John Newton

Founder of Alfresco and Documentum. Tracking content, AI, ML, LLM, ECM, Open Source, tech, politics & economy.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@LightningAI any chance I can get priority verification for Lightning Studios?

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Let's compare DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI-o1 using RAG:

[Alex Volkov @altryne]

I take back EVERYTHING I said about other video models catching up to SORA even remotely.

Leaked video of SORA v2, showing 1 minute generations of txt2vid, img2vid, vid2vid, txt+vid2vid.

https://t.co/IFZrNHiGwy

Multiple scenes and just incredible character consistency.

p.s if this is coming as part of the $200/mo pro tier, OpenAI is about to see a LOT of new subs

[Gary Koepnick @garykoepnick]

Elon is still lying.

Just ask Grok.😂🤣😂

https://t.co/3KsaWTZH4A

[China in Pictures @tongbingxue]

A Life in Portraits:
Ye Jinglu, a Chinese who took a selfie every year from 1907 to 1968, for 62 years, compiled a chronicle of his personal odyssey from the Qing Empire through the Republican Period and extending well into the People's Republic of China.

🧵 1/63

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@SoumayaKeynes You should really read his paper before discussing. His definition of "hard" vs "easy" work is naive and pre-LLM. The paper hardly references any modern AI research (>2021). And everything is hidden behind maths that obscure bad data deriving bad results.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@archi_tradition Nara, Japan https://t.co/Hm49KHHx2j

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@oledoteth You have listed a few, but there were many more. The Wikipedia article is a good summary that the book could have used. A quick set of interactions with Claude or ChatGPT could probably generate more questions to test all the biases listed.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@oledoteth I don't recall Kahneman explicitly listing these questions. He may have listed them elsewhere or in interviews. Thinking Fast and Slow was an incredible book, but also very long. I was waiting at the end for some sort of guide to navigate the many human biases that we have.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@joncoopertweets Wasn't this moment the motivation to run from president? 4+ years of hell because of a few jokes.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@DavidSacks @hkanji You made a bad investment. Write it off.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@GeoRebekah Shapiro

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@vkhosla Please tell that to Marc and Ben!

[Bindu Reddy @bindureddy]

The Power of Prompt Engineering

Prompt engineering has evolved considerably over the last year. It's become a legit profession, with several real engineers specializing in the area and others writing research papers!

This is a good survey paper that outlines all the different types of prompt engineering (link in alt)

Prompting Strategies: Various prompting strategies are discussed, including but not limited to:

Chain of Thought (CoT)
Chain of Cause (CoC)
Program-Aided Language models (PAL)
Tree of Thoughts (ToT)
Least-to-Most
Self-Consistency
Analogical Reasoning

It's incredible how much you can do with an LLM if you understand these prompting strategies and apply them appropriately based on the suitable dataset and use-cases

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

Crowdstrike Analysis:

It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this stack trace dump for you.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@Noahpinion He has just created a lot of math to manipulate a lot of poor assumptions and data. Not a great tool to estimate economic growth or destruction from AI.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@Noahpinion Honestly, the last paragraph of his paper demonstrates how little he knows or understands the technology. Most of the paper references pre-LLM papers with a lot of hand waving on generative AI.

[John Newton @johnnewton]

@SkyNews @RishiSunak @Keir_Starmer @BethRigby For Gods Sake let someone finish a sentence!

[John Newton @johnnewton]

Whoever asks for slides in advance has never given a big presentation themselves or at least not a good one. If you are still working on it, it’s because you really want it to be good. Control freakery is not compatible with creativity.

[Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 @SashaMTL]

Nobody has their slides ready a week before! 🫠