Dan Marcus

I'm a solicitor and software engineer, currently applying my skills in big law

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

All in all, a very mixed bag. For all the talk of Open AI cannibalising those building on top of their platform, there is still plenty of room for companies with domain knowledge to beat the general functionality Open AI is offering up. At least, until the next update!

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

I decided to give ChatGPT 4’s new document reading a little test with some regulatory querying. Here’s what I learnt (a 🧵)

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

If you give it the right information and closely track relevant wording in the regulation it does well and can even provide answers that require looking at two different sections (the definition of CASS medium firm isn’t close to the requirement to allocate a director to a CMAR)

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

…but don’t ask for the cross reference as it will give you the wrong one 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

Tell it to focus on that right track and it can give a good answer…

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

Give it a slightly harder question and it can give you an answer to another question, before giving you a hint of the real answer

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@mikeandallie If you need to find out the changes between the documents and have copies of both, I’d be happy to run a comparison for you. Just DM me

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

Here, in full directly on Twitter, is "A Hackers' Guide to Language Models". This 90 minute tutorial is designed to be the one place I point coders at when they ask "hey, tell me everything I need to know about LLMs!"

It covers both @OpenAI models and open source ones in depth.

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@oliver_twiste People who don’t want to shower for 3 days…

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@lawheroezV2 @legalytical It’s white-labelled, but I think it’s litera nder the hood. Knowing my firm they’re hosting it on internal servers, but it’s still better than running them locally!

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@lawheroezV2 @legalytical Another observation - my firm recently launched a cloud doc comparison tool. It is buggy in a way that requires some specific habits, but I can now compare 10+ docs direct from IManage simultaneously using cloud computing (faster, doesn’t kill my v limited RAM), so I will learn!

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@lawheroezV2 @legalytical I think the answer to this is inertia. MS Word gets away with this because it is the default. It takes a lot to move away from default behaviours, so “ease of use” becomes important to lower the burden

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@jkubicki Then still has to hit 2000 hours billable…

[Sara (Thundercats) Benwell @sarabenwell]

Lots of people talking about cost of nursery fees. We’re grappling with this at the moment.

There’s one nearby that cost £71 for a HALF day. Full time £113.60.

That’s £1,420 for 4wks half days £2,272 for 4wks full time.

Approx £18,460 part time annually. Or £29,536 full time

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@ZachAbramowitz Any examples?

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@alexgsmith I’d happily discuss search with you - I have no buying power though!

[Dan Marcus @ThisIsDanMarcus]

@alexgsmith I doubt biglaw would allow an integration like this to be turned on. To the extent it is sending it to a cloud hosted instance of GPT, the context would be too sensitive. Biglaw tech isn’t given a lot of credit, but they know the secret sauce is in the firm data…

[Tiago Forte @fortelabs]

Ok what

[Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_]

This chart is amazing. After the calamity of Trussonomics, expected BoE interest rates soon fell back.

Equivalent mortgage rates shot up like a rocket but have fallen like a feather

…leaving households still at the sharp end of the moron premium