braingenious

I agree with all of this.

Further… I think this is much more akin to those silly “make an anime avatar of yourself” apps than anything remotely resembling a headshot taken by a photographer.

For example, there is an example of a woman with medium length brown hair and the example “headshots” are… not good. It looks like her eye color is different in every picture, the black and white example looks kind of rotoscoped, and the example in the rotation immediately after the black and white has incredibly messed up eyes. One of her irises is all wonky and non-human looking. It’s a great example of why it’s important for a human to supervise and correct SD generated things like faces.

I’m also a bit confused by the quantization thing. Why exactly is everybody running the same program on the same file? Why not just include the quantized weights?

It seems like if somebody figured out the “correct” way to quantize the 7b weights it would make way more sense to just torrent the output rather than distribute a fixed program.

I have not found alpaca to be comparable to chatgpt, but it could be because of bugs in the version I installed through dalai. I might try reinstalling it because I suspect there might be some sort of file corruption issue or whatever.

I gave it the prompt “cats aren’t always fuzzy” and it wrote a lengthy livejournal-esque rambling journal entry about a woman and her husband having money issues. It was funny, but lightyears away from chatgpt.

It does sometimes create some really funny hallucinations though, like inventing prefectures in Japan that don’t exist etc.

They’re sold as tank shirts or A shirts by the manufacturers.

It’s always nice to compliment dudes with “nice tank top bro”

> So either way, Balaji is 100% guaranteed to lose money on this bet, no matter what happens. It’s not a risky bet; it’s a sure loser.

I’ve seen versions of this take, and they all conveniently ignore the more obvious possibility:

This “intellectual dark web genious” and his buddies work together to orchestrate a stupid publicity stunt that is nothing more than a naked attempt to artificially inflate the price of bitcoin by trying to recreate the anxiety around USD that helped propel bitcoin to its tenuous quasi-legitimacy in the first place.

“Crypto millionaire sets money on fire to try to push more people to dump cash into a magical internet poker chips in order to cash out even more” is not some sort of philosophical experiment, it’s an obvious ploy to enrich some bitcoin maximalists by preying on economic anxiety.

I love how all of these crypto “philosophical true believers” always require that you take actual cash out of your bank account to buy into their experiments.

“When did Chamath short Credit Suisse?”

When did you answer this question in your post? If you readily admit that you are incapable of answering that, would you say that if you’d submitted this to HN with the title “Goosy Goosy on the 6.5” you would have gotten… fewer clicks?

What substance is there to this post aside from suggesting a podcast?

>I wonder if he was short CS as soon as he learned they were offering the sweetener? Or did he have too many relations with that bank. (He is one of their private clients). Or did he miss the trade entirely?

This article is clickbait that basically boils down to a zero-content ad for some podcast.

Maybe there is wisdom to be gleaned! Who knows? All we know is that we must pay attention to this podcast by finance bros because they may or may not make or have made good trades!

I’m still not following here.

If somebody were to post their personal experience with chlamydia would you reply with be “It’s a hot take to not mention the very serious problem that chlamydia poses to koala bears. When I read about something happening somewhere, I assume that that means it isn’t happening elsewhere.”

What exactly is a “hot take” in this context?

If someone were to post “How McDonald’s makes their burgers” would it be a hot take because In-N-Out also makes burgers?

https://www.businessinsider.com/i-went-to-a-mcdonalds-factor...

That’s what I’m doing! I found myself amazed by the sheer terribleness of the html that Microsoft Word output. I managed to get it to write a script to clean up the files last night, but it took a surprising amount of finessing to avoid the myriad footguns involved in dealing with this godawful format.

I am glad that you so emphatically agree with me? Assuming that one’s perspective on what constitutes “the zeitgeist” is anecdotal and personal?

I tried out gpt4 today with the task of “take some html files made by a non technical person using various versions of microsoft word over a decade ago and put the contents into a csv” and it hasn’t done great. Not terrible, but not great.

That being said, I don’t know anybody talented enough to handle it that would even look at this project for $20 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>I think your comment is largely anecdotal

Ok, sure! Let’s see what non-anec

>So, in my very personal opinion, the Best Time Ever to be in tech was in the 2010-2015 era

-dotal bit of data are you going to use

>We were disruptors. We were supposed to change the world.

to disagree with my

>I really don't think recent events are unveiling any kind of disdain so much as adding another black spot to a long laundry list.

point?

As for

>explaining how you came to that conclusion.

Group B is a superset that includes group A! If you are certain that you’ve proven otherwise, I won’t personally be reaching out to Mr. Judge, but anecdotally I suspect that more people watched it than were in the tech industry.

These sorts of posts are genuinely comical!

>When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur.

… to you. It was cool to you to (categorically) be a tech entrepreneur. I think it is possible that “tech entrepreneur” as a monolithic “cool” category only ever existed inside the minds of that same group.

>Why Do People Hate the Tech Industry Now?

Again… I think it’s possible that the author’s perception has shifted, and as such their perception of humanity has shifted with it.

I have a few questions for anybody here that feels like SVB/other recent events has unveiled some sort of new or previously hidden disdain for self-described tech entrepreneurs.

1. When was the first time you heard the term “tech bro”?

2. The TV show Silicon Valley was developed a decade ago by Mike Judge (the creator of the wildly popular comedy King of the Hill) and aired its first episode not long after. Who was the intended audience?

Was it: A. People that the show was about

B. A much larger group of people that had already found tech “culture” to be comical or absurd in their own life experience regardless of their involvement in the industry

(It’s B)

It’s kind of funny. It’s like those viral tweets where the OP follows it up with an affiliate link to some aliexpress lamp after it becomes popular, but he’s trying to do it in real time with everybody’s support.

It will be hilarious when this culminates with “wow this did numbers, you need one of these in your life [link to terrifying knockoff fleshlight] :crying laughing emoji:x10”

I wonder if he ends up factoring in twitter ad revenue for this designed-to-go-viral series of posts.

I’d find this much more interesting if he had taken a day or two to see how this worked out rather than doing edge-of-your-seat engagement maximizing farming. This seems far less about what gpt-4’s capabilities and much more about how talking about it can inflate follower count.

I find that so incredibly off-putting. Whenever I see a company intentionally hiding pricing information I move them all the way to the back of the line for serious consideration. If I don’t manage to entirely put the product out of mind I’ll usually look for competitors or ways to get the service without paying for it.

If they’re going to be user-hostile, become a hostile user!

This looks great! I would like to know how much this costs though.

I recommend reading the book! There is considerably more substance than my single-sentence opinion about how I remember one event in it!

FWIW, the book synopsis that you quoted does not say that libertarians built a tent city, it says that freedom-loving citizens built a tent city. New Hampshire’s state motto is “live free or die”, and that value of freedom is one of the reasons that NH was chosen by the libertarians to build their utopia.

It’s a very rich and complex story about many different people, and arguing with a handful of sentence fragments from a summary does nothing to impugn the quality of the journalism.

>Cool, now do socialism.

I didn’t “do” libertarianism? I recommended a book that I found interesting that’s related to the topic of the article that this discussion thread is in response to.

Socialism has been brought up a couple times in response to my book recommendation and I’m a little confused by that. Is the assumption that the reporter that spent years meticulously researching, interviewing, and documenting the factual record of events is a socialist? Am I a socialist for having read it?

Is this like an amish thing where everybody outside of the orthodox group is called “english”?

Anyway, it’s a good book and I stand by my recommendation!

This reminds me of one of my favorite books from the past couple years, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear.

It’s a fascinating deep dive into an attempt to create a sort of libertarian utopia in a small town called Grafton, New Hampshire. The speed at which they arrive at “we need government services” after they eviscerate government services is… unsurprising.

10/10 I highly recommend it for anyone that’s interested in real-life examples of libertarianism as applied to real populations in the real world.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50358538-a-libertarian-w...

In case anybody missed it, I’m talking about how the dude went full Zarathustra in the agora.

https://twitter.com/jason/status/1634771851514900480

It did lead me to a really interesting article about audience capture and how it twists “influencers” into saying and doing outlandish things though!

https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/the-perils-of-audience-capt...

The funniest thing about this weekend was watching Jason Calacanis descend into what appears to be some sort of religious paroxysm, speaking in tongues, screaming at the sky about the ruinous portends he read in his tea leaves, gnashing his teeth and rending his garments.

Now that the blood prophecy of 100,000 americans doing a universal bank run has not come to pass, he’s positioned himself as a messiah that tweeted us all back into god’s good graces.

This sounds pretty coo—

> combined with a smart thermostat

—nevermind. You lost me.

>Depositors shouldn’t get anything beyond the insured $250,000

My understanding of what I’ve seen people mention is that depositors shouldn’t get more than the insured 250k from the FDIC insurance fund, not that bank assets shouldn’t be used to make depositors whole.

This sentiment doesn’t come out of nowhere. There have been a few panicked and very angry VCs on social media effectively calling for an immediate and retroactive increase in the limit for FDIC-insured funds.

Essentially there are some folks that want the government to step in to make depositors whole will leaving bank assets to be divvied up to make investors whole.

Some folks see this crisis and immediately jump to “how can I take maximum personal advantage?” It is those people that are creating confusion and pushback wrt the FDIC’s involvement here.

This stuff is amazing… now I’ve just got to figure out what I can run on an RTX 3050 Ti

The path is gray.

What does that have to do with exchanging for crypto?

If I move USDC from one wallet to another, and someone else moves bitcoin from one wallet to another in exchange for that USDC, that transaction happens entirely on the blockchain and at no point involves a bank or a peg.

The only reason to disable that function is to force people to hold USDC.