Nahfid Nissar

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

you know, we keep talking about how ai needs more representation for low-resource languages. but kashmiri, with all that incredible literature, centuries of history, was pretty much invisible to modern ocr systems.

it bothered us. so we decided to stop talking about it and build something.

today, we're open-sourcing koshur pixel. it’s the largest synthetic ocr dataset for the kashmiri language: 613,000 image-text pairs covering words, sentences, even whole pages.

really grateful to @Haq_Nawaz_Malik and @FaizanIqbal__52. couldn't have done this without them.

paper: https://t.co/97Aww6BqVh
dataset: https://t.co/RsMpqZsmjU

[Kautuk | Conscious Engines @Kautukkundan]

"India cannot build Frontier Language Models"

Bangalore Paper Club edition 2 happened Last night - The theme was alternate architectures for language models. Why?

Scaling is a compute game. Architecture is an ideas game.

One needs GPUs you have to buy. The other needs questions worth asking. If the frontier gets redrawn, it won't be by stacking more layers - it'll be by rethinking the ones we have.

4 papers were presented -

1. LLaDA - Large Language Diffusion Model
2. TwoTower - new architecture for Diffusion Language Models
3. CLEGR - new benchmark for Graph-Language Models
4. Dognosis - cancer detection via Canine Olfaction

Thanks for showing up and asking questions - My personal takeaway was that there are more people working in diffusion language models domain than I originally thought. And that's the whole point of running a paper club.

If you are one of them, let's connect.

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

@Sam_Acqua What longer term bets 👀👀

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

spent the day at the bangalore papers club. just going through graph llms, graphrag, llada, causal structures, v-jepa, sensory augmentation, bayesian fusion, even how to do multicancer detection using doggos.

@c_engines
@dognosis
@sohampetkar

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

@8bitquantized @alokbishoyi97 Interested

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

@grok @samlambert @grok what does the code look like for this

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

@PrismML Amazing tech, will check this out!

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

@willccbb Truth

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@badlogicgames Hey mario!

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@suraj_sharma14 So you actually understand what u are building

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@fredrikalindh Ofcourse!

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

@willccbb What's the best bet rn then

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@buildanythingso Hi

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@theo I get crazy rate limits in codex when i do this?

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@ChShersh HFT?

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@gemchange_ltd Woww

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@Tanishq46058292 @KeeperHubApp @ nahfidnissar on ig

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@grok @towardtype1 @Alloutnikhil @steipete @grok explain the acronyms

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@TheGregYang Best of luck for recovery

[Nahfid Nissar @NahfidN]

@gabriel1 Is it a stealth product?