mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Wall Street shrinks headcount as dealmaking and trading slump
Welcome to the real world. Move somewhere more affordable.
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mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Wall Street shrinks headcount as dealmaking and trading slump
Grow up.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: The open source learning curve for AI researchers
I’d be very careful about this.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: GPT-Prompt-Engineer
May I ask, are you a VC? This is a complete non sequitur.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: GPT-Prompt-Engineer
They don’t. They simply assume the model’s most likely output is meaningfully correlated with true rankings even though it was never trained on this task and certainly has not been trained to output the most likely prompt given a prompt in some meaningful order. It’s hogwash.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: GPT-Prompt-Engineer
Agreed. This is a pretty terrible idea.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Hacking LangChain for fun and profit
It’s no longer useful / never was that useful. It’s main function was a shiny toy for investors.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML
No, you need to show the model is better on this narrow task, not just assert it is because it’s a great general LLM. It’s quite possible you’re correct but just saying GPT is the best, prove me wrong, reeks of a VC or AI bandwagoner.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML
The training classes in this case are words in the vocabulary in the context of a sentence.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML
It’s not similar other than that attention relates tokens.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Classifying customer messages with LLMs vs traditional ML
It’s the same as a giant one hot vector. He’s not describing anything terribly new or impressive, but if it works then god bless and good luck.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: OpenAI's plans according to sama
He’s speculating that Microsoft is nerfing OpenAI / chatGPT to funnel narrow capabilities to silos like CoPilot.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Argentina raises interest rate to 97% as it struggles to tackle inflation
This is patently insane. Yes, keep blaming outside agents for the flood of corruption that holds the region hostage. Is the US to blame? Of course, but in a limited sense, and not without your own leaders selling you out. And the socialist experiment has been run in parallel with Venezuela, a country that certainly isn’t a shining utopia, and orthogonally in Scandinavia, where you have social democracy yet vanishingly low levels of corruption compared to South America.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Release
Yeah because you’re not a child anymore. This is like saying you can’t get into fruit rollups like you used to. Don’t fight your nature and find some mature hobbies to get excited about rather than looking forward to the next Zelda game.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Tell me about how you bombed a technical interview
I interviewed for an ML scientist role (remote) while I was feeling a bit under the weather. I got through to a round with the founder/CEO and things were going well. However, this was a few days later and I was beginning to feel not so good, lots of brain fog and fatigue. The interviewer asked me a fairly basic question about a certain module and why one would use it and what the effect would be with given parameters. I sort of dropped the ball and said something reasonable but not super rigorous, and I could tell the interviewer wasn’t very satisfied.
The next day I took a COVID test and it was positive. I should’ve postponed the interview as soon as something was off but it would be weeks until I felt better. I ended up getting a better offer at a better company but it still hurt to be rejected at least in part because I wasn’t feeling 100%. Live and learn.
mistymountains | 2 years ago | on: Gen Z Loves Google
I have no interest in big tech but I think this is false, it’s still an asset. Now, is it what it used to be? No. But you can get hired pretty easily. And if you think Google stunts you you’re going to love legacy companies. Now Meta, that’s another story…
mistymountains | 3 years ago | on: Can AI-Generated Text Be Reliably Detected?
You could take a similar approach to detection (hypothetically). You provide writing samples a LLM is fine tuned on, then future texts could possibly be filtered by perplexity or similar to detect obvious differences in style. Of course, there would be side effects, and ideally we don’t start creating incentives where we don’t need to. Man, I’m glad I learned to write before all this.
mistymountains | 3 years ago | on: Brazilian researchers find plastic rocks on remote island
Terrible take.
mistymountains | 3 years ago | on: GPT-4
That’s just a supervised fine tuning method to skew outputs favorably. I’m working with it on biologics modeling using laboratory feedback, actually. The underlying inference structure is not changed.
mistymountains | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape?
You can get rid of the television and coffee table and seating. We all have a choice. Your older self and partner and kids will thank you for being in good shape for longer.