ramján

Warm hearths for heavy hearts.
ml backend infra, six stringer, (over)thinker

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@IndiGo6E I booked a regular adult ticket, but after payment, the confirmation page showed “Student Offer Applied on this Trip!” with a broken-image banner, despite never selecting it. This happened twice, and I had to contact support to verify my fare.
Please fix this bug!

[ramján @ramjankdl]

what if math is becoming more like an observational science, like astronomy, and ai is our galileo's telescope. it lets us look far, far away. we'd just have to make sense of what we see instead of exploring on our feet.

[ramján @ramjankdl]

70% off Levi's !!

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@_RobinRoy @adaitya__ 🤟

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@adaitya__ @_RobinRoy i could be doing something productive on my phone

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@omkharche_ photo toh daalnj thi na

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@_RobinRoy @omkharche_ im happy that you're happy thay he's happy about his cousin getting placed

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@S_P_S_4

[ramján @ramjankdl]

i kid you not, i just overheard someone literally bragging about 'orignal' first copy shoes lmao.

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@S_P_S_4 yeah he sure was a talker, that punekar guy.

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@Naina_2728 2

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@cortizweb how did you like to the lighthouse?

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@S_P_S_4 wow

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:

Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:

Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:

Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:

Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!

In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@_RobinRoy F1 too

[ramján @ramjankdl]

did anyone try dots?

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@generic_void the only god is the god of the gaps

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@omkharche_ damn

[ramján @ramjankdl]

@SammyTourani godspeed !