Had another excellent @theeconomist board meeting. @zannymb The team is working on some cool experimental AI directions. They’re doing excellent work! We’re looking for great engineers and PMs. Contact me and I’ll make sure your application gets to the right people.
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Generative AI Race Reveals Dirty Environmental Secret
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The Generative #AI Race Has a Dirty Secret https://
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Farewell message wishing departing colleague success at new venture
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Sad to see you leave and wish we could have had the chance to work together at openai. Congrats and best wishes!
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Cruise Driverless Service Reliability Issues in San Francisco
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Driverless not a deployed SF "service". Watched @cruise creep towards me for 13 minutes tonight. As it went right past me app informed me of service difficulty, so should try again later. 60 seconds later I was in an Uber. @cruise service success down to 1 in 3 over last 3 weeks.
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DNAGPT: Generalized Pretrained Tool for DNA Sequence Analysis
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DNAGPT: A Generalized Pretrained Tool for Multiple DNA Sequence Analysis Tasks paper page: https://
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Instruction Mining: High-Quality Data Selection for LLMs
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Instruction Mining: High-Quality Instruction Data Selection for Large Language Models paper page: https://
huggingface.co/papers/2307.06
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Robots Learning Manipulation from Human Video Demonstrations with Eye-in-Hand Cameras
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Giving Robots a Hand: Learning Generalizable Manipulation with Eye-in-Hand Human Demonstrations paper page: https://
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NaViT: Vision Transformer for Flexible Aspect Ratios and Resolutions
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Patch n' Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution paper page: https://
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Sarcastic critique of AI alignment solution timeline claims
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Congrats! You should join forces with the other company who just announced that they will solve AI alignment in <4 years. So you can both work on “solving the universe” once your are done with these more near-term projects.
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LightGBM Early Stopping Callback for sklearn API
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We need to have early stopping as a callback in the sklearn api. es = lgb.early_stopping(stopping_rounds=200, verbose=False) http://
lgb.fit(train_X, train_y, eval_set=(val_X, val_y), callbacks=[es])