learning how to type on a kinesis keyboard is rough. the pain better be worth the reward at the end

Too much fun (and sleepless nights) helping awesome folks like @kanjun, @joshalbrecht, & Imbue team get access to H100s. Working non-stop to get more online soon!

We're launching Voltage Park today to address the massive compute shortage. Our long term goal is to make ML infrastructure accessible to all. Today, we're starting by launching a massive cloud of 24,000 Nvidia H100s for ML training.

blackpink sampling paganini’s la campanella for their song shut down is sick. i had to stop what i was doing when i first heard it. so many more bangers pop music could borrow from classical music! * shut down: https://t.co/XoLbrqDTGL * la campanella:

Spirit airlines flight attendant to a disgruntled passenger: “I’m sorry sir, the only thing I can offer you for free are some ice cubes.”

my perpetual struggle is wanting to be both a night person and a morning person 😂 in 2023 I should probably try to go to bed earlier @eightsleep

a powerful mindset, no matter your age

also, puyi - the famous child emperor - was the last ruler of the qing dynasty from ages 3-6 (!). he even has his own autobiography, which i am now tempted to read!

other fun facts: the manchus heavily adopted Han Chinese culture during their qing dynasty reign in order to better assimilate. so as a sub-group they are less distinctive today but these traditional chinese hairstyles, for example, are from manchu culture:

i should also note that the name manchuria itself is an exonym. the Chinese government officially recognizes the region as "Northeastern China"

many historians think that japan's defeat by the soviets in manchuria was a huge contributing factor to their surrender in WWII. (of course, the traditional view is that Japan surrendered because of the atomic bombs the US dropped on them.)

the Soviets were also quite interested in that region and tried conquering it several times. during WWII, they successfully did so and pushed the Japanese out. ultimately, the Soviets ceded control of this area to the CCP (it remains in their control today)

after the fall of the qing dynasty, japan conquered manchuria and launched its invasion of china from there japan then ruled via a puppet empire stationed in manchuria. hence for the chinese, manchuria is heavily associated with japanese imperialism

i almost forgot that the manchus controlled all of china at one point via the qing dynasty (1644 - 1911) manchuria itself no longer exists today (for reasons you'll see below). it was the main character in a lot of conflict in the 20th century between China, Russia, and Japan

This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets. It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial. For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

so anyways, I still feel negatively about the idea in general, but after examining my negative reaction more I think it's more an emotional distaste rather than logical one curious to hear other contrasting thoughts or opinions, or things i'm not thinking of

and while it just seems wrong to allow this - what would be the argument for why? because we create things everyday that have the possibility to kill people: cars, phones, guns, knives, literally any machine....

so then the next question is: should one be allowed to create something like a VR headset that could kill you, if you died in the game? well from a market perspective, there will always be people who seek thrills like that and who think taking that gamble is worth it.

was it "right" for Philippe Petit to walk on a tightrope across the Twin Towers, again given that he would have died if he did not succeed? you get the point. there's also a separate point, which is - people are going to do what they wish, regardless of whether it is "right".

is it "right" to allow people to play a game like that?? well, a good parallel is dangerous sports, where if you fail, you die. for example: was it "right" for Alex Honnold to free solo El Capitan, given the very real possibility that he would have died if he did not succeed?