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kb @keighbee.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm writing an article series about creating tensors from scratch in Rust. #tensors #machine-learning #ml #ai

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Building Tensors From Scratch in Rust: Part 1, Core Structure and Indexing

A Blog post by Kyle Birnbaum on Hugging Face

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Mar 27

If you're interested in language, AI, and cognition, this is the *must-watch* video of the week: Debate a few days ago between Dr. @emilymbender.bsky.social and Dr. @sbubeck.bsky.social on whether chatbots can "understand". Was a lively and fun debate to watch.
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CHM Live | The Great Chatbot Debate: Do LLMs Really Understand?

YouTube video by Computer History Museum

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · Feb 24

Hey physicians, now is actually the exact time we need to all be talking about racism and health equity. Everything that is happening is going to worsen disparities. Silence is not an option.

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Jan 13

Very well written blog post on agents by some titans of the industry.

Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Jan 13

💫...And we're live!💫 Seasonal newsletter from ethicsy folks at @hf.co, exploring the ethics of "AI Agents"
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!

AI Agents Are Here. What Now?

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Jan 13

💫...And we're live!💫 Seasonal newsletter from ethicsy folks at @hf.co, exploring the ethics of "AI Agents"
huggingface.co/blog/ethics-...
Our analyses found:
- There's a spectrum of "agent"-ness
- *Safety* is a key issue, leading to many other value-based concerns
Read for details & what to do next!

AI Agents Are Here. What Now?

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

huggingface.co

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Jan 10

Calling all medical researchers and practitioners! 🩺
We’re looking for folks able to share 5+ de-identified medical cases for general AI benchmarking purposes across all specialties. Credits will be attributed.

Retweets appreciated!
Please DM or reach out at [email protected]

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Jan 8

Sure thing! If you’d like we can move things over email. [email protected]

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Jan 7

Would love to host this data on HuggingFace!

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Jan 6

I want to repost this so badly

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Jan 6

I spent my winter break redesigning the Health app with an AI focused approach starting with clinical records.

The goal here was to help patients get a deeper understanding of their own records, with the eventual goal of enabling continuous health monitoring and personalized health suggestions.

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Christian Bluethgen @cxbln.bsky.social · Dec 26

my wl:
- fewer low-hanging proof-of-concept studies (yes, it works for your specialty/organ/classification, too)
- fewer head-to-head model comparisons (yes, llama 3.1 was better than llama 2 for your case, but peer review took 8 months, now there’s llama 4)

- instead: RCTs, relevant outcomes

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 26

I can’t repost this enough.

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 26

My spiciest prediction is that we’ll see a couple of medical subspecialties whose core workflows will be mostly automated/augmented by AI. Radiology won’t be one of them.

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 26

On my wishlist - let’s eliminate QA style evaluations in medical benchmarks, especially ones that are obviously contaminated. They do nothing but generate headlines and hype.

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 26

I have a feeling that in 2025 we’re going to be seeing an interesting shift in healthcare delivery/medical education thanks to this new crop of LLMs.

Hopefully we’ll be seeing more healthcare workers involved in the development, deployment, and evaluation of these systems.

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 26

I’ve found that simply walking a model through how I would approach a problem often results in great outputs compared to open-ended prompts.

Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

We’re still in beta but have achieved feature parity (except for voice). Will focus on UI/UX in the next update.

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

what features from the Mac app do you find indispensable? We just released a huge update for the HF macOS app: bsky.app/profile/cyri...

Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

Christmas came early! 🎅🏻 Today marks the newest release of the HuggingChat 🤗 update with some really exciting capabilities! First up, automatic context injection!

1) Open a file in a supported app, summon HFChat, and it pre-populates the context window. No more copy-pasting. /cc @hf.co

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

Grab the application for free at github.com/huggingface/...

Release v0.7.0 · huggingface/chat-macOS

What's Changed Context Injection Added automatic VSCode, Xcode, iTerm2 and terminal context injection System Wide Dictation Launched on-device system-wide audio transcription using WhisperKit M...

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

5) On-device LLM generation now powered by MLX and available with a quick keyboard shortcut. Let us know what you think!

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

4) Web browsing now comes with rich link previews so you can verify LLM outputs and avoid hallucinations 🦟🔎

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

3) A lot of folks asked for the ability to generate images so we added tool use 🔧 with support for image generation, web browsing and more!

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

2) Next up we have system-wide on-device transcription 🎤🔥 Compatible with any app!

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 9

Christmas came early! 🎅🏻 Today marks the newest release of the HuggingChat 🤗 update with some really exciting capabilities! First up, automatic context injection!

1) Open a file in a supported app, summon HFChat, and it pre-populates the context window. No more copy-pasting. /cc @hf.co

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Cyril Zakka, MD @cyrilzakka.bsky.social · Dec 8

Yes. I’m from Lebanon and the fall was celebrated across Lebanon today (with Assad regime having tried to invade the country several times before)

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