I'm a little baffled by this, 'Russia has deployed big ew systems for every 10km stretch of the front. They are largely aimed at drones. And they work: Ukraine is losing a staggering 10,000 drones per month, says the report, amounting to over 300 losses daily. ew is responsible for around half of those losses, a Ukrainian official tells The Economist.'
What Electronic Warfare is going to pull 5,000 drones a month out of the sky?
Say what you will about Elon Musk, but this is the kind of human creativity that should know no bounds. Here's getting very excited about the species' chase for other worlds.
Just playing casually with NanoGPT (https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT) with a desktop holding a 2080ti, it's really really really clear to me that the path to get to a pre-fine-tuned LLM is remarkably easy. RLHF is the piece above this which appears to also be surprisingly easy (if Sam Altman is to be believed). The juice is making these tools incredibly easy.
I think the barrier to entry here is low. OpenAI is ahead now, but I doubt that lives forever.
Having a 4 month old sitting next to me as I write this, I think the prevailing opinion among my more woke friends with kids is, "screens are bad." As I read this, it seems to come to a correlative conclusion that screen time before 12 months causes executive function impairment as the time increases from 1 hour to 4 hours. Being a lay consumer of scientific material, I'm curious to understand if I'm reading this correctly.
And man. Screens. Addiction and disability were never the goal. :(
What a fantastically enjoyable read. I really want to understand how this question arises and what's actually being tested and invented in coming to the solution to this. And, side note, this is absolutely going to be the strategy I use to paint one of my office walls.
It's probably way too late to get my two pennies into this discussion, but this is FANTASTIC news. Individual developers that want access to OPEN models for their building purposes shouldn't be beholden to a new corporate overlord. Here's hoping that Mozilla can rally the makers in the community with real dollars to spend toward models that all people can use.
I'm super duper curious if there are ways to glob together VRAM between consumer-grade hardware to make this whole market more accessible to the common hacker?
I'm still waiting for Hacker News to band together and simply start building an open model that does not require a corporate daddy like OpenAI, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, or anyone else. These models have no place being owned by corporations. The services that use these models are certainly up for grabs, but the models should be open. Who is trying to rally the community to this cause?
"The same is true for this note as the impacted teams are not yet finished making final decisions on precisely which roles will be impacted. Once those decisions have been made (our goal is to have this complete by mid to late April), we will communicate with the impacted employees (or where applicable in Europe, with employee representative bodies)." What a terrible experience. Employees at Amazon are waiting to be terminated right now.
What exactly have they accomplished? Are they genuinely not building things that could result in improvements to Amazon's bottom line? I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think Amazon is screaming to investors, "wait, we can make money at the expense of our last twenty years of growth if that's what you want." That lens makes Amazon look like a very different company..
I'm very curious about this. Amazon appears to be squeezing more profitability from existing, very successful parts of the organization. In particular, AWS, Advertising, and Twitch are not loss leaders. I'm not really quite sure what "PXT" is as a lay person, but is Amazon essentially making a serious bet on slowing growth to squeeze profit?
I think this is a clever way for OpenAI to trade access to GPT-4 and simultaneously decrease their own intellectual burden for their for-profit models. Here's the offending parts of the README.md:
"For a limited time, we will be granting GPT-4 access to those who contribute high quality evals. Please follow the instructions mentioned above and note that spam or low quality submissions will be ignored!"
I'm curious about how we can get out of the game of using OpenAI's corporate solutions and find ways to open up access to these kinds of models for broader use by anyone. I don't want to be consumed by another corporation in this next wave...
This doesn't seem inappropriate, but the news is moving so quickly here, I wonder if something published by NBC Bay Area yesterday at 5 PM is a particularly good source of information on how First Republic MAY or MAY NOT be failing.
This seems like a stupid question, but is anyone releasing binaries of OpenSSL for Windows environments? Is there an expectation that OpenSSL will take reigns in MacOS environments from LibreSSL?
It's interesting to see First Republic bank having this trouble. It seems clear (feel free to correct me) that they ALSO had massive loan portfolios at extremely low rates which have likely rapidly and seriously declined in value over longer terms. And it's likely they too were enjoying a deluge of deposits from the valley's success and are now seeing huge amounts of money drying up. I'm not saying the bank is bankrupt, but they too could easily end up in a liquidity crisis. In fact, I wonder if they already are heading in that direction...
Do you mean they've taken money from the fed to capitalize the bank already? I understood they were essentially giving money to the fed through their portfolio of purchases t-bonds.
Very curious to understand how this works. For all intents and purposes, if the bank was unable to raise capital, it is at least nominally bankrupt. What value would another entity find in a bank that has failed?
To be fair, the government may find value in shoring this bank up. That's a different story. The bank will be essentially nationalized at that point.
This seems like an odd question to ask, but in Oakland, CA, there are communities trying to do the exact opposite of this. Build CCTV systems to protect AGAINST gangs. I'm curious to know what hardware these guys used. Swords with two edges, you know.
AirBnB has a super core problem: hosts are in short supply. This leads the entire service to see guests as a secondary concern. This leads to a pretty obvious problem: opaque pricing, poor customer service (never trust me, check trustpilot), and probably a serious problem for AirBnB: a resurgence of the vertically integrated hotel chain.
I've long wondered why we couldn't start collecting pure drone footage for this kind of data. Literally decentralize the collection of overhead imagery.