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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
Quote: The Gemma 3 models are trained with distillation and achieve superior performance to Gemma 2 for both pre-trained and instruction finetuned versions. In particular, our novel post-training recipe significantly improves the math, chat
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
The more leverage a piece of code has, the more good or damage it can do. The more constraints we can place on its behavior, the harder it is to mess up. If it's riskier code, constrain it more with better typing, testing, design, and
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
Interesting to see this coming out of Apple
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
This is really cool -- going to show it off to my team. I love the fact that you opened it up so that it will work with Jupyter notebooks as well.
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
Hmm, could be a good time to set up as a contractor serving Salesforce
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
I like the idea of having a wiki be mostly serverless -- like lambda backed by s3. A little searching found this: https://github.com/raboof/serverless-wiki
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
Tried out 3B on ollama, asking questions in optics, bio, and rust. It's super fast with a lot of knowledge, a large context and great understanding. Really impressive model.
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
So good it feels like I think maybe I can read their lips
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
Wonderful article! I enjoyed this incidental homage to postgres: "He came up with this huge corpus of SQL statements, and he ran them against every database engine that he could get his hands on. We wanted to make sure everybody got th
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
I've found this bias to be useful with two main exceptions: 1. It's nice if you can avoid using Postgres to store large files. 2. It's nice if you can avoid using Postgres for an event stream with massive volume (say billions
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
This is really cool!
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
I don't think we're as rare as you think we are.
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by dhbradshaw 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Worldwide (US-based) | Part-Time (5-10 hrs / week) Fractional CTO / CDO Physics / Optics PhD with about a decade of experience helping startups go from ideas to going concerns in different roles as con
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
SEEKING WORK (5 hrs / week), Alabama, United States Remote: Yes I have 5 hours a week available for work in a fractional Lead Engineer or CTO capacity. Let me help you get organized and become more effective and productive. Tech Compet
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
I like the way that testing as I go alters my code base, making each bit of code runnable in isolation and so easy to understand and fix. I hate flaky tests and I hate slow tests. Figuring out how to eliminate both takes care, but it gets r
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
To get a nice combination of easy edits and evaluation in a format familiar to a pythonista, could play with Lisp in Jupyter: https://github.com/yitzchak/common-lisp-jupyter
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Handy app for model testing! One usage question: after you've downloaded a model and are finished trying it out, how do you remove it?
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
https://www.coolmathgames.com/coolmath-games-and-flash
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Could have a track pad on the back of the phone
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Wow, if this is real and practical it could be huge! Right up there with sanitation, nutrition, antibiotics and vaccines.
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Libraries, roads, firefighters, police, utilities, national parks, local parks.
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Who is the author of Power of Habit? (Looks like there are a few different books you could be referring to.)
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Need basic stats to make sense of this. The most hopeful interpretation is that there are more pedestrians than ever. Alternatively maybe there are just too many big vehicles or maybe people are bad drivers. Or maybe both. But without more
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I went to the Netherlands with Gazelle to see a biking paradise, but found somet(electrek.co)
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
The judo move for that is to use that tendency for your benefit. Starting doing what you want to do now, on your own. That's how I moved from physics to python and django. It's how I moved from python and django to rust.
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Interestingly, cowboys didn't work alone. They had teams of real people that they had to work with and trust along with their horses and the cows themselves. Even homesteaders would typically pull together for building, digging, playin
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
I wrote my first Android apps using an emulator. Then used the proceeds from selling those apps to buy my first Android device and a better computer. (Doesn't mean that they have to, of course. Just that it's possible.)
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
For now, jobs that can be performed remotely should also be the easiest to automate. We'll see how long it takes.
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
Odd to conflate body fat % with bmi though. Using the latter as a proxy for the former makes strong assumptions around how you're built (musculature, torso length to leg length, broadness of chest, arm length, etc).
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by dhbradshaw 3y ago
I like to think of genes as keys on a piano. But the genome also includes the a lot of the musical score. You can get a lot of different songs with a finite set of keys played in different combinations and sequences and amplitudes. In thi

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