Photo cred: my dad Here’s a definition of intelligence that lots of psychologists can get behind: Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, … Read more
We are told that wealth is a measure of contribution. The richer a person becomes, the more they must have given to society. This is one of the founding myths of capitalism. It is repeated so often that many people … Read more
Gemma 2B scored ~8.0 on MT-Bench. GPT-3.5 Turbo scored 7.94. An 87-times-smaller model on a laptop CPU, no GPU anywhere in the stack. We published the full tape — every question, every turn, every score — so anyone can verify … Read more
Adam Mastroianni is the author of Experimental History. He studies how people perceive and misperceive their social worlds. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He has a PhD in psychology from … Read more
The median product engineer should reason about applications as composites of high-level, functional Lego blocks where technical low-level details are invisible. Serverless represents just about the ultimate abstraction for this mindset. Consider AWS Lambda’s elevator pitch: “you organize your code … Read more
The “B” battery is a type of vacuum tube battery. It is used to provide constant and positive plate voltage and is colloquially referred to as a “dry battery.” The “B” battery was a high-voltage battery commonly used for antique … Read more
I’ve long been a fan of Qualcomm’s NPUs, and I even collaborated with them to get experimental support for the underlying HVX DSP into TensorFlow back in 2017 (traces remain here). That meant I was very excited when I heard … Read more
TL;DR – We see 1.3% of Qualcomm’s NPU 45 Teraops/s claim when benchmarking Windows AI PCs Introduction Microsoft now offers Surface tablets that run Windows on a Qualcomm Arm-based SoC. These are marketed as AI PCs, due to their ability … Read more
Whether it’s the heavy dusting of stubble or the way he sinks deep into the TV news set’s plush red chair, Peter McIndoe looks stressed. Distressed even. It’s the summer of 2019 in Memphis, Tenn., and the recent college dropout … Read more
A path to continued model improvement. I often see a misconception when people try to reason about the capability of LLMs, and in particular how much future improvement to expect. It’s frequently said that that LLMs are “trained on the … Read more