Weekend experiment. Im the CTO of a real bank so speed ran vibecoding a pretty complete bank ledger with real double entry accounting, FX, open currency positions etc.
No-one in Georgia could access google, everything else worked. googleapis.com and google.com seemed to be the only thing affected.
If you VPN'd out you were fine. Hilariously, we use tailscale, so thought cool, we'll enable mullvand for everyone, but ofcourse, tailscale needs google social auth to login.. so the fix for our Tbilisi team was install nordvpn, connect to that, login to tailscale, disconnect nordvpn then tunnel out to anywhere.
I spoke to Benjojo (bgp.tools) who heard the incident "was a cable cut shunt near Sofia"
Was drinking in a bar in Espoo in 2012 or 2013 and heard this from someone at rovio.
At the time they used Riak db and basho were onsite and we asked why they didn't enable inter server encryption. "Because nsa pay us 10m not to".
Guess nsa pulled the Riak cluster protocol off the aws fibre.
i had a similar experience working in copenhagen. read an article about copenhagen sub orbital rockets, looked up and out my window and my eye landed on the rocket i was just reading about. weird.
I worked on a project just like this once.. a mobile phone network build in the middle east before the arab spring. 10/10 would not repeat the experience.
The paper talks about LLMs a lot, but would this result hold for all Transformers? Are Ternary Transformers going to make things like Whisper faster/better?
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GPT-3.5 (unfinetuned) has been matched by many OW (open weights) models now, and with fine tuning to a specific task (coding, customer care, health advice etc) can exceed it.
It's still useful as a well known model to compare with, since it's the model the most people have experience with.