Over the weekend, I added a GMail ChatLoader integration to @langchain
, to help anyone to finetune models on their emails I evaluated it the old fashioned way – the eyeball test Here's how it did responding to various types of inquiries (VC, customer, integration, @swyx
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Gmail ChatLoader Integration for Email Model Finetuning
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Daniel Dennett Interview on Knowledge and Consciousness in NYT
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A great interview with philosopher Daniel Dennett, friend of over 30 years, about what "knowledge" means, and how our souls are made from lots of tiny robots. And, as befitting Dan, it is the only mainstream media story I have seen with academic footnotes. https://
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23/08/27/magazine/daniel-dennett-interview.html
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The Coming Wave book receives first reviews calling author visionary
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Guardian Books reviewer calls me a 'utopian dreamer'… I'll take it! 🙂 The Coming Wave is out next week, and the first reviews have landed:
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AP Stylebook adds AI journalism guide for reporters
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As part of her fellowship in 2020, HAI affiliate @garanceburke led the development of a guide to help journalists cover AI and its impacts. It’s now published as a new chapter in the AP Stylebook. Check it out here: https://
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NCC Group’s Dissect Framework Accelerates Security Incident Response
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From Breach to Resilience: NCC Group's Dissect framework accelerates incident response. Discover how to harness data sources & advanced tools to navigate the 1st critical hrs of a security incident, ensuring a robust defense strategy https://
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Naming AI Tools: From ChatGPT to Advanced Data Analysis
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Naming things is hard, most people will just say “I used ChatGPT to do that”, and someone might ask “how?” You would say “with the new data analysis tool”, the advanced part just gets at the idea that this can likely do more than other tools you have tried.
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Podcast Embedding on X: 5x Video Views vs YouTube Performance
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First experiment with embedding a podcast episode within X, and the results are interesting after 24 hours:
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 28 août 2023
1. 5x the "video views" here on X than on YouTube
2. Lots of engagement, but not sure how much of that is the content vs. the format. We'll see on the next episode.
3.… https://t.co/by2Lzph23R pic.twitter.com/fTy3NHRskvFirst experiment with embedding a podcast episode within X, and the results are interesting after 24 hours: 1. 5x the "video views" here on X than on YouTube
2. Lots of engagement, but not sure how much of that is the content vs. the format. We'll see on the next episode.
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Enterprise Concerns About GPT-4 Control and Privacy
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If there’s an enterprise apprehensive around using GPT-4 it’s usually bc they don’t want to cede control to an API and want to keep things in-house. Idk if advanced privacy controls fixes that but guess I’ll have to talk to more customers abt it (If you are one please reach out!)
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Meta Publishes Research Paper on SeamlessM4T Translation Model
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In the interest of open science and sharing our research, we've published a paper outlining the work on our recently released SeamlessM4T all-in-one multilingual & multimodal translation model. Read the full paper https://
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OpenAI 32K Model Pricing Strategy and Rate Limiting Analysis
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They can talk about improved privacy and all that kind of stuff but end of day this is about performance/rate limiting. If there’s an unknown here I’m more curious about the cost of 32k bc it is VERY expensive. It was only a matter of time before they released a preferred system