“The role of transformers in inference was never the intent. It emerged as a byproduct of scaling, where high language diversity, hyperparameters tuned for variance, and autoregressive prediction started producing results that mimic reasoning. But they still are just a… Read More »Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
“techno-fascist officials “acquire power by creating these supra-ministerial organs and agencies, subgroups within the bureaucracy that are unaccountable.”” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk
“OpenAI loses money on every single paying customer, just like with its free users. Increasing paid subscribers also, somehow, increases OpenAI’s burn rate. This is not a real company.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money
“anecdotal examples of some people using some software that they kind-of like is not evidence that generative AI is a sustainable or real industry at the trillion-dollar scale that many claim it is.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon
“I I actually work with and manage multiple Kubernetes, mission critical infrastructure that actually matters. I spend my entire day working with containerised applications, and what do I find when I load up Reddit? Ansible playbook writing maniacs trying to… Read More »Recommended Read: You are all a bunch of sick freaks.
“The purpose of a calculator app is to give you correct answers. Floating point numbers are imprecise – they cannot represent 0.3 or 10^100. This means a calculator built on floating point numbers is like a house built on sand.”… Read More »Recommended Read: “A calculator app? Anyone could make that.”
“Because LLMs get catastrophically wrong answers on topics I know well, I do not trust them at all on topics I don’t already know. And if you do trust them, I urge you to spend five minutes asking your favourite… Read More »Recommended Read: If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well
“A place is a collision between human culture and physical space.” https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-scientists-of-the-1960s-turned-the-moon-into-a-place
“I can’t stress enough how bad this is. In a world drowned in manipulative advertising, your circle of friends and colleagues you know personally is your last source of trustworthy recommendations.” https://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html
“Blogging forces clarity. It makes you structure your thoughts, sharpen your perspective. You stop writing fluff because — let’s be honest — you’re writing for yourself. And if you can’t keep yourself interested, nobody else stands a chance.” https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it