Welcome again to everybody! Please sit down, stay awhile and enjoy our groups most honoured tradition, our weekly discussion thread! Oh and if you find the giant spoon, please let me know, I seem to have miss placed it when changing the thread over this week.
We have a Matrix homeserver at genzedong.xyz. See this thread for information about our Matrix space.
Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try z-lib, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.
I’ve wanted to try Baidu’s LLM but it seems to be Chinese only at this point. In the past month, FOSS LLMs have gotten a LOT better, so I expect that by the end of the year we’ll have fairly capable alternatives. You can compare some over at https://chat.lmsys.org