This is just another layoff in disguise. Make it miserable, so people leave without severance.

Terminator is a fun movie. It’s also completely fictional.

“AI Safety” is a buzzword OpenAI invented to stifle competition.

orange pi running samba as a file server. it’s behind a wireguard vpn.

huge improvement in my quality of life.

They should move out of US and keep doing it anyway.

everything. There isn’t one particular technology driving this. My hometown of İstanbul has been transformed. Modern buildings are replacing horrible slums, there are new subway lines opening every year and almost everything is improving over time.

millions of people in the third world are growing out of poverty thanks to the advance of technology.

after years of really crappy GPUs, intel finally started making decent ones. It’s probably too late to save intel though…

nice!

Academic publishing is a scam.

arxiv.org just works. Nobody needs Elsevier.

Colleges having a meltdown over AI reminds me of colleges having a meltdown over Wikipedia when wikipedia first came out 20 years ago.

You know uBlock Origin is good when Google is trying to kill it.

Machine Learning or as the non-techies call it, AI. It’s incredible what open source models can do these days.

you should just install mesa, no?

It helps to move quickly when your entire infrastructure crashes.

noice

The compute moat for the initial training will never get lower. But as the foundation models get better, the need for from-scratch training will be less frequent.

The crowdstrike failure is probably helping Linux.

I understand the distinction, but it’s still waaay better than what OpenIAIClosedAI is doing.

Also people are really good at reverse engineering. Open weights models can be fine tuned or adapted. I am trained a Llama 3 Lora not that long ago.

I hate Meta and never use their products. But I have to give them credit for their support of open-source ML: first pytorch, then llama.