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 After Deliberative Analysis: the Ouster of Sam Altman from OpenAI Yesterday, at noon Friday, 17 November 2023, one of the most surprising announcements in the tech world was posted on the blog pages of OpenAI . The announcement's headline closed with, "Sam Altman departs the company".  In practical terms his ouster wasn't too much different than a Twitter or Square employee. He turned up to a video meeting and "was immediately fired" according to board chair and OpenAI founder and president Greg Brockman. Those words fell like a meteorite on the tech world.  Reuters had a four-reporter story up before 10p. The New York times followed immediately . The Atlantic had a story up by the morning . YouTube AI reporter Matt Wolfe was up even sooner with the news.  By the morning in California, France's digital minister opened the door to ex-patriatism. To say this was a stunning announcement is an understatement.  I'm not going to recap who Sam Altman i
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Comparing Large Language Models A colleage pointed me to this site which he found from an unsourced Medium post. https://llm.garden/ This led me to a meta-search about this site and found other list-of-lists of LLMs. Here's one: https://www.tensorops.ai/post/where-can-i-find-a-list-of-llms First back to LLM Garden: I get the distinct impression (from mediocracy of design?) That this site was generated from (or by!) chatbot instruction. That aside, just from the "At Speed" nature of the LLM market that OpenAI, Google, and Meta have initiated, this is going to be a difficult list for them to keep current. This is probably also true of many of the other list found at TensorOps. The advantage will be to the one which spends tokens to crawl the web for new hotness. At this writing (23 June '23) FinnLLM is listed from 1 June, but Orca has ostensibly made more impact and that paper was released four days later. Also, IMO, their “Description” field has dat
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The $60,000 "First Customer Ship" Clock

A co-worker at Apple recently asked about a detail of the Software Lifecycle. "What is 'Mastering?'"  I got to the Slack message a bit late; they had already followed up with, "Nevermind, someone else told me, lol." I advised them that according to Apple's REJI standards that "Mastering" was a deprecated term, and they should use "Image Assembly, and further, the "Golden Master"or "GM"--formerly a revered label for something special in the software industry--should be called the "First Customer Ship" release.   It will take though, many years I believe, to purge those terms, "Mastering" and "Golden Master" not only from speech, but from lots of software production tools and documentation.  Origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering_(audio)   In software the final version of a release, being the “Release Candidate” (RC) which will become the First Customer Ship (“FCS” as noun or ve
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