Links and notes from april 2023
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence)Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
(Matsuo Bashō)In the cicada’s cry
No sign can foretell
How soon it must die.
AI
Once again, Simon Willison (co-creator of the pyhton Django framework, and founder of Datasette) is someone worth following on this topic/field.
Google and OpenAI have no MOAT in LLMs
A supposedly-leaked google internal memo that claims that nor Google nor OpenAI have a significant MOAT (business’s ability to maintain competitive advantages over its competitors in order to protect its long-term profits and market share) in the domain of LLMs (large language models).
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither
This is explained by the open-source vitality of the domain, and the releases of Alpaca models (by meta), and actors like HuggingFace (who strongly pushes the open-source side of AI/ML).
Wikipedia worries about AI-generated articles and LLMs usage
Colors
Two colors that will never cease to fascinate me:
- Cosmic latte, the average color of the universe.
- Eigengrau, the color you see when you close your eyes.
Two websites / apps that do a decent job to create color scales and palettes:
Music
Little Simz - Point And Kill feat. Obongjayar
Hilltop hoods - The Nosebleed Section
Acid Arab - Leila Feat Sofiane Saidi
