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You can download a base model (aka foundation, aka pretrain-only) from huggingface and test it out. These were produced without any RL. However, most modern LLMs, even base models,…

I suspect the microtransaction idea was in the air in the 1960s. Nikolai Nosov's "Dunno on the Moon" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon ) which is a Soviet satire of…

There was a time where somebody in SF has figured admin access code to older apartment intercoms (I believe they were manufactured by Linear and maybe other companies too). These i…

What do you mean? Gemini app is available on IOS, Android and on the web (as AI Studio https://aistudio.google.com/ ).

40% of Russian budget is allocated to defense, that's roughly the same level as US during Vietnam war.

There's a theological doctrine called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatological_verification that claims that statements like "there's God" or "there's afterlife" are perfectly …

As I Understand It

>also is indicative of a massive organization with truly abysmal levels of internal siloing. Or a joint project between several organizations.

Me: Solve the riddle: You have three fantastic animals: Aork, Bork, and Cork. If left unattended, Aork would eat Bork, and Bork would eat Cork. When you are with them, they behave …

Wouldn't ChatGPT in homomorphic encryption mode do something like that already? You put in a query - the system processes it in mysterious ways, and returns the answer in constant …

deeplearning.ai has a short coursee on the topic https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/large-language-mod...

So do alcohol, gambling and bad relationships.

>Obviously retail pseudoephedrine was never a substantial contributor to methamphetamine production I don't know how it compares to organzied production, but people certainly do co…

It's weird to see pieces of Typescript in there.

Before CORS, JSONP was one of the few ways to work around the same-origin policy.

That happened not that long ago, in 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...

Coincidentally, the ACME DNS verification process that LetsEncrypt uses is vulnerable to the QUANTUM attack. If NSA injects a fake DNS response in the right spot, and have the thei…

As far as I can tell, the verification that DigiCert performs is 1. the company exists in various Business listings 2. the phone number listed in whois has a human behind it and th…

Dior and Louis Vuitton love putting their logos all over their products, especially accessories. I think it cheapens the brand, but i'm not their marketing person.

I tried other punctuation marks and MJ can't do them either. Exclamation mark generaties all kinds of vertical objects, comma results in a generic pretty face, and semicolon is ...…

Rich people screwing over other rich people is much more prevalent.

I imagine you could still build a dream team of GPT3.5, GPT4, LLama2, Vicuna and their friends

Is that surprising for a resource oriented economy? Aramco (Saudi Oil) is the second biggest company in the world, yet GDP of Saudi Arabia is about that of Poland

It's all relative. By western standards, Yandex is a mid-cap company, but whereas US has FAANG+, Russia has just Yandex and maybe VK/Mail.ru

monontheism is far from an universal consequence of agriculture. It's really limited to Abrahamic religions and religions influenced by them. Pre-christian Roman empire, Ancient Gr…