Devender Babu

Generative AI Architect, Technologist, worked at some of the world's top Fortune 100 Multi-National Companies.

[Devender Babu @Devender_Babu]

I programmed today at Google Mountain View Campus self driving car day event, using AI Deep Learning. Engineers get to play with toys for a life time. 😀

[Louie Bacaj @LBacaj]

Look, I used to manage software engineers. I was always very conscious about over hiring because engineers cost a lot.

And now I am doing a lot of AI aided coding.

I can promise you I haven’t seen a single thing that tells me we won’t need software engineers in the future.

It’s the exact opposite.

These models are great at speeding up software engineering work, but they still
make a lot of mistakes. The moment the complexity of the code base reaches above a certain level, they fall apart without targeted guidance by someone who understands code.

You might say, “ok but if engineers can move faster, won’t we need less software engineers?” Maybe. But I really don’t think so because the amount of code out there is also about to explode.

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

Here's a link to the book: https://t.co/Yza99Z2Bl7
and a link to the code on GitHub: https://t.co/eutRuQbHv5

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

A good start to the new week: The highly requested Chapter 5 of my "Build an LLM from Scratch" book is finally available, "Pretraining an LLM on Unlabeled Data".

In the previous chapters, we implemented the data sampling and attention mechanism and coded the LLM architecture from scratch. The core focus of this chapter is to finally implement a training function and pretrain the LLM!

In particular, this chapter covers:
- Computing the training and validation set losses to assess the quality of LLM-generated text during training
- Implementing a training function and pretraining the LLM
- Saving and loading model weights to continue training an LLM
- Loading pretrained weights from OpenAI

Happy reading!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow, the stress of being President really changes them

[Vishagan @vishaganr]

Save your energy and use it on some productive tasks.💯
Initially, I never understood what people mean by energy?

Simple, Any activity you do outside your usual routine requires a significant amount of energy. If you spend time on unnecessary things that cause you stress, you’re wasting energy. Instead, focus on learning something new.

I read this book "Will Power: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength" and recommend it for greater understanding.

[𝗌𝗈𝗇𝗎 𝖽𝖺𝗌 ツ @hi_sonu_]

@TheVivekSinghal True, man. Arguing with people who don’t get it just drains you. Better to focus that energy on things that actually push you forward.

Not every battle is worth fighting.

[Vivek Singhal @TheVivekSinghal]

We cannot expect everyone to be as smart as we are; stop getting into argument unnecessarily.
Save your energy and use it on some productive tasks.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Some of the best life advice I received:

Reread your favorite books annually. You may read thousands of books in your life, but only a few will deeply change you. Reread them every single year. The book doesn't change, but the lens through which you experience it does.

[AGI House @agihouse_org]

The legendary Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg keynoting at our agent hackathon

[KRON4 News @kron4news]

A Caltrain struck a big rig on the tracks Monday in Burlingame, officials say. Here's what we know: https://t.co/v3bphDIRfM

[TiE Silicon Valley @tiesv]

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[Sanatan | 🕉️ तत् सत् @sanatan_]

If you care about justice and truth then why do you call my celebration of Ram Temple as "Hindu Triumphalism".
@singhsahana exposing Western media bias and their hate reporting. https://t.co/Z6tEBbcLWi

[Sahana Singh @singhsahana]

A whole generation of people is consuming news about India that is factually wrong and that goes against the principles of truth and justice. My piece in Medium. https://t.co/L0imr8BCD9

[Kenneth Lo 🚢 @kloventures]

The 1 Software Tool I Can’t Live Without For Building Slide Decks

Today, there is an app for just about anything (including finding someone to walk your ferret).

But when it comes to building slide decks without breaking a sweat, there is 1 app I can't live without:

@gammaapp

And here's why:

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1/ Create in few clicks.

You enter few keywords.

Sit back. Let AI make a gorgeous 1st draft in seconds.

You can further refine each element by AI (or bare hands).

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2/ Make your deck live on forever.

Embed dynamic visuals for lively illustrations.

Use GIFs, websites or Tweets to keep your audience engaged.

Tweets may become Xeets without notice. Best to be always prepared.

A sample deck of mine: https://t.co/0DLJE3R1o7

***

3/ Measure with Detailed Analytics.

Not only In-depth engagement metrics are available per viewer.

You can analyze actual time spent per page!

If your boss fell asleep on page 2, you'd better off do some tweaking.

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4/ Build Happily Together.

Have friends (or coworkers)?

With only a web browser, they can join the party real-time.

Nothing to download.

Even better, the whole party can swap comments and reactions within the app.

***

5/ Gamma Listens.

Gamma proactively solicits feedback.

After swapping tips on Lindsay Lohan GIFs with Gamma's CEO, he actually invited me to the Gambassdor Slack channel.

End-users, like you and me, get to rub shoulders with the product team 24x7.

Gamma's commitment to customer delightful is exemplary.

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TLDR;

If you present often, care about continuous improvements, or share workload with your team, I can't recommend using Gamma enough.

#generativeai #slidedeck #powerpoint

[Devender Babu @Devender_Babu]

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[XBOX @XBOX]

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[Devender Babu @Devender_Babu]

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[XBOX @XBOX]

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[Devender Babu @Devender_Babu]

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[Devender Babu @Devender_Babu]

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[Boris Epstein @bozonit]

@annbordetsky I recruit for early stage and they’ve all been laughing when asked if they’re taking time off during the holidays. They’re definitely hungry and hustling!