finbarr @finbarrtimbers

weather enthusiast. large models @midjourney. ai hot takes at https://t.co/pSeuTpK0xO. finbarr.ca Edmonton Joined February 2022

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

2 hours ago

I desperately crave AI agents like Devin so I can build end to end products without having to learn how the front end works

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

2 days ago

I like these short stories too

David @DavidSHolz

2 days ago

I like these short stories too

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hate this, hate it so much. just broke a training script & now I have to push an API key to all my training images. @MistralAI why would you do this, what are you even going to use this information for, why add this extra friction?

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

5 days ago

as someone with a math degree this is utterly incomprehensible I had a single class- real analysis- in second year that I spent ~30 hours a week on

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

5 days ago

as someone with a math degree this is utterly incomprehensible I had a single class- real analysis- in second year that I spent ~30 hours a week on

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

6 days ago

the question imo is “why is Meta so investing so much in building these models” not “why release them” They have every incentive to release the models once they’re built

Arvind Narayanan @random_walker

6 days ago

the question imo is “why is Meta so investing so much in building these models” not “why release them” They have every incentive to release the models once they’re built

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Danielle Fong 💁🏻‍♀️🏴‍☠️💥♻️ @DanielleFong

6 days ago

and now for another episode of late night midjourney generations "a san francisco victorian with walls made of solar cells"

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

something fun to do is to compare the petaflops from top500 to various h100 clusters many many ai companies have exaflops of compute

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

Zuck made a comment in the Dwarkesh interview that makes me think they’re doing multiple epochs to get 15T tokens he was talking about the 7B model and said something like “yeah the line was still improving, so maybe we show them the same tokens again and it keeps improving”

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BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital

a week ago

Some random observations from our implementation of generative AI for scaled customer support Who knows, maybe people will find it interesting:

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

on the one hand, this is absolutely right (about Zuck making am aggressive investment in AI) on the other hand, it's the classic tech power law- if he hits on any one of these, it has a 100x payoff and covers all the other bets with money to spare, the main tradeoff is he looks…

Benjamin Lefaudeux @BenTheEgg

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

my takeaway from listening to the Dwarkesh interview with Zuck is that he really believes that the AI assistant is the next platform and he’s going to do everything he can to make the Meta assistant the winner

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

unfortunately i learned about how kubernetes works today

finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

unfortunately i learned about how kubernetes works today

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

nothing like a kubernetes side quest to derail your science

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sophia (yongle empress) @cis_female

a week ago

My bear case for Nvidia is simple: giant matmul machines are not that hard to make: Google + Amazon already have. Given the flops/instruction ratio of modern transformers, software doesn't matter either: if their stack sucks, just write everything in microcode!

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finbarr @finbarrtimbers

a week ago

was talking with a Canadian entrepreneur yesterday and the first thing they said was "never talk to Canadian VCs" the culture among Bay Area VCs remains undefeated