Ballroom and Latin American, so Waltz, Vienna Waltz, Foxtrott, Tango, Rumba, Jive, ChaChaCha, Disco Fox. Did that originally for 3 years as a kid in school, but haven’t really since, so when I started over with my wife we started in the beginner course. Back then, I also had a stretch of Boogie Woogie and Rock'n'Roll, but neither of those for long.
I do not believe any 7B model comes even close to 3.5 in quality. I used LLama V1 64B, and it was horrible in comparison. Are you really telling me that this tiny model gives better general answers? Or am I just misunderstanding what you are saying?
I’d say this is an amazing result for MS. Not only is their investment mostly Azure credits, so OpenAI is dependent on MS, now they also got Altman and his followers for themselves for more research.
I don’t mind so much what they did with firing him, but how they did it, and everything since. It just seems extremely unprofessional and disorganized.
They believed that the AI safety work they had done was insufficient.
Considering that every new model seems to be getting worse for anything but highly sanitized corporate usage, I’m not sure that I want more AI safety …
For my usage, I use Chat GPT 3.5 turbo with the march checkpoint because I can’t get the current one to stop moralizing about bullshit instead of doing what it’s supposed to (I run two twitch bots with it). GPT4 used to be okay there, but the new preview is now starting to have the same issue with more frequent "I can’t do that Dave"-style answers, though it’s still mostly circumventable with enough prompt massaging, but it is getting harder.
In a year, I don’t see anything but self-hosted models usable for anything not corporate glitz if trajectories hold, so fuck all that AI safety.
Crazy, the news almost took hackernews down when it broke. MS also was taken by surprise, and today 3 lead researchers resigned. Currently only speculation and no one really knows what’s going on.
Aww, what a teaser. I was getting excited to check them out, until the last 3 words. Vocals are essentially mandatory for me, even if they are only used as an additional instrument (like in Berio’s Sinfonia from 1969), I still require vocals.
I mostly don’t care about labels. Though there’s some fun stuff at I, Voidhanger who only take really weird extreme metal bands on ;) Alas, mostly too weird for me.
While I do sometimes pick up older music, there are two issues.
a) I like having a chance to see a live performance. Now, with a ton of indie music I like, that chance tends to be low, but it’s still there.
b) If I like a band, I rarely like only one album. So I want more of that band. With old music, that chance is gone (unless the band still exists, or simply has a big backlog).
In general, besides personal recommendations (or very rarely when I’m out, but they mostly just play the same ~100 songs that they’ve played 10 years ago and everyone but me seems happy with that), I mainly stick to metal review sites, not because I’m not open to listening to other things, but because there aren’t many genres (industrial rock & folk rock are probably notable exceptions, if anyone has website recommendations for new releases in that area, I’m open :D) where I’d enjoy a whole album, and I’m not a singles person. The effort of going through hundreds of albums to find one I might like is just not worth it.
edit: Just in case it wasn’t clear, I don’t use streaming services, I only buy albums, usually on bandcamp.
The week didn’t end too well, while coming back from the first store, my foot started hurting a bit, got worse when going to the 2nd store. Later at home while watching TV, getting up was actively painful, and I had to hobble.
The next day, I used nebenan.de (German nextdoor copycat) to borrow some crutches, and went to the doctor (which required taking the bus, Saturdays normal doctors are closed and the Anlaufpraxis is at the hospital, kinda a non-emergency emergency room). I thought it was a sprained ankle, but apparently only similar and not that bad, no bleeding, and the swelling had already gone down. I got a zinc paste gauze bandage (apparently called Unna's boot in English), that has to stay on for 3 days and can’t get wet (so no showering …)
It helped a bit and since Sunday afternoon I’ve only been needing one of the crutches which gives me a free hand, very convenient ;) This all results in my wife doing more chores, especially the dishes which, so far, has not resulted in disaster ;) I’m still cooking as that mostly works while standing mostly on my left foot.
I do miss running, but the doctor also told me I should probably get new running boots as the current ones are ancient (mostly unused, but material fatigue happens anyway) as that might be related. They should arrive tomorrow, but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to run again. Already missed dancing lessons this Sunday, the ones next Sunday will be the test if everything is fine, and I can start running again on Monday.
As you might be able to tell from this elaborate whining post, I really hate being sick ;)
I know a lot of people are in love with these "I’m a designer and I want you to know it"-sites, but this is a perfect example of why I dislike them: Upon loading, I see a useless animation (I have prefers-reduced-motion enabled), and blank boxes. Only after 5.55 megabytes of font has been downloaded (slightly over 2 seconds), does text show up.
Thank :) Just wish it went faster …
Ballroom and Latin American, so Waltz, Vienna Waltz, Foxtrott, Tango, Rumba, Jive, ChaChaCha, Disco Fox. Did that originally for 3 years as a kid in school, but haven’t really since, so when I started over with my wife we started in the beginner course. Back then, I also had a stretch of Boogie Woogie and Rock'n'Roll, but neither of those for long.