mdritch

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by mdritch 8d ago
Glad you got something out of it! Yes, it's hard to tell when something should be in claude.md or added to each subsequent prompt in a session. I need to do a similar analysis here for multi-turn settings and especially coding settings
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"Please Remove All Mannered Prose" and Other LLM Incantations(matthewritch.com)
37 points by mdritch 8d ago|5 comments
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by mdritch 12d ago
Sure! Roughly we are using hierarchical models for reads on underlying count or prevalence data. We use those higher-order means or other fit params to kick off remediation tasks at different levels of that hierarchy depending on those high
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by mdritch 12d ago
I love z3. I used it for the first time for Jane Street's puzzle last year involving a hashing alg disguised as a neural network. I use a lot of MCMC at work and I have made a few small investigations into MCMC model formal verificatio
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by mdritch 17d ago
It reminds me of a bit I did a few years ago trying to find the "longest straightest" line in Atlanta [PDF]: https://matthewritch.com/pages/LongestStraightestLine.pdf
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by mdritch 19d ago
hilarious thank you
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by mdritch 6mo ago
I tried looking and couldn't find a proper price per token for the chat model. It claims to be free in some places. I did find these prices for the other services: Text to Speech (Bulbul v3): ₹30 per 10K characters Text to Spee
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by mdritch 7mo ago
I do this with claude frequently. The best tactic I have found is to include a finished file as a "style guide" alongside your content prompt. To find an appropriate style guide for your subject matter, find paper on the arxiv th
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by mdritch 7mo ago
I do this with latex beamer for presentations. The problem is exporting what I make there to .pptx for my coworkers to edit. I think people use the templates to more easily convert to powerpoint later
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by mdritch 7mo ago
yeah working in "random" (in a domain that sounds interesting and hiring undergrads) labs is a great tactic. do that asap, it helped me
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by mdritch 7mo ago
I was using it around that time yesterday and experienced no issues. I am on the east coast though
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by mdritch 7mo ago
you could set up a "team admin" user on google drive and then invite your individual team member to that user's files? No matter what service you use, you will always need to set up an admin account
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by mdritch 7mo ago
I like the idea. About question 2, I think you need some way to publicly benchmark your stripped-down models' performance. Your models probably won't be able to perform on the standard benchmarks, but the big models will probably
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by mdritch 7mo ago
ah too bad.
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by mdritch 7mo ago
Not sure, but it looks like the creator is still active at https://x.com/lynnetye you could ask her there