Day-Off Monday

Regard day off – continuation of yesterday with housework. Cleaning up and garaging the boat after the rain, and fixing up the watering system for the summer.

One question for the internet oracle. How the hell do I patch leaks in the drip system? So far the only approach I’ve found works is cutting it out and shimming it with a male:male connector, but it’s fairly expensive, shortens the line, and often develops new leaks around the shim. UPDATE: I looked it up annnd indeed that’s how it should be done.

I started watching For All Mankind, an Apple TV series telling of an alternate reality where the moon landing of ‘69 was just the first lap of the space race. It’s, frankly, delightful with everyone wearing square aviators and driving corvette stingrays before blasting into the future.

Switching back to our timeline, the most powerful rocket ever created might be launched within the week, starship on the super heavy. The starship’ll take an unmanned orbit about the globe while the super heavy stage should perform a powered splash-down by Hawaii. A precursor to the later gentle touchdown into the tower’s clamp. Fucking incredible.

LLM’s

Two interesting [to me] links:

• Sparks of AGI (video, Bubeck MIT Lecture)
• AI Frontiers: AI for health… (Peter Lee on Microsoft Research podcast)

Lee and Bubeck are also writing a book on the application of GPT-4 in healthcare, reportedly coming out in April.

I get the feeling that Lee / Msft / OpenAI are aiming to trailblaze introducing LLM’s into healthcare. They have the scale, connections, and existing integrations and are digging into the regulatory aspect. A cynic might see this as a regulatory capture play where only “safe” LLM’s are permissible, but only companies of Msft’s scale are able to undergo the licensing cost. This is what’s happened in the auto-industry, a market hostile to challengers.

While I’m here

Exercise

Like, literally one rep incrementally better than last week.