imaginaryunit @imaginaryunit@qoto.org

Thoughts on AI diminishing returns? I’m inclined to agree with the author, with few caveats https://www.fromthenew.world/p/diminishing-returns-in-machine-learning?ref=thediff.co #ai #machinelearning #aihype

“You know these stickers are supposed to get voters to vote *for* Biden, right?”

Google: "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

Also I liked the comparison to mapping services in the discussion from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322.

Thoughts?

#llm #ai #ml #chatgpt

https://twitter.com/jjbehrend/status/1610967854484013056?s=20&t=cG5dRL9rb3BObYz_TGkSVQ

#coffee Hey, here’s your *boiling HOT* coffee in a GLASS mason jar. We throw in the luxury SLIPPERY cloth grip for free! Please don’t drop that GLASS jar in our store because coffee inside is HOT or because that luxury cloth SLIPS. That would be bad… because the jar is made of GLASS… and the coffee inside … 🙄🙄

Technically legal, but still dubious. Am I missing something?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33983878

#ElonJet

"If I had to define major depression in one sentence, I would say it's a biochemical disorder with a genetic component
and early experience influences, where somebody can't appreciate sunsets."" - Robert Sapolsky

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #selfcare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc&list=PLR4j6NT4RE_eItNfExhZSZmnjlXdFshko&index=4

"...we built a statistical model that predicts how many people die per winter week in each of 226 European regions. This model found that a 10% rise in electricity prices is associated with a 0.6% increase in deaths, concentrated among the elderly and infirm"

shorturl.at/itX36

#energy #ukraine #eu

"...computer so-called science actually has a lot in common with magic... it's not a science."
MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Hal Abelson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CABEA24090

#computation #magic

https://sebastiancarlos.medium.com/how-i-quit-my-programmer-job-to-become-a-chicken-b733c20680b1

Thank you, Bloomberg, for that deep insightful reporting that I pay money for.

Every now and then, I'll post some older content that I wish were more widely read/viewed on topics including #computation, #software, #economics, #entrepreneurship. Here's one for today.

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization - Jonathan Blow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

Do we have up-to-date estimates of the Phillips Curve? https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-phillips-curve.html Asking since it looks to me worrying that a likely brittle relationship b/w unemployment and inflation is driving current policymaking. #economics

Obligatory #introduction:

I'm a former AI engineer/scientist from a FAANG, moved out of #seattle in 2021. I'm interested in #fintech, #machinelearning and (sigh) politics.

Previous thread from 4 days ago about FTX and the FTT bubble https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464494 #crypto #binance #FTX

https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1590013613586411520 wild #crypto #binance

https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html but, no one wants to run their own server https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html. Discuss!