Polimath
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I guess we're going to do this all again
Gonna donate 100 copies of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage to New Jersey libraries
It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan.
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.
December 10, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Gonna donate 100 copies of Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage to New Jersey libraries
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Happy Smallpox Eradication Day — a day to celebrate one of humankind's greatest achievements
laneless.substack.com/p/500-millio...
laneless.substack.com/p/500-millio...
December 9, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Happy Smallpox Eradication Day — a day to celebrate one of humankind's greatest achievements
laneless.substack.com/p/500-millio...
laneless.substack.com/p/500-millio...
So... this guy is going to get away with it, right?
This Fox segment on the search for the shooter is incredible. Look at how the NYPD searches Central Park lol
December 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM
So... this guy is going to get away with it, right?
I started reading that Vanity Fair piece about Cormac McCarthy's young muse and that caused me to search out this interview with McCarthy, Werner Herzog, and Lawrence Krauss
www.openculture.com/2011/04/wern...
www.openculture.com/2011/04/wern...
Cormac McCarthy (RIP) and Werner Herzog Talk Science and Culture
To kick off this wonderful episode of Science Friday (listen below), physicist Lawrence M. Krauss suggests that science and art ask the same fundamental question: Who are we, and what is our place in ...
www.openculture.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:40 PM
I started reading that Vanity Fair piece about Cormac McCarthy's young muse and that caused me to search out this interview with McCarthy, Werner Herzog, and Lawrence Krauss
www.openculture.com/2011/04/wern...
www.openculture.com/2011/04/wern...
Still kind of waiting out the recent flood to see what this platform becomes after everyone has gotten their "wow, it's so cool to be on bsky" out of their systems
November 19, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Still kind of waiting out the recent flood to see what this platform becomes after everyone has gotten their "wow, it's so cool to be on bsky" out of their systems
Stack Overflow has been a declining resource for years. For whatever reason, the social benefit of answering questions on SO has declined substantially in the last 10 years. Newer tech has moved help forums to Discord & left SO out in the cold.
Our paper on the effect of ChatGPT on activity on @stackoverflow.com.web.brid.gy is out: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
@maria-drc.bsky.social, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva & I find a 25% decrease in activity on SO within 6 months of #ChatGPT 's release vs counterfactuals.
Why does it matter?
@maria-drc.bsky.social, Nadzeya Laurentsyeva & I find a 25% decrease in activity on SO within 6 months of #ChatGPT 's release vs counterfactuals.
Why does it matter?
November 15, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Stack Overflow has been a declining resource for years. For whatever reason, the social benefit of answering questions on SO has declined substantially in the last 10 years. Newer tech has moved help forums to Discord & left SO out in the cold.
Moving over to bsky and changing your profile picture is like going to a party with a fake nose and mustache and seeing how long it takes people to figure out who you are
November 14, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Moving over to bsky and changing your profile picture is like going to a party with a fake nose and mustache and seeing how long it takes people to figure out who you are
finally getting some traction on my job search
November 14, 2024 at 2:46 PM
finally getting some traction on my job search
Very cool map of topics from hacker news lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
November 13, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Very cool map of topics from hacker news lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_...
Bonus material from the book "Building an LLM from Scratch", looks like it is geared toward people who are just starting to dip their toes into this water
"from scratch" is not something I really want to do but it seems good to know how to do it
github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
"from scratch" is not something I really want to do but it seems good to know how to do it
github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
GitHub - rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch: Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step
Implement a ChatGPT-like LLM in PyTorch from scratch, step by step - rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
github.com
November 8, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Bonus material from the book "Building an LLM from Scratch", looks like it is geared toward people who are just starting to dip their toes into this water
"from scratch" is not something I really want to do but it seems good to know how to do it
github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
"from scratch" is not something I really want to do but it seems good to know how to do it
github.com/rasbt/LLMs-f...
Just discovered Project Silica, Microsoft's research project for ultra-long-term data storage
My current personal data storage solution is extremely fragile (most of my data will be functionally lost when I die) so I'm very interested in this project
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
My current personal data storage solution is extremely fragile (most of my data will be functionally lost when I die) so I'm very interested in this project
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Project Silica
Project Silica is developing the first-ever storage technology designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, using femtosecond lasers to store data.
www.microsoft.com
November 7, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Just discovered Project Silica, Microsoft's research project for ultra-long-term data storage
My current personal data storage solution is extremely fragile (most of my data will be functionally lost when I die) so I'm very interested in this project
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
My current personal data storage solution is extremely fragile (most of my data will be functionally lost when I die) so I'm very interested in this project
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
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Why are LLMs bad for search? Because LLMs are nothing more than statistical models of the distribution of word forms in text, set up to output plausible-sounding sequences of words.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpE4...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpE4...
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ChatGP-why: When, if ever, is synthetic text safe, appropriate, and desirable?
YouTube video by GRAILE AI
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Why are LLMs bad for search? Because LLMs are nothing more than statistical models of the distribution of word forms in text, set up to output plausible-sounding sequences of words.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpE4...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpE4...
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November 4, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Anthony Goldbloom makes the case for using GenAI to clean and process unstructured data
I've used it for sample data generation and have had reasonable success with that
blog.sumble.com/the-overlook...
November 1, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Anthony Goldbloom makes the case for using GenAI to clean and process unstructured data
I've used it for sample data generation and have had reasonable success with that
blog.sumble.com/the-overlook...
Thinking hard about what John Carmack said about optimism for the future, trying to compare it to my life experiences
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1653437161658544129?t=iZEAW07mcuWzHrC-hspdaA&s=19
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1653437161658544129?t=iZEAW07mcuWzHrC-hspdaA&s=19
May 3, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Thinking hard about what John Carmack said about optimism for the future, trying to compare it to my life experiences
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1653437161658544129?t=iZEAW07mcuWzHrC-hspdaA&s=19
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1653437161658544129?t=iZEAW07mcuWzHrC-hspdaA&s=19