hmltn

Law-abiding citizen.

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

I am a white, cis-gendered male who identifies as a robot inside of a human body.

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

@lyllayounes I sent you an email and it would benefit me if you could confirm if you have received it. Thank you. 🙂

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

The Real Gold of Our Economy Is in Our Hands | Salvatore Cali | TED https://t.co/U0sEvZpHl4 via @YouTube

[near @nearcyan]

my saturday so far:

- used chatgpt to code python + devops
- used chatgpt to help me cook lunch
- used chatgpt + whisper to translate some anime
- used chatgpt to suggest chord modulations for a song
- used chatgpt + perplexity to do some bio research

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

This is honestly massive news. At least from the vantage of someone in the public, like me, Altman was probably the person who seemed most associated with the AI explosion of 2023.

Not implying whether or not I approve or disapprove. Just saying it feels very momentous.

[Sam Altman @sama]

i loved my time at openai. it was transformative for me personally, and hopefully the world a little bit. most of all i loved working with such talented people.

will have more to say about what’s next later.

🫡

[Jeremy Howard @jeremyphoward]

OK everyone's asking me for my take on the OpenAI stuff, so here it is. I have a strong feeling about what's going on, but no internal info so this is just me talking.

The first point to make is that the Dev Day was (IMO) an absolute embarrassment.

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

This man a genios

André 3000 - Ghandi, Dalai Lama, Your Lord & Savior J.C. / Bundy, Jeffre... https://t.co/JgD7g5S06P via @YouTube

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

https://t.co/CRqF5mar0r

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

Am currently partaking in a legally sanctioned meth-binge

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

Sometimes in life you gotta roll your sleeves up and suck a dick.

[thessaly blue @thessalyblue]

low-key one of the most spiritual quotes of all time

[Sulaiman Khan Ghori @sulaimanghori]

working on a new venture. the entire company is a markdown doc rn. i rep this approach

[hmltn @hmltn_2]

Insane
Playing Video Games With Mind Control https://t.co/px11pHVdyr via @YouTube

[Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan]

My new @Nature paper "Role Play with Large Language Models" was briefly behind a paywall. It's now free-to-read: https://t.co/3XHJ8pLaIc

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

You shouldn’t play 20 Questions with an LLM.

Why? Because LLM behavior less resembles a simulation of a person than a superposition of many such simulacra.

In @Nature, Shanahan, McDonell, and Reynolds eloquently illustrate what this means:

[Shannon Sands @max_paperclips]

So, I tried a test with the new GPTs, to see if the whole "it can generate a website from a single request" thing is accurate. I'd done a similar test a while back - define a VERY simple website using Go & HTML, HTMX with AlpineJS so it doesn't even need a React app or similar, Tailwind for styling and Phaser to see how far it can get with a simple game. Standard layout, content area with a header, sidebar and footer (hamburger on mobile)

Code Interpreter passed with flying colours. Couple of small things, but basically a solid start.

Now? That failed. It generated some templates & routes to load them - didn't actually connect up the main index.html to anything, forgot about styling entirely.

Going through and iterating over it & explicitly breaking out each goal was...ok, although there was stuff that it just wouldn't get.

So....I see these evals claiming it's better, I don't buy it. GPT-4 at the start of the year did this fine, as did code interpreter. It's literally just some static HTML served by a few routes.

What made it powerful was that you didn't need to do extensive prompt engineering or manage each step as much as 3.5. Looks like that's out the window

[anton @abacaj]

Not gonna lie this is such a nice combination right now for embeddings (cohere v3 and voyager vector search from spotify)

[LangChain @LangChain]

🎓A Complete Guide to Creating and Storing Vector Embeddings for PostgreSQL Data (using Python, @langchain and @TimescaleDB Vector)

This fantastic article by @avthar not only cover basic RAG concepts like chunking, embedding, etc - but also covers advanced topics like how to keep those embeddings up to date over time

Give it a weekend read: https://t.co/Sd1hIjzmAg

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀

We, as developers, like to learn new stuff and try it ASAP. That stuff is mostly some new frameworks and tools (such as React, Angular, Spring, Web Forms, ...). Yet, those frameworks usually have 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲, 𝟮 𝘁𝗼 𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁. Instead of learning frameworks, which are needed to some extent, we should focus more on learning fundamentals.

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 allows a developer to understand the underlying principles and concepts common across different frameworks and programming languages. This understanding allows for more flexibility and adaptability when working with new technologies or when faced with problems that may not be easily solved by a specific framework.

Additionally, a strong understanding of the fundamentals can lead to 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, as the developer can better understand how to customize and extend them to meet specific needs.

Take an example of a web application that allows users to upload and share images, e.g., Ruby on Rails, and its functionalities for image processing. If the number of users increases, we could struggle with performance issues if we know only the framework well. Yet, if we understand the fundamentals of web development, we could try to identify bottlenecks and try different solutions, such as using CDN-s, optimizing image sizes, using different storage solutions, etc.

So, which fundamentals to learn:

🔹 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀
🔹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀
🔹 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲
🔹 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀
🔹 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀
🔹 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
🔹 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻

Try to learn those fundamentals, buy and read these books:

🔸 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲
🔸 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿
🔸 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲
🔸 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀: 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁-𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲
🔸 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺𝘀

#softwareengineering

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I see the FT covered our paper. Here are many more details: https://t.co/MqXtAdn3bh