’ would work for me.

There's a black hole lurking within 1,000 light years of Earth – and you can see stars circling it with the naked eye

Re: Dark Matter

Travelling at C, we wouldn’t see it coming.

Netflix says subscriptions just boomed but tells investors it's no money heist and they should expect stranger things

Re: How long before familes feel the pinch

Less income, for sure. More expenditure seems less obvious though. For me, the time at home has cut expenditure because I’m not buying cups of coffee, sandwiches and so on (nor am I burning fuel in the car).

I would imagine most families who weren’t getting free school meals are seeing food and drink costs dropping.

Totally Subcontracted Business: TSB to outsource entire IT estate to IBM for a cool $1bn after 2019 meltdown

Re: Will be interesting to see how this goes

Good move or bad? I’m seeing a move where IBM carry the can if it goes wrong.

Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today's story of Y2K

Re: DBase IV 'databases' (use this term as loosely as possible)

Also known as SPQR?

Beware the Y2K task done too well, it might leave you lost in Milan

Re: knocked back the expresso

Railway coffee?

Onestream slammed for 'slamming' vulnerable and elderly folk: That's £35k to Ofcom, please

Re: On-stream...Onecom?

Companies House says they share an address (Onecom House) and they’ve had a director in common.

So... there might be a link there.

UK Home Office: We will register thousands of deactivated firearms with no database

Re: Sounds like a job for...

Why waste that valuable network storage? You could put it on a thumb drive, and just pass it around the office as needed. Making copies for backup would be easy too.

FYI, we're now in the timeline where Facebook decides who is and isn't a politician on its 2bn-plus-person network

Re: more a loosely woven throw

I might go for lacework: bigger holes, superficially pleasing to the eye, and achieving scale through exploitation of the poor.

Luke, I am your father... which is why I must eject from JEDI decision, says US Defense Sec

Re: Ethics?

Or he has an idea the decision might not be what Trump wants to hear and fancies keeping his job for a while longer?

IT workers: Speaking truth to douchebags since 1977

Re: Chip shop scuttlebutt

Upvoted for the title. I enjoyed that song.

A carbon-nanotube RISC-V CPU blinks into life. Boffins hold their breath awaiting first sign of life... 'Hello world!'

One for Rocky Horror fans

What’s a CNT? Three quarters of a...

Sueball claims Tesla solar panels are so effective, they started fires at Walmart stores

When they talked about Tesla and ‘burning issues’, this was not what I expected.

Astroboffins have spied the largest star that has gone supernova and it's breaking all the rules

Re: Rinse and repeat?

To expand on swm’s response: iron can and will fuse in stars, but...

1) you need a whole load of energy flying around before it will start fusing.

2) as noted, it absorbs rather than releases energy and so will actually cool a star down.

IIRC, iron tends mostly to fuse in supernovae because you need those sorts of conditions to force the fusion to happen.

In approximate answer to your question: To ignite fusion, it seems Earth would need to gather more than 80 times the mass of Jupiter in hydrogen. Unfortunately Earth lacks the gravity to do so; argon is the lightest gas it can hold on to, and then only barely. Igniting iron fusion would take several solar masses of hydrogen and a loooong time.

Apple loses FaceTime patent appeal again. And again. And again. And again. And again... yes, it's the fifth time

Re: As much as I love bashing Apple...

I think there’s something fishy about it.

Phisherman's blues: Bogus Dell support rep extradited from Kenya, admits he conned US colleges out of $900,000

Was this a case of...

Raage against the (corporate) machine?

Israel's NSO Group: Our malware? Slurp your cloud backups plus phone data? They've misunderstood

Re: Pegasus is now capable of copying authentication keys

“I'll leave it to readers to figure out which nation-state actors I am referring to”

All of them?

Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America? Oh, it's just 6Mbps? And you're unhappy? Can't imagine why

When he says “string ‘em up”, that’s not what he means...

The Eldritch Horror of Date Formatting is visited upon Tesco

Re: The US military has made use of [ordinal dates]...

Nope - cut’em in half and count the rings.

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

Re: Simple

Yes, he left out the bit with the goat and the black candles.

Talk about a ticket to ride... London rail passengers hear pr0n grunts over PA system

Re: Cockfosters

Nope. Cockfosters is (if anything) a slang term for urine.

Essex named sexiest British accent followed closely by, um, Glaswegian

I rather like the sound of Kirkcaldy and Kirkcudbright myself.

Russian-trained spy whale spooks Norwegian fishermen

Re: In Soviet Russia...

I was going to go with:

In Soviet Russia, whale research you!

Facebook: Yeah, we hoovered up 1.5 million email address books without permission. But it was an accident!

Re: Not just Facebook

Many greengrocers do.

Naming your company 101: Probably best not to have the word 'Oracle' anywhere near branding

Re: Lack of detail?

So a clear lack of care for the well-being of any of their ‘customers’ and a lock-in policy?

...sorry, I’ve forgotten which of them I’m talking about.

Ever used VFEmail? No? Well, chances are you never will now: Hackers wipe servers, backups in 'catastrophic' attack

...or a single hit on a password manager, perhaps?

Fujitsu says sayonara to UK exec heavyweights

I’m not surprised there’s another round of layoffs being rumoured. The last was counterproductive in various areas, with some selections seemingly driven by ideology more than practicality, and some decisions apparently cost far more than even long term savings could justify (as well as seeming to damage business long term).