Patrick T. Hoffman

Product executive. Partner to @s_nargis_s Passions: connected cities, mobility, education & health. Bike rider, climber, painter.

[Patrick T. Hoffman @arcktip]

Whether you’re a PM or not, gaining the ability to hold different perspectives is a critical life skill. Learn to seek out different experiences and ways of solving for the same base needs (food, transport, housing, community, validation, etc.) that make us human.

[Patrick T. Hoffman @arcktip]

4 of 5 stars to The Iron Raven by Julie Kagawa https://t.co/CgSSGUc8Up

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5 of 5 stars to The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson https://t.co/xNsTkthyAd

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3 of 5 stars to Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper https://t.co/2pZHpmg61v

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4 of 5 stars to The Grey King by Susan Cooper https://t.co/ZRjOUTVm0Y

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5 of 5 stars to Greenwitch by Susan Cooper https://t.co/8sV0GBEEBG

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5 of 5 stars to The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper https://t.co/MCH232a2nh

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5 of 5 stars to Not All Superheroes Wear Capes by Quentin Kenihan https://t.co/LgLOGvJwjP

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5 of 5 stars to Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson https://t.co/RrxPxwArlY

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5 of 5 stars to Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham https://t.co/0l1liqUCaS

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5 of 5 stars to Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang https://t.co/r55emw1XsQ

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It’s been ~1 week since @shreyas course on PM career. While $$$$, it includes effective approaches & active cohort with similar goals. It’s not for everyone in PM.

Check it out if you’re later in your PM career & looking to unlock more growth.

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3 of 5 stars to The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio https://t.co/v4Vs2yLauZ

[David Harris @forbiddenvoid]

@dailydotdev @TwitterSpaces @OpenAI @OfficialLoganK @sherwinwu @nataliestaud Q: How do I get started as a developer building on top of the API? What should I know?
A: Keep in mind while building (especially startups), how to build a differentiated experience. Reality is everyone has access to the models, so how is what you're doing different?

[David Harris @forbiddenvoid]

@dailydotdev @TwitterSpaces @OpenAI @OfficialLoganK @sherwinwu @nataliestaud Q: What use cases have been unlocked with this new paradigm?
A: The focus on human conversation makes it useful in a lot of contexts:
* email
* notes
* repetitive writing tasks
* focus on creative tasks

Basic fact is conversational layer is super-intuitive. It's the UI for life.

[David Harris @forbiddenvoid]

@dailydotdev @TwitterSpaces @OpenAI @OfficialLoganK @sherwinwu @nataliestaud Q: Is @OpenAI building anything Open Source?
A: Can't talk about future, but we will be opening more things.

Very excited about whisper - open source transcription model. Super robust and even works with accents.

Also: CLIP, openai-cookbook, gpt-discord-bot

[Patrick T. Hoffman @arcktip]

@forbiddenvoid @dailydotdev @TwitterSpaces @OpenAI @OfficialLoganK @sherwinwu @nataliestaud Link to papers? Have tested French and Russian and found it worked well based on reviews by native speakers.

[Patrick T. Hoffman @arcktip]

@forbiddenvoid @dailydotdev @TwitterSpaces @OpenAI @OfficialLoganK @sherwinwu @nataliestaud Is 1 referring to manipulating the prompt so the form of the prompt submitted differs from what a user may have submitted? Any discussion of the cost for 2 and 3 given tuning likely carries a higher cost?

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Extracting value from LLMs is much more a product / interface question than a tech question. You have to find tasks where LLMs are applicable, and find a user interface for that task that achieves a good UX despite the low hit rate (e.g. Copilot is a great example).

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The gap between generating words and generating meaning will prove hard to close. Generating meaning requires *a model of the things being talked about* (language as communication), while generating words only requires a model of the structure of text (language as statistics)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Digital artist Luke Penry creates pristine textures and believable structures of fungi, florals and alien-looking plants that are completely made up, suspended between scientific documentation and his own imagination

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