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Comment · 4 months ago
Are you joking? If anything, they'll use even more memory by shoving 8B LLMs in every single app.
Comment · 1 year ago
"Look, you're being a pessimist. Yes, over half of the airplanes we make kill everyone on board.

But you're really NOT focused on the planes that kill only 75% of the crew and passengers. Just think! In ten years, we'll know how to build a plane!

Please stop telling me that we already have designs for planes that work. I don't want to hear that anymore."

Comment · 1 year ago
Given the power and cooling requirements, and the underlying techniques used for LLMs right now, I think 'for now' is going to be quite a few years. Maybe a decade plus. Plenty of time to train a new cohort of human developers who do more than just code 24/7.
Comment · 1 year ago
Given my ChatGPT and friends experience has been one of overwhelming frustration due to incorrect information, I would say Math Academy is in an entirely different galaxy. ChatGPT is great if you want to learn that pi is equal to 4.
Comment · 2 years ago
You... You realize that they could just have two tests in a drawer, and they give one to black people, and one to white people, including reporters and federal officials? Why are you dying on this hill??
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh yeah, I remember the old StumbleUpon browser extension from the early 2000s myself! Good times.
Comment · 2 years ago
It would be intensive but it's very doable. You could use koboldcpp or something like that with an exposed endpoint just on the local machine and use that. You'll likely run into issues with GPU vendors and ensuring that you've got the right software versions running, but with some checking, it should be viable. Maybe include a fallback in case the system can't produce results in a timely manner.
Comment · 2 years ago
I too thought this might be about growing a cereal crop, possibly in a space habitat setting. My hopes, dashed yet again...
Comment · 2 years ago
Sorry everyone, but this doesn't pass the smell test for me. Over half of their citations are for research that's 20-40 years old, and their more contemporary citations are from papers the authors themselves published in the last ten years.
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree with this overall sentiment. When the author speaks of "crappy institutions and leaders" I understand he mean something along the lines of "we shouldn't accept this level of performance from things we can change" or some other call for more effective government/infrastructure/etc.

It's when the author drops into 'overwhelming debt ending in failure' that he drops the mask enough to show that he doesn't want any sort of government or public infrastructure. It's a libertarian, leaning anarcho-capitalist, viewpoint that explains the discontinuity in tone that permeates many of the articles I sampled from this author.

Comment · 3 years ago
"One day -I- will be Sheriff of Nottingham, so it's in my interest to sell out my neighbors to King John."
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder if it's the same mechanics as Zen Buddhism but from the western angle.

When do we do our best thinking? When we're not.

Comment · 3 years ago
Right, and the ones who are best able to figure out regulations are, of course, the businesses themselves!!

Look how well that's worked out for the financial sector. Nothing but good faith actors there. Immaculate.

Comment · 3 years ago
Using that gold standard of bias tests, politicalcompass.org
Comment · 3 years ago
The article mentions Rippling as still having that 'spark', but they've been pretty awful the past few months. Between layoffs and data loss, it's looked pretty dire when I've talked to them.

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