Favorites March 13th 2023
Time zones, LLaMA, and building transmission lines
A lot of the problem is that the Eastern Time Zone is just much too wide. Indianapolis and Bangor, Maine shouldn't be in the same time zone. So no DST proposal is going to make everyone happy.
washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03…
I really like the clarity of this illustration. Also though, hear me out, what if we just get rid of all time zones, switch over to UTC, and explicitly set "work hours" and "school start time" to whatever makes sense regionally.
LLaMA has been fine-tuned by stanford,
"We performed a blind pairwise comparison between text-davinci-003 and Alpaca 7B, and we found that these two models have very similar performance: Alpaca wins 90 versus 89 comparisons against text-davinci-003."
My understanding is that fine-tuning is what takes this from trying to continue the text to trying to respond to the text. From the success of ChatGPT, my guess is that next someone is going to need to find a way to use reenforcement learning with human feedback to further improve its performance.
"Without the pressure of competition, utilities will have less incentive to keep project costs low. The best research supports this view, suggesting that competition results in a 20-30 percent cost savings for transmission projects." bit.ly/42586eO @jneeley78
Also today, from Bloomberg, 900 gigawatts of transmission capacity and 400 gigawatts of energy storage are all awaiting approval, we need competition and permitting reform.