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vor 6 Tagendiscuss

Well.. doesn't it pay for let's say Superbowl? Or makes NBA possible? Didn't it enable early internet to mature and become internet as we know now? If you're talking about just the first order affects, perhaps I see your point. But broadly speaking, advertising fuels a gigantic part of modern society. Remove it, and who knows what we will find ourselves in.

vor 6 Tagendiscuss

I don't really see much ads tbh. Brave blocks most of online crap and other stuff I guess my brain just learned to tune out because it is not valuable. That's my whole point -- I think the ever increasing ad spend and ever decreasing RoAS will (hopefully) yield some platforms to do a bit better job. Maybe OpenAI be one of them. Maybe not.

vor 6 Tagendiscuss

Maybe they did and maybe that wasn't enticing enough of a goal for a model? It is all just game of probabilities. One pathway didn't yield this particular outcome while another did.

vor 6 Tagendiscuss

Perhaps that's an unpopular take -- but I actually would like it go even further. I don't mind ads in fact good ones I find quite useful. Since you, my dear ChatGiPiTi know so much about me, just show me stuff that reflects what I value. In fact I wouldn't even mind paying for that. The problem now is less that of discovery and more that of curation, so if it helps me find good things (but "good" for my definition of good which in one context might be cheap and in other solid quality and in third ridiculously ornate for example) -- why not? If they do it anyway why not do it really really really well.

vor 7 Tagendiscuss

But.. if you are running Chinese model in the US, what difference does it make? Isn't the whole "scare" (khm khm) with Kimis is that now I don't need Claude, cause I can run Kimi on my own hardware in my own datacenter and it's maybe not as good as Claude July edition but it's is as good as Claude January edition.

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

One of my early memories was driving a tractor like this hauling potato harvest with my late grandfather when his "big" tractor wouldn't start. Feels like a 1000 years ago...

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

They do, at least a lot of us do I would say. But not everyone is at liberty to dedicate (still very expensive) time of a software engineer to eek out better memory footprint when it is cheaper to "just throw hardware at it" in many cases.

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks for the clarification jeffbee. My sarcasm was unwarranted. I just dislike our governor, even though he does, sometimes, make the call that is more aligned with my values.

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Not to be pedantic, but it still needs to be rubber stamped by Newsom. I am sorry did I say rubber stampted? I meant signed with a significant amount of internal deliberation of the effect of this bill on wellbeing of California as a state.

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Fundamentally I have two categories of issues I see with DALL-E, but please don't get me wrong -- I think this is a great demonstration of what is possible with huge models and I think OpenAI work in general is fantastic. I will most certainly continue using both DALL-E and OpenAI's GPT3. (1) Between what DALL-E can do today and commercial utility is a rift in my opinion. I readily admit that I am have not done hundreds of queries (thank you folks for pointing that out, I'll practice more!) but that means that there is a learning curve, isn't it? I can't just go to DALL-E, mess with it for 5-10 minutes and get my next ad or book cover or illustration for my next project done? (2) I think DALL-E has issues with faces and human form in general. Images it produces are often quite repulsive and take the uncanny valley to the next level. I absolutely surprise myself when I noticed thinking that images with humans DALL-E produced lack of... soul? Cats and dogs on the other hand it handles much better. I done tests with other entities --- say cars or machinery -- and it generally performs so so with them too, often creating disproportionate representations of them or misplacing chunks. If you're querying for multiple objects on a scene it quite often melds them together. This is more pronounced in photorealistic renderings. When I query for painting-style it works mostly better. That said every now and then it does produce a great image, but with this way of arriving at it, how fast I'll have to replenish those credits?.. :)

All in all though I think I am underwhelmed mostly because my initial expectations were off, I am still a fan of DALL-E specifically and GPT3 in general. Now when is GPT4 coming out? :)

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Interesting. I got access couple weeks ago (was on waitlist since the initial announcement) and frankly as much as really want to be excited and like it, DALL-E ended up being a bit underwhelming. IMHO - often results that produced are of low quality (distorted images, or quite wacky representation of the query). Some styles of imagery are certainly a better fit for being generated by DALL-E, but as far as commercial usage I think it needs a few iterations and probably even larger underlying model.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Where did he get 10,000 cryptocurrencies number? Coincap lists 2,295 and only 746 has market cap above $0.

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Yeah for now. In a year or two it'll be Shmeact and than something like Boomerangular and of course the framework to rule them all VanillaChocolateChip (or VCC.tjs)

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Great point IMHO. I think the ability to learn these somewhat different languages depend on the experience. Like roots of different trees -- once you groked Asm/C, C++, Python and such, Lisp and such enough, you can get productive in most general purpose languages quickly enough that language learning time will be negligible compared to platform/ecosystem/domain time at least for any reasonably complex domain.

I think more pragmatic question in such situations however, is why the potential employer is requiring $A years of experience in $TECHNOLOGY. For example, why they need someone to be productive from the say day $N and what does it actually mean (for them) to be productive?..

IMHO getting to shared understanding of what drives such requirements can help find a better path forward for both sides.

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Put them on a B52 and you got yourself Protoss' Carrier... well, almost :)

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

This reminds me of neighborhood networks of late 90s in post-Soviet era countries like Belarus and Ukraine that were created for somewhat different reasons but for pretty much exactly the same purpose. One time we used ancient ARCNet over the regular TV coax cable with whopping 2.5mbit throughput on a good day.