also i know its ironic implicitly to say this but its annoying how everyone is either using genai or talking about people using genai. it occupies like 70% of my mind on any given day because of how often dialogue about it appears

will that number just keep going up? find out next time on dbz

thank you to everyone for making this an experience i will never forget.
♥️

especially every professor i spoke to at this conference, thank you so deeply for your guidance. i finally feel like i have a dream to catch. more than anything, i feel incredibly inclined to give back to this community and do everything i can to help make it a space for everyone.

i felt like everyone was truly passionate about themselves and the community they were building. a huge part of it is fangirling over people i respect, and much of this is so we can all make more connections for blablabla capitalism, but i felt an invisible comraderie among almost anyone i spoke to.

what i liked most, esp. comparerd to the stuffy academia i oft feel surrounded by, is how honest this community is. i loved the self-criticism on topics like representation that many i spoke to would be willing to talk about; i was also pleased with how optimistic the pulse on the community felt.

not giving context here is insane

"i do not know what agi looks like, but i know it includes reinforcement learning"

like cmon even if you dont agree with that take its such a cool note to end the talk on

and it's running live??????? and inference only takes a couple seconds!!!!!???? this is wild