Favorite Rejects 2023-04-03
The perfect encapsulation of Elon Twitter is the richest man in the state of North Carolina referring to “elites” in third person and meaning NYT journalists making $38k/yr https://t.co/NnmmGbrLyn
Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic
Don't try to say he means 'cultural elites', Tim is the CEO of Epic, which makes Fortnite, one of the most popular games in America.
Notes on how I turned an hour-long video of a digital thermometer into temperature readings over time by using ffmpeg to split the video into a frame every 10s and Google Cloud Vision to run the OCR
I got ChatGPT/GPT-4 to show me how to use both of those: til.simonwillison.net/googlecloud/vi…
had multiple conversations this week with builders who think it's already possible to build self-improving autonomous agents through GPT4.
key belief shared is that we are just scratching the surface of what it can do through better prompt engineering:
Here is an explainer about some of the AI advances in the last... 75 hours. While one should not make too much of the suggestive naming, it seems to represent a decent improvement over past performance. And it can be applied by anybody.
i think it is pretty clear that there was a post-January 6th coup and that it is good that there was.
emptywheel @emptywheel
Image generators (DALL-E in this case) have absolutely mastered the narrow streets genre, no matter the setting or architectural style. These prompts weren't even particularly detailed.
>If an individual apartment is vacant for 2 months every 5 years, that individual apartment has a vacancy rate of 3.3%.
I don’t think this is stressed enough — this is normal in between tenants! Aggregate vacancy rates are just this, multiplied across an entire metro region.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler
There's a lot of folks under the misunderstanding that it's now possible to run a 30B param LLM in <6GB, based on this GitHub discussion.
This is not the case. Understanding why gives us a chance to learn a lot of interesting stuff! 🧵
github.com/ggerganov/llam…
definitely think that the nVidia GPUs accelerating computational lithography for photolithography masks (for more chip creation!) is the 1000x underreported self-acceleration
anandtech.com/show/18782/the…
The best trick the devil (Apple) ever pulled was convincing the world that App Tracking Transparency was a privacy feature. It's an anti-advertising feature.
It's specifically designed to only harm ad networks not actually protect user privacy.
developer.apple.com/app-store/user…
