For a long time this site hasn’t had comments. When I moved from WordPress to a static site generator, the old commenting system didn’t come along for the ride. The result was simple pages, fast builds, and a very quiet comment box that no longer existed.
I’ve gone back and forth on whether to bring comments back. Most days I enjoy the focus of writing and publishing without worrying about moderation. Other days I miss the conversations that used to happen underneath posts. I’ve had emails and DMs that would have been even more useful as public threads, where other readers could add context or correct me when I get something wrong.
Meta has released version 2 of its open-source Llama AI model and has caught many’s attention – but not entirely for the right reasons. Coming in a broad spectrum of sizes, from the 7 billion to an impressive 70 billion parameter models, Llama 2 certainly stands out.
If you’re curious, you can experience the different models for yourself on Perplexity. You can only try 7 and 13 billion models there.
But as I’ve dug deeper into Llama 2, I’ve begun to ask myself: has Meta gone too far with safety measures?
Once upon a time, a social media giant was led by a man who couldn’t resist chasing shiny objects. His name was Mark Zuckerberg, and in the land of Meta, he took it upon himself to singlehandedly bring forth the “future of the internet” with his grand, delusional vision of the Metaverse. But like Icarus, he flew too close to the sun, and now he’s frantically flapping his wings in pursuit of yet another glittering mirage — the artificial intelligence arms race.