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jumpCastle

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I design channel codes for flash memories.
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jumpCastle··on Falcon LLM – A 40B Model
Not by far, there's bloom and opt if you count it.
jumpCastle··on The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place
It is fine tuned to maximize reward though, not likelihood. And it provides an answer in both cases, just not as well.
jumpCastle··on StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style
In what sense it was more complete or replicable than this paper?
jumpCastle··on Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
It’s easy to quit smoking. I’ve done it hundreds of times.
jumpCastle··on StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style
Attention is all you need had no code or model and still led somewhere.
jumpCastle··on Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?
If you apply for the api you can use the time-stamped original version.
jumpCastle··on System76 Virgo Aims to Be the Quietest yet Most Performant Linux Laptop
Is Linux battery life good?
jumpCastle··on Which kinds of GPT startups will thrive?
Closed source models are also improving. Not clear to me why would open source models will catch up.
jumpCastle··on Anthropic's 100k context is now available in the web UI
It does not seem conversational though
jumpCastle··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
The name 3.5-turbo sounds to me like it implies distillation. The release notes at the time also hinted at it IIRC.
jumpCastle··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
In my experiments bard is weaker than 3.5, but if it wasn't, than I would prefer the fresh data of bard.
jumpCastle··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
Optimazing for training could help distillation also.
jumpCastle··on ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history
These aren't their core product.
jumpCastle··on Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]
Did relevant tax rules change recently? If not, why is this behavior new?
jumpCastle··on Show HN: We are building an open-source IDE powered by AI
One reason might be that some people value open source.
jumpCastle··on Cerebras-GPT: A Family of Open, Compute-Efficient, Large Language Models
Looks like llama 7b was trained on 4 times more tokens.
jumpCastle··on How The Economist covers the world
I didn't need to call. I canceled last year via chat. It took me 15 minutes, answering about 10 quite annoying questions.
jumpCastle··on Voice Calls: Secure, Crystal-Clear, AI-Powered
I'm not an expert on routers but if I was in the market I would look at the Wirecutter. I find their recommendations pretty good.

thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router/

jumpCastle··on The Death of Advertising
I subscribe to a newsletter of a product recommendation service like wirecutter.com, which provides discovery.

Ideally I would be able to pay for this service so that their incentive to provide quality recommendations would align better with the business model

jumpCastle··on Apple Paid $0 in Taxes to New Zealand, Despite Sales of $4.2B
I read people claim that they like it since it reminds them that they pay for the government's operations.
jumpCastle··on Baidu Goes All In on AI
priceline 86B$, ctrip 24B$
jumpCastle··on YC W17 Launch: Credy, Upcall, and Kangpe
That's true, although significant corruption might make GDP growth too slow such that the start ups will run out of money before they can benefit from it.
jumpCastle··on YC W17 Launch: Credy, Upcall, and Kangpe
Yet Nigeria's GDP is smaller than Florida's according to google.
jumpCastle··on Ask HN: Best books on AI?
I liked all three of them. I also feel Murphy's MLAPP provides additional useful material and is well written.
jumpCastle··on Google won’t be able to resist listening in on your conversations
The difference in the quality of the microphones make it quiet impractical in phone, but very easy in a google home device.
jumpCastle··on DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence In Heads-Up No-Limit Poker
Game theory is domain specific. Generic methods in AI tend to dominate domain knowledge over time. Although I agree that other game-theoretic techniques might help here.
jumpCastle··on False information on the internet is hiding the truth about onions
I might pay subscription. I agree that the market is not likely to be big. Also data network effects and difficulty with price discrimination can be big obstacles.

EDIT: I think I misunderstood your question. I will probably pay that much for quality ad-free service. But of course it's a niche product.

jumpCastle··on False information on the internet is hiding the truth about onions
Or a paid search engine incentivized to provide quality results rather than maximize ad network profits
jumpCastle··on DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence In Heads-Up No-Limit Poker
Thanks again. So I guess for multiplayer games a better approach would be reinforcement learning with no game theoretic heuristics?
jumpCastle··on DeepStack: Expert-Level Artificial Intelligence In Heads-Up No-Limit Poker
Thanks for the explanation. I will also appreciate a reference to a good survey paper if you are in the mood :)
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