Jonathan Sweeney

Economist searching for the data generating process.

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

A serious gem of an interview.

[TBPN @tbpn]

BREAKING: @KenBurns will join TBPN live today at 12:20p PT

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

And don’t let fear of not being qualified for a job dissuade you. Worst case is failure, and you’ll learn a ton about what skills you have and what skills you need!

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Real, non-trollish life advice:

If you're a smart young person and you really want to go to graduate school, then by all means go. But if you're on the fence, probably don't. That's not where the action is. And it's not where the action is going to be for the foreseeable future.

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

Chief Justice Roberts: AI won't replace lawyers, but legal research will become "unimaginable" without it He's right on both counts but this understates how radically the legal profession will be transformed. Lawyers have been insulated from disruption, but this isn't a healthy way for an industry or society to progress https://t.co/DaRz8fLuS6

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

The whole ethic of America, by contrast, is “live fast die young.”

Insane to let a country with these stats build civilian airplanes. We’re here to innovate not to get you home safely!

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

In this spirit...

Anyone got ideas of emerging/existing tools to sync your postgres metadata table with your vector DB metadata?

🥂 to bringing in 2024 with efficient data integration.

[ashe @ashebytes]

I know there are seismic movements in LLM world but

I’m craving more ORM complaints on here.

anyone else harboring serious love/hate of prisma? liberally running away with query_raw?

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

@langchain for the first time I've noticed a few hiccups in your development:
- Curious why no Mistral API support yet in python.
- Why balkanize Gemini in a separate package?

Gotta hand it to @llama_index their integrations with Mistral AI and Gemini were fast and intuitive.

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

@MistralAI super excited to connect Remidi to your api! Thanks for the access.

I’m loving the rise of Paris as an AI hub. I feel like the marriage between SF and Paris has been in the cards since the Enlightenment.

🌉❤️🇫🇷

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

From Google Applied AI Summit, most excited about Keras 3. Live that it’ll support JAX and PyTorch or the backend.

[Jerry Liu @jerryjliu0]

An early look at how the OpenAI Retrieval API works 👇

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Laws to ensure AI applications are safe, fair, and transparent are needed. But the White House's use of the Defense Production Act—typically reserved for war or national emergencies—distorts AI through the lens of security, for example with phrases like "companies developing any foundation model that poses a serious risk to national security."

Yes, AI -- like many technologies such as electricity and encryption -- is dual use in the sense it can be used for civilian or military purposes. But conflating AI safety for civilian use cases and military applications is a mistake.

It’s also a mistake to set reporting requirements based on a computation threshold for model training. This will stifle open source and innovation: (i) Today’s supercomputer is tomorrow’s pocket watch. So as AI progresses, more players -- including small companies without the compliance capabilities of big tech -- will run into this threshold. (ii) Over time, governments’ reporting requirements tend to become more burdensome. (Ask yourself: Has the tax code become more, or less, complicated over time?)

The right place to regulate AI is at the application layer. Requiring AI applications such as underwriting software, healthcare applications, self-driving, chat applications, etc. to meet stringent requirements, even pass audits, can ensure safety. But adding burdens to foundation model development unnecessarily slows down AI’s progress.

While the White House order isn’t currently stifling startups and open source, it seems to be a step in that direction. The devil will be in the details as its implementation gets fleshed out -- no doubt with assistance from lobbyists -- and I see a lot of risk of missteps. I welcome good regulation to promote responsible AI, and hope the White House can get there.

[Ajay Krishnan @ajaynomics]

Just watched an old @acquiredotcom interview with @justinkan and can't help but wonder if Atrium was just ahead of its time: would it have taken off in the GPT4 era?

[Fishtail @fishtailai]

Our very own @m_held joins host and innovation evangelist @TomRaftery on this week's Digital Supply Chain podcast. Tune in to deep-dive with them into Fishtail's data-backed tech and hear some customer success stories never shared, ever before! https://t.co/PJnaKUeCMg

[Fishtail @fishtailai]

Introducing our Fishtail Head of October 🎉. Once a month, we will give a sneak peak into the awesome team behind (or in front?) of Fishtail. Introducing @sweenejo !

Read below about Jon's favorite project he is working on here at Fishtail.

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

Catch rate composition affects assessment of protected area impacts https://t.co/g3joYEVPti

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Boris facing investigation. Trump facing impeachment. Bibi facing indictment. Not a good week for right wing wannabe strongmen.

[Jonathan Sweeney @sweenejo]

First trip to Germany for my sister's wedding. Staying in the lovely town of Luneburg.