Simon Crosby

@7Saturdaysaweek Living trust

Here's my checklist for having a new baby: open 529 update estate plan add as credit card AU reserve email address add to health insurance register domain name(s) freeze credit w/ 3 bureaus update account beneficiaries create airline loyalty accounts What did I miss?

"HHS has suspended and initiated debarment proceedings against an organization after scrutiny of its work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology…EcoHealth Alliance…will be ineligible from receiving funds from the US government." usrtk.org/covid-19-origi…

@reillyusa @Cloudflare @jengates Nice! Now I know five fabulous leaders there

Some news. I’m thrilled to be joining @Cloudflare and to work with @jengates after many years of us being ships passing in the night. Game on. 🙏🫡

@satnam6502 We’ve lost a Lion

I was talking to Ross just the other day. This is utterly shocking news.

@RonConway @svangel @OpenAI @Meta @Google @ycombinator @huggingface PR nonsense

We all share responsibility for building AI that improves lives & unlocks a better future for humanity. @SVAngel makes this pledge, and we are proud to initiate this Open Letter: Build AI for a Better Future. Please join @OpenAI, @Meta, @Google, @YCombinator, @HuggingFace, @Databricks, @MistralAI, @elevenlabs, @Salesforce, @Microsoft & others in signing today! Sign here: openletter.svangel.com

Ep.9 Grounded Truth - "What is Prompt Ensembling?"-@shayanjm of @watchfulio discusses the intricacies of embedding #LLMs using prompt chaining and prompt ensembling. YouTube: hubs.ly/Q0298p-C0 | Spotify: tinyurl.com/yc67fbu8 | Apple: tinyurl.com/ms77sx5

@satnam6502 Complaining about absence of AI 😂

Arrived in the UK with a UK passport. 1. Rejected for e-gates, interviewed by an immigration official. 2. Bags selected for random screening on my way out. It’s nice to be home.

🚀 New year, new research drop: outperforming GPT-4 in synthetic text generation! Our new approach combines geometry and latent space magic to produce data that is faithful to the real stuff, and orders of magnitude cheaper to produce. Check out the full paper here: watchful.io/blog/navigatin… #NLP #AI #GenAI

What some have termed the meaning crisis is actually a crisis of our way of knowing things. Make sure to read @woobarracuda's new Palladium Magazine article "Everyone's Existential Crisis"

@satnam6502 Whoa super fast

We’ve developed an LLM chat service that runs at breathtaking speed compared to some other LLM chat services you may have used. Please give it a try via groq.com. The LLM chat service is built using our special purpose chips (LPUs) for accelerating machine learning algorithms which are designed to compose and scale with LEGO-like snapability, with determinism being our glue; of our compiler that maps open source foundational machine learning models onto our compute architecture using what appears to be a sequence of lightening Jujitsu moves; and of our cloud and operations teams that stood up and maintain the datacenter hardware that serves a foundational model robustly at scale, speed and low latency. The specific model we serve is Llama2, 70B 4k sequence, created by Meta AI. My day to day life at Groq involves working deep in the trenches on things like SystemVerilog RTL for power management circuits; a #Haskell DSL for structured cell-level digital design; Haskell DSLs for generating machine learning and HPC workloads; and front end MLIR compiler work for wrangling tensors and ops from ONNX, StableHLO, #JAX etc. It is easy to get lost in the details and loose sight of the big picture of what the whole company is striving towards. However, seeing this LLM demo in action makes concrete in a visceral way what the collaboration of many people’s hard work has achieved. I hope this gives you a sense of what I work on when I am not cooking, and share in our excitement. This is an alpha version, more is coming in Q1 2024. #betterongroq #groqspeed #llm #genai

🎉Product announcement! We’re thrilled to announce our brand new integration with Dropbox to prove authenticity and protect content from misuse. Now with a simple click you can instantly bring provenance to the files in your #Dropbox – documents, photos, video, audio, or any other digital content. And whenever you share your content with others, they can instantly check its authenticity in Instaproof. That's protection for your content and proof for your customers. rkvst.com/introducing-rk…

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@stevesi I suggested to Andy Grove in 2003 that they buy Nvidia. He said gaming was a niche

Interesting new attack surface “Windows Copilot will appear in a separate window and will assist with various tasks ... It can change settings, rearrange windows, summarize and rewrite documents, open apps, and more.” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/0…

@cloudpundit Delicious use of “frobingate”. A joy to read!

Interesting thoughts from Steve here. I'm personally pondering how AWS service teams (influenced by sophisticated high-volume customers that want to frobginate things with ever-greater levels of control and refinement) miss the boat of the beauty and elegance of simplicity.

New Blog: TME-MK encrypted VM support in Windows 11 techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-ker…