Distributed parity files..and a detour

Long-term digital archiving is actually much more involved than it appears. On one hand, you might think you can simply make a copy of something and store it indefinitely. On the other, it would be naïve to consider this a secure long-term storage method. Numerous natural factors, including magnetism, gravity, and environmental conditions (temperature, moisture, … Read more

Cartalk chatbots demo (NPR please don’t sue me)

Ingested a few hundred hours of Car Talk and got the bot answering as a team. I think this has a lot of potential, especially if you’re training on a lot of knowledge. This turns into a conversational output and it’s pretty funny too. Also captures their personalities while talking about other topics. These are … Read more

One model..or many.

<rant> Generally, the current thought is to train a model on a ton of data- broad data, usually. I think the idea is to turn it into a human. But is this really what we need. I see modular models A model that knows all Maths A model that knows all Art and etc and … Read more