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Ah, the classic GLOG-induced service stall - brings back memories! I've seen similar scenarios where logging, meant to be a safety net, turns into a trap. Your 90-99% figure resonates with my experience. It's like opening a small window for fresh air and having a storm barrel in. We eventually had to balance between logging verbosity and system performance, kind of like a tightrope walk over a sea of unpredictable IO delays. Makes one appreciate the delicate art of designing logging systems that don't end up hogging the spotlight (and resources) themselves, doesn't it?


Aren't earthquakes super common in Iceland? Or am I wrong on that?


Earthquakes aren't uncommon, but what's happening in Grindavik is more than a earthquake. They were having hundreds of quakes an hour, a fissure opened and magma might come up soon. All in a little town and near a geothermal power plant which also fuels the Blue Lagoon. This also isn't super far from the main airport and the road that leads to it.


During Covid a new volcano erupted quite near Grindavik, that was very tourist friendly: close to Reykjavik, not too large or dangerous, nothing it could damage nearby, a few km hiking from a road. Many web cams were setup and lots of beautiful drone footage was uploaded to YouTube as well. It erupted again 2021 and 2022. So it's a well known volcano now to the Internet public.

Now it seems there will be an eruption on the same fissure again, but a) there are many more earthquakes than before, b) the detected movement of magma is far larger, and c) it could erupt anywhere on a 15km fissure line, but right now it seems to do so right in the middle of the nearby town. So it looks like this time it will be a disaster.

There is also a geothermal power plant that heats the whole peninsula nearby, as well as tourist attraction the Blue Lagoon, that are both at risk.


You aren't wrong, but the topic of interest here is the volcanic eruption. They are also relatively common compared to elsewhere in the world, but most are small and not in populated areas. See: https://www.visiticeland.com/eruption/


They are and they tend to be small because of the type of plate boundary they’re associated with. But when they’re coming in large swarms near a volcano which is the case here, it’s a pretty strong signal of an impending eruption.


yes, and earthquakes are also super common precursors to volcanic eruptions


First one of these I've seen that actually supports an open source models

Can you self-host the models too?


Not right now, but we're working on it! :)

Base Llama 2's reliability on our prompt isn't good enough right now so working on fine-tuning it to make sure it outputs the right format - we'll release this at the same time as we make it easier to self-host


This life advice is almost as poorly given as my dads


So human-level AI, then? ;)


Anyone know which applications it will improve other than better quality content writing?


"Write an Essay" tools. Some high school kids on reddit are already using it to "cheat" at homework.


This is a lot more wide-spread than "some kids on Reddit". Maybe 30% of the kids in my son's class are using this or related tools.


Any ideas on how to solve this issue of kids cheating with GPT3 essays?


Realistically? Grade based on thought process and validity of the argument, not whether it has spelling or grammar mistakes. GPT3 is still pretty incoherent over the span of enough text.


Kids' writing can also be very incoherent, sometimes more so. But incoherent writing still counts as turned in work and will get you points and teacher feedback, but GPT-3 generated should not.


This will not be the case in 2-3 years.


Same way you solve the issue of kids cheating by having someone else write their essay.


I honestly don't think it's possible to solve, other than by increasing the amount of evaluation that's done in locked down conditions.

I cannot imagine a detection mechanism that could not itself be defeated by some tweaks to the prompts being used to generate the essays.

It's effectively the same problem as "prove that this kid didn't get their friend/cousin to write the essay for them".


It's the parents' responsibility. No one outside the household can do anything about it imo.

Using AI to write will cause the same issues as:

- phones, some people don't try to remember directions, phone number or addresses

- calculators, some people cannot do easy math

- computers, some people cannot write with a pen, cannot spell without spellcheck


Other than the writing with a pen part that pretty much sums me up and I grew up well before all this fancy supercomputer in your pocket stuff.


Make them write anything gradable in-person, while being monitored by a teacher.

Cheaters gonna cheat, no matter what. This will at least get the group back to pre-conversational AI standards.


Test the kids on their own essays, for example? Maybe this could itself be automated with GPT-3?

The highest-quality answer involves skilled teachers with enough time who know and understand their students. (Actually the very highest might involve personal tutors but let's leave that aside.)

Going down a few steps you might combine the automated approach with skilled teachers and maybe add human editors who can do support work asynchronously?


I'm not super opposed to it.

Watching my son try it, he spends more time reading the created essay and correcting mistakes in it than he does writing one himself. The checking process is very similar to marking, and I think it's possible he's learning more this way.

(Also, he's madly trying to automate fact checking which is doing no harm to his programming at all!)


Using GPT-3 might be a better skill to have.


You mean clicking a button?


No, I mean managing an AI to achieve a random task. Prompting, iterating, filtering - they all require high level input from the user. A LLM is a complex beast, not easy to use (yet).


Students that can't write well can't tell if the generated output is good enough either.


Thanks for sharing :)


This looks great!


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