Oil embargo:
First they blocked food, water, medicine and oil to reach Gaza => no problem?
Next they blocked Venezuela oil and bombed the boats =>no problem?
Then they blocked oil from reaching Cuba to completely strangle the whole population => no problem?
Then they started a war with Iran and Iran retaliated by blocking the oil in Hormuz => big problem, this is not allowed and the whole world should help to stop this blockade?
This is an important read about commitment and identity with respect to the work you do. Although not everyone will have underlying illnesses the fallout can be as severe.
Looking back at my academic career I see many parallels in the "costs" mentioned:
- sold my twenties to institutes/labs
- traveled too much
- gave too much of myself away (for free)
- strain on mental health
The notion of a broken clock being sometimes right is based on a gross misunderstanding of what information is.
A clock that always shows the same time is never right, even in the moments of the day when the time happens to be what it shows, because you don't gain any information about what time it is by looking at the clock.
This reasoning also applies to chatbots. If you can't tell whether what you have been given is useful information unless you alreay know the information, then you haven't been given useful information.
Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.
Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500
This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.
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