18-Aug, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.
links, etc Far Fewer in U.S. Regard Childhood Vaccinations as Important we’re not moving in the right direction here folks. unsurprisingly, this breaks down along partisan lines. tags: #links #2024 #uspolitics
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11-Aug, 2024 - morning links, etc.
links, etc An Insider’s View of the Love Affair Between Hungary and the American Right - TPM – Talking Points Memo much has been made of the conservative love with orban and hungary. none of that is encouraging. what’s less covered in much of the reporting on this that you see in the US is the environment that this was allowed to take place in, within hungary. there are a number of interesting things to take away from in this article which looks at this from the perspective of an actual hungarian with some context....
21-Jul, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.
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....
15-Jul, 2024 - morning links, etc.
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.
28-Dec, 2023 - morning links, etc.
links, etc Substack Turns On Its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ Sign | Techdirt it’s nearly 2024 and people still want to hair split on nazis. #uspolitics