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by alex_sf 4y ago
Python is a rough language to be productive in. It's a great scratchpad, but dynamic typing, exceptions/poor error handling, and a horrifying deployment and dependency system make me reach for something like Go in any case where
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At some point we also didn't know what a terminal was, how to type, or how to read. That doesn't mean they aren't baseline expectations for a software developer.
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OpenAI isn't trying to become Google, though. ChatGPT is marketing. OpenAI's market is more comparable to AWS. Each product is another backing service for some other product to integrate with and sell to _their_ users.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
For the 65B fine tune, did you add another A100 node? Or just drop batch size? Any chance you’re up to sharing the training parameters?
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I had the same experience, but it was almost entirely due to the new podcasts NPR put out, and the content. Every single show has to have a chunk of time dedicated to race issues. Something like Planet Money I'm willing to just skip
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by alex_sf 4y ago
The overlap between really good ML/AI researchers and even moderately competent developers is very small right now. Basic web application architecture is as foreign to most ML researchers as transformer architectures are to Rails devs
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by alex_sf 4y ago
It's been a week. The first instruction tuned versions of the 7b model came out 48 hours ago. Be patient.
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You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in th
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by alex_sf 4y ago
CS research papers are about programming in the same sense that physics papers are about rockets.
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The argument against two would be: if you can do two, why can you not do three?
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I would argue your example is a special case of only allowing one.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I'm totally fine with that.
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Because they _need_ cool tool A, utility library B, theme C, and then helper library D because B doesn't work quite right.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Honestly, the signal is just to avoid whatever full-time JS developers are getting into.
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I would hope even small nation states have greater resources than James Cameron.
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> You, apparently, believe the opposite. I'm not sure how exactly you read that given the context, but I agree with you.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> Do you think the EU/western Europe has lower worker efficiency even though we have a five-day week, four or five weeks vacation time a year, and eight hour work days with relatively generous overtime compensation? Yes. https:&#x2
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by alex_sf 4y ago
You're right, it's not a platitude, but it's entirely performative and diminishes actual labor struggles.
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They are scared of AI.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
This is complete fantasy. What's objectively best for the company is to get the most value from their labor for the least cost. This is not in the interest of the workers.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Most don't. It's just the ones where there is very little at stake or that they need to bargain for. Tech worker unions can't really strike because the ratio of red and blue M&Ms in one of the thirty free snack rooms is
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by alex_sf 4y ago
This is just word soup. You never explained or claimed anything meaningful.
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Terraform, most likely.
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That's not the issue. I don't want to see personal data sold either. It's all the little rules. There are hundreds of pages just in GDPR. You need a banner and explicit opt-in just to support login/logout functionali
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by alex_sf 4y ago
This simply isn't true. Look at the absurdity of all the cookie banners just to support basic login functionality. I'm all for internet privacy, but these laws are so sweeping that it's impossible to be compliant without a
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by alex_sf 4y ago
They place a burden on everyone. A burden that's going to create a two-tier internet where service is immediately refused to EU citizens by every provider except the giant tech companies that can afford to comply.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Not exactly related to the OP, but: I think I speak for a large number of folks when I say that we don't care. The EU keeps passing all sorts of absurd laws that require dedicated auditors to comply with. It's just not going to
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> Last time I went in to one of these as an experienced engineer I probably said all sorts of things they didn't want to hear like there's no point building a scalable system until you're sure your product has traction. So
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Again, this is rhetoric, if you're not prepared to turn it off now. It's also ascribing some unassailable quality to human-made content that would make it strictly superior to AI generated. There's no reason to think that, l
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by alex_sf 4y ago
That's not fair at all. Unless you're prepared to say that, given the opportunity, you would turn the internet off, this is just rhetoric.

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