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Fans? Customers yeah, but fans?

They actually did at one point, but they threw it all away.

Smaller models (7B down to 350M) can handle long conversations better

What are you basing that on? I mean, it is true there are more small models that support very long context lengths than big ones, but it's not really because smaller models can handle them better, but because training big models takes a lot more resources. So people usually do that kind of fine-tuning on small models since training a 70B to 32K would take a crazy amount of compute and hardware.

If you could afford fine tuning it though, I'm pretty sure the big model has at least the same inherent capabilities. Usually larger models deal with ambiguity and stuff better, so there's a pretty good chance it would actually do better than the small model assuming everything else was equal.

The article seems to repeat the same stuff over and over again.

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Can you provide an example where science cannot explain a situation, because I can’t honestly think of any.

Not OP, but there is some stuff. One big example is qualia. How does matter give rise to actual feelings, experiences of things? This isn't something we can measure directly and it actually seems like it won't be something we ever can measure. Might also be able to use something like "what was there before the big bang?" and that kind of thing.

Of course, the fact that science can't explain something doesn't really justify falling back on magic as an explanation though. Some stuff just may not have an answer.

Pretty sure it's mainly non-furry non-gay hackers that take down the majority of websites.

From dealing with their support in the past and stuff they've accommodated, I wouldn't be surprised if you could just ask them to do it for a small amount like that. If you do a web search, you can also find a lot of information and people claiming it's possible to do stuff like transfer it to a Paypal account, etc.

I haven't tried to do that personally, so maybe it really just isn't possible. It's still only something that will affect someone that's never going to spend money at Amazon again, right? If I'm going to spend $5.99 at some point, it's effectively the same as a cash refund for me. If I'm going to spend $10.99 at some point it's almost the same as getting double the refund, since I would have spent cash instead in those cases.

Do we need to be more efficient?

I mean, it's usually a beneficial thing. Using less resources (including land) to produce the same amount of food is probably going to mean less environmental damage. In the case of switching to vat grown meat it also means not torturing billions of animals every year.

We have the resources to feed everyone on Earth and have leftovers

Sure. No one starves because the food just isn't on this planet, they starve because the people who have it won't give it to them. That said, we're also not using resources very sustainably so saying we produce enough food currently isn't the same as saying we can continue this way.

We could also increase efficiency even further by reducing meat/dairy consumption.

I don't eat any animal products so you can probably guess this is something I'm strongly in favor of as well!

Anyway, I was just responding to what I quoted not specifically arguing for 3d-printed foods. Depending on how it's implemented, it may or may not be better environmentally than the status quo

Like, those cells will require the same nutrients and same growing conditions, and they naturally 3D print themselves into the shape of themselves.

They'll also naturally use the nutrients and energy to 3D print stuff that's not useful to humans, like leaves, roots, flowers, etc. Basically this is how vat grown vegetables, meat, etc, can potentially be more efficient than the typical approach.

Easily hour+ long headache on your first time.

Whenever I read this kind of thing (and people seem to say it pretty often), it seems really weird to me. Same goes for complaining about distro installers. An hour of possible headache/irritation and then you use the machine for years. Obviously it would be better if stuff was easy, but an hour just seems insignificant in the scheme of things. I really just don't understand seeing it as an actual roadblock.

(Of course, there are other situations where it could matter like if you had to install/maintain 20 machines, but that's not what we're talking about here.)

One thing is the pace is very, very consistent. Real humans don't usually maintain that level of consistency, they'll speed up, slow down, some words come out fast, some come out slow, etc.

Maybe I misunderstood you but my point was if it interpreted the language preferences I set in the normal config as "knowing" the languages I added and didn't offer translations, that wouldn't necessarily be what I want.