Luis Villa

Apple announces LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory paper page: https://huggingface.co/papers/2312.11514... See more

Patriotism (as George Orwell noted in one of the few extant essays about its distinction from nationalism) is defensive, while nationalism is aggressive; patriotism is rooted to the land, to a particular country, while nationalism appeals to the myth of a people, indeed to a majority; patriotism is traditionalist, nationalism is populist. Patriotis... See more

Today Google released Gemini with a 60-page report in which they repeatedly say the training data is key ("We find that data quality is critical to a highly-performing model"), while providing almost no information about how it was made, how it was filtered, or its contents.

The most salient reason neoclassical economics became dominant in policy circles is that it was allied with a general revanchist business interest squeezed by late-60s/early 70s crisis. But we should not forget that it also presented the policymakers dealing that crisis something that more heterodox approaches did not: parsimony.