Everything you want is on the other side of not giving a fuck, asking again, and taking another shot. Life gives you endless lottery tickets to try and you only need one win to change your life forever .
We're in the middle of the second renaissance where proof of work replaces the resume, an audience replaces the employer, and taste replaces credentials.
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Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
Bit silly but I still watch the Apple event livestream for new iPhones, every year since the first one in 2007. It doesn't make sense but it's ok. Livestream today at 10am (in 1.5 hours). This year, crossing my fingers again for an iPhone mini that I know won't come. rip.
According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!
Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣
Here you go:
DeepSeek R1 is an AI model. An AI model is a bunch of a matrices with floating point numbers (referred to as weights) where you feed in an input (a sequence of characters embedded as a vector of floating point numbers) and get an output sequence.
DeepSeek is a mobile app (same name as the company) that lets you interact with that AI model through a chat interface. When you use their app, your data (prompts) go to their servers.
The company has also open sourced (basically uploaded all those matrices) the weights of the AI model for free use by anyone.
When you download those weights and bring it up yourself on your own server, you get to control the inference of the AI model and that way any user request sent to this new server doesn’t go to China as long as the servers are hosted in US.
The weights are just a bunch of numbers organized as matrices executed with sequential matrix multiplies - so no computation needs to leave the server in order to compute the next word in a sequence.
That way, another company can download the weights, host it on their servers, and let users interact with them in a chat frontend, and customize the AI model further to do more things like searching the web or using tools like code execution, wolfram, etc