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Why bother use a GPT-3 model when you can use the free BLOOM model? Large "foundation" models will become a commodity -- a race to the bottom.

I got an intestinal parasite (Ascaris -https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/ascariasis/index.html) while in University here in Canada. I was minding my business one day, I looked down into the toilet water, and there was a little wormy in my stool. I fished it out and went the ER. The doctor was fascinated cause I don't think they see this so often.

Who knows where I picked it up. The most likely culprit was the dorm cafeteria I was living in. With the open salad bars and the sharing of serving utensils, it is an ideal location to spread some fecal.

Suffice to say, I now avoid salad bars.

The Canadian telecom space is dominated by 3 primary companies -- Telus, Bell, and Rogers. They form an effective oligopoly that is quite detrimental to the Canadian consumer.

In the ISP space, there is a bit more competition. Namely, Shaw provides additional coverage in some regions of the country. However, Rogers wants to buy Shaw. You can imagine how bad that will be for Canadians.

I do wonder what the Rogers outage is about. Ransomeware? State attack? Something stupid? If anything, it shows how we should not have critical infrastructure centralized. Competition between ISPs is important.

Ya, I love my kobo. I recently cracked the screen on mine (after about 8 plus years). I went straight to best buy the next day and got a new one.

I just spent the last hour browsing through the book and figures. Thanks! Lots of great inspiration in there.

Yes. I wonder if the author had first worked on the patent side (I'd be interested to hear more about this idea). Perhaps working on patents first would be a path to get experience (and product-market-fit). From there, one could branch out into other domains (e.g. bio).

Balaji Srinivasan had a good take on this recently in his conversation with Tim Ferris. I quote:

"The thing is, I don’t care if something has a thousand retweets, what I care about is if it has two or three independent confirmations from economically dis-aligned actors. This is the same as academia, by the way, everybody’s optimizing citations. What you actually want to optimize is independent replication. That’s what true science is. It’s not peer review. It is physical tests."

This is awesome!

Another reason to be bullish on SpaceX starship. Being able to send mass to space on the cheap opens up many new astronomical exploration avenues.

New York Times, I'm looking at you...

You're wrong. They are completing bitcoin transactions on lightning network, which is built upon the base bitcoin block chain (it's a layer two). Thus, the cost of spending bitcoin for some chicken wings is virtually free.