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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 Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign | Techdirt it’s nearly 2024 and people still want to hair split on nazis. #uspolitics

links, etc The Real Reason for Marriage Polarization - The Atlantic how do conservatives expect marriage rates to rise if they keep pushing women down? how do you expect someone to get married if they don’t feel like their partner has their back when things can get medically dicey and the state backs them. #uspolitics You Are Not Your Spotify Wrapped - The Atlantic Why do we love Spotify Wrap52ped? : NPR...

20220101 can we survive technology in 1955 john von neumann wrote this for fortune magazine. there’s a ton of ground covered and it predates, but anticipates the rise of semiconductors, nods at the impacts of carbon dioxide on the climate, talks about weather control and climate control and the dangers inherent in the acceleration of technology. he is way ahead of the curve when it comes to seeing the impacts of what some of the most notable technologies to come out of the second world war would be....