Posts by smach@masto.machlis.com
(DIR) Post #AZx9p2wWPUIGzvmU0O by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-09-19T14:16:37Z
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One of my favorite things about #PositConf2023: For years now, @hadleywickham urges attendees to follow the "Pacman rule": If you're standing in a group, make sure to leave space for someone else to join in. It's a nice way to set an inclusive environment.
(DIR) Post #Aa4Euh04ZATFTZjqeO by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-09-23T16:42:33Z
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You can now full-text-search public Mastodon posts! . . . IF1) the author has enabled full-text searching of their posts, and 2) both their and your Mastodon instances have upgraded to Mastodon version 4.2.0. and have installed Elasticsearch (which is an extra infrastructure cost).If available, you can enable full-text searching of *your* posts by clicking Edit profile and selecting "Privacy and reach" in the top navigation bar. Then check "Include public posts in search results".
(DIR) Post #Aa4IJzRfQOKnmhOrOi by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-09-23T19:22:04Z
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@tuxicoman For non admins, as I was on Fosstodon before moving to my own instance, the instance's Elasticsearch lets you full text search on your own posts and posts you liked or boosted, but not all other posts known to the instance.
(DIR) Post #AaInhSl6QB9u9QbPNo by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-09-30T19:17:59Z
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@simon I think some people are annoyed that LLMs take skill, iteration, and patience to learn and use well. The dream was that they'd know exactly what we need after just one generic question about a complex request.It would be helpful if people evaluate them for what they are, not based on an unrealistic sci-fi vision. (They definitely help me answer questions about my code. They will not, however, write a complex app from scratch based on a 1-sentence prompt.)
(DIR) Post #AbiJddn2CfosdzbbwO by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-11-12T00:35:47Z
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@simon @AnthonyBaker This could be kind of fun to use with some of the press releases I receive š I tried making a RAG GPT. I'm still not clear if you can upload multiple document files to a custom GPT or just one. More documentation would be nice.
(DIR) Post #AbibTnlE4kb5qaDYgq by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-11-12T03:14:58Z
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@simon @AnthonyBaker I also couldn't see any way to make a custom GPT cite and display the portions of the document it uses for its answer, which is something I definitely want in a RAG chatbot. (Maybe there is a way if you know the instructions to give it, but none of my attempts have worked yet.)
(DIR) Post #AcANQQFYKUuGlTELsO by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-11-25T13:29:59Z
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@simon The idea that you accept a $10B+ investment from a for-profit public company yet think you can somehow still keep the whole organization operating as a non-profit was kind of insane (at least in the US economy). The fact that they didnāt give Nadella advanced warning and then announced Altman's firing *while the stock market was open* did not exactly inspire confidence. I had assumed there was some critical time urgency involved. But it was just incompetence.
(DIR) Post #AchaOGvqbepRVUElUm by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-12-11T14:00:55Z
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@simon I couldnāt help myself, I asked GPT-4 for 10 ideas to rename Python virtual environment. (I used phind.com, they give you 10 free GPT-4 queries per day)
(DIR) Post #AcjLFYq5Y5SFRTqqm0 by smach@masto.machlis.com
2023-12-11T13:28:31Z
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āIf you would like to access Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem from R, check out the new CDSE package. With CDSE, you can easily connect your R environment to the vast satellite imagery collection from Sentinel missions. The best part is that you no longer need to download the complete image tiles distributed by Copernicus (100 x 100 km), but you can instead retrieve satellite data limited to your area of interest.ā - Zivan Karaman @Karamanhttps://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CDSE/index.html#rstats @rstats
(DIR) Post #AhumSTFmDSWnct1XZQ by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-04-21T23:52:16Z
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Ah the things I find when spring cleaning š
(DIR) Post #AhzclcvqQbjVOVzojA by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-04-19T11:01:09Z
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āAnother base R gem: toString()ā - @josi #rstats@rstats
(DIR) Post #Ai0nZzdHUmDaygvbu4 by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-04-25T12:08:21Z
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You can run large language models locally in the Opera browser developer version. I just added that option to ā5 easy ways to run an LLM locallyā (now more than 5 as I keep updating the #InfoWorld article, but SEO best practices blah blah)https://www.infoworld.com/article/3705035/5-easy-ways-to-run-an-llm-locally.html#GenAI #AI #LLMs
(DIR) Post #Ai16nfovqq7MiOcAjY by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-04-30T11:33:04Z
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The {summarytools} #rstats š¦ aims to:āProvide a coherent set of easy-to-use descriptive functions [like] those in commercial statistical software suites such as SAS, SPSS, and StataāOffer flexibility in terms of output format & contentāIntegrate well with commonly used software & tools for reportingāResults can be displayed in console or rendered/saved as HTML, plain text, or R Markdown. By Dominic Comtoishttps://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/dcomtois/summarytools/blob/master/doc/introduction.html#EDA @rstats
(DIR) Post #Ai34CKmVIgDp9lSy7k by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-05-18T13:56:35Z
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What happens when you mandate masks at a conference now that most people no longer wear them but medically vulnerable people are still at risk because #CovidIsNotOver? In the case of #PyConUS, the conference sells out.Why a masking policy? āMany of us and our fellow community members canāt attend without health and safety guidelines in place. We want PyCon US to be an event that everyone feels safe attending,ā organizers explained.Well done @pycon https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/112445571644276379
(DIR) Post #Ai6zUc5lxIxqv2DQQq by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-04-23T11:10:46Z
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This lengthy prompt example posted by Wharton professor Ethan Mollick turns an LLM into a tutor. Yes, you could just ask a chatbot to help you learn something. But this approach helps ensure students are guided in a specific way.Blog post: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/innovation-through-promptingPaper: Instructors as Innovators: a Future-focused Approach to New AI Learning Opportunities, With Prompts https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4802463#GenAI #GenerativeAI #AI #LLMs
(DIR) Post #AlyFrNwttbd0yLTGYS by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-09-13T19:40:58Z
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For economic policy nerds, from Mark Cuban on That Other App: Trump Tariff vs VP Harris's corporate tax rate (COGS = cost of goods sold)#USPolitics #USPol @KamalaHarrisWin
(DIR) Post #An1M286jJhfqPbEqrQ by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-10-14T17:05:14Z
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@mekkaokereke @jupiter Not much history of Americans who supported Hitler is taught in the US.* Henry Ford, a virulent antisemite, was an inspiration to Hitler and received the Nazi regime's highest honor for foreigners. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/henry-ford-anti-semitism/675911/?gift=Vw7jowAt4TJWcg2vvOSAndW9IYjhKgBbwPuzrmkBZIc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share* Many know of Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics. Fewer know that the US replaced 2 Jewish runners at the last minute (Owens objected but was overruled) https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/sport/germany-berlin-jewish-olympics-maccabi/index.html* There was a big pro-Hitler rally in NY in 1939 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/americans-hold-nazi-rally-in-madison-square-garden
(DIR) Post #An1M29M0gNUUHHOZJg by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-10-14T17:12:34Z
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@mekkaokereke @jupiter Ford's pro-Nazi activities does not seem to have diminished his reputation much in America. I learned about Ford's factory assembly lines in school. The Nazi stuff I learned elsewhere. There's still a major hospital bearing his name in Detroit.
(DIR) Post #An1M2DjCQ6PtqMH916 by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-10-14T17:26:44Z
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@mekkaokereke @jupiter Jesse Owens is a real hero in my eyes, not only for what he achieved at the Olympics and elsewhere, but for being such an ally to his Jewish teammates in Berlin in 1936. Glickman later recalled Owens saying: āCoach, Iāve won three gold medals. Let Marty and Sam run. They deserve it."Owens tried to give up his chance for his 4th gold medal in the 4 x 100 relay race to be an ally for his teammates. What an incredibly selfless act.
(DIR) Post #An9vCQ5EOBUeidrJh2 by smach@masto.machlis.com
2024-10-17T13:42:50Z
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āNvidia quietly released a new open-sourced, fine-tuned LLM called Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct, which is outperforming industry leaders like GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on key benchmarks. . . . Nemotron is showing that smaller, efficient models can compete with giants.ā - Rowan Cheung, The AI Rundown newsletterGood news both for open-source advocates and those concerned about all the power LLMs are using.https://www.therundown.ai/p/open-source-ai-takes-the-leadOn Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct#GenAI #LLM #LLMs