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primordialsoup··on Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization
This is very interesting work, but it's not really a LLM. It doesn't have language abilities. They should have called it a seq2seq model, but I think that term is not in vogue these days :)
primordialsoup··on The new Polaroid I-2 instant camera
It's like someone asking for a gasoline version of Tesla.
primordialsoup··on The Battle over Books3
It's pretty much the opposite: Big corporates are the ones training the models (and benefiting from it).
primordialsoup··on The Eleuther AI Mafia
I can do it myself and it's not a huge hill to climb, but I don't necessarily have the time to do it. There is also the time that needs to be dedicated towards maintenance (upgrades etc.).
primordialsoup··on 90% of “eco-friendly” paper straws contain traces of toxic forever chemicals
I have heard this argument from perfectly healthy people, and I couldn't really believe it, since there are just so many other touch points when you go to a restaurant.

If someone is immuno compromised I think this makes sense to extent.

primordialsoup··on Brexit Could Be Reversed - Here's How
Tixerb. Here I reversed it.
primordialsoup··on On the paper “Exploring the MIT Mathematics and EECS Curriculum Using LLMs” [pdf]
https://theaireport.substack.com/p/the-ai-report-5-gpt-4-ace...
primordialsoup··on GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params
Makes it worse, since you have this understanding and still went with this explanation that it's 1.7 trillion patients
primordialsoup··on Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs
And resources at some level.
primordialsoup··on Launch Lamini: The LLM Engine for Rapidly Customizing Models as Good as ChatGPT
Congrats! I went to your demo and asked for words that end in agi. This is what I got:

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agi, agi, agi, agi, agi, agi, agi

These are some of the words that end in agi. You can also use the word agi in a sentence. For example, "I am going to the grocery store to get some agi."

These are some of words that end in agi.

These are some words that end in agi.

maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize

These are some words that ends in agi

--

So I think this needs more work to get to "as good as ChatGPT". But having said that, congrats on the landing

primordialsoup··on Paul Graham is an investor in the company trying to kill Twitter
I like Substack. Obviously this situation is not good for Substack, but they should be proud that Twitter is scared of them.
primordialsoup··on I wish GPT4 had never happened
Yeah it's a short article and not a long form analysis. So yes, by don't definition it's shallow.

It's expressing the author's discomfort and so it's pessimistic.

I think those are fine.

Who will prompt? Yes, the manager.

primordialsoup··on Surgeon General says 13 is ‘too early’ to join social media
When everyone is sick, they stop calling it a disease. - naval.

:(

primordialsoup··on MusicLM: Generating music from text
The first version of Dall-E was mediocre. Look where we are now.
primordialsoup··on Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff
I can think of a list of works from Alphabet but can't think of much from FAIR (other than OPT).

I will be happy to read something nice from FAIR as well, so please elaborate.

primordialsoup··on Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoff
That's sad and hope something can be done about that. But that still doesn't mean we should go back and kill the iphone if we can do it. Because then we should go back to get rid of cars (so many accidents) and kill industrial revolution as well (so much pollution)...
primordialsoup··on High-intensity exercise, some new news
HIIT vs. regular cardio is not micro optimization (in your words). Trying to figure out the exact heart rates might count as one.

An analogy to what you are saying would be this: Studying in MIT vs. any random university should be the same. "Go to college, study hard and you will be fine. It's not rocket really science."

Your other points are valid.

primordialsoup··on Large-Scale Matrix Factorization on TPUs
It's funny you say that GPUs are general purpose.

It's almost like a universal law that generic stuff is helpful only to some extent, after which you need specialization. That's why we do PhDs I suppose. And that's why you have cardiologists.

primordialsoup··on The Lie That Made Me
Somewhat orthogonal comment. Was reading this book "The coming storm" where the author Michael Lewis talks about chaos theory, and how you could go back to one (small) thing that is at the root of who you are. For example, DJ Patil had dyslexia, and that made him not do well in the school, and so he ended up going the off-beaten track and hacking his school systems etc. Years later, he was hacking into US Weather service's data, and many more incidents later, he became "Head of Data Products and Chief Scientist of LinkedIn" and later worked for Obama.

Parallel here is that one guy's mischievous behavior has such a massive consequence.

primordialsoup··on Zero rupee note (2015)
If I don't like you, I could give this to you without your knowledge and report you. The point being, it can fail and can be misused.
primordialsoup··on Learning to Learn
I have switched to Remnote to take better notes of books I read as well to use practice spaced repetition, but it is hard to make a routine of practicing the cards. :)
primordialsoup··on DeepNet: Scaling Transformers to 1k Layers
Does this apply to non-transformer based architectures as well?
primordialsoup··on Ask HN: How do I “make the switch” towards becoming a director or VP
Yes, by "making the switch" I was not referring to just suddenly become director material. It is basically how I can change how I learn. What you have mentioned is useful, thanks, and I am trying my best to do all of those, but how I improve is linear at best. I see others who grow better than linear, and would like to emulate them. Ultimately my goal is not to just strive towards a Director, but to become a solid performer who strategizes/works like one.
primordialsoup··on Disney CEO Bob Iger immediately steps down from CEO position
I read "ride of a lifetime" by Bob Iger last month. It was a pretty nice book, similar to ShoeDog by Phil Knight. I learnt a lot about leadership, about Bob himself and started to like him (even though I had no idea about him before the book).

A few things that stuck with me: 1. Have three priorities or less. Otherwise people can't relate. Jim Collins also said: "If you have more than three priorities, you don't have any". 2. He did everything to show that he cared about what his people were doing. He would take part in many aspects of the star wars movie (and be there). This sent a message, a good one. 3. Earning trust is important. He did Pixar acquisition well. That earned the trust of Marvel CEO.

I recommend checking that book out.

primordialsoup··on Facebook Won’t Remove This Woman’s Butthole as a Business Page
This is unfortunate that she had to escalate it in this manner for the page to be gone. Now a search for her name will point to these articles.
primordialsoup··on Researchers have identified 100 mysteriously disappeared stars in the night sky
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primordialsoup··on A lone wolf's miles traveled in northern Minnesota
That's covering one marathon distance everyday!
primordialsoup··on U.S. widens trade blacklist to include some of China’s top AI startups
> So the mainstream media and politicians would have us believe.

Do you have sources from non-"mainstream media" that indicate otherwise?

primordialsoup··on Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon
But you most likely might have bought something that was powered by Shopify. And Shopify wants to keep it that way.
primordialsoup··on Creeping normality
Another example: people walking around looking at their mobile phones.
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