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imaurer

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www.imaurer.com 1y ago

I call them "Loop Bots"

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github.com 2y ago

FuzzTypes: Pydantic Library for Auto-Correcting Annotation Types

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www.imaurer.com 2y ago

What Is a GPT?

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www.imaurer.com 3y ago

The Answer Is the Easy Part

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www.imaurer.com 3y ago

Which vector similarity metric should I use?

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www.imaurer.com 3y ago

Medical AI: How to raise and eventually make money

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

What Happened to Fiverr?

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github.com 3y ago

Understanding Wolfram's ChatGPT Plugin Manifest

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github.com 3y ago

Anyone concerned about running code from ChatGPT?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Genomic Analysis with Metabase

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www.wtsp.com 4y ago

Electric car battery replacement costs more than car

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www.datatrigger.org 4y ago

Text Classification: Transfer Learning vs. Zero-Shot Classifier

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til.simonwillison.net 4y ago

Problems once solved by a metaclass can be solved by __init_subclass__

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www.calnewport.com 4y ago

The Bestselling Magic of the Writing Shed

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arxiv.org 4y ago

ClipClap: Image Captioning with Clip Encoder and GPT2 [pdf]

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github.com 4y ago

Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration

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arxiv.org 4y ago

An argument for the impossibility of machine intelligence [pdf]

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sahilbloom.substack.com 5y ago

Lifelong Learning Habits

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www.genomoncology.com 5y ago

Healthcare NLP with an Expert in the Loop Model

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www.genomoncology.com 6y ago

Parsing Variants Using the Cyvcf2 Library

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www.quantamagazine.org 7y ago

Universal Method to Sort Complex Information Found

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Have a bunch of Makerile commands (pbcopy-api, pbcopy-ui, pbcopy-curr) that use some mishmash of git ls-files, grep, xargs tail -n +1 piped into pbcopy.

Kitchen sink command: pbcopy-all: git ls-files | xargs tail -n +1 | pbcopy

Works like a charm in Q2 2024.

I’m sure this will be a very solved problem by 2025.

“ Finding effective documentation, information, and training is likely to get harder, especially in specialised topics where LLMs are even less effective than normal.”

Who needs documentation with Claude and pbcopy?

Currently, LLM models are not state of the art at Named Entity Recognition. They are slower, more expensive and less accurate than a fine tuned BERT model.

However, they are way easier to get started with using in context learning. Soon, they will be cheaper and probably faster enough too that training your own model will be a waste of time for 95% of use cases (probably higher because it will unlock use cases that wouldn’t break even with the old NLP approaches from a value perspective).

This is why I am tracking LLM structured outputs here:

https://github.com/imaurer/awesome-llm-json

And created an autocorrecting pydantic library that could be used for Named entity linking:

https://github.com/genomoncology/FuzzTypes

I am bullish Pgvector because I am “postgres for everything guy”.

Current concerns are the scaling and recall performance.

The author is looking at product quantization along with other ideas: https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/issues/27

More details on product quantization: https://mccormickml.com/2017/10/13/product-quantizer-tutoria...

A nice repo that tracks the ANN relative performance of different indexes: https://mccormickml.com/2017/10/13/product-quantizer-tutoria...

Also shoutout to Weaviate because they have great docs, are open source and have very informative YouTube channel.

https://weaviate.io/

If Google Docs was the only way most people wrote text then I think your analogy would indeed be apt. In this case, nearly all people using Large Language Models are doing so through a web page (ChatGPT) or an API.

That's the inspiration behind the name, open for something better. Considered "Edge" as well, but was concerned that would seem IoT/mobile specific.

DevOps is broken 4 years ago

I feel like I need some definitions to understand this article and discussion. What is dev? What is ops? What is devops? What is system administration? What is sysadmin?

I'm 47 and what is described seems like the old problems that I thought devops solved.

URL is to a "Things I Learned" by Simon W, but the title comes from tweet by David Beazley:

https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/1466731368956809219

Which is a warning that people shouldn't buy his new book if they want a deep dive on Metaprogramming:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134173279/

Simon does a nice job demonstrating how "the __init_subclass__ class method is called when the class itself is being constructed."