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Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

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I follow these: * Matt Berman on X / YT * AI-summarized AI news digest: https://buttondown.com/ainews by swyx * https://codingwithintelligence.com/about by Rick Lamers Then I manually follow up to learn more about specific topic/news I'm interested in.

I have stopped following Matt Berman, his enthusiasm and love for OpenAI has unfortunately made him lose all semblance of critical thinking when it comes to this company, so his videos are too aligned with OpenAI marketing...

Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

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We actually just wrote a book with your profile in mind -- especially if by "AI" you're especially interested in LLMs and if you're a visual learner. It's called Hands-On Large Language Models and it contains 300 original figures explaining the main couple hundred intuitions and applications for these models. You can also read it online on the O'Reilly platform. I find that after acquiring the main intuitions, people…

I **LOVE** ALL of your content!!!

Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

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I work on frontier models directly and I I wrote a guidebook for folks like you. https://ravinkumar.com/GenAiGuidebook/book_intro.html

It has a mix of concepts and hands on code, and lots of links to the best places to learn more. I'm keeping it up to date as well, about to merge a guide on building applications, which is what it sounds like you want.

Here's my Google scholar if you want credentials https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Oq99ddEAAAAJ&hl=en...

Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

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Are you wanting to get into LLMs in particular or something else? I am a software engineer also trying to make headways into so-called "AI", but I have little interest in LLMs. For one, it's suffering from a major hype bubble right now. The second reason is that because of reason one, it has a huge amount of attention from people who study and work on this every day. It's not something I have the time commitment for…

I wrote a couple of these books (and published them as open access)

Here's my one on computation probability. The code and math here underlie "AI". It's the same fundamentals, and even code libraries (Jax, pytorch etc( https://bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html

I also posted my more specific guidebook to the fundamentals of GenAI above. Hope both help

Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do exactly this with hoarder. I passively build tagged knowledge bases with the archived pages and then feed it to a RAG setup.

https://github.com/hoarder-app/hoarder for the mention

Thank you. And I just found out, there is a docker image ready for Unraid. Lets see if it will work for me.

Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI

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post #48

I follow these: * Matt Berman on X / YT * AI-summarized AI news digest: https://buttondown.com/ainews by swyx * https://codingwithintelligence.com/about by Rick Lamers Then I manually follow up to learn more about specific topic/news I'm interested in.

I have stopped following Matt Berman, his enthusiasm and love for OpenAI has unfortunately made him lose all semblance of critical thinking when it comes to this company, so his videos are too aligned with OpenAI marketing...

He's absolutely very enthusiastic about many things! I take that into account and mentally adjust when listening to him, but he's been great as [one] source of AI product news.
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