Was hoping to understand if anyone has done any research on it. I could only really find one research paper on the topic [1], but it seems less focused on this specific issue.
I walked into the Mint one night because I liked to grab a bad cocktail and some good karaoke.. some guy got on stage and belted out a beautiful version of Rocket Man. I looked closed and it was Drew.
Not to discredit anything that was said in any particular blog post.
Folks also need to remember that a lot of blog posts are written by engineers or managers that have their own agendas and careers and often external blog posts can be a form of self marketing or idea marketing that an engineer or director has been pushing internally.
I have no idea if this happened in mozilla's case but the person that wrote it seemed to talk about the their own internal harness / fuzz testing framework quite a bit, and I imagine it was probably a big part of that person's scope / accomplishments and will probably show up at their end of year review and on their resume.
Also, the people at Mozilla who helped achieve a highly visible collaboration with the hottest AI company in the zeitgeist that included a lot of expensive data center time to harden their flagship product are definitely going to be happy/excited/proud about pulling it off successfully.
There's a lot of kneejerk "so you're accusing Mozilla of a conspiracy to boost Anthropic?" which is an overly simplistic lens. Particularly when it involves groups of individual humans with different motivations and emotional investment in their own contributions to the collaboration.
Okay so supposing everybody is acting in a benign manner, following their incentives and passions, not meaning to mislead anybody. Do you think that this results in writing a misleading blog post? Because the blog post makes Mythos out to be a big friggin deal. (It had certainly convinced me).
I think as a user I have 2 modes:
1. Q&A mode where it's basically Google search by voice.
2. I'm trying to process an idea I have with an LLM buddy.
My desires are pretty different in the two scenarios. Q&A mode if it's not quick to respond I'll think something is wrong with my phone.
Deep think mode I'm honestly kind of pissed off at how fast it tries to respond. I want it to slow down and give me a chance to process and use extra compute on its side (including newer models) so it doesn't just spew low thought bullshit at me.
It seems like the system could detect which of these two modes was happening and adapt, including protocol.
I haven't tried the voice mode since the new model updates, maybe it's gotten better.
Counter to everything I just said though and germain to the topic at hand, when I'm in q&a mode that's probably the worst time for it to drop audio as it changes the query significantly. vs when I'm talking at it for 2 minutes it could probably throw half away.
I was doubting this for a minute as I wondered with a significantly biased coin towards the head side would you be more likely to get HT. With probability problems like Monty Hall I like to think about extreme cases like say it's 99 heads to every 1 tails. You'd expect HT 0.99% of the time. Ditto TH.
Is there any current research on as agents w/tools start dominating LLM use, if making making models smaller / less single-shot, more like efficient engines that can process a lot of context, and feeding a lot more into context windows is going to be more of a path forward vs trying to memory the world?
Like smaller models that show effectiveness on problems with verifiable rewards when run in a loop with external grounding context?
I went through college around 2000 in compsci and I remember even back then noticing that there were about 10% of us that cared. The other 90% were just in it for money/prestige. The dotbomb cleared them out, but post 2009 you could see the folks creeping back in due to Facebook and co.
> The other 90% were just in it for money/prestige.
I remember, that we were considered still loosers at that time. Even in early 2010s, I had discussions that how geeks are loosers. We even had several movies and series whose main topic was that geeks are loosers. Even in those where we were the protagonists. So I highly doubt that your experience is generic.
The Hollywood depiction doesn't matter if you're in a position to go to college and you're picking your major for what pays best. The only other safe bets are law and medicine, and even a freshman will realize those are much more work.
And I like your ideas but I don't see why the venues and artists don't want to capture more of what people are willing to pay enabled by what the parent comment suggested.
I wonder if in your system it actually attracts fans or just people that have the time to wait for tickets.
> I don't see why the venues and artists don't want to capture more of what people are willing to pay
Because artists don't always want to extract the maximum money possible from their fanbase?
Artists are not always rapacious capitalists. Sure, they want to make money from the show, but a lot of them also genuinely want to reach people who may not be able to drop hundreds of bucks on a ticket. Always selling to the highest bidder is a recipe for larger acts to only be accessible to the wealthy. And as surprising as it may seem, some of them have views on that sort of thing.
> Because artists don't always want to extract the maximum money possible from their fanbase?
I think that's both true and not. The larger truth is that trying to maximize the extraction during a single ticket sale is incredibly short-sighted of an artist. Having fans attend shows is a very effective way to grow your fan base and your brand, and that brings so much more lifetime value for an artist than you'd ever get from a single ticket sale (except for maybe on your retirement tour --and even then).
On the other, well, I just bought tickets to Iron Maiden’s “all the best bits” tour (who have to be getting close to retiring, one member already has) supported by Megadeth who are explicitly on their retirement tour.
And those were not cheap. No sir or ma’am.
There are also artists like the Cure though, and Robert Smith seems to have a genuine interest in keeping prices accessible.
I think there's levels to it. I've seen what I would consider a big artist at a small venue for $20 plus tax, no fees. You could tell that show was a labor of love for the artist. But, I would never expect to pay that price going to a festival like Coachella, or even a local stadium show.
Actually, writing this comment got me thinking that maybe the larger the venue, the more expensive the ticket needs to be out of necessity. More hands in the cookie jar, and all that.
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