Matt Barr retweeted
Ah yes, the well known "except you, FAANG" clause that's so common in *open source* licenses like GPL, MIT, BSD, Apache2, ...
Here I go again, this can't be for real lol
This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!
This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market.
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers
Pretrained and fine-tuned models are available with 7B, 13B and 70B parameters.
Llama-2 website: ai.meta.com/llama/
Llama-2 paper: ai.meta.com/research/publica…
A number of personalities from industry and academia have endorsed our open source approach: about.fb.com/news/2023/07/ll…
Matt Barr retweeted
This is so sad. The fact that Bud Light chose to partner with her then basically hung her out to dry while conservatives literally called for her to be murdered is probably the most egregious example of rainbow capitalism.
Matt Barr retweeted
Hypothetical: Imagine a world in which some scientists cheat and some don’t and that the cheaters can’t/don’t get caught bc nobody checks. Who’s more likely to get papers/jobs/editorial positions: cheaters or non-cheaters? Who’s more likely to have to quit?
Matt Barr retweeted
This is why heavily landmarked n’hoods like the UWS are losing housing units overall.
Mr. Ruffalo’s former Brooklyn home: “Originally a three-family residence, the 1899 townhouse has since been converted into a 3,000-square-foot single-family home.”
architecturaldigest.com/stor…
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Matt Barr retweeted
Say what you will about autocracy vs democracy, but since the founding of the United States, the Russian government has collapsed at least three times and the American one has collapsed…never
Turns out democratic mechanisms for peaceful transitions of power matter quite a bit – at San Francisco, CA
Matt Barr retweeted
If I was a SCOTUS Justice who ruled in favor of a shady billionaire and found out my other colleagues got bribed by him I’d be so pissed—Alito got a luxury vacation and I gave you my vote for free?!? – at San Francisco, CA
Matt Barr retweeted
Siloing inside the progressive coalition has created a situation where a lot of people who support gun safety regulation don't realize that the "criminal justice reform" silo has decided there shouldn't be consequences for breaking gun laws.
slowboring.com/p/the-illegal…
Matt Barr retweeted
Paralysis is a choice, community meetings and review processes aren’t democracy, and arbitrarily favoring the status quo isn’t good for the environment and it’s certainly not progressive.
slowboring.com/p/community-m… – at Washington, DC
Matt Barr retweeted
This has been a significant event for calling out misaligned incentives (and sometimes outright corruption) in US public works projects. They can happen much faster. Media and voters should hold decision-makers to account for expensive and slow taxpayer projects.
Matt Barr retweeted
Just a thought: Instead of hectoring us about wearing sunscreen, the FDA could get around to implementing the law Congress passed in 2014 to get them to approve the actually good sunscreen they use in Europe.
What do football 🏈 and lacrosse 🥍 have to do with sunscreen? Check it out! 👀 👇
teapaw.org/FDA_Drug_Info/status/1…
Matt Barr retweeted
The most talented people who understand this (AI) technology are going to make more money.
And the people who don’t understand it, who just get angry, and who aren’t willing to learn it, are going to make less money.
It’s just that simple.
- @profgalloway
Matt Barr retweeted
If you want to incorporate more egalitarian considerations into higher education what you should do is redistribute material resources — money — away from schools that serve primarily the children of the privileged to those that advanced upward mobility.
slowboring.com/p/what-to-do-… – at Denver, CO
Matt Barr retweeted
Economic nostalgia? I'm from a working class family in the 1970s. Had three major TV channels, vacations were rare and nearby, no A/C, bland food, house with one bathroom. Without comic books, I would have gone insane.
