You may be surprised to learn that under the current regulations no Japanese crypto exchange will allow you to cash out USDC, which feels relevant to the claim of whether it is actually useful for investing in a Japanese startup.
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Open Source Development Unpaid Labor Economics
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True – this is talking about open source, where you get paid $0, generally speaking.
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FP32 vs BF16 vs FP16 Mixed Precision Training Options
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The main options are fp32 (or tf32), bf16, or fp16+mixed prec afaik.
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FP16 Training Optimization: Dynamic Loss Scaling Without Mixed Precision
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I suspect the problem you're testing here might be too easy to see differences – you're getting nearly 100% either way. Would be interesting to see fp16 with dynamic loss scaling but without mixed precision to compare to there.
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BF16 vs FP16 Training Performance Comparison Analysis
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There was some comparison of training performance by @StasBekman recently that showed bf16 non-mixed training was quite a bit worse. Which I'd expect, because bf16 has much less precision than even fp16.
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Banks struggle with fraud detection and velocity limits
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You would hope that banks would be able to heuristically detect this but a combination of organizational, IT, cultural, and regulatory issues makes that difficult, and so they adopt individualized velocity limits to minimize damage and attempt to educate users about this.
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AI Progress Continues: Current Version is Worst We’ll See
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I promise this version is the worst it’s ever going to be. It’s important to raise this point for those who think the current AI excitement is a 1 off win. It’s not, this is going to continue.
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Open-Source RAG ChatGPT Web App AI Tutor Launch
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How we Built an Open-Source RAG-based ChatGPT Web App: Meet Our new AI Tutor! This is Towards AI's new AI tutor, a question-answering chatbot built to answer anything about LLMs with up-to-date information! (work in progress, please try it and give us feedback, its free!) Learn
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Difficulty Finding Inflammatory Language on Extinction and Existential Risks
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they would be pressed to find inflammatory language supporting the use of terminology such as “extinction” and “existential risks”.
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AI Labs Must Complete Nuclear Safety Analogy Seriously
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"If AI labs are to consistently invoke exaggerated fears through comparisons to nuclear hazards, then they must be willing to take the analogy to completion. Ironically, if they were to explore the readily available safety mechanisms for nuclear components,…