Imagine being Facebook and building both pytorch and React and then…
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Taxonomy of Integration: Unbundling Data Movement, Reverse ETL, and Automations
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a taxonomy of integration would be useful at this point. people use the word like monolithic blob but needs to be unbundled to be tractable. eg: data movement – @airbytehq (heheh)
"reverse" ETL – census/hightouch
effectful automations – zapier, windmill, inngest & friends
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Sourcegraph vs GitHub: A Live Case Study of Big Tech Competition
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Sourcegraph vs GitHub is one of the most interesting case studies in the “what if $BIGCO builds you?” genre no need for hypotheticals, this is playing out live right now. Love how @sqs
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Larry and Sergey Return to Work, Google Launches Bard LaMDA
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Larry and Sergey are back and work, and Google is deploying LaMDA, now called Bard:https://t.co/JokUJQY4pc pic.twitter.com/xCnjpVnOzk
— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 6 février 2023Larry and Sergey are back and work, and Google is deploying LaMDA, now called Bard:
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Why We Keep Retweeting Blatant Lies About AI
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Why do we keep retweeting blatant lies about AI? https://
lspace.swyx.io/p/ok-foomer – Most people believe GPT 4 has 100 trillion parameters despite @sama denial
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Waiting for the right moment: predictive timing in tech discourse
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when i was doing the writeup about why "generative ai" is the wrong focus, I hunted and hunted for a @sama tweet but didn't find anything. turns out i just needed to wait 2 months
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Complete Comparison of Code Assistants: Copilot, Tabnine, Ghostwriter, Codeium
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Love this comprehensive comparison from @_anshulr on Copilot vs Tabnine vs Ghostwriter vs @codeiumdev https://codeium.com/blog/code-assistant-comparison-copilot-tabnine-ghostwriter-codeium 3 axes of comparison: Features/Price, Latency, Quality.
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Training Models for Specific Music Styles Using RLHF-Inspired Approaches
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oh i mean split-to-analyse-progress not split-into-different-products, that would be horrible haha i think the insight for pop styles maybe similar to RLHF PPO. instead of generating a bunch of music and seeing what sticks, train models that reflects a style you want & set loose
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Music Generation Needs Specialization Like DAW Components
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“music generation” is too broad. need to split various jobs of audio out like a DAW would (someone could prob draw an unbundling chart from that) background music generation is essentially now solved. then voice synth, then melodies. feel like pop SHOULD be tractable bc formulaic
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Few Shot Learning Illustrated Guide and Examples
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Few shot learning, illustrated pic.twitter.com/q0E4Ev9zTx
— swyx 🐣 (@swyx) 28 janvier 2023Few shot learning, illustrated