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One thing I hate about Hsinchu was its windy weather. I do agree Taipei are much better and Kaoshiung is certainly in my second place compared to Hsinchu.


It’s not as good as GPT-4, the only feature I used often was their PDF QA. The rest ChatGPT plus ( GPT-4 ) still miles ahead


I regularly compare queries with both GPT-4 and Claude 2 and I find I prefer Claude's answers most often. The 100k token context is a major plus too.

Claude is more creative and that comes with a higher rate of hallucinations. I hope I'm not misremembering but GPT-4 was also initially more prone to hallucinations but also more capable in some ways.


This. I recently bought an "second hand" iPhone XS advertised as those came from shop display phones. It was in good condition: no burn ins, battery at 80% health. When the screen broke after dropping it, I went to some shop for repair just to found out its remix of parts from other iPhone ( apparently the motherboard came from South Korea ). This made the device very fragile as some of the screws maybe missing and screen are not properly mounted. The iPhone XS I bought had one missing screw and no display adhesive.


Unless they are able to introduce smaller module like “GPU” version, it will only be a nice demo product of what we can do with state of the art semiconductor manufacturing.


I'm sure people had the same things to say about computers that required the space of entire rooms in the 40s.

"That's nice but we'll never be able to scale this down any more."


Isn’t scaling it down just the normal CPUs we have now?


Where do you think all those next-gen deep learning models for autonomous weapons are going to be trained? For more civil applications, imagine GPT3.


I recently found this paper[1] claiming near GPT-3 performance with only a fraction of parameters. They seems to simply reformulate the input sequence to change classification to a sequence generation task.

Disclaimer, I am not affiliated to any of the authors

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.07118.pdf


If javascript frameworks is patented then yes, you can. For reference ARM big little scheduler is patented[1], you need to license from ARM if you use any of their big little design. RISC-V under BSD license might change this.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US9710309


If push comes to shove, why would you expect China to respect a set of patents that strangle its economic growth?


Because that would result in a more devastating response from the side that holds patents. If china stops respecting international trade laws and agreements, other nations will hurt china's interests in return. Given the scale of the things, the weak spots will be found inevitably.


Judging from China's policies towards Uighur Muslims and Hong Kong, I think China isn't very worried about foreign censure.


There is a difference. Nobody in the first world really cares about Uighurs or Hong Kong. However, there are quite a handful of parties who do care about patents (and resulting profits).


China has been pilfering intellectual property from labs & private companies via APTs for the last couple of years: what are the handful of parties who care about patents going to do - write a strongly worded letter? If China decides it wants to get the latest ARM design and/or ISA in the future, do you doubt they can acquire them? Sure, they won't be able to call it "ARM" but you can bet it will be compatible[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_Peri#Fiat_Panda_cop...


They wouldn't be able to sell products with this 'acquired' architecture to anyone. Just ask how Huawey sales are doing in US and Europe.


For internal market, no, but they will have problems selling the pirate copies to the rest of the world. Most rich states do respect intellectual property.


(1) What you linked does not appear to be an ARM patent. (2) Even if it were, lack of big/little scheduling is hardly going to bring China's homegrown chip market to it's knees. And that's assuming the patent is ironclad and can't be worked around.


The bigger question is more, what use is a homegrown chip market if no countries in the world are buying your chips?


True, if US companies are disallowed from giving licenses to Chinese companies, then likely the US would also block import of competing Chinese CPUs.


At least they are already delisted from nasdaq[1] and their stock did plummet since muddy waters reports.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/luckin-coffee-to-be-delist...


I spoke with one the engineers at their hiring event last year, I can confirm they are still a very engineering led company.


Online decoding in Kaldi uses GMM (or NN+GMM hybrid) where this repo focus in end to end approach using deep LSTM (similar to Google Pixel's offline speech to text [1]).

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.06621.pdf


I am studying master in Taiwan. Chill, cafe, convenience stores are certainly the best three things I loved about. Btw transportation is only top notched in Taipei, so if you are free you should take some time to get a scooter license.


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