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DGoettlich

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    Comment #46332866

    data is 100% public domain.

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    Comment #46332777

    very interesting observation!

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    Comment #46332646

    well put.

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    Comment #46332620

    thanks. i think this just took on a weird dynamic. we never said we'd lock the model away. not sure how this impression seems to have emerged for some. that aside, it was an announ…

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    Comment #46332537

    i think we (whole section) are just talking past each other - we never said we'll lock it away. it was an announcement of a release, not a release. main purpose for us was getting …

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    Comment #46331992

    Thanks for the comment. Could you elaborate on what you find iffy about our approach? I'm sure we can improve!

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    Comment #46331395

    valid point. its more of a stepping stone towards larger models. we're figuring out what the best way to do this is before scaling up.

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    Comment #46331287

    we're on the same page.

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    Comment #46326748

    Also one of our fears. What we've done so far is to drop docs where the datasource was doubtful about the date of publication, if there are multiple possible dates we take the late…

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    Comment #46326620

    what makes you think we trained on only a few gigabytes? https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms/blob/main/ranke-4...

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    Comment #46326037

    fully understand you. we'd like to provide access but also guard against misrepresentations of our projects goals by pointing to e.g. racist generations. if you have thoughts on ho…

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    Comment #46325425

    understand your frustration. i trust you also understand the models have some dark corners that someone could use to misrepresent the goals of our project. if you have ideas on how…

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    Comment #46324150

    thanks. we'll be more precise in the future. ultimately, we took whatever we could get our hands on, that includes newspapers, periodicals, books. its multilingual (including itali…

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    Comment #46324113

    that is simply how we display the questions, its not what the model sees - we show the chat-template in the SFT section of the prerelease notes https://github.com/DGoettlich/histor…

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    Comment #46324101

    we were considering doing that but ultimately it struck us as too sensitive wrt the exact in context examples, their ordering etc.

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    Comment #46324067

    We tell it that its a person (no gender) living in : we show the chat template in the prerelease notes https://github.com/DGoettlich/history-llms/blob/main/ranke-4...