I recently got my boss to send a donation to an open source project!

It was technically not free to use for commercial purposes, but we could have done it anyway… However my boss agreed when I mentioned how insignificant it would be on the project’s cost!

You can try to change it… Put all your energy into it, until you’re burnt out… and then you can finally find your place in this machine!

I once help create a programming challenge to screen potential hires. We hired the one guy who found a potential bug in my design!

Which Linux distro would work on a phone? I have an old zenfone 8 lying around.

Yeah, I’m glad I don’t have to make that (voting) choice myself!

I don’t know enough about this guy, but he definitely has a strike. He would need to be otherwise perfect, and to be in the process of having the tattoo removed.

My main concern is that people can change, and also young people make a lot of really dumb mistakes in order to be accepted by their peers… If they don’t have a choice of environment due to poverty or other things outside their control, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a good person get involved with criminal gangs.

So you believe that IQ (or general intelligence, because IQ is a shot measurement of intelligence) cannot change through a person’s life?

Let’s say they changed their sleep habits, started eating healthy, and took time to get deeper cultural knowledge about humanity… Would it be possible?

Thanks I’ll give it a new look!

Hehe, true! I left the field about 4 years ago when it became obvious that “more GPUs!” was better than any architectural design changes…

Most of the image generation made by the products you mention are based on a mix of LLMs (for processing of user inputs) and some other modality for other media types. Last time I checked, ChatGPT was capable of handling images only because it offloaded the image processing to a branch of the architecture that was not a transformer, or at least not a classical transformer. They did have to grift CNN parts to the LLM to make progress.

Maybe in the last 4 years they reorganised it to completely remove CNN blocks, but I think people call these models “LLMs” only as a shorthand for the core of the architecture.

Again, you said that a new benchmark is set every few months, but considering they’re just consuming more power and water, it’s quite boring and I’d argue it’s not really progress in the academical/theoretical sense. That attitude is exactly why I don’t work with NN anymore.

That’s a weird take! It makes much more money sense to sell long term subscriptions treatments, rather than a one time cure.

/s off course

The main breakthrough of LLM happened when they figured out how to tokenize words… The subsequent transformer architecture was already being tested on various data types and struggled compared to similarly advanced CNN.

When they figured out word encoding, it created a buzz because transformers could work well with words. They never quite worked as well on images. For that, stable diffusion (a variation on CNN) has always been better.

It’s only because of the buzz on LLMs that they tried applying them to other data types, mostly because that’s how they could get funding. By throwing in disproportionate amount of resources, it works… But it would have been so much more efficient to use different architectures.

These bbq crates from Costco need to be mobed with a forklift

Mass generalization are always wrong!

Haha, i didn’t know it had drop bars… Nope, that’s not for me :)

Maybe with a decent backpack?

So basically the “mountain bike” I had as a kid, before the started adding fancy shock absorbers and disk brakes?

All right, now I want a gravel bike too!

Power corrupts…

I think McMaster still has a catalogue…

Turn off.

I’d call that a yellow velvet.

Your message makes me think i shouldnstart a new fork of Arch, and name it “Arch btw”, and make it crappy.

It would break all the memes about arch