#youzicha

[andmaybegayer]

27?

27: what’s your favorite or go-to outfit?

My favourite outfit is Vampire Mode which is my most over the top all-black outfit: black trousers, black scoop-neck vest, black flocked snakeskin pattern shirt, black leather jacket, black riding boots with chaps.

[nostalgebraist]

In your faq you say you have no plans to make nostalgebraist-autoresponder use gpt-3, why not? Will it be too expensive to finetune?

For one thing, I currently have no way to use GPT-3 at all: I signed up for OpenAI’s waitlist long ago and haven’t heard back.

(I’m not surprised or mad about this, I expect they’ve gotten a huge number of requests and I’m not especially high profile)

Even if I did have API access, it would be too expensive to host/serve, even without finetuning.

As for finetuning -- which, for my project, is a hard requirement -- I doubt I’d be allowed to do it at all.  It’s only available at their “Scale” pricing tier, which looks aimed at corporate clients:

To sum up, using GPT-3 in production is not really comparable to using GPT-2 in production in terms of cost and accessibility.

GPT-2 is accessible to hobbyists.  You can run GPT-2 on standard data center GPUs like T4s, which you can rent from Google for prices ranging from “low” to “zero” depending on your tolerance for timeouts.  You can finetune it pretty quickly on a standard TPU (not even a pod).

GPT-3 was a deliberate exercise in pushing the limits of current hardware.  The level of hardware and support needed to run it in production is not something average hobbyist can expect to access.

[transgenderer]

youzicha replied to your post “i KNEW i packed a salt shaker but i couldnt find it so i went out and...”

put plain, garlic, & pink himaliyan salt in them, and conspicuously put them in the center of the table when you have guests over for dinner. If anyone asks, be sure to explain in a tone of voice that conveys your incredulity that anyone would be uncultured enough to not have the bare minimum of table salt vessels.

EXTREMELY good suggestion. especially good because one of the “salt shakers” has a P on it (its for pepper) but i dont use pepper so for me its another salt shaker. but of course! p also stands for pink! however, because i cant have guests, ill have to pack all three salt shakers in my backpack and bring them if i ever have dinner at somebody else’s house. plus then they’ll have four! i assume there’s will be the shitty kind of salt so i’ll have a full 4 different types of salt (i will of course ahve great salt)

[absolute-immunities]

Where did *you* first learn about the holocaust?

Life Is Beautiful

[thisistea]

This is a Chinese Puerh tea stuffed into a pomelo (You Zi Cha), c. 1990s, and allowed to age. I purchased it from David Lee Hoffman of “The Phoenix Collection” in Laguinitas, California, in 2017. Since then I’ve been chipping away at it. It brews very clear and aromatic infusions, both earthy and yes, citrusy. I brewed it a few times one morning, then again later that day, then again the next morning. By then it still had such nice flavor. A sign of a good tea. See the original post on this tea.

[suntzuanime]

>it takes months to get to mars, so you get a natural quarantine period.

We thought it took months to get to the New World, but alas! The most you can say is, it takes 12 minutes to get to Mars, which isn’t really enough. If you want to colonize Proxima Centauri be my guest. 

[xhxhxhx]

youzicha replied to your photo: incredible to see so many Chinese kids telling...

China could join us in the 21st century if only they unblocked Youtube.. :(

yeah, it’s astonishing that 18% of Chinese kids said that their great ambition in life was to get big on ... Douyin

[argumate]

Will the prediction market 2.0 be ready soon? After this latest round of predictions (and, I guess, being infused in politics posts for a few more years) I kindof feel tempted to play.

I respond rationally to incentives, and also to people badgering me, so yeah I guess.