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I'm interested in chatting about some data vis work!

She is interested in policy, and it sounds like the potential for adopting tech is both exciting and overwhelming. perhaps good examples where tech intervention has had clear benefits. I think plant health would be a great place to start!

hi Gabriel, do you have any resources/reading to recommend? I have a friend working in Taiwan to improve local agriculture who's interested in learning about tech potential to help

is it the overhead of running / opening / managing notebook files via browser?

I found using notebooks in vscode (and cursor) got me over the hump of "just getting started" since I'm already in the ide so much

cool! what are you mapping exactly?

yes, i want to use it for storage but in order to do so i need to do this inefficient conversion. i'm wondering if there is a better choice to store with

I've been operating under assumption parquet is best way to store intermediate data, but now that I'm trying to handle incoming image data it feels a bit wasteful. especially since converting to bytes is only like 40 it/s

what do you think about having cut out templates like this cool cone ornament coloring thing:
picklebums.com/paper-cone-c...

I've organized and participated in many unconferences in the past, and they are always the most intense exchange of ideas and information that I've experienced. Given the energy we're seeing in the registration this one is poised to be no different!

register today!
hiddenstates.org

After the morning keynotes we will have a short voting session where topics get put on the board and everyone gets a few votes. Then the most popular topics get assigned to different session times. We will have parallel tracks and breakout rooms for the niche topics with dedicated interest too.

There is lots of interest in steering and alignment by leveraging latest interpretability techniques like SAEs. Many people also brought up dimensionality reduction and visualization as well as better ways to extract structure from models.

So how will everyone get to talk about these topics?

The beauty of the unconf format is the self-organizing nature, people find each other based on common curiosities. We have noticed some themes in the topics shared during registration:

Lot's of people want to go beyond the chat interface, and there appear to be lots of ideas for how to do that.

First we've got 2 amazing keynote speakers to kick off the day: @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social and @thesephist.com

Leland has built indispensable tools for working with model internals, namely UMAP, HDBSCAN and DataMapPlot.
Linus has published inspiring design research interfacing with hidden states.