Adam Sears

Data scientist, physicist and programmer. Interests: AI/ML, SCOTUS, science, Chinese, TTS, RCV. ex: @yale, @caltech tbh I’m only active on ig: @tornadointexas

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

You’d think Junk Removal guys would be masters of Zen detachment, seeing everybody’s relief as their possessions were tossed by the truckload.

Mine was wistful when he saw poker chips that I’ve been hauling unused for 10y. Also, I’m glad the rubber chicken got one last gag tho

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@realEstateTrent did you go to them with data?

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@MeganTStevenson @RefineDotInk Look into “evals” — if you can quantitatively determine whether it’s done a good or bad job, you can adjust the skill or prompt to optimize performance. In certain cases there are ways of doing this without the extra labor

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@WillManidis weird that the only people who talk about bitcoin think it’s special because there are a finite amount of them

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@garybasin @bayeslord it will only get better

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@garybasin @bayeslord latest karpathy post for example

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@willcb “no fallbacks, no legacies”. put it in your https://t.co/Nfpdf54Z82 and add it again every time it disregards it

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@davidbessis when did it hit the arxiv?

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@cblatts How is most of your (and your employee's) time spent? Do you have any workflows public, say, in papers or on github? If you make more public, others may find it easy to help.

I always ask: what's the most tedious, time-consuming thing you wish you could delegate to an AI?

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@nickcammarata @deliprao the streets are humming

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@nickcammarata @deliprao the juxtaposition of this tweet and your rep for meditation inspired me:

Imagine a future world where we lean into meditation since thinking hard is no longer beneficial. A man finally leaves his house, steps into a car. Relief: an AI driver. He thinks humanity’s last thought

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

New in @NEJM: Pfizer's mRNA flu vaccine beat the standard flu shot in a phase 3 trial. 34.5% better. Statistically superior, not just noninferior.

The timing is brutal. 🧵
https://t.co/o0qUDcAUrK

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

tidbits from the alumni holiday party:
* The biggest thing in OB is still pre-term births; but anencephalic fetuses can go on and on so they think it's some interplay or chemical released by the fetal brain?
* there's a remake of Running Man out
* snowboarders complement skiers

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

Exactly who is risking life and liver foraging mushrooms just obtain negligible calories?

The best days for mushroom enthusiasts are surely still to come, when digital and/or chemical identification becomes fast and foolproof.

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

Will there be hunger in the future?

Had an interesting conversation last night. In the future the world will be 10x, 100x richer, will our basic needs be cared for? Claim: there is no hunger presently in India, but greed will eat away at that achievement, so things will regress

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@zeta_globin Would you have had that arc at 4 without any Santa presents?

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

Some astounding resources out there for large scale AI

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

Long-form AI reading is back and we’ve just dropped the ultimate summer read.

Inspired by the likes of Stripe Press, we’re proud to announce the first book from HF Press: a carefully crafted, book-length PDF edition of the Ultra-Scale Playbook.

Over 200 dense pages to learn the fundamentals and advanced of:
- 5D parallelism (DP, TP, PP, EP, FSDP)
- ZeRO
- Flash Attention
- Compute/communication overlap and bottlenecks

All with accessible theory intros and 4,000+ scaling experiments.

Everything you need to know to train your own DeepSeek V3 or LLama 5 :)

Free to download with your HF PRO subscription ✨

Get it at: https://t.co/ngDkXPmdYf

[Thomas Wolf @Thom_Wolf]

Long-form AI reading is back and we’ve just dropped the ultimate summer read.

Inspired by the likes of Stripe Press, we’re proud to announce the first book from HF Press: a carefully crafted, book-length PDF edition of the Ultra-Scale Playbook.

Over 200 dense pages to learn the fundamentals and advanced of:
- 5D parallelism (DP, TP, PP, EP, FSDP)
- ZeRO
- Flash Attention
- Compute/communication overlap and bottlenecks

All with accessible theory intros and 4,000+ scaling experiments.

Everything you need to know to train your own DeepSeek V3 or LLama 5 :)

Free to download with your HF PRO subscription ✨

Get it at: https://t.co/ngDkXPmdYf

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@filosofocolina @hoodfarquaad Just checking, do you know the type of insulin? Wikipedia for example shows 5 insulin analogues

[Adam Sears @adamsears]

@willcb hypothesis: their linter limits checking on private functions, so they get an RL bonus