How does a Large Language Model like ChatGPT actually work?
Well, they are both amazingly simple and exceedingly complex at the same time.
Hold on to your butts, this is a deep dive ↓
Some days, the feeling of sadness hits hard. I've had many days like this over the past year. It's been tough.
If you're struggling today, I just want you to know that we are struggling together. I love you all.
/1 Why is the credit card called “𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 product in banks”? How does VISA/Mastercard make money?
The diagram below shows the economics of the credit card payment flow.
1. The cardholder pays a merchant $100 to buy a product.
Lecture 1 of my Foundations of Blockchains lecture series is now available: https://t.co/iNXFLW1aaf (Will try to post one new lecture a week for the next 2-3 months.)
tl;dr thread below:
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⚡️ Database Tip
Sometimes you have seldom used queries and you can't add an index on columns for these queries. A nice trick is to use another indexed condition so the rows are filtered by the indexable column first and afterwards again for the more limiting condition.
Every time AWS goes down, it further bolsters my bull thesis on decentralized cloud
Funny how 90% of our “decentralized” ecosystem goes down whenever AWS has an outage
@christophrumpel One thing you could do to spot these tests early, is to always run the entire testsuite randomised, so you notice it more quickly when some of the behaviour depends on the order.