Ricard Solé @ricard_sole I found a lot of notes from the first months of 2020 during the COVID-19 confinement. I guess I was pretending to have some control. At some point, I gave up writing notes. It seems such a long time ago. https://pic.x.com/98mfayzqs0 Replying to @ricard_sole I looked into nano-processors that are suspended in
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USB over UTP cable: Testing Voltage Drop and Transfer Speed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6jk1r3Puzw Thank Ron Mattino: This makes sense, since more people use and rely on low loss ethernet. It is highly optimized. I wish you had tried 100 meters or 20 meters or 1 km. And computer to computer USB peer networking. Richard Collins, The Internet
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Flowers @flowersslop Except GPT-4 is around 21 million times bigger than this. Our brain is also magnitudes bigger, more complex, and still more efficient than GPT-4. But at the level of the neurons, both do nothing fundamentally different. And *something* emerges from all this. In both cases. Machines are only as smart as their designers and handlers,
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Since the Solar Photography group is using Facebook methods. When any of the group runs into things, it is also a Solar Photography group issue. Is “joining” the same as following? One day it might be useful for the group to use servers that support sharing and collaboration on solar images. I think about things
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Mark Riedl @mark_riedl HIVE MIND: I saw an interesting-looking paper on Twitter within the last few weeks that was trying to quantify generalization in LLMs. I didn’t grab it at the time, and now I cannot track it down. Any thoughts on what it might have been? Thanks! Replying to @mark_riedl ( quantify generalization in
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation: Is the division between India and Bangladesh primarily religious, ethnic and language? Or it is just a jumble of historical periods of dominance by others and arbitrary geographic boundaries? Microsoft Bing CoPilot: The division between India and Bangladesh is a complex interplay of several factors, including religious, ethnic, linguistic, and
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@WorldBank Please put more effort into editing your data reports. Look at Population Total at https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=PK-IN-BD-CN-IR-AF The entries for China and India are in Billions. You need consistent units. Do not round to whole numbers, give background links. I used to respect WorldBank data, but your Internet people apparently are not trained in statistical
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