Sometimes I still wonder why the flappy bird guy took his game down. It was making $50k a day. The whole story makes no sense.
David Hinkle
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David Hinkle
@Drachs1978
Distinguished Engineer @securly. Full time preventing child suicides, part time reply guy. Infrastructure at scale expert, AI shitposter.
- Replying to @jakebrodesFor as long as I've been alive the theory that the US government invented bitcoin in order to pay foreign assets has always been the best theory. All of it's qualities are perfect for their use.
- Replying to @datepsychYou can tell a person is smarter than you by observing that they continuously make poor choices that nevertheless work out in their favor by what appears to be luck.
- Replying to @tunguzPeople who think their staff working 80 hours a week is being productive are projecting their own crazy founder lifestyles onto staff. General staff without major equity just doesn't work that hard and if you think they are you're lying to yourself.
- Because we've made it illegal for people to tinker with RF without significant licensing no children play with RF. Because no children play with it very few grow into adults that pursue it for a career. As a consequence; the field progresses very slowly, easy things are occult."Mediocre youtube engineer" casually drops video on "killer" defence tech maybe without knowing it. Doing this with SDR and you can "see" things emitting a radio signal (all electronics) on a battlefield. Freeing information and not compartmentalized in corps/countries changes
- Replying to @servomechanicaFor the first time this year, chrome browser market share is down. Chrome is facing much better performance by competitors Microsoft and Firefox as well as anger in their user base over attacks on ad-blocking technologies.
- wtf. this isn't a parrot. this isn't a parrot at all. is this a known problem???? Something it would have trained on? I'm shook.I declare AGI achieved
- Did a fine tune last night of Mistral 7b on my 4090 using 4bit quantization and QLORA. This morning checking it's output against GPT4, and my team members can't tell which output came from mistral and what came from GPT4. Opensource isn't coming for LLM's... it's here.
- This is why computers don't seem any faster than they did 20 years ago. In 1996 i'd have used 1 bit for this. In 2020 we're using 64 because why not? It's helpful sometimes.Use timestamps in your database instead of booleans. Null if false, timestamp if true. Now you know exactly when that field was set. You’re welcome.
- Replying to @venturetwinsIf I was an innocent student I might confess because I understand that all AI detectors are worthless and randomly accuse innocent students. Taking advantage of an amnesty would prevent me from getting caught up in a witch hunt that is sure to follow.
- Replying to @gfodorDevelopers! Developers! Developers! he screams, as he attacks the NSA plant with a chair.
- Replying to @NathanpmYoungIt's not science if you're not sharing what you learned. Those are examples of great engineering, but even if they published papers I'm not sure it would be science.
- Well shit. Democrats are attacking open source AI and Republicans are supporting it. Has it come down to this? Is the freedom to use technology now a partisan issue? If so, it forces my support. How many other engineers will feel the same?There are undoubtedly risks related to AI. One of the biggest: A partisan group of crazy people use AI to infect every part of the information economy with left wing bias. Gemini can’t produce accurate history. ChatGPT promotes genocidal concepts. The solution is open source
- SB1047 is basically a different bill every time I read it. It's now so vague I have no idea what is legal to release. The AG will decide if they think your model is bad. If they think it's bad they'll take you to court and if the judge also thinks it's bad you're a criminal.
