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The website is beautiful expect that stupid cookie popup. Has anyone ever got any fines for not putting up cookie popup in their website?

Also, if you are into this, you might like the book:

Cut in Half: The Hidden World Inside Everyday Objects https://www.amazon.com/Cut-Half-Hidden-Everyday-Objects/dp/1...

Unless laws of Physics can be broken it is not possible to migrate anything through the universe. Currently galaxies are moving away from each other at the speed of ~light. You can't just reach anywhere.

The fascinating thing is that this guy has literally 100s of billions in pocket. He ALSO has all the time in the world. He can do anything he wants. Anything. The dude is smart, genius, visionary. He even precisely knows what needs to be done. And what is he really doing? It is simply breathtaking.

Frankly, number of benchmarks you guys are using are too narrow. In fact these benchmarks are "old world" benchmarks, easy to game through finetuning and we should be stop using them altogether for LLMs. Why are you not using Big Bench Hard or OpenAI evals?

LLaMA2 is still quite a bit behind ChatGPT 3.5 and this mainly get reflected in coding and math. It's easy to beat NLP based benchmark but much much harder to beat NLP+math+coding togather. I think this gap reflects gap in reasoning but we don't have a good non-coding/non-math benchmark to measure it.

Big issue with Google Maps is that it doesn’t zoom in properly when you are complex turn. Number of times I miss the turn on Google Maps is so high compared to Apple Maps. Apple Maps even integrates with Apple Watch and taps on your wrist to ensure you don’t miss turn. More recently I also found Google Maps is not keeping up with closed roads in real time. Gradually but surely, I have moved on to Apple Maps. I never thought this would happen.

I found that about 10% of dentist worth anything. This is because training quality has taken nose dive and it’s now mostly a business of hiring dozen hygienists and take the cut. Similar thing is happening in optometrists. I got 3 completely different prescriptions at 3 places. Even worse is neurology and physiotherapy.

LLaMA2 is far and away from GPT 3.5. Just look at HumanEval and other code generation metrics. All these GPT-4 based "chat evals" are extremely misleading and people should take it with a bag of salt.

Stunning: https://chat.openai.com/share/367fd09d-79cb-4683-a179-e253a8...

Looks like there is no dirth of H100s anymore. So, is GPU scarcity finally gone?

It is not the free market because they are privileged through their connections to acquire massive amount of cash in form of credit. The trillions of dollars available in funds from banks and retirement funds are managed by just handful of entities. You and me don't fly in our private jets to play golf with CEOs in Palm Beach. You and me don't have privileged access to these entities to get $10M loan in blink of an eye to buy up a local Rock Climbing gym and shut them down overnight. They CAN and they DO. They use their massive credit leverage through privileged connections to destruct any businesses they want, extract short term profits and move on. In many ways, few entities have monopolies over such credit leverage and that's absolutely not free market.

I would high recommend the book The New Tycoons: Inside the Trillion Dollar Private Equity Industry That Owns Everything. The book was released 3 years ago and people are now waking up the devastations caused by the private equity firms everywhere.

The fuel of private equity firms is yours and mine 401K. That's trillion of dollars of money floating around. PE firms gets tons of cash as debt which gets sold to 401K fund managers. So, in essence, PE firms get money from you and me to destruct the local businesses we depend on. The entire story of making businesses capital efficient is bullcrap. PE firms lives to make short term profits and move on. They are not into business for its philosophy, values and long term customer loyalty. They want to cut the cost, make it look profitable and sold it to sucker to cash out.

I have seen this happen over and over. This is the issue that should be front and center for elections but public doesn't know what is going on. Recently PE firm bought out the building which had oldest and only rock climbing gym. PE firm refused to renew their lease and forced to shut it down. The entire community of rock climbers basically died overnight. Lots of children growing up and learning this sport would not have opportunity that their parents did.

The disease of PE firm is very real. I am all for free markets but this is NOT free market. These are the cockroaches that get capital from funds that manages yours and mine 401K. They use that capital to kill local businesses, install new passive income generator like warehouse in order to cut all the costs and then sell it back to suckers for short term profits. The price of their profits are paid by huge negative impact on who continues in the area where they caused devastations.

I don’t see anything functional here. Is waiting list announcement all it takes to get on front page these days?

If more compute is spent than before but in parallel to reduce latency then wouldn't this increase power? Shouldn't latency and power both be objective?

How chip shortage still a thing? It’s not that car chips are 5nm even. Toyota should be able to put its weight just like Tesla does.

Amazing! Now, if you only have this for HP-48SX :).

For past two decades, this news shows up every year as if some new ground breaking discovery is made. We have seen no impact of any kind so far. It seems some research group releases this to media whenever they are due to apply for funding.

NVidia A100 DGX Superpod is equivalent to exaflop TPU pod. No?

Basically some professors used their tenure to teach critical race theory and now Texas law makers don’t want any owing tenure!

Great to see this but dataset is the trickiest part. There is no way to confirm if this is good dataset unless model is actually trained on it. To reproduce LLaMA, you need $2M of compute.

It should be super uphill battle. I really hope so. Parents should determine what’s appropriate and the use cases. People trying to create laws left and right for every damn thing is just nuts. We have ended up with “I accept cookies” on every website now. Isn’t that enough for these “bring in government into every aspect of our life” nuts?

My wish would be no laws could be passed unless we have 3/4th of votes and every 10 year old law gets expired unless passed again.

"The latest language model, GPT-4, has 1 trillion parameters."

What?

MemoTrap dataset has similar theme: https://twitter.com/alisawuffles/status/1618347159807750144

This idea of doing layoffs and then using it to fund stock buybacks is really catching on. We should call this “double booster” for stock prices even when company is clearly failing.

This dude looks like another “content creator” mission on putting out click optimized links with no substance, no data and no real research. These amature opinion distributors are cancer to information society.

My expectation is that people will gradually move away from whole dating and marriage business. Families will collapse, number of children per person would be < 1. Same as Japan. Alternatives for entertainment and engagement are far more plentiful and cheaper in time as well as money investment. Young people trying for relationships now frequently experience betrayals as people jump around to find "better" match at every opportunity. The victims on other side often decide it to be cognitively too burdensome to keep trying. Divorce laws are huge negatives and discouragement from financial perspective to middle class youth desperate for financial independence.

I think the culture is moving generally towards women who is independent, who selects mates from top 10%, keeps relationship with mate during early stages of raising child and eventually moves on with her independent life possibly with new partners. No marriages involved and top 10% of males don't really have to "date".

> If you have never felt these feelings because you're young and haven't met anyone interesting yet

If you have never felt feeling of being disillusioned then it is because you are not old and haven't really found out true nature of your relationship.

Highly recommended experience: Go to your local family court on a nice afternoon and sit back and relax for few hours. One of those people there is your neighbor who was just until yesterday happily married and now losing his home and worried about how he would pay alimony and see his children more than twice a month.

No one gets married thinking they would ever divorce. 50% of them divorce nonetheless.

> Except for the potential of shared income

Kick here is that there is no such thing. More than 50% marriages end in divorces. And when it does, person who earned the most, loses the most. In states like CA, if you are married to someone for 10 years, you may be held liable o provide lifetime of alimony which can be as much as 50% of your income. It may not happen but there are no guarantees because there are no real laws and judges do whatever the hell they want. One of the lucrative business is divorce lawyer claiming abuses to extract lifetime alimony in states like CA. To that person "shared income" would be a joke.

The problem new generation has is that if one marries to financial equal, they would divorce because they can support themselves while enjoying independence once honeymoon period is over. On the other hand, if one married to financial unequal then other person has very high incentive to divorce as they get half of the wealth other person brought in plus potentially lifetime of fat alimony checks secured by life insurance in states like CA. Divorce rates in US is now off the chart and kids born in these families knows how how this love thingy eventually pans out. Gen 0 members now describes classic romantic novels as "cringe".