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Gemini AI 3 years ago

They've reported surpassing GPT4 on several benchmarks. Does anyone know of these are hand picked examples or is this the new SOTA?

Python 3.12 3 years ago

As now f-strings can contain any valid Python expression inside expression components, it is now possible to nest f-strings arbitrarily:

>> f"{f"{f"{f"{f"{f"{1+1}"}"}"}"}"}"

'2'

Is anyone aware of the change to the interpreter that allows for this?

I think he mentions this in the podcast. One of the challenging problems they're attempting to tackle is enabling the build to work with standard 120 volt wall sockets. He mentions throttling the system (GPUs specifically) to use less power at cost to performance.

That and setting up the software to work w/ an array of GPUs rather than one seems difficult.

I haven't tried self-hosting due to the hesitation around the general drab I've experienced in the past trying trying to host other ML models.

Find a repo. follow the install instructions. What is this weird error? A library issue..? Maybe it's my OS..?

It always seems to be tedious compared to open projects in other domains. Maybe that can't be solved.

Venture capital enables the perpetuation of unsustainable models in favor of eventual scale. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The runway to experiment has been critical for any number of businesses. But any good thing taken to excess can become problematic. The same is true with capital

I 100% agree or at least am just as misinformed as you. Seriously, what is the purpose of this library?

I was hoping to get some genuine answers to this question from this repo but just like the langchain documentation is filled with simple hypothetical scenarios that don't make the library's purpose clear.

Okay, I can use an abstraction to come up with a company name. That is not an interesting use case nor does it explain the need for the library.

What are these hypothetical complex systems that necessitate these abstractions and organization framework? I'm genuinely curious.

The depth of the subject is much too great for an article. But, there's certainly some interesting discussion to be had around the relationship between people's general work outcomes and a strong gating mechanism evaluated earlier in life.

I really hope we soon see innovation around education. When the entire corpus of human knowledge became available freely - surely we would've seen changes in higher education by now (if they were/are ever going to happen).

When you pay with credit, their is typically a slight delay in when your loss is realized (e g. whenever your auto pay triggers).

It seems like this delay has huge effects some tangible some not. Dave Ramsey's preaching on only paying with cash certainly covers some of the psychological effects like:

- this is real money leaving my possession

- I can see how much I have left to spend immediately

As someone who switched from Windows to Linux in college, I have no regrets.

All of the rough edges I've encountered (usually) have resulted in a better understanding of how software actually works.