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Nice to see he took it in stride given how.. aggressive the post was about him lol

Idk man, it doesn't seem absurd enough to make me think The Onion would post this specific headline - the "tremendous progress" is a good start but the rest of it is too mundane

Yes, that's one of the third party tools mentioned in the article

Please don't give the US any ideas ;_;

Presumably the member states can decide to interpret it however they'd like, but for whatever it's worth I'm just paraphrasing what political scientist William Spaniel (..who I thought would have had a Wikipedia page by now) has said on the topic of Article 5 (though the context wasn't the US invading Greenland lol)

Additionally, it's helpful to know the specific language used in Article 5:

Article 5

“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.” (emphasis added)

Article 5 doesn't actually oblige NATO members to defend anything by force, it obliges NATO members to decide what actions are "deemed necessary" and then to undertake those actions. If a NATO member gets invaded, everyone could -- in theory -- write a sternly worded letter and call it a day (though I doubt that would be the actual response). As you/others have more or less said, the actual action chosen would largely be the result of political will.

I don't know how well this works for Macs, but is a multi-boot environment a possibility? You could have a separate OS set up for a group of tasks which you boot into when you need to do that. It seems a bit clunky compared to e.g., virtual desktops or similar though.

So they literally agree not using an LLM would increase your framerate.

Well, yes, but the point is that at the time that you're using the tool you don't need your frame rate maxed out anyway (the alternative would probably be alt-tabbing, where again you wouldn't need your frame rate maxed out), so that downside seems kind of moot.

Also what would the machine know that the Internet couldn‘t answer as or more quickly while using fewer resources anyway?

If you include the user's time as a resource, it sounds like it could potentially do a pretty good job of explaining, surfacing, and modifying game and system settings, particularly to less technical users.

For how well it works in practice, we'll have to test it ourselves / wait for independent reviews.

It sounds like it only needs to consume resources (at least significant resources, I guess) when answering a query, which will already be happening when you're in a relatively "idle" situation in the game since you'll have to stop to provide the query anyway. It's also a Llama-based SLM (S = "small"), not an LLM for whatever that's worth:

Under the hood, G-Assist now uses a Llama-based Instruct model with 8 billion parameters, packing language understanding into a tiny fraction of the size of today’s large scale AI models. This allows G-Assist to run locally on GeForce RTX hardware. And with the rapid pace of SLM research, these compact models are becoming more capable and efficient every few months.

When G-Assist is prompted for help by pressing Alt+G — say, to optimize graphics settings or check GPU temperatures— your GeForce RTX GPU briefly allocates a portion of its horsepower to AI inference. If you’re simultaneously gaming or running another GPU-heavy application, a short dip in render rate or inference completion speed may occur during those few seconds. Once G-Assist finishes its task, the GPU returns to delivering full performance to the game or app. (emphasis added)

It's technically an option, yeah, but as you said it's not something practically used as an "everyday" feed-sorting algorithm. It's not as though it's a default or suggested sort option - compare that to Mastodon where it's the only sort option X_X

Definitely agree that the the common-with-Mastodon viewpoint of exclusively using chronological feeds seems to have over-corrected too far. Can you imagine if the threadiverse was sorted that way? It would be insane and essentially unusable at scale - so we can at least acknowledge that sorting algorithms have a useful place and are not some unsalvageable, irredeemable evil. I wish there was something like a bunch of open source algorithms which the user could choose between in whatever UI they're using. At the very least there should be some acknowledgement that I, the user, don't have an identical level of interest in every account I follow, or even in every topic which the same account posts about.

And while microblogging platforms seem to have it worst, there have also been times in the threadiverse where I've subscribed to a community/magazine only to later unsubscribe because the activity levels it produces in my feed are much higher than my interest levels in it. So even here (where we have sorting by "hot" etc), some kind of user-configurable weighting would be nice to better match how I actually want my feed to work!

edit: typo

Would be curious to read the LLM output.

It looks like it's available in the linked study's paper (near the end)