Next.js at the speed of Rust
Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1816347862873112595
Here’s the most comprehensive article I’ve found on this drama, most other articles are missing the Thomas Lockley piece of the puzzle (understandably, as most of this discourse is in Japanese on X):
Source: x.com/yoheinakajima/status/1816246101181403285
I went down the Ubisoft/Yasuke drama unfolding and it’s pretty wild (and a fascinating story of how misinformation can spread to credible sources via language arbitrage).
The issue in Japan is largely around Thomas Lockley who is marketing a historical fiction book as historical. The confusion is that the prior Japanese version of the book was academic and accurate. (The two books have different facts)
So it took a long time for Japanese people to catch on... until Ubisoft created a main character based on his book (he was an expert they consulted and had on podcasts).
Source: x.com/yoheinakajima/status/1816245633399021757
AI be like
Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1816285382390219127
Important watch
Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1816291690162033121
Why not "jump to changes?" Why put up with a problem for two weeks, even though you've identified it as a problem in what you're doing right now? I don't see the logic. If Toyota did that (instead of an andon cord), known defects would be built into the cars for two weeks until they had their next retro. Really?
Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1816169794300961253
A retro is not a contest. The *team* makes a decision on what to fix based on what is most in the way of the *team* being effective. If a team is incapable of working collaboratively as a team in this way, that is the subject of all future retros until you get that figured out. Trying to fix more than one thing at a time usually results in nothing getting fixed.
Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1816170815236513928
I'd be a lot more inclined to invest $10M into 2000 creators. The distributed intelligence and creativity of the crowd feels underutilized.
Source: x.com/karpathy/status/1816169847392460874
Hmmm i should try that lol
Source: x.com/nfkmobile/status/1816153543952224486
A co-worker once said:
“People shouldn’t learn how to code - they should learn how to solve problems.”
He was then fired a month later for being horrible at programming.
Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1816143767617126701
That "faster horse" chestnut is made-up urban legend. Ford never said that. In actual fact, Henry Ford DID ask his customers what they wanted. They told him that they wanted financing, and he provided that. That's Agile to its core. Ask questions, get feedback, then adapt/respond. Ford was way too canny a businessperson to ignore his customers.
Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1815802910024007836
That might be correct if Agile was a set of processes and rituals. It's not. There are no processes or rituals in the Agile Manifesto. What _is_ in the Agile Manifesto is: "Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done." Precisely what you're saying that Agile isn't. Agile is all about competent people.
Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1815804193955013068
I betcha didn’t know about git add in patch mode!
Source: x.com/wesbos/status/1815860540624748563
Huge congrats to @AIatMeta on the Llama 3.1 release!
Few notes:
Today, with the 405B model release, is the first time that a frontier-capability LLM is available to everyone to work with and build on. The model appears to be GPT-4 / Claude 3.5 Sonnet grade and the weights are open and permissively licensed, including commercial use, synthetic data generation, distillation and finetuning. This is an actual, open, frontier-capability LLM release from Meta. The release includes a lot more, e.g. including a 92-page PDF with a lot of detail about the model:
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/the-llama-3-herd-of-models/…
The philosophy underlying this release is in this longread from Zuck, well worth reading as it nicely covers all the major points and arguments in favor of the open AI ecosystem worldview:
"Open Source AI is the Path Forward"
https://facebook.com/4/posts/10115716861061241/?rdid=VE0wPWaJDdF21j32…
I like to say that it is still very early days, that we are back in the ~1980s of computing all over again, that LLMs are a next major computing paradigm, and Meta is clearly positioning itself to be the open ecosystem leader of it.
- People will prompt and RAG the models.
- People will finetune the models.
- People will distill them into smaller expert models for narrow tasks and applications.
- People will study, benchmark, optimize.
Open ecosystems also self-organize in modular ways into products apps and services, where each party can contribute their own unique expertise. One example from this morning is @GroqInc , who built a new chip that inferences LLMs *really fast*. They've already integrated Llama 3.1 models and appear to be able to inference the 8B model ~instantly:
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1815809753660154047…
And (I can't seem to try it due to server pressure) the 405B running on Groq is probably the highest capability, fastest LLM today (?).
Early model evaluations look good:
https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/… https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1815775286195331411…
Pending still is the "vibe check", look out for that on X / r/LocalLlama over the next few days (hours?).
I expect the closed model players (which imo have a role in the ecosystem too) to give chase soon, and I'm looking forward to that.
There's a lot to like on the technical side too, w.r.t. multilingual, context lengths, function calling, multimodal, etc. I'll post about some of the technical notes a bit later, once I make it through all the 92 pages of the paper :)
Source: x.com/karpathy/status/1815842603377779140
Meanwhile at Facebook :)))
Source: x.com/nfkmobile/status/1816097720832041183
How much am I going to hate this?
Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1815920345842659493
That’s a sure fire way to guarantee your own death Hillary would become President within a week
Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1816114259048423725
Thank you JavaScript.
Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1815837567243411777
This sort of garbage is completely worthless. You don't get people to have a meaningful conversation, which is what a retro actually is, with gimmicks and games. It is both patronizing and insulting to treat adults as children, who don't yet have the cognitive ability to focus, so must use a game as a scaffold. If you want a good retro, set up a culture of psychological safety and stick your neck out with upper management to assure that problems outside of the team get fixed.
Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1815811960803582220
**40 degrees** please remember we are a Canadian podcast and most of the world doesn't use the wacky freedom degrees
Source: x.com/wesbos/status/1815792900762194164