Having come up through hard sciences, I don’t ever know what to do with these kinds of books. If they were written as memoirs, then that’s a different story. That’s all they usually are, but they’re presented in more of an educational/instructional context, yet are devoid of rigor.
I’ve had ‘Running Things’ on my shelf for quite a while, but just don’t feel compelled to read it. To me it’s just a weird genre. Slightly dishonest or something.
Yep, was there 20 years ago. The secret is having first class universities and a stable, thriving economy that attracts bright students. American exceptionalism is that momentum.
The brightest people in the world want to come here and contribute to our economy and spend the money they earn here at your businesses. That’s a privilege, and it’s too bad we don’t value it more.
Maybe once all of this is a bit more mature we can just get down to the minimal subset of features that are really important.
I’d love a nvim plugin that is more or less just a split chat window that makes it easy to paste code I’ve yanked (like yank to chat) add my commentary and maybe easily attach other files for context. That’s it really.
I can highly recommend gp.nvim, it has a few features but by default it's just a chat window with a yank-to-chat function. It also supports a context file that gets pasted into every chat automatically (for telling the AI about the tools you use etc)
QAT “quantization aware training” means they had it quantized to 4 bits during training rather than after training in full or half precision. It’s supposedly a higher quality, but unfortunately they don’t show any comparisons between QAT and post-training quantization.
The partnership with Ollama and MLX and LM Studio and llama.cpp was revealed in that announcement, which made the models a lot easier for people to use.
I'm literally asking, quite honestly, if this is just an 'after the fact' update literally weeks later, that they uploaded a bunch of models, or if there is something more significant about this I'm missing.
Last time we only released the quantized GGUFs. Only llama.cpp users could use it (+ Ollama, but without vision).
Now, we released the unquantized checkpoints, so anyone can quantize themselves and use in their favorite tools, including Ollama with vision, MLX, LM Studio, etc. MLX folks also found that the model worked decently with 3 bits compared to naive 3-bit, so by releasing the unquantized checkpoints we allow further experimentation and research.
TL;DR. One was a release in a specific format/tool, we followed-up with a full release of artifacts that enable the community to do much more.
I think you should look at “in-brand” correlation. My hypothesis is that they would undergo similar preference trainings and hence tend to prefer “in-brand” responses over “off-brand” models that might have more significantly different reward training.
> Why couldn't this tariff strategy be implemented in a more calculated, predictable, slow way to give everyone time to adjust, at home and abroad. What's to gain from doing it this way over the one I mentioned ?
To me, the more concerning detail is that they don’t have any messaging about what their strategy is, except what appears to be guessing from various members of the administration — often which is mutually exclusive with other messaging.
The real risk of all that is people are going to sit on the cash they have, unwilling to make purchases when they can’t see the risk in their future.
My wife and I want to install new flooring, but that’s off the table for us right now, until we have a better idea where this is going.
^ those decisions are disastrous for the economy en masse
yep. I liquidated my TFSA ( tax free savings account in Canada ) 2 weeks ago. 90k. Invested in risk-free 90 days GICs instead. No way I would have watched it lose 10-20% of its value in 2 weeks
If this were indeed the case, I’m not sure tariffs are the right direction to do it.
Principally, that a company would need more guarantees on their capital investment that extend beyond a single president’s term. Since tariffs can be revoked at any moment, companies will want more assurances that the long path of capital investment will be worthwhile, or else they might find themselves disadvantaged before even getting off the ground.
They would find themselves lobbying the government to hold back the free market for them within a few years time.
I’ve had ‘Running Things’ on my shelf for quite a while, but just don’t feel compelled to read it. To me it’s just a weird genre. Slightly dishonest or something.
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