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by joewferrara 3y ago
This is a great article about the technical difficulties of building a RAG system at scale from an engineering perspective. Performance is about speed and compute. A topic that is not addressed is how to evaluate a RAG system where performa
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by joewferrara 3y ago
Shit is crazy! I did not know about the amount of fake scholarships private colleges give until today! If I knew it in high school I would have applied to more expensive colleges. I only applies to public universities in my state in high sc
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by joewferrara 3y ago
I’m not sure about textbooks specifically on infinity. As another comment mentions, the study of infinity generally falls under the math subject of set theory so a set theory textbook would be a mathematician’s definitive resource on infini
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by joewferrara 3y ago
These visualizations are very cool, and will hopefully lead to more understanding of what's happening with neural networks internally. The next thing we need is an example/write up of someone using these visualizations to either 1
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by joewferrara 3y ago
Not a textbook, but Everything and More - A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace is a fun read about infinity. It’s technical but not quite as technical as a textbook that would be used in a college course. I have a PhD in ma
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by joewferrara 3y ago
This line between fine tuning and continuous pre-training is what I’m interested in. What is the investment difference between fine tuning, contoured-training and training from scratch? Do you (or anyone else) have any good sources or know
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by joewferrara 3y ago
This is a very cool concept. The example given of Bytedance combining the text embedder ALBERT with the a transformer image embedder, to make an embedder that can do image and text at the same time to get an interaction score is fascinating
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by joewferrara 3y ago
They test two fine tuning tasks in the article - reliable output formatting and custom tone. These are two tasks (reliable output formatting in particular) that are advertised regularly as areas where fine tuning an LLM should work. The goa
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by joewferrara 3y ago
This is a cool project. What do you think about the solution to redact text in a user’s message using an NER model - replacing the named entities with placeholders like PERSON_1, LOCATION_1 etc, and then sending the redacted message to open
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by joewferrara 3y ago
Modular forms also have applications to representation theory and physics in conformal field theory https://researchers.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~dridout@unimelb/semin...
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by joewferrara 3y ago
It’s a consequence of the maturity of the smart phone market/product. Apple’s “boring” new IPhone announcement last week (or was it two weeks ago?) is another consequence of the maturity of smart phones. There’s less and less new groun
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by joewferrara 3y ago
This article is a lot of words about the fact that twitter, or should I say X, is promoting tweets, er posts, that keep one on X (posts without a link in them, the example given in the article is posts with pictures) instead posts that send
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by joewferrara 3y ago
The author has more experience in the field than me, so gotta defer to him for the most part, and while I generally agree with the post, I disagree strongly with one point. The author frames this new era of AI about using transformer models
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by joewferrara 3y ago
Check out this blog post I wrote about my evolving understanding of what a website is and how the internet works. I lack a background in computer science, and this posts reflects what I've learned since leaving academia to work as a da
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What's a Website(joe-ferrara.github.io)
2 points by joewferrara 3y ago|1 comments
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Blog Post on RSA(joe-ferrara.github.io)
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by joewferrara 3y ago
Check out this blog post I wrote on RSA and let me know what you think!
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by joewferrara 3y ago
This essay by the same person who answered the mathoverflow post greatly expands on the ideas in the post. https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/9404236.pdf It’s a great read for young people interested in mathematics and in
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Euclidean Algorithm(joe-ferrara.github.io)
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by joewferrara 3y ago
This game is exactly like graduate school in a PhD program! Love it!
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by joewferrara 3y ago
Pretty interesting that signs of self domestication include a shrunken brain and aggressive males being eliminated from the population. I would not have thought that our brains have shrunk since we (humans) became self domesticated.
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by joewferrara 3y ago
This is pretty good considering the fact that David Foster Wallace took his own life in the end. I read the whole quote before I saw at the end it’s from him.