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links, etc Northern Virginia is world’s hyperscale datacenter capital • The Register it’s not even close. tags: #2024, #links, #datacenters, #neteng

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 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

notes bookshop link recommended: meh honestly, this didn’t get really interesting until the last 50 pages or so. there’s a couple of hundred pages of setup on what constitutes a hack, examples of “hacks” across the spectrum of society, etc. there was a bit of less than obvious discussion around how some “hacks” become entrenched into the law, how common law interacts with these “hacks” and a generally slow/ossified capability of our governmental/legal systems to address the use of said hacks....

links, etc A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine the actual paper - note that as of today (Mon Jan 22 2024) this is a pre-print. (it’s a short read.) this came to me via a mailing list that i’m on that has, in my opinion, a decidedly curmudgeonly orientation to its membership. so i feel a real need to look at links from this source with a more adversarial bent....