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kellogh

@kellogh@hachyderm.io

I'm a software engineer and sometimes manager. Currently #Raleigh but also #Seattle. Building ML platform for a healthcare startup. Previously, built an IoT platform for one of "those" companies.

Open source: dura, fossil, Jump-Location, Moq.AutoMock, others

Do I have other interests? No, but I do have kids and they have interests. I think that counts for something. I can braid hair and hunt unicorns!

I put the #rust in frustrate

He/Him

#metal #science #python

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kellogh, to random
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I wonder how strong the correlation is between people who grew up in Jewish/Christian homes and fear of snakes

kellogh,
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Not sure if it’s actually religiously associated, but it’s kinda hard to let go of “the devil is a snake (and therefore all snakes are the devil)”

kellogh,
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I was talking to someone from India and they’re like, “yeah, I don’t know what the big deal is. We had a king cobra live under our porch for 6 years. They’re so calm and docile”

quintessence, to random
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I have made such a habit of Close All Tabs Friday that when I miss a week it's pretty obvious.

Closing or bookmarking / storing all tabs weekly has really helped my "tab hygiene". Because research tab explosions are real. :blobfoxheartcute:

kellogh,
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@quintessence don’t you miss them?

dnalounge, to random
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♬ NU METAL WORLD at DNA Lounge starting now!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2023/05-05d.html

kellogh,
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@dnalounge Nu metal? More like ye old metal

seldo, to random
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I am not a particularly thrifty person but I will wear a 50-cent bar of soap down to its last transparent sliver before starting a new one.

kellogh,
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@seldo shower gel? more like shower hell, amirite

lmorchard, to random

Trying out subscribing to a relay with my personal basement Mastodon instance. This may be a bad idea, but we'll see what happens!

kellogh,
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@lmorchard it would be cool to have a “crawler” that maps out how connected each instance is to the rest of the fediverse. Something visual

kellogh,
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@lmorchard how did it go? Those always seemed like a cool idea, but maybe not so much in practice, idk

Cmastication, to random
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I spent an hour trying to do a simple thing with Power BI. And basically it's learning a bunch of new terms that Microsoft just made up (query folding?!?! FML) while they ignore the data concepts of the last 20 years. And the hoops they jump through in order to obfuscate what's going on under the covers are astounding. I hate it. 1/10

kellogh,
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@Cmastication ah yes, the layer of indirection is called DirectQuery, that makes sense

kellogh, to random
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i've noticed that there's a lot of fruitful development around purely treating as black boxes and focusing on prompt engineering + the ReAct pattern. Simply forcing the LLM to draw out it's thoughts over more text increases it's accuracy, and if you also interleave that with input from the user or calls to external services, e.g. Google, you can achieve very interesting results

kellogh,
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@mnl oh, that's hot

kellogh,
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@mnl yeah, if we could get something on ChatGPT's level, but running locally, that would be 🔥

kellogh,
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@mnl how does vicuna compare to llama? i assumed they'd be pretty similar

kellogh,
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@mnl the new one from today?

kellogh,
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@mnl i originally assumed that the best answers would be in fine-tuning it. But the more I see, it doesn't actually buy you that much and it's really hard. Further, something clicked for me, when we teach kids more complex concepts like math, we also break the problems down, effectively creating a language problem out of a math problem, which is what's going on with Chain of Thoughts. My intuition is that there's a whole lot more we can squeeze out of this without improving the models

kellogh,
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@mnl so many. What do you want to know about?

The main thing is LangChain https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain

kellogh,
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@mnl have you had any success getting vicuna/llama to summarize text? maybe that's not what you're doing...

kellogh,
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@mnl have you played around with vector databases? might be too complex for you, but it's worth thinking about...

kellogh, to random
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i like working with the same people for years. then i can say weird shit and they're all like "ya that's just tim being tim". something comforting in being known...

kellogh,
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@jimfl basically 😂

Mmarie, to random

Happy to you!

Here is Rifle Falls in Colorado, USA.

kellogh,
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@Mmarie ah, probably

kellogh,
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@Mmarie is that the one you go by when driving on i70? it's been a while since i've been there

kellogh, to random
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i’m gonna start a political band and call it “rage against the current thing”

kellogh, to random
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i'm learning that ms teams actually has decent behavior, if you configure it correctly. it's hard to find the options and in some cases it requires recompiling. so, i guess microsoft has become linux

kellogh, to random
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Is mastodon.social the new Hawaii? Because damn that’s a lot of spam

kellogh, to random
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holy shit https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/

kellogh, to random
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The Whisper speech-to-text AI is suprisingly good. It skips right past the ummms and aaahs and gets a lot of words I thought for sure it wouldn’t

kellogh, to random
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I learned, against my will, what IBM is doing and all I can think is, “just call it a ‘layoff’ like normal companies instead of positioning it like you’re still relevant”

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