ML/DS/PhD/Semi-domesticated philosopher Ogni parte ad ogni parte splende. jjd.io
Mercer Island, WA
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More hacking with general models on OpenAI. One of the common flaws for language models is that they won't be able to handle simple tasks such as counting letters in a word.
Folks always sneer dismissively whenever life gives them lemons, and I always think to myself that we actually crossbred the fruit ourselves using bitter oranges and citron so it's kind of our own fault, really.
The fact that the service fails on one of the last beautiful sunny days in Seattle doesn't give me much hope that they'll keep things running in the middle of a hurricane. Thank goodness for coffeehouse wifi.
Interesting bit on how data auditing pipelines and workflows helped some of the cycling teams during the recent Olympics.
Did you see @TeamGB win gold at the @Paris2024 Olympics? Tune in to ep. 19 of Generationship with @stefkrawczyk to hear how the British cycling team uses the @hamilton_os framework to help with velodrome telemetry analysis. bit.ly/3MyfNnn
So happy to see Burr trending on Github! Finally we're getting some first class agent workflow frameworks! It's happening!
github.com/dagworks-inc/burr
Better be willing to pay with every dream that you deferred. If the vehicle should swerve, learn to lean into the curve
People have an egocentric view of success and failure. They totally ignore the importance of relationships. Relationships cause bias, but they also amplify one's own strength and abilities in ways that appear intrinsic and personal.
Affordable housing designed by Costco would probably be better than it had any right to be.
Why does the "Costco Prison" exist, and why is it designed the way it is?
As often is the case, the answer is regulatory arbitrage!
Costco wanted to build a store in Central/South LA.
The problem is, new massive big-box stores are hard to get approved in LA. They're subject to discretionary approvals, site plan review, and have to go through CEQA.
Costco was facing years of public hearings, millions of dollars of consultant fees, and an uncertain outcome.
However, mixed-use housing projects that meet certain criteria are automatically exempt from discretionary reviews by state law (AB 2011).
So Costco did what any good Scooby-Doo villain would do. They put on a mask that says "I'm an apartment building, not a big-box store." (I'm really stretching with this metaphor).
But now they faced some new problems.
To get the full protection of state housing laws (HAA), mixed-use buildings must be at least 2/3 residential. The Costco itself is 185,000 square feet. So they needed at least 370,000 sq ft of residential.
(They ended up with 471,000 sq ft of residential plus an additional 56,000 sq ft of amenity space)
But for a project that big, to qualify for AB 2011, you need to not only pay prevailing wages, but use "skilled and trained" (aka union) labor.
"luckily", union labor requirements only apply to on-site construction. So to lower the amount of on-site labor needed, Costco turned to pre-fab building modules.
Pre-fab modules need to fit on trucks, which results in mostly small shotgun-style one-bedroom units.
And that's how you end up with a Costco housing project that resembles a prison!
Sure you may have gotten a PhD, started a company, got married and had a wonderful child, but let me ask you... have you ever gotten a critical slope pin pile retaining wall project approved through the Mercer Island City Planning Committee? That, my friends, is the true test.
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I don't know who this is but yay what an endorsement for our @DagWorks #burr project!!
Whole thread here teddit.net/r/LocalLLaMA/s/Ta…
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The new interpretability paper from Anthropic is totally based. Feels like analyzing an alien life form.
If you only read one 90-min-read paper today, it has to be this one
transformer-circuits.pub/202…
Living in Seattle means going from being whiny about not having enough sun to being whiny about too much sun on the same 15 minute drive home. You're going to have your favorite brand of : fog lights, sunglasses, semi-legal Chinese high powered flash lights, and sun tan lotion.