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Not sure if this article provides enough definitive info - happened to see it yesterday. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26335104-500-the-brai...

Seems ironic to be working for a company without integrity, drawing a salary ie your livelihood from such an organization while believing somehow your personal integrity is not alr…

Can you share what kinds of problems were conducive to hyperbolic embeddings in your experience. Also, separately, are you saying companies are using these in practice but don’t ta…

They have vacuum-cup like pads on their feet?

+1 for Mathematica’s documentation system. It is the best of any software doc, OSS/free or closed/commercial. By far.

This is related to a classic relational database problem called “bill of materials problem” - suggest you Google that. Also look for book on Graphs and networks in SQL by Joe Celko…

Gives a whole new meaning to “manufactured consent“.

If it could support the pgvector extension it would be a super fast vector database with all the power of Pg - the relational aspect brings the ability to add and query using rich …

+1 on fastmail

I didn’t take a year fully off but last year was slow in my consulting work so I did a deep dive on the emerging LLM area. One recommendation - get a beefy Mac laptop so you can ru…

Slightly unconnected but I’ve found a rather disturbing “dark pattern” in Amazon sales of food items in CA. Background: CA requires a warning on food that has some threshold level …

Programmers Introduction to Mathematics by Jeremy Kun should get you started. Look on Amazon. Then you can decide if you want to do a formal course and which one. I would also stro…

Here’s another one - it’s older but has some interesting charts and graphs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.18223

That’s not quite correct. Private data especially in the enterprise cannot use public LLM’s like GPT-4 or 5 or N. Use cases needing data privacy have to use an internally implement…

See Large Language Models - a Survey. Minaee et al https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06196

If the robots are cloud connected we are doomed the robot apocalypse could be triggered by cyber warfare. Or by malicious human owners. If they are autonomous there better be an em…

The secular core of Buddhist thought has parallels in the Sankhya system of thought in the set of knowledge systems collectively called Hindu metaphysics. Buddhism and Hinduism had…

The question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" was first posed by mathematician Mark Kac in a paper published in 1966. It was proven in the 80’s that there are manifolds for whic…

“Integer arithmetic is all you need” ? NVIDIA stock arrow up or down?

Re RAG aren’t you ignoring the fact that no one wants to put confidential company data into such LLM’s. Private RAG infrastructure remains a need for the same reason that privacy o…

You do get some money back for a trade-in depending on how old the machine is.

Llama and GPT are auto-regressive decoder only architectures which for pure translation jobs are not the optimal architectures. Training seq2seq models or encoder/decoder models on…

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Here’s a thread from biology stackexchange about this which also refers to CETI. https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/108499/can-whale... .

Meta comment about the comments saying “I didn’t find what I was looking for” - core fact is it was using Wikipedia as a knowledge base. So if your topic is not represented well en…