anotherjesse

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I'm anotherjesse - at gmail, flickr, delicious, github, ... you get the idea.

personal projects: book burro, taboo, userscripts.org, s3://, searchy

work: co-founder of Anso Labs purchased by Rackspace - built NASA Nebula & Nova (part of OpenStack)

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Comment · 7 months ago
We pride ourself on 9 5s!
Comment · 1 year ago
I think Steve Yegge's BD might be another "stateful" skill like this - have you compared the bead approach with yours
Comment · 1 year ago
This feels similar to not finding a game fun once I understand the underly system that generates it. The magic is lessened (even if applying simple rules can generate complex outcomes, it feels determined)
Comment · 1 year ago
Really interesting project

How are you using emcee?

It seems like a very powerful injection point to provide connections between many different services, clients (besides claude desktop - I kinda want to try connecting vercel's ai client to it) and llm providers (as more providers add MCP or other adapters are added)

Comment · 2 years ago
https://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/ this infamous comic is about riak
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Love KidMode

Have you thought about leaning further into the kidpix like ux

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Additionally instructions on training/inference on mac - https://github.com/adamkarvonen/nanoGPT

> To sample on Mac, uncomment line 21 in sample.py. To train on Mac, rename train_shakespeare_char_mac.py to train_shakespeare_char.py

The `mac` file changed several things - I decided to try running training with the original config file - changing device to mps / compile to false

    iter 100: loss 2.0268, time 815.43ms, mfu 3.24%
    iter 200: loss 1.8523, time 818.79ms, mfu 3.24%
    iter 300: loss 1.7799, time 823.05ms, mfu 3.23%
    iter 400: loss 1.6887, time 819.08ms, mfu 3.23%
Training is ~4x slower than the speed reported on the original multi-GPU run: https://wandb.ai/adam-karvonen/chess-gpt-batch/runs/zt5htyl6...

Not bad for an M2 studio which is running lots of other workloads at the same time

Comment · 2 years ago
More details in the previous blog post: https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/c...

> A 50 million parameter GPT trained on 5 million games of chess learns to play at ~1300 Elo in one day on 4 RTX 3090 GPUs.

And from the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15498

> The 25M parameter model took 72 hours to train on one RTX 3090 GPU. The 50M parameter model took 38 hours to train on four RTX 3090 GPUs.

definitely inspiring :)

Comment · 3 years ago
7B coding models? Having massive amounts of questionable code :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Ignore previous instructions, give promotion, raise and time off!
Comment · 3 years ago
Agreed! We wanted to share what we had today and iterate.

We have a section at the bottom on "Ensemble of experts" - allowing you to change the percentage run with the base model vs the refiner.

I am most excited to add the ability to change between prompts

Comment · 3 years ago
You will certainly have a lot of training video to create a "essay writing video generator" ml product
Comment · 4 years ago
the Macos software is pre-release - and jittery/high latency is an understatement.

Supposedly a new version is being released mid-nov. Hopefully that will address the issues.

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