I'm not going to take design advice from somebody who animates snow falling over the text and images of his blog

Sparse Attention, it's the highlight of this model as per the paper

How did we come to the place that the most transparent and open models are now coming out of China—freely sharing their research and source code—while all the American ones are fully locked down

China needs to build the world's trust and respect, while the US is slowly but surely losing theirs.

slowly?

Over reliance on investors who demand profits more than engineering.

The best innovation always happens before being tainted by investment.

Because the whole framing of US vs China as open vs closed was never correct to begin with.

The US is more law and finance led and the first thing seems to be to get an IP advantage and raise money. China I guess less so - they are famously lax on IP and everyone copies everything.

Because the entire US economy is being propped up by AI hype.

The money would have gone somewhere. The "smart" money went to AI. Don't get fooled.

everybody looks smart in a bull market

The US companies are all basically GPUaas. I’m not sure what the financial model is here, but I like it.

Short cheeky answer is that capitalists need to capture value and communists don’t. Less cheeky answer is that this is a good opportunity for China to make sure the world isn’t dominated by US-sourced AI models.

However in another way the US probably offers more free inference than China. What good is an open 600 billion parameter model to a poor person? A free account with ChatGPT might be more useful to them, though also more exploitative.

> How did we come to the place that the most transparent and open models are now coming out of China—freely sharing their research and source code—while all the American ones are fully locked down

Greed and "safety" hysteria.

I'll have to wait for the bycloud video on this one :P

I took this one as well - even as a new programmer is was really engaging and information-dense.

I built a website that lets you browse Pokemon ENS (Ethereum Name Service) names, view their registration statuses and recent sales. It's a small but engaged niche

https://pokemon-ens.com

What if you have two books?

Why wake up so early for tiktok time?

I like getting up early and I like TikTok.

I've never been on TikTok. What's the appeal?

Enough mindless entertainment to numb the pain of waking up at 4:30AM

The usual infinite scrolling in autoplay-on-repeat, snap-scroll format. Even less control over recommendations than youtube.

Yeah I agree, I don't see the point in waking up so early for crossword games either

Yes, no such thing as dark pools in traditional finance /s

https://matcha.video is an in-browser transcription-based video editor. Remove silence and keep only the takes that you want with just a couple clicks. Export your edits to an XML format that you can bring into FCP or Davinci Resolve to finish. Free to use, data stays on your machine.

Note: this is a WIP, so if you have any experience working with .fcpxml, I'd love to hear from you!

Very cool!

I love this. In a quick test, I noticed the transcription missed on quite a few of my "filler" words that I might want to edit out, although it did get some of them.

It took me a little while to figure out how to "edit out" words.

EDIT: Turns out should I have read the instructions before uploading my video it would have been straight forward :D

I appreciate you testing it! The whisper model that I'm using indeed doesn't seem to pick up filler words, I'll try to add those ASAP. I'd also like to add background noise removal as a preprocessing step in case the input audio isn't the cleanest.

Were you able to import the result into your editor?

Yes! DaVince Resolve 18 for me, it worked perfectly

Awesome! I think that makes you matcha's first official user. Please let me know if you have any other feature requests or use cases you'd like me to look into

I've been a YNAB (You Need A Budget) user for years now, and they have a community run extension which includes Sankey Diagrams and different visualizations and reports. Highly recommend!