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: Follow up: they are the same resolution (72 DPI)

: When asked to make an image lower res(olution), ChatGPT refuses because of built-in quality …

: This series of attempts to get Google’s Gemini model depict a horse riding an astronaut is …

: My colleague Mike Heavers made a nice overview of llamafile. llamafile allows you to run a #chatbot …

: My colleague Stephen Hood and MIECO fellow Justine Tunney released llamafile this week. …

: A lot of the reporting about Sam Altman’s return to OpenAI buries the fact that both of the …

: After writing a post on how LLMs answer math questions (tl;dr: answering math questions is not the …

: From Nadia Eghbal’s “Working in Public: the making and maintenance of open source …

: A colleague shared a project to run an LLM on iOS. The project sounds rad; the name is not (and …

: I decided to explore Replit’s AI coding feature and in the process made a thing: Do I need AI …

: Simon Wardley (part of the Mozilla Internet Ecosystem (MIECO) program) shared some thoughts on open …

: Notes on multimodal models, AI for infrastructure, fine tuning, and soft prompting I have been taking a lot of notes on readings and other sources, and am planning on posting them …

: [Field Report] Silicon Valley Generative AI Paper Reading Event: RWKV Preamble: learning about AI through events One of my approaches to learning about the industry, …

: More for less: OpenAI's larger and cheaper context window Yesterday (11/6/2023) OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo, an update to their state-of-the-art model GPT-4. …

: Casey Newton’s latest post about OpenAI’s agents (“GPTs”) is fascinating …

: Notes on Eric Jang's "How to Understand ML Papers Quickly" I found “How to Understand ML Papers Quickly” by Eric Jang (VP @ 1X, ex-Google) recently …

: Some reading from this week on AI Hacker News thread on difference between and rationale for using embeddings vs. fine-tuning an LLM. …

: The Mozilla AI Guide is now live! The AI Guide is an MVP resource we created for new and existing …

: Am I doing this right? Three factors that make learning with and about LLMs difficult When I started learning about large language models (LLMs), I hit wall almost immediately. I decided …

: TIL from this paper that although LLMs can translate text from one language to another, the cost of …

: I love getting sassed by ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) to just Google something with the attitude of “you …

: Catching up in “Hard Fork”: this segment on prompt engineering with Riley Goodside is …

: I am working on a bit of writing about the challenge of learning about LLMs by using them, and here …

: Oh, and one more: When using PAL chain the result translated the plus sign (+) into the word …

: Appendix to "Show Your Work" In the previous post I used a plan and execute agent to discuss the use of an LLM with an …

: Show your work: what to expect from how LLMs “do” math After finishing my undergrad in mathematics, I taught algebra and geometry to high schoolers. I …

: The generative AI paradox Note: After publishing this post, I have made some changes to my thinking. I will leave the below …

: Prompt: What happens at the end of the world? As part of some writing, I sent the prompt “What happens at the end of the world?” to …

: Here is a lesson in: 1/ the difference between less and few, and 2/ how much context matters to the …

: I feel seen in that attempting to log into LinkedIn whatsoever is suspicious. It’s me, …

: I am sort of surprised I haven’t read an explanation of hyperparameters for LLMs that uses …

: Getting Started but Going Where? What getting started guides tell us about the emerging shape of the generative AI domain Following the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a tide of new educational resources washed in aimed at …

: TFW you think you know what you are doing after one tutorial

: Maybe just don’t take oil money AND use the term responsible.

: TWIL: Been reading about LLM context windows & came across this article: “We find that …

: Current personal reading: “On the Aesthetic Education of Man” by Friedrich Schiller …

: After reading through a bunch of LLM getting started tutorials and resources, here are a few …

: Y’all see this clip of Sam Altman inventing the Orb?

: TWIL (this week I learned) I recently got llama.cpp running on my desktop (tutorial forthcoming!) …