Miguel Jaques

Co-founder & CEO at

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

Our dev @NorkusJuozas just casually dropped on our slack a short list of common ways in which tech companies frequently shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to technical choices, and I thought it was too good not to share and save for future reference:

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@thestonechat Oh no not the small startup that raised $105m in funding and is building a product that's identical to 10 other startups

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@deedydas a) has not been peer reviewed, so calling it "One of the most important papers in AI" is a wild exaggeration
b) lacks comparisons to the alternative closest architectures, such as other hierarchical recurrent models
c) lacks ablation studies
d) trains on the ARC _eval_ set

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@deedydas a) has not been peer reviewed, so calling it "One of the most important papers in AI" is a wild exaggeration
b) lacks comparisons to the alternative closest architectures, such as other hierarchical recurrent models
c) lacks ablation studies
d) trains on the ARC _eval_ set

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Ai Wei Wei was commissioned to reflect on Germany for Zeit Magazine, but they seemingly didn’t like his reflections and killed the article. He shared them:

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@eastdakota @ruimamede @uriklarman Fellow founder here. I have a guy that would be perfect for that role, Portuguese. DM me if keen.

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@ibalazevic @GoogleDeepMind That's mad

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@EHuizenga Awesome! We tried the model, and while it finetunes fine, it does not respect the JSON output setting, producing invalid JSONs that can't be decoded. This feature is quite important, any chance you can take a look?

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@EHuizenga @OfficialLoganK 👀

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

Built a prototype of a muni bond intelligence platform, where any question about specific bonds, aggregates or other insights can be queried and exported into automatically generated tables and charts.

Tons of possibilities here.

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@EHuizenga @OfficialLoganK Vertex AI

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@im_roy_lee Keep fighting the good fight then. Go after the AI interviewer systems next - had friends send me some and it's mental

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@simonw We exclusively use finetuned models to extract very specific fixed-income related fields from prospectuses under strict (and complex) schema definitions. We need hundreds of examples that involve multi-thousand context lengths, so prompting with examples is a lost cause.

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

Sometimes you just want to lookup a particular bond, quickly. So one of our engineers built a simple but useful CUSIP, ISIN and FIGI lookup tool. It borrows the data from the OpenFIGI database, but in a neater form factor.

https://t.co/dviN4tmqgl

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@OfficialLoganK Rivht now fineutuned models don't support/reliably output JSON.

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@OfficialLoganK Great stuff! Will finetuning be available soon, like with previous models?

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@databoy97 @KateClarkTweets @climate Because of raising that much at that low valuation, it means the pre-money valuation is tiny, which is essentially what investors consider the company is worth

[Miguel Jaques @migJaques]

@GoncaloAguiar Fonte: Arial 12