This week, with the Met Police story, we had another example of why you should NOT create big centralised database of personal information. Incalculable damage? Just hire someone on £48k to protect the system. 👍

BBC News

Met Police investigating suspected data breach - BBC News

Scotland Yard says it was been made aware of "unauthorised access" to data held by an outside company.

As predicted here in March… Open Source AI catches up with GPT-4 for writing code. 😎 Model is called CodeLlama-34B-Python It achieved 69.5% pass@1 on HumanEval, GPT-4 achieved 67% NB: 34 billion is significantly smaller than GPT-4 it’s approx 1/10th the size. Again I confidently predict that many small and open source specialists will destroy monolithic general models, when it comes to creating something akin to AGI. The large forest of super narrow specialists will win. It won’t even be close. Monoliths are a dead end. https://www.phind.com/blog/code-llama-beats-gpt4

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What’s going on in America where one political party spends a huge amount of time and energy hyping up enormous media attention for their main opponent? Are all the Dems planning to flip sides and join Trump? Why have they spent all their time and resources raising his profile?

Has anyone thought about nostr relays co-hosting OpenVPN or equivalent? Could probably figure out a way to dual purpose the infrastructure as a VPN.

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By 2045, there will be more children in Africa than all of the rest of the world combined. People really don’t understand the future, at all.

🚨 Today in Open Source 🚨 Natural language to SQL 🤩 A 15B parameter model that outperforms GPT3.5 and outperforms GPT4.0 once schema tuned. As I said earlier this year, FOSS wins the AI race hands down because of specialisation. AGI will be realised as a sprawling forest of lean specialist models and not a gigantic and monolithic general model.

GitHub

GitHub - defog-ai/sqlcoder: SoTA LLM for converting natural language questions to SQL queries

SoTA LLM for converting natural language questions to SQL queries - defog-ai/sqlcoder

I actually think if Steve Jobs came back from the dead for one week, he would be utterly aghast at the total ubiquity of smartphone addiction. It’s 21st Century tobacco.

I see in the news Twitter has broken the url’s to all media / photo files between 2011-14. Lots of people are upset, because they mistakenly thought they owned those photos. 🚨 You don’t own anything on web2.0 🚨 You surrendered all your property and your rights in the T&C’s. Your media, your network, even your own name, that stuff is not yours. You gave it all away ‼️ It all belongs to the corp.

A lot of the most followed people on nostr increasingly post super esoteric niche stuff. This “in-group” signalling doesn’t really help with network stickiness for newbs. Stay grounded.