Link – The AI Crowd is Mad

What are the actual computational costs of training AI language models vs. the historical costs of executing code? Is there real knowledge in things like ChatGPT? Good article.

https://proofinprogress.com/posts/2023-02-01/the-ai-crowd-is-mad.html

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ChatGPT cheat sheet

From Neural Magic…

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UOfN0iB_A0rEGYc2CbYnpIF44FupQn2I/view

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Cory Doctorow on TikTok and social media in general

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

For someone who is not on the inside of any social media companies, this was very educational. I’ve avoided TikTok – not out of any particular compuction to avoid it, just that I don’t care enough to be exposed to endless 30 seconds blurbs.

It also explains the behavior of other social media companies.

Long, but good, read.

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Setting up a Pi-Hole on your Synology NAS

https://www.wundertech.net/how-to-setup-pi-hole-on-a-synology-nas-two-methods/

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How to replicate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager to multiple Regions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-to-replicate-secrets-aws-secrets-manager-multiple-regions/

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Computer Memory Made of Metal and String

You know how people talk about the ‘good old days’? This is what they’re talking about. I would argue that while it’s an amazing bit of engineering, it’s got nothing on our systems today that have over a billion transistors on something the size of your thumbnail.

We needed the ‘good old days’ to get where we are, but I definitely don’t want to go back!

http://www.righto.com/2019/07/software-woven-into-wire-core-rope-and.html

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Torpedoes in the Water – Is regulation coming?

Having recently learned about Pharmacy Benefit Managers and their role as middlemen, I wondered how in the world things got to this place.

It looks like the government may actually be doing something about this one, and the consolidation of power in various industries.

Great blog post by Matt Stover on this: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/torpedoes-in-the-water

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Biden Oil and Gas Permits

You’d never know it by some of the press out there, but…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/06/biden-is-approving-more-oil-gas-drilling-permits-public-lands-than-trump-analysis-finds/

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Another ‘hot take’ on Cryptocurrency

Why This Computer Scientist Says All Cryptocurrency Should “Die in a Fire” ❧ Current Affairs

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Is Intermittent Fasting not working for you?

I’ve been doing it for quite a while, and after the first 10lbs, there hasn’t been much improvement. Turns out, it doesn’t work the same for everyone. Who knew!?

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