brofallon

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by brofallon 3y ago
To use RLHF you need a dataset that includes instructions with good & bad answers - do many of those exist? I know there are a few datasets of just plain instructions-with-responses, but I'm not aware of any that have both good and
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by brofallon 3y ago
I agree - LangChain is totally awesome and unlocks amazing new capabilities of LLMs (easily!), but the code itself is pretty awkward. No logging framework, for instance, and the strong typing enforcement with pydantic seems un-pythonic and
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by brofallon 3y ago
Somewhat OT, but I feel like this is such an underappreciated aspect of recent LLMs: Not just their ability to generate text - but their apparent effectiveness in making use of arbitrary tools to interact with their environment to achieve s
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by brofallon 4y ago
There's a special place in my heart for any project in which the Readme says "Warning: The code is fucking awful"
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by brofallon 4y ago
I'm still a little unclear on the benefits that fusion offers compared to things like wind and solar. I understand that we need to develop better storage technologies for the energy produced by wind and solar, but that seems so much ea
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by brofallon 4y ago
Most of the discussion here seems to assume bioinformatics / genomics jobs are academic, but I work for a clinical testing lab where production-quality code is a must. We're probably a 10/12 on the Joel test. If you're i
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by brofallon 4y ago
Just to clarify, exons are the portions of genes that code for protein sequence (they are expressed). Introns span the distance between exons and may contain regulatory or splicing information. Areas between genes are referred to as interge
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by brofallon 5y ago
It continues to annoy me that fusion companies make claims like "enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity.". Current, broadly used technologies such as wind and solar already deliver unlimited clean energy. What fusion p
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by brofallon 5y ago
I'm honestly not sure why there seems to be so much interest in fusion these days. Wind and solar seem to offer a limitless, carbon-free energy supply with relatively cheap, well understood technology that is already price competitive
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Decision Transformer: ReinforcementLearning via Sequence Modeling(arxiv.org)
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by brofallon 5y ago
In response to your final question: To my ear using "men" as a substitute for "all people" doesn't flow better, I found it rather jarring and antiquated and, yeah, a little insensitive. I'm also not convinced i
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by brofallon 5y ago
So curious to see what happens to salaries, and where people live, if WFH is common in many sectors. Will salaries go up or down on average if employers must compete nationally to find good employees? Will people flee high cost of living ar
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by brofallon 6y ago
I'm wondering how hard it would be to reverse-engineer the FLoC algorithm that assigns ids based on browsing history.. could one just have a bunch of headless browsers randomly visit sites, and compute the FLoC ids periodically to see
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by brofallon 6y ago
This is a common misconception - "averaging out" errors only works if the errors are pretty rare at any given site. This is true for some types of errors & sequencing technologies, but not universally true. Some types of DNA s
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by brofallon 6y ago
I guess I don't understand what the fundamental disagreement is here. Most astronomers believe the probability that Oumuamua was an alien visitor is very small. Loeb's argument is that the probability may be a bit larger. But we&#
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by brofallon 6y ago
Trail runs are different for a few reasons. First, long endurance runs take way more time, maybe 16-18 hours for top-tier athletes to do 100 miles, while a fast marathon isn't much over 2 hours. Also, there are typically lots o really
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by brofallon 6y ago
Many folks, especially those in academia, really seem to value academic positions, but I'm not really sure where that comes from. Teaching isn't often the greatest part (though I recognize that not every professor has to teach, mu
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by brofallon 7y ago
As someone who loves to read but has no formal background in Literature, I'm very intrigued by the ways in which people rank authors so as to find the one most deserving of some award. The article provides a handful of criteria, includ
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by brofallon 7y ago
As a full-time bioinformatician I'm totally excited about Julia for bioinformatics. Currently BioJulia needs some pretty serious work before it can be used for routine bioinformatics tasks, for instance there's no good support fo
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by brofallon 7y ago
Here's a good example, take a look at the recently published articles in PloS Computational Biology: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/ Just scanning through them... there aren't really any that are a s
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by brofallon 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder if the discussion about p < 0.05 has diverged a bit from practical considerations. In my field (population genetics and bioinformatics) for instance, I'm not sure any current journal would reject a paper where pri