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Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 4d

Has anyone had success stories (or can point me to writeups) with fine tuning frontier LLMs?

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James Breckwoldt @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social · 9d

Education? Completed it, mate.

Last week, I defended my PhD thesis and am now a doctor!

Thank you to @robfordmancs.bsky.social and @jonmellon.bsky.social for being great supervisors for 4 years

And thanks to @sarahobolt.bsky.social and Ed Fieldhouse for their interesting feedback and discussion

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Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 10d

These are continuous not discrete variables and every commentary on this is assuming different cutpoints

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Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 11d

I would say that a natural parsing of “is it acceptable to rob a store for food?” either implies that you cannot get food in another way or is answered with an easy no

Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 11d

Right but the question is whether we’re faced with the choice between (theft or starvation) or the choice between (theft or starvation or buying food). The urgency of an issue only necessitates support for extreme measures if less extreme measures won’t work

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Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 12d

I actually don’t know which particular existential discussion you’re referring to, so this is purely reacting to the abstract point

Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social · 12d

Not eating food is existential but there’s a lot of limits on acceptable ways to get food if an option on the table is going to the store and buying it.

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Rex "garbage in" Douglass @rexdouglass.bsky.social · 13d

Rex W. Douglas PhD Applied Scientist (Remote/Austin)

Looking for full time and freelance projects.

Hoping for somewhere stable. I've never been more productive in my life, but mass layoffs and funding collapses have been endemic.

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Rex "garbage in" Douglass @rexdouglass.bsky.social · 13d

Help! ─ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 open to work ─ Remote/Austin → www.rexdouglass.com
With new tools, I've been cooking:
▸ Machine-vision pipelines — RIOS Intelligent Machines
▸ Information-extraction pipelines — Microsoft
▸ Interactive SMS surveys — Pantheon Insights

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Phil Gyford @phil.gyford.com · 13d

I remember around 1995 a woman knocked on the door, doing a survey about air fresheners. I never bought any so it didn't last long but I was quite excited that someone was asking my opinion about a product or service. At last! Finally, Gen X was being consulted!