This is a post for anyone interested in following along with what I have been doing. This has been pinging around in the my head as a necessary update to family for months. Sorry about going off the radar, and here is an update on what I have been up to and where I’m going. Most of 2024 has been a disaster. Earlier in the year I built excitement for a business idea for a sports cards market place.

You’ll see people claiming these models can reason all over social media. Watch out for motives. The companies who create these things are tryinging to sell you their service. It’s the same for those who are attracting eyeballs or selling themselves as experts. It’s important to know the capabilities of these models if you’re going to put them to serious use.

13/ Overall, we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models including open-source models like #Llama, #Phi, #Gemma, and #Mistral and leading closed models, including the recent #OpenAI #GPT-4o and #o1-series. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated…

— Mehrdad Farajtabar (@MFarajtabar) October 10, 2024

From Zerohedge

The big tech companies are betting on nuclear. This will be an interesting development to check into. It has always been difficult to cut through the noise of nuclear vs renewable. Renewable energy people high high conviction and they make a lot of noise. Nuclear has no such champions, until now. Money talks, and it’s talking to nuclear.