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Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts?
As an enthusiast sometimes I feel that I get stuck in a corner and could use some overview. A newsforum about AI engineering could help. E.g. most articles about practical things (think civitai guides), some articles dive deeper into how this tech works (think 3b1b). Do you know a good one?
I only google things and am not e-social, so may miss something obvious like “civitai’s good though, why” or “there’s tech jesus but for AI on YT”.
Interested: AI tech, SD inference and training, local LLM models and prompting/settings, VLMs, TTSs, other models, scripts, experiments, popsci.
Disinterested: CEO said, politics, winter, alignment, eats us all, not a human, etc.
I can provide my lora training and automation experience, for the most part (around 100 sd 1.5 loras, few versions each).
- bbyford 2y agowww.machine-ethics.net if you've interested in the ethics of AI
- ed 2y agoIt’s a big field! But if you’re in a few discords and a bunch of subreddits, you’re doing it right. The most interesting stuff happens in GitHub PR’s, but you have to know where to look. Kohya’s misnamed SD3 branch has a ton of good flux hints, for example. It’s also where furkan gets pretty much all his content, before it gets paywalled. Unfortunately, unless you participate full-time it’s hard to follow along. But if you really dig in and learn to modify your tooling (Comfy, kohya etc), you’ll start to come across some really impressive people who are all self-taught, and very accessible. It’s totally possible to work your way up to the frontier with a few months of hacking. (And disposable income for GPU time.) And the overlap between image AI’s and LLM’s is actually pretty great since they’re all transformers under the hood. Civit, in my experience, is a good source for weights but most of the guides are written by people without much actual experience. If you haven’t already, use tensorflow or wandb to get an intuitive understanding of your training parameters. It’s very easy to connect your tools to these services. This is by far the most helpful thing I’ve done, and something I really regret not doing sooner.
- antimemetics 2y agoAny discords you recommend?
- ed 2y agoI'm on: Image - Terminus Research Group, from bghira of SimpleTuner/diffusers https://discord.gg/cSmvcU9Me9 https://discord.gg/cSmvcU9Me9 - AI Toolkit https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit https://discord.gg/VXmU2f5WEU https://discord.gg/VXmU2f5WEU - Stable Diffusion https://discord.gg/stablediffusion https://discord.gg/stablediffusion LLM - LLamaIndex https://www.llamaindex.ai https://www.llamaindex.ai https://discord.com/invite/eN6D2HQ4aX https://discord.com/invite/eN6D2HQ4aX - Nous research https://discord.gg/nousresearch https://discord.gg/nousresearch - LangChain https://discord.gg/hMrfPpUk https://discord.gg/hMrfPpUk Platforms - Replicate https://discord.gg/replicate https://discord.gg/replicate - Fal https://discord.gg/fal-ai https://discord.gg/fal-ai
- kouteiheika 2y ago> use tensorflow I think you meant TensorBoard?
- ed 2y agoyep!
- istinetz 2y ago>It’s also where furkan gets pretty much all his content, before it gets paywalled. Who/what is Furkan?
- ed 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/@SECourses https://www.youtube.com/@SECourses
- grayxu 2y agor/LocalLLaMA
- postalcoder 2y agoLocalLlama is the place. Really high quality people and discussion there and surprisingly collaborative. Very different than most subreddits.
- vid 2y agoI like LocalLLaMA because it's not just for algorithm/math experts, it's for people who want to use LLMs locally (as the name says), so there is often practical discussion on how to use "off the shelf" models and kits. This also implies a patient crowd who will sometimes go into great detail about specific details, since there are many non-specialists.
- Two_hands 2y agoHey I have a blog site where I write about implementing different papers and doing deep dives on the papers! https://ym2132.github.io https://ym2132.github.io I try to go for those things you're looking for. It's hard to find good resources nowadays with real people behind them. I hope you enjoy the posts. Feel free to reach out about anything on there
- MaxPimento 2y agoNeat ! Bookmarked :)
- Two_hands 2y agoThank you!
- input_sh 2y agoYou've created an account just for this two word comment? Totally not suspicious.
- Two_hands 2y agoFwiw I didn't create that account, I didnt notice it was so new earlier. It is a bit weird though
- chrisweekly 2y agorandom tangent: I like your input.sh website
- freeqaz 2y agoReading through this now. Really appreciate the knowledge sharing! Your content is amazing and with some more polish I feel like it would really shine! (Some sentences not flowing quite right is a little confusing for me, reading the GAN deep dive)
- Two_hands 2y ago
- sva_ 2y agoThis one sends a fairly good (generated) summary each day: https://buttondown.com/ainews https://buttondown.com/ainews
- quitit 2y agohttps://hype.replicate.dev/ https://hype.replicate.dev/ Let me know if that’s a good fit.
- keiferski 2y agoThis is a pretty good weekly roundup of art-related developments: https://aiartweekly.com/ https://aiartweekly.com/
- reinaldnaufal 2y agohttps://gwern.net/#deep-learning https://gwern.net/#deep-learning Gwern is the place for me. His deep dive on meta-learning is always interesting.
- moonlessday 2y agoblog design is goat
- khafra 2y agoRecommending Gwern on any technical topic is practically cheating; he always has in-depth, impeccably referenced overviews, complete with experiments he has done. For deep learning in particular, I will add Neel Nanda's interpretability work: https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability
- joenot443 2y agoHe's the best writer online. If you're reading this Gwern, know that you're greatly admired.
- a_c 2y agoLike it or not, Stephen Wolfram. e.g. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/whats-really-going-on-in-machine-learning-some-minimal-models/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/08/whats-really-goi... and https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...
- beeboobaa3 2y agoJust simulate your own with some LLMs?
- paulgb 2y agoSimon Wilson’s (simonw on here) blog is good, lots of good notes from someone who actively plays with a lot of LLMs. https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/
- daceba 2y ago[dead]
- sumnole 2y agoHuggingface community
- hunterhod 2y agoChipp AI public discord is pretty active and folks tend to talk about the latest stuff there. It’s a mostly non-technical crowd though.
- paraschopra 2y agoI like Machine Learning Street Talk discord server.
- _giorgio_ 2y agohttp://x.com http://x.com You can find 99% of companies and reasearchers. Just follow them. If you need some names, just ask!
- mococa 2y agox requires an account.
- _giorgio_ 2y agoLOL
- dweinus 2y agoA site run by a fascist transphobe? Hard pass.
- dagelf 2y agoBut you're happy living in a country built on the bones of ??? run by warmongering ???
- crimsoneer 2y agoI hate that this is true, but it is. If you want ot keep up to date with news, following on X + hanging around on discord is the way.
- alfanick 2y agohttps://www.lesswrong.com/ https://www.lesswrong.com/ for HN-style longer AI-related posts, especially around alignment and consciousness
- trustno2 2y agoI think that's what OP is not interested in
- olalonde 2y agoIndeed, OP's "disinterested" list matches LessWrong almost perfectly. > Disinterested: CEO said, politics, winter, alignment, eats us all, not a human, etc.
- Vecr 2y agoIsn't it pretty niche to not want discussions of winter or alignment? I guess you can go read Nick Land? If there's not at least a mini-winter or alignment some time soon it's going full Nick Land, right? What I mean is, Nick Land is the only person I know of who can at least sort of credibly claim to have a theory for why alignment isn't just not guaranteed, but is in fact impossible, and there's ~no chance of a lasting winter.
- anon1094 2y agoThis is why I'm creating https://medium.com/ai-engineers https://medium.com/ai-engineers to focus on the rising class of AI engineers and practical content for devs who want to use AI to build apps.
- ushakov 2y agoGo to one of the AI Tinkerers events in your area? https://aitinkerers.org/p/welcome https://aitinkerers.org/p/welcome
- FranklinMaillot 2y agoAI explained. It's a youtube channel that gives a nice in-depth overview of the latest papers in the field of LLMs. https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official They also have a free newsletter and more behind a Patreon subscription. https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/p/the-3rd-era-of-ai-language-models https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/p/the-3rd-era-of-ai-langua... https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained
- 1oooqooq 2y agoask chatgpt about your favorite research echo chamber
- twp 2y agoKeep a broad perspective: https://pivot-to-ai.com/ https://pivot-to-ai.com/
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- richardvsu 2y agohttps://genai-handbook.github.io/ https://genai-handbook.github.io/ https://www.latent.space/podcast https://www.latent.space/podcast https://x.com/karpathy/status/1567233122252750848 https://x.com/karpathy/status/1567233122252750848
- aznumeric 2y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity https://paperswithcode.com https://paperswithcode.com https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI
- ravix 2y agoThis indy guy is ‘hands on’ https://youtu.be/GUVrOa4V8iE?si=OF1mLgWyr0tcrpBZ https://youtu.be/GUVrOa4V8iE?si=OF1mLgWyr0tcrpBZ
- gom_jabbar 2y agoHere's a primary literature review on Nick Land's thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical and will converge on the event horizon of the techno-economic singularity. It's AI hype to the max. https://retrochronic.com/ https://retrochronic.com/
- Vecr 2y agoNot really not "eats us all, not a human" though. Do OP's requirements really make sense?
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