Co-working space guy next door takes his calls on speakerphone, not during exceptional circumstances, but all the fucking time.
It dumbfounds me that people have so little awareness of how they're impacting others. It's like, when you can take action of negligible difficulty to not pollute the commons, then don't pollute the fucking commons.
Silly of me to have thought I got the job, based on the verbal representations of a Manager and a Supervisor. I didn't get the job.
Oh well. Now I must consider how to pursue other opportunities. I need to improve my resume. :/
Claude 2 is very nearly as good at GPT-4 for a bunch of my use cases in learning about complex topics. Haven't yet fully exploited the 100k token window, but I think it will be a game changer. Under-reported development, I think.
Also very interested in how the community rises up around llama2 now that they can openly deploy things for it. Going to be another big shakeup.
Ha! Great question. Meta (Facebook et al) have funded the best one (llama) which was initially licensed pretty restrictively, leaked off the reservation, and then the new one (llama2) is much more permissive. There are others that are potentially useful for minor or specialized things (e.g., vicuna) but nowhere near state of the art. Llama is the only thing that's potentially close.
Lots of high-level statecraft as to why they funded it -- probably hundreds of millions to develop, soup to nuts. Short answer is nobody knows for sure. Longer answer is that it's probably a strategic move to keep OpenAI and a handful of others (e.g., Anthropic) from owning everything. Meta isn't going to own AI, but they don't want any of these others to, either.
That's just my half-assed take, but I'm sure there are much more sophisticated / informed ones. I'd love to hear them if anyone has suggestions.
hmmm...Meta has access to private info, and can train on that.
OpenAi has access to public info and books.
Meta has a competitive advantage in that it has what OpenAi has +, more info, and a clearer picture of humans.
Hello there everyone!! Friday is here and that means the weekend has just begun for some it's time off work for others is just another day, the best part is that you can make it whatever you want, find the new in the everyday. My day off is on Sunday, but I get excited because it means I can pamper myself with something I want, a milkshake sounds good, a big fat steak and a baked potato, then a nice walk at the beach to relax the senses and give the senses a treat as well, the feeling of the sea, the sunset for my eyes, the smell of the ocean, the taste of saltiness in my mouth, listening the waves a beautiful treat indeed. I wish you a phenomenal beginning of the weekend and give it your best, because you are the best, you matter and you are important my friend. Be well and stay frosty.
Probably not yet. I think there is some more storm before the skies clear. I still expect the economy to fall off a cliff in the second half of the year. I am stacking regardless but if I had to guess I think it's more likely we see 20k again before end of year than 40k. I do think we hit 40k before the halving early next year though. Halving will be priced in earlier this time as there are more sophisticated actors.
I agree that we're headed into a deep recession. I can see and feel it in Austin - lots of homes for sale, more homeless, fewer tourists. It seems like people are generally getting back to taking their lives seriously again. Their stint as an investor on Robinhood has come to an end.
I suspect bitcoin decouples. Recessions aren't really recessions for rich people. Their allocations just change.
All indicators point to the consumer finally being exhausted. Credit scores dropping as many now starting to miss payments. I think we could have one final push this summer of consumer spending as people aren't going to cancel vacations or events planned but then things start to get ugly.
I am not sure about bitcoin decoupling though. It seems to have started decoupling from Trad markets but if shit hits the fan I expect it to drop sharply with everything else. Maybe it just rebounds quicker.
I heard that the US is going to lift the pause on student loan repayments soon? This specifically might have a negative impact on Bitcoin price as younger buyers (i.e. most of them) are forced to liquidate to cover bills.
‘Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.’
Robert Louis Stevenson
Slightly old news but reading a report on European inflation figures…. so it’s not just the Ukraine conflict or supply side shock but actually corporate profiteering. Who knew!
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