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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein

Life is complicated.

P.S. - I did not support the Iraq war in 2003 or now. Just cognizant of how such things unfurl beyond the trendy self-flagellation.


Everything you listed is just a deflection. You realize the US supported and enabled iraq in the iraq iran war? So why bring it up as to imply it's the reason behind the invasion of 2003?

And yes sure, I guess russians that oppose the aggression war on ukraine are just indulging in self flagelation too.


All of history unfurls upon itself forever.

It doesn’t really change that individuals/groups/governments/nations deescalate tension and demonstrate integrity by holding themselves accountable.


It doesn't really change that because that doesn't really happen. It doesn't happen because one conflict flows into the next as they are all part of the larger game. These things don't happen in a vacuum.


I miss Baghdad Bob :(


> The problem was finding funding to pay for the operating expenses, megawatts of power, so it never got off the ground and the hardware has been turned off and decommissioned. Such a bummer.

You ran 120,000 graphics card to mine ETH and didn't end up with lambos or like... ether.. to donate to the professor along with the hardware?


Yeah, that's either a typo or bull ... or maybe one of the top 5 ETH miners is among us.


Nah, while this was a large operation, there were much much larger ETH miners.


Wow.


Hookers and blow actually. Space dust.


Nice.


anybody running them would have the same operational costs, probably far higher since miners gravitate to the lowest cost power source


He couldn't even donate 120 out of the 120k cards and one lambo? I'm beginning to think this whole crypto thing is sus


What in the great googly moogly are you talking about?


Thats actually pronounced Analgesic - sir, the pills go in your mouth. These other pills, that is a suppository. Best not mix them up.


Is that by ElevenLabs? This induces the nervous sort of excitement in me.


Yeah, ElevenLabs. We've been using it for doing podcasts, voice overs and such. It's shockingly good if you dial it in right.


How do you dial it in right?


  Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
  To heal my heart and drown my woe.
  Rain may fall and wind may blow,
  And many miles be still to go,
  But under a tall tree I will lie,
  And let the clouds go sailing by.


  The other, less sensational possibility, she said, is that what appears to be emergent may instead be the culmination of an internal, statistics-driven process that works through chain-of-thought-type reasoning. Large LLMs may simply be learning heuristics that are out of reach for those with fewer parameters or lower-quality data.

  But, she said, finding out which of those explanations is more likely hinges on a better understanding of how LLMs work at all. “Since we don’t know how they work under the hood, we can’t say which of those things is happening.”


Pretty much.

Llama specific:

https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa

> According to GPTQ paper, As the size of the model increases, the difference in performance between FP16 and GPTQ decreases.

https://nolanoorg.substack.com/p/int-4-llama-is-not-enough-i...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wZ0g9rHI-6s7ctNlykuK4W5T...

Expect to get away with a factor of 4-5 reduction in memory usage for a minimal loss of quality. :)


> For example, if a user instructs a text-generating technology to “write a poem about copyright law in the style of William Shakespeare,” she can expect the system to generate text that is recognizable as a poem, mentions copyright, and resembles Shakespeare's style.

> But the technology will decide the rhyming pattern, the words in each line, and the structure of the text.

But I can certainly specify those things in the prompt. In fact I can write some of the poem and have it riff on the rest for me. And anyway how would you know whether or not and how much I was assisted by the AI. Strawberry Fields forever.

-- Written by llama 13b, edited by a human(?)

  -- Written by a human, edited by llama 13b(?)
    
    -- Written by llama 13b, edited by a human(?)


> And anyway how would you know whether or not and how much I was assisted by the AI.

Because in a lawsuit you would have to reveal that info.

You can't just sue someone and not answer questions pertinent to your claim.


  - Your honor my wholly original work of Halvin and Cobbs, a cartoon of a little boy and his pet tiger is entirely original to me.

  - Did you use an AI to produce it?

  - See, the problem with fine art is that it's supposed to express original truths.

    But who likes originality and truth?! Nobody! Lifes hard enough without it! Only an idiot would pay for it! 
    Popular art knows the customer is always right! People want more of what they already know they like, so popular art gives it to 'em!

  - Sir, did you use an AI to plagiarize your way to an unofficial sequel of a beloved comic strip? Answer the question!

  - Yesn't.


> - Your honor my wholly original work of Halvin and Cobbs, a cartoon of a little boy and his pet tiger is entirely original to me.

And as you submit this to the court, the other party requests discovery of evidence from your computer, your communications and (based on that) the API logs of a particular third party provider you could have used, and uses that to not only dismiss your court claim but forward it to the local prosecutor - previously it was just a civil case, but perjury is quite punishable, in USA up to five years in jail (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1621).


Soon inference for big LLMs will be ran locally, without leaving any kind of logs which can't trivially be erased.


You are then held in contempt for not giving a straight answer.

Its not like no one has ever thought of the idea of telling half-truths or digressions in court as a loop-hole before. Pretty sure judges take a very dim view of that.


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