This week Tom and Nate catch up on two everlasting themes of ML: compute and evaluation. We chat about AI2, Zuck's GPUs, evaluation as procurement, NIST comments, neglecting reward models, and plenty of other topics. We're on the tracks for 2024 and waiting for some things to happen. Links for what we covered this week:

• Zuck interview on The Verge
• Saturday night live George Washington during revolutionary war
• NIST RFI
• Sam Altman's uncomfortable proposition