crispen.bsky.social
Director of Educational Technology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
https://linktr.ee/patrickcrispen
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you keep your content and interactions local, but either way the LLM has been nerfed with real-time censorship of content related to sensitive topics the CCP wants to avoid (see: Winnie-the-Pooh).
7. You should have bought the dip. :) 🧵7/7
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6. DeepSeek dot com is tantamount to ChatCCP — everything you upload to it is stored on servers in China. If you run it locally (locally means downloading and installing it on your computer, not accessing it through an app on your phone) ... 🧵6/7
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5. The fact that DeepSeek released this under the MIT Open Source license means that everyone can try to reverse engineer this and apply it to other LLMs. If the lessons can be transferred? AI everywhere, baby! If not? See: Fleischmann–Pons cold fusion. 🧵5/7
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4. But if you don’t want to scale this, being able to run a 32-billion-parameter LLM on a home computer’s 24 GB graphics card is an amazing breakthrough. 🧵4/7
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2. Accounting tricks aside, cutting training costs and still getting results on par with o1 (but reportedly not o3) is an impressive feat. But …
3. Training is only part of an LLMs cost; inference (actually running the LLM to do stuff) is a much bigger expense at scale. 🧵3/7
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1. DeepSeek left a LOT out of their cost estimates. The $5.6M they spent on their final training run seems to be only the price tag for the time the 2,048 Nvidia H800 GPUs were running over two months. 🧵2/7
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Percent of San Francisco area river water that could have been diverted to put out the LA fires = 0%. Pipes/aqueducts connecting the two cities = 0. LA water comes from the Owens Valley and the Colorado River, not Northern California (see: Chinatown). 🧵3/3
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Delta smelt = tiny fish that thrives in fresh water rivers around San Francisco and dies in salt water (see: Intelligent Design). Take too much fresh water from the river, seawater flows in, and smelt die (see: canary in the coal mine). 🧵2/3
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“Everybody remember where we parked: Mobile order for Christine C, 1 H.”
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Like the only way to read this is that a guy who is not the President said “you may break the law for a while and I won’t punish you when I become President” and everyone said, sure, good enough
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Special Thanks: Huge appreciation to Wil Giesler (wilgieseler.com) for sharing these images via GitHub (wilg.github.io/la-fire-maps/) and to Maxar (maxar.com) for capturing these incredible views on Friday morning. 4/4
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On the Eaton Fire map, landmarks include:
- Old Pasadena (bottom left)
- Santa Anita Racetrack (bottom right)
- Rose Bowl (around 8 o’clock)
- NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (around 11 o’clock) 3/4
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If you’re unfamiliar with LA. on the Palisades Fire map the Santa Monica Pier is in the bottom right corner with the map cutting off just west of Topanga Canyon. 2/4
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Tip: Tap the fire icon for updates, and check out the wind direction and AQI overlays under Layers > Weather. Don’t forget to zoom out to see what’s happening across the LA basin. 4/4
Stay safe, everyone!
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Thank you all for your well wishes. I’ll keep you updated as the situation evolves. And let me once again recommend the free Watch Duty app (app.watchduty.org/i/40388) — it’s been a lifeline for tracking the fire. 3/4
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Over 1,500 fire personnel are on the scene.
Our home is safe — we’re south of the 210 in PAS-Q1405 — but ash is falling, and the air quality is in the unhealthy range (low 150s). We’re staying indoors with all windows closed and both of our Coway Airmega HEPA purifiers running at full blast. 2/4
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If you want to track all of the fires in LA, including the evacuation areas, I highly recommend the free Watch Duty app at www.watchduty.org. Finally, I want to thank all of the first responders who are on the front lines fighting what must seem like a Sisyphean task. You are all heroes. 3/3
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The fire in Pasadena’s Eaton Canyon started around 6:20 PM last night and quickly grew out of control. The smoke in Pasadena got so bad so quickly that — because of Joseph’s asthma — we decided to leave. 2/3
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Them: "Do you play basketball?"
[Me (internal voice): "No. Do you play miniature golf?"]
Me: "Yes."
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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I followed Todd Parker’s recommendation to swap out the infrequently used 5.5 and 6 sockets with 11 and 14, so this kit now supports most commonly encountered metric and imperial nuts.
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Shindig Township went all corporate after the tragic confetti incident in 2022. Hootenanny Village is the new sigma, no cap.
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Everyone, Ian? Then how do you explain THIS? :P
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You—or anyone else for that matter—can pry my em dashes— or, for that matter, any other beloved parenthetical pause—from my cold—well, let’s be honest, room-temperature—dead hands.
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High user demand overwhelmed their infrastructure, causing login and data retrieval issues. In addition, Microsoft added new features that introduced complexities that were not fully anticipated during testing.