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Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, I also wonder about this! Progress from children books to scientific papers etc. Could it learn e.g. language structure faster in a pre-training stage? Also somehow one needs to define a proxy to generalization to compute a loss and do backpropagation.
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Comment · 1 year ago
It's nice to see Claude.md! I checked out the commits to see which files you wrote in which order (readme/claude) to learn how to use Claude Code. Can you share something on that?
Comment · 1 year ago
Great to see this from a public institution here! Can you share evals and the tech report? On Huggingface it leads to a 404 for me.
Comment · 1 year ago
May I ask what part in M&A needs this much data processing? I am quite familiar with the field but did not yet see such tasks.
Comment · 1 year ago
Zurich IT market died after COVID. Not sure about other hubs.
Comment · 2 years ago
To get some experience launching webapps that can be put into the play store and play around with image generation models, prompting, I am building an app to generate application/corporate photos from a few non-professional selfies.

Tech stack is probably FastAPI (I mainly know python) and likely nuxt/ionic (none/not much experience). Not sure how the whole hosting, interaction with replicate/huggingface will work on phone apps, payments on stripe without having a company, how to make the webapp into a phone app, etc. It should be a great learning project with the first time scoring an actual sale! Happy to hear early guidance if people have done similar things with python backgrounds to get started.

Comment · 2 years ago
TIL there is 'vimtutor'. I barely new the basics for quickly creating a file and inserting stuff. Will have a look if there is something to learn there, thanks for the pointer.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Hi all I wrote this "blog" Google colab notebook for friends and family who have little technical know-how or do not yet have an understanding of language models. It's based on nanoGPT (a minimal GPT implementation from Andrej Karpathy, ex-OpenAI - not sure whether there is a need to state this here). However, I rewrote the code from scratch, made it more explicit, and have lots of textual information such that everyone should be able to follow what is happening when, and train their own little GPT :) Hope it helps some people and let me know if you have any questions/feedback.

Tl;dr: Blog about how LLMs work & train a mini model without prior knowledge.

Comment · 2 years ago
Just from a qualitative perspective, i.e., personal experience/discussions.
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting but also scary to go this route. I think part of the problem in Europe is also that companies/governments are less open to just try out new (startup) solutions. I would love to be learn from US startups how they manage to sell without much done already.
Comment · 2 years ago
Good idea, thanks! Generally we may need to add a short paragraph that no data is stored as this may not be clear.

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