Ah yes the "skip the realities of building orbital megastructures" phase of capitalism.
Can we get like, uh, a space elevator first?
WalnutLum
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Nationalizing SpaceX would probably be financially disasteous (seeing as how Musk has to keep pulling money from his businesses to fund twitter, and to buy out Gwynne Shotwell, who was approached by Boeing to be their new CEO in late 2022)
Most people assume Musk's businesses are all on incredibly shaky ground financially and are propped up entirely though hype and speculative credit.
I've been curious about google coral, but their memory is so tiny I'm not sure what kinds of models you can run on them
It's good that nobody knows how to use a sextant or a fax machine.
Modern Naval officers are taught to do navigation by starlight for backup purposes. Cause GPS ain't that infallible.
And then right after he posts this fucking video of himself playing Diablo 2 while in a SpaceX launch review meeting:
If nothing else the atproto is pretty great, we're starting to see a proper federated net start opening up around it.
The faith people have that shotwell is insulating SpaceX from Musk's incompetency feels more hopeful than factual.
Waiting for a 8x1B MoE
Anyone else remember when people were making expert systems with scheme and saying that was the end of doctors etc?
Ironically thanks in no small part to Facebook releasing Llama and kind of salting the earth for similar companies trying to create proprietary equivalents.
Nowadays you either have gigantic LLMs with hundreds of billions of parameters like Claude and ChatGPT or you have open Models that are sub-200B.
Guix users looking around shiftily and sweating
Anyone from the local llama communities experienced with Gemma models?
I've heard good things but I only use Mistral because it's proved the most versatile.