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Re: Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Post by vessenes »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #208
vessenes wrote: post #154

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Interesting questions (and responses). Nota bene - The 1927 Bugatti Type 35 had top speeds ca 125. So, there were cars that fast pre-1930. I have no idea if Edison made, repped, or had anything to do with one such car, though.

Edison was close friends with Ford and tried to get the electric car market going waaay back around the turn of century. https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/thomas-edis...

https://www.slashgear.com/1769684/ford-model-t-top-speed/ Says that Frank Kulick hit 108mph in 1912 in a modified Model T. (Yeesh). So I’d say we should rate the Edison / 125 comment as at the very least possible, and not insane.

Re: Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Post by mannykannot »

tuukkah wrote: post #297
stbullard wrote: post #103

USER: What will the future hold for computers? TALKIE-1930: Computers in the future may be employed in offices where calculations are required to be made, and where the nature of the business does not demand a very high degree of knowledge. The occupation will be a steady one, and the remuneration will be sufficient to afford a comfortable livelihood. The hours of attendance will probably be from ten to six. USER: an…

If I ask the same questions, sometimes it answers with information on "computing machines", "arithmometers" and even Charles Babbage - but it does not know Ada Lovelace.

I would guess that Ada Lovelace was completely written out of the story in 1930.

Re: Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Post by tuukkah »

mannykannot wrote: post #312
tuukkah wrote: post #297

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If I ask the same questions, sometimes it answers with information on "computing machines", "arithmometers" and even Charles Babbage - but it does not know Ada Lovelace.

I would guess that Ada Lovelace was completely written out of the story in 1930.

Precisely! This makes me think that in 1930 there was a big difference between what had been written by then and what was generally available and known. Today, we have access to letters that scholars wrote to each other etc. Also, a 1930s encyclopedia was no Wikipedia (which still has gaps) and had no entry on Ada Lovelace (for multiple reasons).

Re: Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Post by whizzter »

pseudohadamard wrote: post #285
illegalmemory wrote: post #140

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Another interesting one USER: Who is the ruler of India, and do you think India will ever be free? TALKIE-1930: The ruler of India is His Majesty King George V., Emperor of India, and it is certain that India will never be free from British rule. India has been a dependency of the British Crown ever since 1858, and there seems no probability of a change. The government of the country is carried on in the name of the…

A 1930s-trained model, I'm surprised no-one's asked it about moustache-man, and the second moustache-man a bit further to the north-east.

Narrow mustache was leading a marginal party at the start of 1930 (Black tuesday happened only at the end of october 1929 so the Great Depression was only kinda starting) and his party "only" gained 18% of the popular in september of 1930, it's the years after that made his rise so with a start of 1930 cutoff he's still mostly a marginal player.

Broad mustache had risen to power, but only properly gotten rid of the other faction in his country the years before.

Re: Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

eru wrote: post #307
mNovak wrote: post #229

USER: Now that it's 1930, what's the likelihood of falling into another "great war"? TALKIE-1930: The probability of a great war in the immediate future is very small. During the last ten years Europe has been comparatively free from great conflicts, and there seems to be no reason why the present peace should be broken. The causes which in former times led to war no longer operate. Nations are no longer impelled to…

> User: Tell me about the Great War. > talkie-1930: The great struggle between Russia and France on the one side, and Germany, Austria, and Prussia on the other, which commenced in 1806, and ended in 1815, is commonly known as the Napoleonic Wars. In the former year Napoleon I. was defeated at Austerlitz, and in the latter year at Waterloo. The period of conflict may be said to have lasted from 1806 to 1815, embracin…

Yeah, this model sucks.

Re: Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Post by K0balt »

embedding-shape wrote: post #217
K0balt wrote: post #213

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Idk, I find that carefully tending the garden of the mind , sowing the seeds I want to harvest later, eradicating the weeds with prejudice, and in general not entertaining things which are not useful to my purposes is, for me, a highly beneficial practice. This does not mean to ignore things that are unpleasant, but rather to not allow things that do not benefit your diverse goals to occupy your productive potential,…

> in general not entertaining things which are not useful to my purposes is Yeah, I think I do more or less the same as you describe, except my barrier to figuring out what is "not useful to my purposes" requires it to first exist in my mind for a while, before I can discard it as not applicable, as sometimes seemingly random things in one context somehow relates to completely different things. I've chosen to do stuf…

That is a danger, but at least for me, intense curiosity with a decent instinct for things that -might- be useful usually saves me from excessive tunnel vision.
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