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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I’ll catch downvotes, whatever.

    Is there too much hype in the AI space? Yes. Is it still absolutely incredible, the advancements we’ve made since 4chan made gpt2 racist?

    We got LLMs that can one-shot code up simple games like snake and minesweeper. I can throw 12 pdfs at a single prompt and ask which of them talks about an idea that might not be explicitly mentioned in any of them and not only can it identify it, it can summarize it and expand on it.

    Am I sick of seeing it shoved into everything? Yes. Is it basically magic? Also yes.




  • I knew a kid in elementary school, let’s call him Brian S. He moved away in the 5th grade. Bye Brian 😢

    6th grade. Spring vacation. My family drives us down to visit an aunt from upstate NY, down in North Carolina.

    We have our vacation. It’s now the following Saturday. We’re driving home. We stop at a rest area on 95. I see Brian S and his family just walking from their car to the rest area. Same time as us.

    We stop and chat for a few mins. It’s the 90s so we can’t like trade cell phone numbers or anything. I don’t even think we had regular instant messaging screen names yet.

    Last I ever saw Brian S.