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Meta also spearheaded the open compute project. I originally joined Google because of their commitment to open source and was extremely disappointed when I didn't see that culture continue as we worked on exascale solutions. Glad to see Meta carrying the torch here. Hope it continues.
When did you join Google?
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I don't know Dwarkesh but I despise Lex Fridman. I don't know how a man that lacks the barest modicum of charisma has propelled himself to helming a high-profile, successful podcast. It's not like he tends to express interesting or original thoughts to make up for his paucity of presence. It's bizarre. Maybe I'll check out Dwarkesh, but even seeing him mentioned him in the same breath as Fridman gives me pause ...
Maybe you should consider that others may not share your views on Lex's lack of charisma or interesting thoughts.
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Any recommendations?
3090, trivially. No reason to go 4090 as it's no more capable, and the 5090 is probably not going to have more than 24GB on it either simply because nVidia wants to maintain their margins through market segregation (and adding more VRAM to that card would obsolete their low-end enterprise AI cards that cost 6000+ dollars).
In another thread I saw a recommendation for dual 3090s if you're not doing anything gaming related, good to have some confirmation there.
Zuck has an interview out for it as well, https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1780990840179187715
Seems like a year or two of MMA has done way more for his charisma than whatever media training he's done over the years. He's a lot more natural in interviews now.
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I don't know Dwarkesh but I despise Lex Fridman. I don't know how a man that lacks the barest modicum of charisma has propelled himself to helming a high-profile, successful podcast. It's not like he tends to express interesting or original thoughts to make up for his paucity of presence. It's bizarre. Maybe I'll check out Dwarkesh, but even seeing him mentioned him in the same breath as Fridman gives me pause ...
The question you should ask is: why are high-profile guests willing to talk to Lex Fridman but not others? The short answer, imho, is trust. No one gets turned into an embarrassing soundbite talking to Lex. He doesn't try to ask gotcha questions for clickbait articles. Generally speaking "the press" are not your friend and they will twist your words. You have to walk on egg shells. Lex doesn't need to express origina…
Zuck has an interview out for it as well, https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1780990840179187715
Seems like a year or two of MMA has done way more for his charisma than whatever media training he's done over the years. He's a lot more natural in interviews now.
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It is just the reverse: he is successful because he is like that and lots of founder ceos are jellies in comparison
I dunno. I find a conviction in passion in founder CEOs that is missing in folks who replace them. Compare Larry & Sergey with Pichai, or Gates with Balmer.
I just want to express how grateful I am that Zuck and Yann and the rest of the Meta team have adopted an open approach and are sharing the model weights, the tokenizer, information about the training data, etc. They, more than anyone else, are responsible for the explosion of open research and improvement that has happened with things like llama.cpp that now allow you to run quite decent models locally on consumer h…
Praise for him at HN? It should be enough of a reason for him to pop a champagne today
I just want to express how grateful I am that Zuck and Yann and the rest of the Meta team have adopted an open approach and are sharing the model weights, the tokenizer, information about the training data, etc. They, more than anyone else, are responsible for the explosion of open research and improvement that has happened with things like llama.cpp that now allow you to run quite decent models locally on consumer h…
Why is Meta doing it though? This is an astronomical investment. What do they gain from it?
There is also an arms race now of AI vs AI in terms of generating and detecting AI content (incl deepfakes, election interference, etc, etc). In order not to deter advertizers and users, FaceBook need to keep up.