Favorite Rejects 2023-03-11

Alex Armlovich 🏗️🌐🔰🚋 @aarmlovi

Problem with broken subway procurement costs in America vs. the rest of the developed world isn't that the 2nd Ave Subway won't pencil The problem is that *only* a subway thru the densest blocks in the Western Hemisphere--160,000 ppl per sq. mile--can pencil at these costs

Run more buses and trains (and nothing else)! @HeadwaysMatter

Reminder: projects like the Second Avenue Subway are so extraordinarily useful that they can get still more ruinously and inexcusably expensive yet pass any cost-benefit test

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Entrepreneurship can (and should) be taught: 1) Founders "that received [2 days of] training experienced sales growth of 72.5% compared to 30.3% for those in the control” 2) Ugandan founders randomized into a 3 week mini-MBA startup course had ~25% higher profits 3 years later

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is something that the people who say "Oh yeah, just throw Taiwan to the wolves" don't understand. Neither do the people who think it's all about TSMC.

𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess

Japanese scholars believe that losing Taiwan means losing Japan. Taiwan is the keystone of China’s naval containment. Lose Taiwan, and Japan loses the ability to keep the PLA Navy hemmed up against their own coast line. Lose Taiwan, and Japan loses control of its most important… https://t.co/qsTjrnzgTv https://t.co/l8njO8PJqN

Georgi Gerganov @ggerganov

Just added support for all LLaMA models I'm out of disk space, so if someone can give this a try for 33B and 65BB would be great 😄 See updated instructions in the Readme Here is LLaMA-13B at ~10 tokens/s

Georgi Gerganov @ggerganov

I think I can make 4-bit LLaMA-65B inference run on a 64 GB M1 Pro 🤔 Speed should be somewhere around 2 tokens/sec. Is this useful for anything?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Dude started a bank run and didn’t even give his fellow-traveling VC podcast hosts a heads up. Just rude.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Use cases where Bing AI has already replaced search for me: 🪛Tech support. It does well pulling together answers & helping troubleshoot 🧐Learning about a new topic. Its initial essay and sources are often interesting, errors can be checked 💰Compiling complex purchase options

S.H. @upzone_CA

instead of allowing competitive entry into the airline industry to bring down travel costs, jimmy carter should have implemented "inclusionary flying mandates" to allow 20% of people below 80% of AMI to take airplane flights

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Hey, China did a really good job here and deserves credit:

washingtonpost.comChina brokers Iran-Saudi Arabia detente, raising eyebrows in WashingtonAfter decades of U.S. failures in the Middle East, China takes a turn as regional power broker and scores a win with Iran-Saudi Arabia deal.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Long-term trajectory of crime politics — in 1876, a dude got a one year prison sentence for shooting two children and it was described in the paper as “WELL DESERVED PUNISHMENT.”

Michael Baumann @MichaelBaumann

If they didn't want their flag booed maybe they should've had General John Burgoyne think for even a minute about logistics

Lindsey Adler @lindseyadler

The flag of Great Britain was booed by WBC fans during this pregame introduction in Phoenix.