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Why bother use a GPT-3 model when you can use the free BLOOM model? Large "foundation" models will become a commodity -- a race to the bottom.

I got an intestinal parasite (Ascaris - https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/ascariasis/index.html ) while in University here in Canada. I was minding my business one day, I looked down i…

The Canadian telecom space is dominated by 3 primary companies -- Telus, Bell, and Rogers. They form an effective oligopoly that is quite detrimental to the Canadian consumer. In t…

Ya, I love my kobo. I recently cracked the screen on mine (after about 8 plus years). I went straight to best buy the next day and got a new one.

I just spent the last hour browsing through the book and figures. Thanks! Lots of great inspiration in there.

Yes. I wonder if the author had first worked on the patent side (I'd be interested to hear more about this idea). Perhaps working on patents first would be a path to get experience…

Balaji Srinivasan had a good take on this recently in his conversation with Tim Ferris. I quote: "The thing is, I don’t care if something has a thousand retweets, what I care about…

This is awesome! Another reason to be bullish on SpaceX starship. Being able to send mass to space on the cheap opens up many new astronomical exploration avenues.

New York Times, I'm looking at you...

You're wrong. They are completing bitcoin transactions on lightning network, which is built upon the base bitcoin block chain (it's a layer two). Thus, the cost of spending bitcoin…

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