Peter Wang 🦋

@pwang

Chief AI & Co-founder @AnacondaInc; invented @pyscript_dev, @PyData @Bokeh @Datashader. Former physicist. A student of the human condition. bsky: @wang.social

Austin, tx

anaconda.com

Joined August 2007

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Peter Wang 🦋
@pwang
12h
Vercel: “Open weight models take 71.5% of tokens at Vercel; 23% share of spend. Their share of spend has more than tripled since June.” I wonder if this keeps up, might it actually affect the IPOs…?
Open weight takes 71.5% of tokens and 23% of spend
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Peter Wang 🦋
@pwang
13h
Philosophy is definitely going to owe more to the perceptron (and ReLU?) than the perceptron owes to philosophy.
roon
@tszzl
Oct 15
a few thoughts: 1. pretraining science is kind of like how people built quite good steam engines before they understood thermodynamics. “Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.”-(L.J. Henderson). if nick is right, which i am pretty sure he
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Peter Wang 🦋
@pwang
Oct 16
Agree, this "yuge if true" territory 😂
roon
@tszzl
Oct 15
when nick told me that he had some interp breakthroughs, he was uh, underselling it. i think this may be remembered as a major moment in scientific history. news so good even eliezer will have to lower his pdoom. we can start making alignment into a 'normal science'
Peter Wang 🦋
@pwang
Oct 9
@musescore FYI - the MuseHub auth service has a bad SSL cert.
Peter Wang 🦋
@pwang
Oct 9
Hey @MuseHubOfficial, I cannot authenticate into your app because auth.musehub.com has a bad SSL certificate. It was generated on an Azure slice, and not valid for the domain. (I also can't send you a bug report via the in-app bug reporter, because I am not signed in.)
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Peter Wang 🦋
@pwang
Oct 9
Hey @MuseHubOfficial, I cannot authenticate into your app because auth.musehub.com has a bad SSL certificate. It was generated on an Azure slice, and not valid for the domain. (I also can't send you a bug report via the in-app bug reporter, because I am not signed in.)
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