benliong78

Uruky sounds like the google that we used to have: one that's just good because it returns relevant results, not because of ecosystem lock-in.

That being said, can't help noticing the [NO-AI] at the beginning of the post, and I wonder whether it would help adaption if you also make the search engine available to agents for paid customers.

that animation of Altman with a thousand faces is oddly unsettling. Good job, new yorker.

A email thread, to me, is much preferable to any IM, unless participants knows to send those IMs in a thread as well.

All the context are in there in the rawest of forms, you a run through them with your eyeballs or have your tools do the summarisation there and then. Most of the IMs I received didn't even quote the original message they were responding to, and I end up spending time jumping up and down the channel or group to get the whole context. Not to mention folks sending me link to a slack, which, depending on the mood of the almighty slack god, can or cannot be opened in the app / current slack session.

But you do you. :)

That’s fantastic. In your opinion what are some of the best books / resources you use to have this kind of understanding of LLM and the underlying deep learning algorithm?

I’m building a on-device AI App that supports a good variety of open-weight LLM Models. It’s mostly so that I can gain an intuition on what goes on when we do inferencing, but my longer term plan is

1. Support on-device RAG to allow chatting with your own documents on mobile offline 2. Support MCP on-device, taking advantage of information that’s (only) available on your phone, like calendar events, health data, etc. These shouldn’t need to be anywhere but on-device. 3. Allow on-device AI to use shortcuts(?)

I think most of the functionality are well served on desktop front with Ollama and LM Studio, but moving these functionality to mobile offers a great learning opportunity.

Sadly that may not be far from the truth.

China folks are more hungry than most in the west, with the exception of Silicon Valley and New York, and China isn't "burdened" by quality of life, and work life balance, which isn't healthy, but that's one of their edge.

Even for U.S. AI Startups, asian makes up a majority of the research + technical staff. I think the incentive to go into PhD in the west has been gradually declining for years, while PhD programmes have been flooded with Chinese Students. I think it's something that the U.S. government needs to address to try to remain competitive in the longer term.

Manufacturing is something that the west actively gave up and migrated the skillset to Asia, notably China and Taiwan.

I think while technically they differ mostly only in terms of the training materials thrown into it, the outcome is that each model is good at something and bad at others, just like human being. Soon you'll need standardized tests and HR department to evaluate individual LLM performance. :)

Sigh. But honestly, it just felt like people getting used to China doing outrageous things like these to the point where it's no longer interesting for a comment.

dude, that’s freaking nuts. It’s amazing and terrifying at the same time.

I don’t know man. I mean, google indexes the open web to create a search engine and we all seem to be fine with it. I do draw the line that if you want to build a LLM, there’s the internet for you, train your own damn model and stop piggybacking on someone else’s, or in China’s case, at least don’t get caught.

Remember, "A little bit beyond Hello World" in Carmack's mind is Video Decompression code. Brings a little bit of perspective.

We in Hong Kong are all assuming that TikTok is CCP-owned at this point.

Young children are obsessed about TikTok, even in Hong Kong, and parents are just too happy to let their kids melt in front of a mobile screen all day just to get some rest.

But then there's also Zero chance that the CCP is telling them to leave Hong Kong. TikTok imho is a spying and influence tool for the CCP anyway.

This move feels very very weird.

You're right that correlation does not equal causation, but it doesn't have to be for those folks to not care.

Having lived in Singapore, Hong Kong (current) and China, I can tell you that in Singapore's case, folks are aware that they live under a semi-dictatorship, that their government controls all media (radio, tv, everything is state-owned). But they always say "but I guess the government is doing a good job".

One has nothing to do with the other. The government can do a good job without the dictatorship, but it's the way folks rationalize their helplessness, their sense of lack of control over their fate.

This is also why we in Hong Kong ARE fighting against these kind of controls, probably in vein, but I for one do NOT want to resign in rationalizing for the government's over-control without a fight.