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discobot··on Anthropic raising funding valuing it at $60B
I legitimately dont know how to reply, bc by this point llms co-own all aspects of my life and jumps between gpt4->claude3->claude3.5->o1 have all been very noticeable
discobot··on Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
the problem is that last generation of the largest models failed to overcome smaller models on the benchmarks, see lack of new claude opus or gpt-5. The problem is probably in the benchmarks, but anyway.
discobot··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
They explicitly train models only on public datasets
discobot··on Performance of llama.cpp on Apple Silicon A-series
regarding the prompt processing and token generation you are correct

it makes sense to benchmark them infependently since prompt processing is done in parralel for each token and is compute bound and token generation is sequential and bound by memory banwidth

discobot··on Facebook Is Now Meta
lets see how this will work out
discobot··on How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability
telegram is certainly non a tech-giant with 500M users
discobot··on Facebook under fire over secret teen research
Why is anything good objectively? It is good for me because I can stay connected with my mom despite living in different country. Also facebook group for my town is nice and useful, and my wife enjoys posting in instagram from our trips.

Now multiply this by several billions.

discobot··on Facebook under fire over secret teen research
they enable communication for 3 billion people on the scale not previously seen in the history of mankind?
discobot··on Facebook under fire over secret teen research
Some believe that facebook is a positive force in the world, despite being hated.
discobot··on Buy on Google is now open and commission-free
I wonder how 100K of engineers made it in
discobot··on What I learned from looking at every AI/ML tool I could find
Google will happily hire and pay batshit crazy salary to any capable engineer with ML background
discobot··on New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David Lynch movie
I wonder how this sound together with fog horns.

Should be glorious

discobot··on GPT-3: A Disappointing Paper?
Google search isn't groundbreaking enough?
discobot··on Reflecting on the first two decades of our foundation
could be related to higher taxes in Europe
discobot··on How is search so bad? A case study
Google filters the results on date of web page update, not date of the post reddit post creation, which is the correct behaviour.

And you are just making unjustified bold statements

discobot··on Belarus’s Soviet Economy
>... had very good universities with mathematics, physics, electronics, engineering. It had developed textile industry, built heavy carriers, tractors.

Well, so was Ukraine, and look at it now.

discobot··on Belarus’s Soviet Economy
Estonia and Lithuania despite democracy and economic reforms are well known money laundromats for Russian oligarchy (see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_money_laundering_s...).
discobot··on Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
We have United Nations to handle the issues like this, and from their point of view you are wrong.
discobot··on Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
Dealing with that is CIA business, not Activision Blizzard.
discobot··on Blizzard Postpones World of Warcraft 15th Anniversary Event in Taiwan
Authoritarian ant antidemocratic government is just as legitimate as any other
discobot··on How much money can you make on Mechanical Turk?
You still need Turk to train your models...
discobot··on Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way
But we have.
discobot··on MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
We do not explain how to read handwriting, we teach by example - and that is exactly how ML works.

And your last point is wrong. ML models are studied and understood much better than human reasoning.