2024

links, etc Smaller, Cheaper, Faster, Sober | Drew Breunig i’ve been intrigued by the small models that run fast and are increasingly useful for mission specific tasks. this seems like the thing that will be durably useful in all of this AI flotsam. Enterprises are foregoing general models for open ones trained for single tasks. And it’s not just foundation training, but fine-tuning training. Teams are learning that small models trained for a single purpose can outperform the best general models out-of-the-box....

links, etc List of presidents of the United States who died in office a reminder that the political history in the united states has a solid history of being pretty violent.

links, etc How to Be a Better Man: Tips to Look and Feel Better in 2024 i read the paper version of this and dug up the link. not that esquire is necessarily a repository of solid advice on “being a man”, but there were a couple of things in here that serve as solid reminders. the importance of listening the mental clarity afforded by walking and taking a beat...

links, etc Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers will LLMs open up a range of small software development opportunities for folks who just need a small thing for friends, family and organizational duct-taping? Jane Street is big. Like, really, really big this was kind of shocking and still fascinating to me. tags: #ai, #finance

links, etc Batteries: how cheap can they get? - by Auke Hoekstra apparently, batteries can get a lot cheaper. like shockingly so. if we do this right, we get to a point where a distributed power system is really attainable and sustainable. sidebar - a different article where he calls out sabine hossenfelder for some bonkers bad takes on fossil fuels. well worth reading as well. Analyzing my electricity consumption | zdimension...