why are we hating on bop-it? bop-it was great fun!

why did they move to fblearner

what is the new training platform

I must know

Meta has been itching to kill FBlearner for a while. Its basically an airflow style interface (much better to use as a dev, not sure about admin, I think it might even pre-date airflow)

They are mostly moved to MAST for GPU stuff now I dpn;t think any GPUs are assigned to fblearner anymore. This is a shame because it feels a bit less integrated into python and feels a bit more like "run your exe on n machines" however, it has a more reliable mechanism for doing multi-GPU things, which is key for doing any kind of research at speed.

My old team are not in the super intelligence org, so I don't have much details on the new training system, but there was lots of noise about "just using vercel" which is great apart from all of the steps and hoops you need to go through before you can train on any kind of non-opensource data. (FAIR had/has thier own cluster on AWS, but that meant that they couldn't use it to train on data we collected internally for research (ie paid studies and data from employees that were bribed with swag)

I've not caught up with the drama for the other choices. Either way, its kinda funny to watch "not invented here syndrome" smashing in to "also not invented here syndrome"

Los Alamos is doing well. That’s about it.

Los Alamos has a single high school in their district, and it isn’t even close to the top ranked school in the state.

As I said, the variability is the key metric.

It helps to have a super high percentage of nuclear physics PhD in town :-)

This is paid for by the oil and gas boom in Southern NM.

The medical situation is getting worse by the year, though. I don’t think it’s just a matter of shoveling more dollars

I went on a road trip through Southern NM a couple years ago. Highly recommend stopping at Gila National Forest - it's a certified "dark park", remote enough from sources of light to see the Milky Way with the naked eye.

One thing that struck me - towns down there had a template. 90% of towns we drove through were just a blood plasma "donation" center, a dollar store, a gas station, and a cemetery. Very bleak existence out there, oil and gas boom notwithstanding.

That is a very common pattern. Probably 90% of poor rural America is like that. And the lucky towns have those stores, others not even.

That sounds amazing. It is now on the travel list!

What I was told, was it was anti-undocumented stuff.

People don’t want immigrants getting help that residents pay for, so they turn the spigots off for everyone.

I haven't seen anything like that. The biggest factor you can clearly point to is that NM has some of the lowest salaries for doctors combined with some of the highest medical insurance premiums.

If you live there, and don't agree, then I stand corrected. I was told this by someone that lives there, but that's a sample size of 1 (from Albuquerque).

The icing on the cake there was that they just gerrymandered NM recently in a way that took all representation away from southern NM.

I know other states have as well, so nothing new there, but seeing as they basically fund all the state's social projects, felt a bit done wrong.

shame they won't be as good

People won't like how you said it but there is truth to it. Pretty much all students from my uni who went on exchanges to the US said the level over there is much lower and they were way above the local students.

This was not the case elsewhere, most notably in Asian countries.

There is some truth to every stereotype.

Given how easy it is for rich people to buy grades for their children in most countries, we might see an improvement.

wonder if they still train all of their models using Mathematica because it was impossible to get pytorch on the classified systems

AFAIK that was mostly due to a silly detail about MD5 hashing being restricted on FIPS compliant systems? Or something like that. I'm pretty sure there's an easy workaround(s).

there were a bunch of reasons. couldn’t bring compiled binaries onto the red, so you had to bring the source + all deps onto a machine with no external internet.

it was unpleasant.

Just have Hegseth run PyTorch for them

>pip install *

it does

ye, that’s a thing. don’t pluck your nose hairs.

I moved from Santa Fe County (Rancho Viejo area) to the Denver metro area and am sad every time I go outside at night. We could see the Milky Way most nights.

The NM sky is amazing during the day, too. Such a vibrant blue!