GPT2 in Excel

GPT2 in Excel

Some Excel loved manages to get OpenAI’s GPT-2 into an Excel spreadsheet. It also comes with a tutorial on how transformers work.
Report: no reason to fire Sam Altman

Report: no reason to fire Sam Altman

Ars Technica After reportedly interviewing dozens of people and reviewing over 30,000 documents, [the legal firm hired to investigate Altman’s firing] found that while the prior board acted within its purview, Altman’s termination was unwarranted....

That’s roughly the equivalent of having added an additional state to the grid over just the last three years. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/over-2-percent-of-the-uss-electricity-generation-now-goes-to-bitcoin/
US Hypersonic Missiles Primer

US Hypersonic Missiles Primer

WSJ has a story on why the US doesn’t have any. The really short version seems to be the long R&D breaks we took during the Vietnam War and the War On Terror. An irony lost on the authors: actual, poorly planned wars, decreased our capability for future wars....