“The history of human thought would make it seem that there is difficulty in thinking of an idea even when all the facts are on the table” – Isaac Asimov In 2014, MIT’s Technology Review wrote a very interesting article about an attempt to have Isaac Asimov be part of a group of scientists attempting to think...

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At the end of 2021 I quitted my job to create a company with an ex-colleague. It did not work out. One year later, both the first and the second product were a failure, my business partner had quit to create a VC-funded startup, and I was left to pick up the pieces. Not fun. Since then I have been trying to find a...

With Facebook’s release of LLaMa, and the subsequent work done with its models by the open community, it’s now possible to run a state of the art “GPT-3 class” LLM on regular consumer hardware. The 13B model, quantized to 4-bit, runs fine on a GPU with ~9GB free VRAM. I spent 40 minutes chatting with one yesterday,...