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Is this hackathon only for those with formal math backgrounds?

I've seen a few instances of AI assisted advances math and cs this year that were _not_ published by authors with formal backgrounds in those fields (or even institutional affiliation). Which makes me wonder if they would have a place at the event.

Having recently watched Train Dreams it feels like the transition of logging by hand to logging with industrial machinery.

There’s a bit of a middle ground where the user may say something like “tech articles from new site” which would require the agent to move around reading and aggregating information to return to the user. Is this the former or the latter?

When someone asks “are you a god?”, You say YES!

Is what these AI conversations sound like to me.

They can’t do super human performance like alpha go and the can’t think “system 2” that would be required for high stakes decisions.*

Room to grow.

*observations from the recent karpathy llm talk.

For a surprising general purpose local chat experience: OpenHermes 2.5 - Mistral 7B

The current chat models will attempt to help you do that. Might be sufficient?

It’s often two staged.

First drop hints in hopes the other party will catch on.

If that fails and you really want or still need it - you ask.

I would have thought that were the reason but Meshuggah comes up at the end.

A surprising omission of Dream Theater.

Great post - thank you.

What directions can you head in AI Eng these days if you _dont_ want big tech?

This discussion feels very meta. In the sense that Twitter is the "bad" person, and we are the actors contributing our individual outrage induced take.

Why are we so compelled to participate?