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🚀 Excited to finish this EN/JA model I've been working on with @lhl!
Fine-tune: huggingface.co/augmxnt/shisa…
Base: huggingface.co/augmxnt/shisa…
We were able to create a competitive 7b JA model with only ~8b tokens of continued pre-training!
Sponsored in part by @akavirtual_ and @a16z
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Am hearing the number of Twitter resignations today is likely over 1,000, though unclear as not all are posting their decision.
Some teams, such as the engineering team that manages Twitter’s core system libraries, are completely gone now. theverge.com/2022/11/17/2346…
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THREAD: The US government's new export controls are wreaking havoc on China's chip industry.
New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation."
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At best, molnupiravir (MOV) is a useless drug we’re wasting $$ on. At worst, it could accelerate the emergence of novel variants with unpredictable characteristics. First I’ll explain why MOV is useless. Later, I’ll present evidence I’ve found that it could be dangerous. 1/
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I'm very sympathetic to those who don't want to fight to defend Taiwan. I'm against the forever wars and generally am skeptical about the use of our military.
But defending Taiwan makes sense *for Americans' concrete economic interests, freedoms, and sovereignty*.
Why? 👇 1/
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I've been asked about this a lot, so let me provide a quick FAQ.
Q: What's the nature of the issue?
A: Anyone who has bought my book from Amazon in the past few month hasn't bought a genuine copy, but a lower-quality counterfeit copy printed by various fraudulent sellers.
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ever wonder why the cheap junk flooding Amazon has keyboard-mashing brand names like MOFFBUZW?
let's dive into an example... the 2nd organic result for "baby moccasins" has:
- 0 reviews
- no Prime offer
- 20 day shipping (lol)
- a brand name that literally looks like Dog Shit
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Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 838
The die is now cast: BA.5 is destined to be our dominant virus.
In today’s 🧵I discuss the implications on the course of the pandemic, and how to think about responding.
(I use “BA.5” & not “BA.4/5” since BA.5 is poised to outrun BA.4.). (1/25)
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Spending $800 an hour to fly the helicopter to tell kids to get out of the pool because we don’t have money for lifeguards just sums up America perfectly.
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SCIENCE:
If you don't make mistakes, you're doing it wrong.
If you don't correct those mistakes, you're doing it really wrong.
If you can't accept that you're mistaken, you're not doing it at all.
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Been waiting for this to come out. Using zero-knowledge attestations, you can prove anything to anyone without leaking the underlying information. I think this has a huge design space, so curious what builders will do with it
(disclose: investor🙂)
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The greatest protest photos of all time were taken 33 years ago today. On June 5, 1989, six (not four) photographers captured a lone protester facing down a column of tanks near #TiananmenSquare. This version of the“Tank Man” photo was made by @StuartAFranklin for @TIME...🧵
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hot tip: to avoid writing bugs, don't write software
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The Senate is in session. Schumer should bring the background check bill to the floor NOW for a vote. And let the votes fall with the children who died. Enough
What makes someone "good at technology?" In part, it's an understanding of the underlying technical principles and industry conventions - what a "power on" icon looks like, say. I have a lot of that. 1/
ALT The 1969 Nieman-Marcus Christmas Catalog listing for the Honeywell Kitchen Computer. The ad copy reads, 'If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute. Her souffles are supreme, her meal planning a challenge? She's what the Honeywell people had in mind when they devised our Kitchen Computer. She'll learn to program it with a cross-reference to her favorite recipes by N-M's own Helen Corbitt. Then by simply pushing a few buttons obtain a complete menu organized around the entree. And if she pales at reckoning her lunch tab, she can program it to balance the family checkbook. 84A 10,600.00 complete with two week programming course 84B Fed with Corbitt data: the original Helen Corbitt cook-book with over 1,000 recipes 5.00 (.75) 84C Her Potluck, 375 of our famed Zodiac restaurant's best kept secret recipes 3.95 (.75) Epicure 84D Her tabard apron. one-size, ours alone by Garden House in multi-pastel provincial cotton 28.00 (.90) Trophy Room.
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1. Hotel occupancy is 100% back to 2000-2020 avg
2. Manhattan subway ridership isn't even 40% back to 2019 levels.
... putting these stats in my Hot Take File under "travel bounced back to normal, but (especially urban, white-collar) work has changed for good"
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Questions for the people who are scared of becoming a minority: Why is that? Are minorities treated differently?
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I feel sick. Apple just sent me an email saying they're removing my free game Motivoto because its more than 2 years old.
It's part of their App improvement system.
This is not cool. Console games from 2000 are still available for sale.
This is an unfair barrier to indie devs.
