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@jeremyphoward
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Thinking Matters: Benefits of Deliberate AI Decision Making
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It's been pretty bad without thinking for me, but pretty good with thinking.
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Horace AI Model DoRA Support Request
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So excited for this Horace! Any chance you might be able to support DoRA?
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AI Code Generation Fails to Improve Shipping Productivity
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The issue is that it's not increasing productivity on *shipping* by 2x — for most people I know I can see it's actually reducing productivity on that metric. The AI code doesn't fit within established software engineering practices and doesn't allow for an effective e2e process
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DoRA Optimization Technique Shows Better Results Potential
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IIUC they didn't use DoRA, so the results can be even better than shown here:
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Exponential Growth: Why Every Point Feels Unique and Special
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Exponentials are weird, in that at any given point on them, that point looks amazing and special and unique. f'(exp(x)) = exp(x)
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Decades of AI trajectory experience reshape future predictions
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This plot looked near-identical in shape when I finished my degree in 1996. Assuming that the future will be identical to the past would have been dumb (and most people around me back then made that assumption!) But we do have decades of experience with this trajectory now.
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ULMFiT Discriminative Fine Tuning in fastai v1
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In ULMFiT we called this discriminative fine tuning. It's been the default fine tuning method in fastai since v1. 😀
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Separate Database and App Servers from User Location
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Also your users are an often-underappreciated possible failure node. So put both db and app servers in places well separated from your users' location.
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Chris Returns to Coding After Raising $250M Funding
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Chris stopped coding for a few weeks to raise $250m, then straight back to coding!