danbrooks

Props to Dario and Anthropic for taking a moral stand. A rarity in tech these days.

I got some emails like this from overseas developers looking to borrow my Linkedin to land a higher paying job.

Interesting - I've never had that experience. In my experience the most variable part is the amount of stock/bonus on top of base salary.

Yes. I pre-screen job postings to make sure that the compensation is workable before applying.

Could there be a criminal investigation? CSAM is a serious issue.

Built a web interface for Magic: the Gathering draft pick advice, trained on top player data.

Website: https://statisticaldrafting.com

Turns out to be a small niche, but I enjoy it!

I made a donation. Props to the PSF for standing up.

I've heard (second-hand) that bots were instrumental in the decline of online poker popularity.

Academic hiring has taken a big hit with the uncertainty and decline in federal funding.

Surprisingly, this site is blocked under the "religion" category by my Fortune 50 employer. :)

I worked with a team that did this for the Facebook app.

https://engineering.fb.com/2018/05/02/developer-tools/sapien...

This can happen if the prompt or response is blocked by a safety filter. Check some of the other fields in the response.

As a data scientist, this mirrors my experience. Prompt engineering is surprisingly important for getting expected output - and use LLM POCs have quick turnaround times.

Building a Magic: the Gathering draft assistant trained on historical data.

Produces a pick order that shifts as the draft progresses.

Have a browser runnable colab notebook for 20+ sets.

https://github.com/danieljbrooks/statistical-drafting

Welcome Tom!

Sorry to hear about all that you are going through.

Looking at your profile - it appears as though you've worked extensively in technology in the past - and are reporting a cash crunch currently.

First order of business seems to be securing a place to live. Could be a friends couch or a room to rent.

Longer term, resuming employment in the tech industry seems to be a good path to financial security.

A couple of questions - is there a timeline for the inheritance money arriving? Will that enable you to rent a place to live? Do you plan on working concurrently with going back to school?

Again - sorry for all that you're going through - although it sounds like you have developed a positive attitude.

Continual learning & keeping up with current trends as part of professional growth.

Working in ML my primary role is using new advances like LLMs to solve business problems.

It is incredible though, how quickly new tools and approaches turn over.

Sorry to hear that. Consider consulting a lawyer to see what your options are.

Looks like image search using CLIP embeddings with frames sampled from video at a low frame rate.

Breaking in can be tricky - but getting a position as an entry level developer sets you up on the software engineering/coding trajectory.

When I was younger, I used to enjoy competition and climbing leaderboards. Now, parenting always comes first. Reaching the top 5% is possible for most people with sustained effort. Many participants aren't dedicated to reaching the top of the leaderboard.

Super interesting that drafts can be represented with LLMs.

The best performing draft AI's I've seen leverage representation learning in some form.

See: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.04438.pdf

Small changes in initial state can lead to huge changes down the line. See: the butterfly effect or chaos theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

Love the style, looks fun!

Encouraging evidence that the recent work on room temperature superconductivity might be real!

Still waiting for confirmation from multiple labs.

Is this surprising? LLMs are trained to produce likely word/tokens in a dataset. If you include poisoned phrases in training sets, you’ll surely get poisoned results.

Is this comment GPT generated (following the description in meghan_rain's bio)?

I wouldn't say big tech was "trounced" by OpenAI. Advances in LLMs are driven by the research community. OpenAI is a small, well-resourced organization with the sole purpose of quickly deploying and hyping state of the art AI models. Big tech naturally has a slower product development cycle - and will make full use of LLMs in due time.

The N queens puzzle is a well known mathematical problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle

I’m 5 years out from a tough last year of a PhD program. Married with kids now.

It gets better. Power through the final stretch.