url 2 audio

please someone build reverse airchat:

text => optional audio via voice cloning

steady improvements in MLX land

we need more and better evals fast

In depth artisanal llama 3 tasting by Hrishi

I wonder if it is worth to crack the long-tail of hallucinations w/ pre-training (useful!) or if the way fwd will be to just RAG it

twitter.com/giffmana/statu…

market not excited about llama 3?

🔥 Qwen 1.5 110B preview

Curious what sets the scale of the height of the highest mountains. What’s the deepest explanation for why it’s ~10km on Earth, not 1 or 100 etc. Can it be deduced from radius and density and not much else? Does it then work for the moon, Mars and so on?

pre-training :)

frontier model economics (atm)

* pre-training is costly
* economics more similar to jumbo jets and cruise ships
* but also: razor thin margins and fast commoditization
* almost no lock-in
* sometimes smol model is all you need
* regulatory consolidation obstacles

🔥 Apple MLX generates more tokens / second compared to llama.cpp

14 of 16 top posts on r/LocalLLaMA are on llama 3

llama 3 in your browser

good explanation for why weaker models rank similar to GPT-4:

> if the proportion of relatively easy user questions is high, then there are fewer opportunities for a better model to distinguish itself

— tibbar on hacker news

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=400887…