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Re:Meta Llama 3 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:13PM (#40077710)
Zuck has an interview out for it as well, https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1780990840179187715
Re:Meta Llama 3 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:06PM (#40077643)
They've got a console for it as well, https://www.meta.ai/

And announcing a lot of integration across the Meta product suite, https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/meta-ai-assistant-built-wi...

Neglected to include comparisons against GPT-4-Turbo or Claude Opus, so I guess it's far from being a frontier model. We'll see how it fares in the LLM Arena.

Re:Grok on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:58AM (#39742020)
Claude 3 Opus is reporting superior metrics, particularly in its coding ability, and in the LLM Arena it is statistically tied with GPT-4.
Could you expand on this? Is the idea to embed paragraphs (or some other arbitrary subsection) of text, and then semantic search for the most relevant paragraphs, and then only summarize them?
Curious how such a crackdown would even be enforced. Stable Diffusion is allowing artists to opt-out, so I guess that's a start?
Re:The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking [pdf] on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:21PM (#33612139)
I had a good baseline fitness from other activities, so was able to pretty much launch into 20 km daily.

Blisters happened at the beginning. Investing in Darn Tough socks helps.

Re:The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking [pdf] on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @12:28AM (#33605662)
Lately I've been walking 20 km per day (~12.5 mi). Takes at least 3.5 hours. I try not to listen to any audio -- I just let my mind wander.

To step it up a notch, I put on a weighted backpack (i.e. ruck). I'm typically carrying 30 lbs, sometimes 50. This raises the heart rate and roughly doubles the caloric burn. Low injury risk, too. Michael Easter's book "Comfort Crisis" has a nice chapter on rucking.

I just wish it was easier to contact nature on my walks. I live in a big urban centre, so it's not always easy. But at least urban centers can facilitate social walking -- I've found some fantastic Meetup groups where I can partake in social hikes.

Can't say enough good things about walking/hiking/rucking. It's foundational to the human experience. Get outside, everyone :)