kellogh

kellogh, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to rust

ngl postfix match statements are probably the sexiest #rustlang feature i’ve seen in a while https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/unstable-book/language-features/postfix-match.html #rust

kellogh, 4 months ago to OpenAI

#NYT is suing #OpenAI. i tend to think their suit is weak, since news is always changing and the value of news is in its freshness, i have a hard time believing #AI is cutting into existing business in any real way. books are a different story

the current generation of #AI, #LLMs, are static model artifacts that are expensive to train. even if they become cheap to train, model management would be tough. so NYT is largely opening a suit against a threat that doesn’t exist yet

kellogh, 9 months ago to climate

Pretty neat — cows that burp less methane. Methane is a lot worse of a greenhouse gas than CO2, so this is huge https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/climate-friendly-cows-bred-belch-less-methane-2023-08-08/ #ClimateChange #agtech #agriculture

kellogh, 2 months ago to LLMs

this paper is going around. tbh the result is intuitive, at least to me, although it’s also a bit contrived fwiw. i do think it’s an important paper that helps us recognize the limitations of #LLMs, but i don’t see a reason why it would cause anyone to pause development of #LLM apps. Proving the existence of hallucinations is a bit like proving that the network will always drop packets — it just changes how you approach it

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817

kellogh, 7 months ago to random

thinking the other day… if i wanted to go back to big tech (unlikely) i’d probably want to go to microsoft, which is one hell of a change from the past. seems like that’s where all the interesting stuff is going down

kellogh, 9 months ago to random

why is X removing blocks? it seems a bit crazy to say they’re not useful. seems like an account of any size whatsoever needs blocking to stay sane. musk must’ve blocked people already. I know trump did. i must be missing something

kellogh, 7 months ago to random

i did a big personal thing today

kellogh, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to github

do you use git blame?
#softwaredev #git #github

kellogh, 7 months ago to random

that a16z manifesto is proving to be great material for talking to my dad about the dangers of libertarianism

kellogh, 7 months ago to random

thought: if you have to ditch your process as a tactic to deliver quickly or to meet a deadline, there's probably something wrong with your process

kellogh, 7 months ago to random

my wife and i have a theory that kids evolved to be cute as a survival mechanism

kellogh, 10 months ago to random

What I like most about Python is never entirely knowing what’s going on

kellogh, 6 months ago to python

i wish #spark had native UDFs, or whatever you’d call this:

@native_udf
def add_n(c: Column: n: Column) -> Column:
return c + n

you can easily make #python or #scala functions like that today, but you can’t reference them from #sql. i prefer them when possible in python bc they run natively. even in scala, strings aren’t converted to utf16 so it’s a win there too. they’re just a bit awkward when improving large chunks of SQL

kellogh, 10 months ago to random

is there an application of the word "legacy" that doesn't inspire at least mild panic?

kellogh, 9 months ago to random

Is 5G on AT&T a lie? I keep finding myself in rural areas or on a mountain and the “5G” strength is fairly strong, 2-3 bars. But my understanding of 5G is that it’s very short range, so really only feasible to deploy in urban areas. What’s going on? Is it “5G present, but 4G is the strongest signal so we’ll display that”?

kellogh, 3 months ago to LLMs

researchers are using #GenAI to accelerate drug development. The discovery phase was slow and expensive, so they trained a transformer model on drug data and it’s able to reliably generate drugs that are dramatically different than anything anyone’s seen before

Note: the title says “ChatGPT” but it’s not a GPT at all, quite a different architecture

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-02-scientists-code-chatgpt-medicine.html #LLMs #LLM #AI #drugs #pharmaceuticals #Science

kellogh, 1 month ago to random

my strategy for navigating a new org is basically, “ask the dumb questions”, because a lot of the dumb questions have very interesting answers

kellogh, 1 month ago to random

i don’t understand how people see the xz incident and conclude that open source is insecure. That level of social engineering could easily have worked on a company as well, but it was detected because it was open source. All other mechanisms failed, and it was just some random guy poking around that discovered it. That kind of scrutiny doesn’t happen on closed source systems

kellogh, 1 month ago to iran

in the first hour of this #iran attack, i saw the word “unprecedented” probably 12 times, and i can’t figure out for the life of me what’s unprecedented about this situation

kellogh, 1 month ago to random

i think a lot of people probably don’t realize that github is an artifact of a past tech fad, when all companies tried to be social networks. that’s why there’s a timeline

kellogh, 1 month ago to random

rn i could really use an AI generated video of Elsa brushing her teeth. i need proof to convince the 3yo

kellogh, 17 days ago to LLMs

has anyone made a successor to fuckit.js that uses #LLMs?

(fuckit.js ran the script in a loop, randomly deleting lines until it runs successfully)

kellogh, 21 days ago to random

a cool aspect of using LLMs as a tutor is you can test your understanding of a topic, and in the process of validating your understanding, the LLM will also trigger aspects you haven’t thought of yet. So it ends up acting kind of like a rabbit hole, except you end up a lot closer to where you started, just with a much deeper understanding

kellogh, 8 days ago to random

holy shit

yesterday while trail running i came across this fallen tree. it looks like a thick vine wrapped and choked the life out of it, and the storm this weekend finally took it out. i couldn’t easily identify the vine, but whatever

this morning i wake up and i’m breaking tf out with what sure looks like poison ivy rashes.

i came back, and identified the vine as, yep, poison ivy. thick woody 1/3” vines up and down the full tree

A close-up of two green leaves with visible veins and black specks on their surfaces. The leaves are attached to a thin branch with a blurred background of other foliage and tree bark.

kellogh, 10 days ago to random

i wish “type checking for infrastructure” was a thing

my code declares that there should be a S3 bucket that’s different from that other S3 bucket, etc. —> spin up the type checker, it reads APIs and verifies, “yep, this code should run fine”