JD asks for a lot of ML training experience but if you read the responsibilities its really about finetuning. agree there's a spectrum here. just excited that its being acknowledged that traditional MLE title doesnt cut it anymore
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Data Engineers: Specialized Software Developers with Distinct Language and Stack
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data engineer is also still working with software. but has specialized to such an extreme that they speak a different language and have an expected baseline stack familiarity very different than regular software eng. in future (arguably now) you should be able to talk to an ai
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Swyx Appeals to Elon Musk to Hire AI Engineers
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what does a technology brother gotta do to get @elonmusk to come hire AI Engineers at http://
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OpenAI’s New Role: API and Fine-tuning Engineering Leadership
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(we knew that this was already a title at OAI, and this is more training-heavy, but still the core skills of driving value w/ API, and finetuning/evaling makes it the most in-demand engineering job of the decade) excited for the OpenAI keynote this June
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Notification issues and in-memory vector database discussion
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btw i couldnt see either of u guys notifications until i happened to see this.. notifs are a bit broken right now i agree with yq, nothing new here, and i would just keep the vecdb in memory if we wanted to approach that way. just generally dislike calling out to a potentially
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Exploring the Latent Space of Agent Architectures
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more options are good to explore the latent space of agent archs 🙂
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Claude’s Million Token Context Enables 250+ Tool Support
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Underrated outcome of @AnthropicAI Claude having up to 1m token context length with ~perfect recall: Claude can now confidently handle >250 tools!! When OpenAI fn calling first came out I think it was @simonw who called out that we needed "deep" functions bc of the context
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Emergence in AI Models: Beyond Questionable Titles and Rigorous Evaluation
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the title of the post overreaches with the question mark as cop out . even the mirage paper acknowledges that some abilities do emerge even after a more rigorous rewrite of evals to be more linear. i dont think anybody seriously thinks emergence completely doesnt exist
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Assessing LLM Brain Damage: Rapid Evaluation Methods
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how do you assess brain damage of an llm this quickly?
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Suno is Just the Beginning of 2024 AI Music Revolution
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u would not believe what i just previewed today. suno is just the start of this year in ai music