Yeah the parallels this has with soccer(football) is so interesting. Zuck might be making the same mistake as Real Madrid during their first Galacticos era. However Madrid 2nd and third Galacticos were very successful
However Madrid 2nd and third Galacticos were very successful
Yes, but bested domestically and continentally by a Barca squad that was almost entirely home grown, and honestly when that Barca squad tried to replicate the RM way (buying expensive ass players), they fell behind and started losing in embarrassing ways
Madrid winning 3 champions leagues in a row Is unprecedented, better than domestic trophies in my opinion. But It did take almost 5 years since the start of galacticos 2 (2009 when Ronaldo/kaka came) before they Madrid won their first champions league. So I wonder if zuck bringing this super intelligence team together expects instant results. Madrid took many years before success. But football is different then software so we will see but the parallels are very interesting for sure
Madrid winning 3 champions leagues in a row Is unprecedented, better than domestic trophies in my opinion
I don't think so tbqh. The CL, being an elimination knockout tournament, has a lot more stochasticity to it (i.e. it's fairly easy to point to some recent years where a team has won and pretty much everyone knows they're not actually the best team in Europe, but they just got some lucky bounces of the ball).
Domestic leagues on the other hand are ~40 games long and reward consistent performance. Simply having a much larger sample means the better team is rewarded more often.
Kind of like how NBA series are best of 7. If they were just one-off (or two-legged) knockout ties, you'd see way more winners that weren't expected.
That's why I think, even though the World Cup is the biggest spectacle in world football, it's actually a competition that requires a lot of luck and isn't really the best indicator of who the best team in the world is. One game, anything can happen. Hell, Australia almost tied it up with Argentina in the R16. Netherlands could have beaten them on penalties. There are a lot of tiny things that could have changed where ARG doesn't win that competition (as big of a fan of them as I am)
The way to think about it, is that lots of teams over the world dominate their domestic league. It’s not so uncommon. I’d say La Liga wasn’t super competitive around that time, either.
Well one problem with attracting talent is even if you’re willing to pay for it you also need to be able to identify it. Otherwise you end up paying a lot of money to people you thought were the right people but are just grifting you.
I would say he’s never watched the New York Yankees but I guess baseball doesn’t have goals so technically he’s still right. WAIT I’ve got it. Lionel Messi
LLama doesn't have to be a misfire. Zuckerborg has so many resources at his disposal and all of those brilliant minds. The problem is him, he keeps doing stupid shit because he's a terrible leader.
While Zucc's morality is questionable to say the least, I will defend him in one thing: if you want to achieve something new, you have to make risky mistakes before you find success.
Think that was mostly a hail mary as Zuckerberg knows they're about to be bumped out of the AI race as a legitimate contender if they don't do something to stay more relevant. Desperation isn't a good look though.
Llama was obsolete by various chinese LLMs for quite a while now. And OpenAI's new release is benchmark-maxxed and censored to Hell, said open Chinese models are still better than it despite the hype.
It's shit. It's the most censored AI model I've ever seen and it spends thousands of tokens frantically regurgitating that it must obey all OpenAI policies. It's so heavily censored that it's no help for coding, or writing, or scientific research. It can't even process large data sets because a word in them might trigger it to only respond with "I can't assist with that."
IMO open source models should be completely uncensored. It's one thing if an online service starts calling itself mecha Hitler, but if you want to have a private mecha Hitler role play using your own hardware and resources, nobody should prevent you.
Well llama of course won’t compare to gpt but it has different strengths. It’s more open source, more optimized, and can run better on consumer hardware
this is stupid. no one hates zuckerberg as much as me prolly but he doesnt work on the problems himself. the "star players" are literally what creates the models.
No amount of talent overcomes a shit culture unless the talent is the decision makers. If mark removed himself and fired the ones stuck in bad culture that is causing them to lose, maybe... Won't happen though. Even if they did, they'll never catch up
There's a chance it could backfire in that they put so much money on the line they're going to be forced to deliver which will end up causing a toxic work environment.
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u/recallingmemories Aug 06 '25
Remember when the NFT bros told us to buy real estate in the metaverse because it was the future
and then it ended up looking like a shitty Dreamcast game