Favorite Rejects 2023-03-29

Linus (●ᴗ●) @LinusEkenstam

Release of GPT4All 7B param fine-tuned curated set of 400k ChatGPT assistant style generations. Release includes AI model that can run on a laptop, costing nothing except electricity to run. Edge is happening 🧵Thread

Warren Togami @wtogami

@Noahpinion Arguably China is simultaneously in the Global North and South due to their institutionalized class-based apartheid "hukou" system. Depending on where you're from your rights are different. Rural laborers who work in the city live in poverty and lack access to services.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This is the current debt ceiling dance — McCarthy wants Biden to “cut spending” (popular) while Biden wants McCarthy to say which specific cuts he wants (unpopular). Republicanomics relies on obscuring the details to stay viable. apnews.com/article/spendi…

Bella Chu @bellachu10

So much about good urbanism is about abundance and the flourishing of human life. Traditional, walkable cities/towns give people more time, money and better health. Cities concentrate resources and give us innovation, art, culture, architecture, cathedrals and good restaurants.

Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

Becoming increasingly convinced that degrowth is the worst thing to have happened to the left in years. It's a terrible slogan. And small isn't beautiful. We need abundant clean energy, housing, healthcare, education. Progress and plenty should be our rallying cry.

Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard

The power of the meat lobby in action... Italy's government is planning to ban cultivated meat in response to a meat industry petition. Even the coal lobby never had the power to ban renewables entirely.

bbc.comItaly moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritagePrime Minister Giorgia Meloni says the proposed ban aims to protect farmers and consumers.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

The UK has been quietly adopting a lot of really great policies that the US should copy

William B. Fuckley @opinonhaver

Putin ranting about Hollywood not making enough movies about Russia as he fucking invaded Ukraine was such a surreal moment. I’m still not over it. This country is such a cultural hyper-power it’s insane and honestly kind of frightening.

Sharky Laguana @Sharkyl

If you are in tech you need to read Stephen Wolfram's article on how LLMs work.

writings.stephenwolfram.comWhat Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what’s going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.

Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

Talking to a few friends in healthcare and struck by how much all of the progress from COVID is being unwound. No more telehealth. New software deployments back to taking years. People tasted efficiency and are going back to mediocrity. Same is happening in tech with WFH.