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Worth watching Star City on Apple TV for a perspective on Soviet life. Now, Star City is definitely propaganda but it makes you think!

Do you know a good place for accessing the full sized chinese models but hosted not in China?

What I love is the idea that this is more likely to happen at Meta than at Anthropic, Google, Microsoft or OpenAI... or in the PRC! There's contractual cover, there are lawyers all…

Could this kind of trigger effect the standard candle application of Type 1a's? For example, if a black hole triggers a type 1a and that perturbs the type 1a light curve in some wa…

In what way do you mean iterations - what's your model for iteration as a mechanism for iterating intelligence? Do you mean that intelligence improves with every generation?

Where are you subscribing ? z.ai?

I hope you're joking about... I think we both know the answer, but the answer very definitely isn't intelligence.

As far as I know humans with the same sort of brains as your brain and my brain have existed for 100,000's of years, perhaps as long as 2 million years. They did not go to the moon…

"Onwards!" These guys...

>It's not wish casting whatever that means. The crux of the argument isn't as much of a capability one as it is an economic one. If China can release open source models like these …

I guess almost all laptops/desktops are corporate, student, gaming or own business use. I have never, ever, seen a corporate linux desktop outside of devs. I have never, ever, seen…

Agree - although I think the records we have rule out a previous *Human* "civilisation", not to say that Humans with thousands and thousands of years of culture along with ideas we…

My thoughts: Civilisation implies large scale agriculture. Large scale agriculture implies specific pollen signatures. We don't see any of these signatures in the pollen records dr…

This is what happens when you swap gatekeepers for drug pushers.

It's just he's qualified himself as an unreliable witness. This is not someone who deeply understands and thinks about what he does or what he advises. The things that I know about…

This is interesting and all, but why should we believe any of it? 1) This guy has a track record (confessed) of making shit up, yapping on about it, and pushing it on the innocent.…

I think... we will see!

converting a model to MLX is trivially easy as well - just a couple of lines of code and a few minutes wait. I do find that it reliably crashes on the first try, but then it picks …

Some stories recently that China has decided to reign in and manage it's model production landscape much more tightly.

I think that LeCunns belief was/is that LLM's have limited value and are a dead end, so what they wanted to do was kill any competitor while evolving tech that was/is a winner. Wel…

I don't get this - I can do LORA on my mac... ok I can't do LORA on a 1tn param model, but if I was in the tn parameter model game I would get some kit that I could use to do that.…

You will note that with the unlocks coming there is going to be a lot more spaceX stock on the market quite soon.. Currently 4.9% of the company is on the market. Mid Aug... 15%...…

I may have been making this claim, I need to think about this for a while and re read what you have written. This is very helpful though, thank you.

Of course, if our universe is undecidable it must be the case that computable processes can be executed within it, and it might be the case that all of the processes that are ever …

Computation has turned out to be a far more general concept than I think was imagined, up to the point that many computer scientists now seem to equate computation with the functio…