christopherbare

Software engineering | machine learning | NLP | data | health | life-science

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@karpathy I look forward to the plot of font family vs reasoning ability. Does comic sans produce boneheaded inferences?

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Why the internet sucks (and keeps getting worse)
https://t.co/uwjIBGNV5r

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Fired CDC Director Susan Monarez details RFK Jr.’s demands before she was fired
https://t.co/MifN7ANmBV

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America's excellence in higher education and scientific research is a huge advantage. Why are we letting the administration destroy that advantage?

https://t.co/DoEmBgfpYc

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@tsoding Ha! Remembering this for when I need it later: "arbitrary bullshit 'best practices'." Reminds me of one time when I failed a design review. I changed the words "global variables" to "application scoped variables" then resubmitted. It passed.

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Derek Lowe wrote “What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF” on the damage being done by the incoming administration to the US science apparatus.

https://t.co/3qUgzYsIMe

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Thanks to Professor Dawn Song @dawnsongtweets and Xinyun Chen @xinyun_chen_ of Google DeepMind for organizing the Berkeley LLM Agents course, an incredible online educational resource.

Course homepage: https://t.co/NrmQ0KCoiw

Highlights: https://t.co/WSGONEcr0z

[Dawn Song @dawnsongtweets]

🎉 Thrilled by the incredible enthusiasm for our LLM Agents MOOC—12K+ registered learners & 5K+ Discord members!
📣 Excited to launch today the LLM Agents MOOC Hackathon, open to all, with $200K+ in prizes & credits!
🔗 Sign up now: https://t.co/vDVJ0AF28a & join us virtually or in person @UCBerkeley!

Huge thanks to our sponsors:@OpenAI @GoogleAI @AMD @LambdaAPI @Intel @SierraPlatform @OrbyAI (and more to come)

🚀 Explore 5 exciting tracks:
1️⃣ Applications: Build cutting-edge LLM agents!
2️⃣ Benchmarks: Create innovative AI agent evaluation benchmarks!
3️⃣ Fundamentals: Strengthen core agent capabilities!
4️⃣ Safety: Address critical safety challenges in AI!
5️⃣ Decentralized & Multi-Agents: Push the boundaries of multi-agent systems!

Special thanks to my co-instructor @xinyun_chen_ @GoogleDeepMind & our amazing guest speakers for making this a great MOOC: @denny_zhou @GoogleDeepMind; @PercyLiang @Stanford; @8enmann @AnthropicAI; @ShunyuYao12 @OpenAI; @chi_wang_ @GoogleDeepMind; @jerryjliu0 @llama_index; @lateinteraction @Databricks; @gneubig @CarnegieMellon; @NicolasChapados @ServiceNow; @tydsh @AIatMeta; @drjimfan @NVIDIA; Burak Gokturk @Google

Join us to shape the future of LLM Agents! https://t.co/hbU2jzkRKQ 🤖✨ #AI #Hackathon #LLMAgents #UCberkeley

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Welcome to all my new followers. I hope you enjoy my posts about coding, data science, machine learning, and jazz.

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@goodside The high note on the word "above" is a nice touch.

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We are back in Seattle for a few weeks during July. If anyone wants to get together, shoot me a message.

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...which is awesome.

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Back in the day, the priesthood lost its monopoly on the written word to the printing press and the Protestant movement.

Technology is often called a priesthood. It occurs to me that the advent of AI with natural language fluency means we're about to lose our monopoly on code.

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"History has repeatedly demonstrated that control over information is central to who has power and what they can do with it."

https://t.co/hDKjqJeb0F

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Capabilities of GPT-4 on Medical Challenge Problems
https://t.co/N50TzY8z7z

Apparently, it passed the USMLE.

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Ted Chiang says, “ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web”.

Of all the hot-takes going around about AI, this one is worth reading.

https://t.co/yU6HPC0pVR

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Twitter going down the shitter?

These kids might have the answer: https://t.co/dH0IPZP5aI

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The American Cancer Society's Breast Cancer Facts & Figures 2022-2024 is a great resource on the statistics, risk factors, detection, and treatment of breast cancer.

https://t.co/uocDetOcJi

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@Chanders Citizenship

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"Expert Software Developers' Approach to Error" by Marian Petre (Strange Loop 2022)

https://t.co/pAiVamRwrx

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