I loved text based adventure games when I was growing up, but I also thought this comparison was incredibly apt and also found it very funny. I’m a bit surprised people are so offended by this article, have we lost the ability to read something with nuance?
It's a bit weasel-y to refer to criticism as just "people being offended".
> thought this comparison was incredibly apt and also found it very funny
I'm happy for you, but I didn't.
To "read something with nuance" is to be open to nuance that is already present in the writing. This writing is not nuanced!
Perhaps you're asking us to make an effort to be more tolerant of weak writing. That's a fair request when the writer is acting in good faith. But to mock nerds for liking text adventures when you clearly do not like them yourself is not acting in good faith.
He really was one of the first techies to project genius when he really just had antisocial behavior - sort of paving the way for folks like Musk and Thiel. There is such a distortion field around Gates that has been meticulously crafted for years, really since his rebranding after those antitrust trials that ruined his image.
'Investing' in mass media outlets helped craft his image and you're right, he's not a genius in any way shape or form. Antisocial is the perfect description.
This is interesting! I once trained a t5 model by removing newlines from Wikipedia text and it worked surprisingly well / at the time the context length was the biggest issue.
Another, not so easy to solve issue was conversational dialogue type data, which wasn’t super well represented in the training data.
I’ve always wanted to come back to working on the problem again, because I think it’s very interesting and we will have a bunch of unstructured text as a result of STT models like whisper that do a great job of transcribing/translating but generally don’t format anything.
In case you need conversational data for the experiment you want to try, I developed an open-source cli tool [1] that create transcripts from voice chats on discord. Feel free to try it out!
Does it seem strange that this has 121 comments within 4 hours and somehow is ranked 131st on HN? I would think this would be front page with those type of numbers.
Any time # of comments > # of upvotes, HN immediately downranks it quite a bit. This is called the "flamewar filter," and it's intended to cool off heated discussions.
Have you tried moondream yet[1]? The moondream 3 preview model[2], according to the blogpost[3] appears to outperform many frontier models on VLM tasks and does so with a relatively small footprint.
It’s interesting with the whole quote:
“OpenAI has 800 million weekly active users, and putting aside the fact that OpenAI’s own research (see page 10, footnote 20) says it double-counts users who are logged out if they’re use different devices”
The number may not actually be too accurate - but I imagine it’s also paired with what another commentator has said - OpenAI is basically giving their product to companies and the companies are making the employees log in and use it in some way - it’s not natural growth in any sense of the word.
Is being nice equivalent to jumping off a bridge? I think it's relatively simple to comprehend and also harmless. The guy who built this thing is nice, let's try to continue that tradition so that our community doesn't turn to shit.
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