If consumers paid close to wholesale rates for their home energy they would be highly incentivized to do these sorts of things: they'd pay almost nothing (or maybe even less than nothing) in the day and big bucks from 5 PM to 8 PM. There would be whole industries helping people shift consumption to daylight hours. Unfortunately legislatures have consistently been acting to shield consumers from variable time of day costs, preventing behavior adjustment.
I'm curious, what actually happens when you're fined some comically large amount of money? Do you just immediately declare bankruptcy and let the courts carve up your assets? Is that usually the end of that or do you still end up having your wages garnished after bankruptcy?
Doesn't make much sense to compare a model that's not fine tuned to flan models that are fine tuned. Makes more sense to compare to something like T5 base where it's probably a lot more comparable.
My (John McDonnell) conversation with Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht are the Co-founders of Generally Intelligent.
We talked about the state of reinforcement learning and what the field needs to succeed in building autonomous agents, the challenge of founding and building a company with a research-first agenda, which AI technical advances are over- and under-hyped, and much more.
Kanjun thinks language models are _still_ underrated!
My (John McDonnell) conversation with Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht are the Co-founders of Generally Intelligent. We got into the state of reinforcement learning and what the field needs to succeed in building autonomous agents, the challenge of founding and building a company with a research-first agenda, which AI technical advances are over- and under-hyped, and much more.
Kanjun thinks language models are _still_ underrated!
The government spent $211B on the shuttle program and got 133 launches. SpaceX will probably surpass that number this year at a fraction of the cost.
NASA's record on rockets since Apollo has been abysmal.
I don't think government is necessarily bad (the Russians did a much better job in recent decades!) but it leans into its failures and often has bad incentives. SpaceX fails fast, has great incentives, and has achieved an incredible amount on a (comparatively) shoestring budget.