Matt Baker
@mattwbaker
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Semi-retired technology industry veteran. Key topics #AI, #Data, #Cloud, #IT, and such.
Hopefully On The Water
Joined September 2008
Vagabonding Update - Off to Newfoundland for adventure in the interior lakes, bogs, scrub, and woods.
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Nihilism is a raging blight on society and this platform does a great job of showcasing that blight
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This is the type of headline you’d expect when gold prices hit a milestone record high, as they did this morning. Yet, as noted in yesterday’s posts and several earlier ones, this surge is occurring alongside “risk-on” indicators — such as the S&P, NASDAQ, Russell, and others —
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Debate and dialogue are not the same thing - Debate is a competition of ideas and concepts where only one side can win...it's a zero-sum engagement with no goal of understanding. Dialogue is not a competition...its only goal is understanding one another Many confuse the two
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"News" that moves is not news, "News" that moves is entertainment
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South zone opening day with an amazing sunrise…good to be in Texas with my best friends
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I like this article by a Google team member in Venture Beat... One interesting observation for me, persistent storage technologies get zero mention from architectural perspective... https://t.co/jVNHq88TQJ
venturebeat.com
Why fulfilling the promise of AI requires a step-change in capabilities far exceeding the advancements of the internet era.
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A very good read on LLM non-determinism and strategies to defeat it:
thinkingmachines.ai
Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models. For example, you might observe that asking ChatGPT...
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To understand what is taking place and accelerating the "Brain Rot" for the chronically online, this is a very good paper to read. While this covers external state actors, a memetic civil war is having real consequences in the meatspace, e.g. real world:
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This was the last 10 minutes of a four-hour conversation, but I mangaed to articulate a struggle I've dealt with in my life, as have many post-9/11 vets...the search for meaning in civilian life after the military. And, sadly, how to deal with losing our war in Afghanistan.
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Do not visit the For You tab in moments like this…got there by mistake…wow.
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In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination
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WATCH: A montage of Trump saying he’ll end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office.
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Entirely predictable…
An influx of highly paid AI researchers at Meta has created new status divisions, even as some recent hires have already left their jobs
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