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by sfriedr 3y ago
Location: European Union Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Inside EU Technologies: LLMs -> Python Résumé/CV: On request Email: sfriedr_job3323@posteo.co ........................ I have two distinct graduate degrees, one in CS and one
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by sfriedr 3y ago
> Unless they have been shown to be relevant in any way, I don't see why the paper need cite them. Fair. Your argument then falls precisely into category (C) of the four mutually exclusive options I outlined above. But you'd th
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by sfriedr 3y ago
Not, but having a small section in the paper would be reasonable, that illustrates why the most pertinent models that might be relevant at first sight (like the ones I cited) are actually not applicable. The onus is on the authors to place
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by sfriedr 3y ago
I only spent a few minutes skimming thr paper, but: 1) there are a lot of papers claiming to be the successor to the Transformer, and not all of them are cited; e.g., the MetaFormer is missing https://arxiv.org/abs/211
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by sfriedr 3y ago
Of this is true, it would be something close of an insane situation: One of the largest datasets, that the largest companies are using to train their models (probably; many of the best LLMs have technical reports that raise more questions r
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by sfriedr 3y ago
Could you share more about copyright? For example, aren't you worried that now, with all kinds of lawsuits happening [1] and copyright issues that were found in existing datasets [2], that you might get threatening letters from a lawye
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by sfriedr 3y ago
Congratulation, great paper! It should have been put on HN earlier ;) I have a few questions: * you say (page 4): "We then perform standard instruction finetuning on the base LLaMA-7B model" Could you perhaps provide a reference t
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by sfriedr 3y ago
In February I published a paper on mathematics + ChatGPT ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13867 ) and my colleagues, who were also on LinkedIn, told me it garnered quite a bit of attention. So I signed up to LinkedIn on 3rd
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by sfriedr 3y ago
Location: Oxford, UK Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Depending on location (inside EU preferred, but willing to consider other options depending on the work) Technologies: LLMs, other Deep Learning models (e.g. Vision Transformer), p
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by sfriedr 4y ago
> OpenAI's chosen not to release any real details about GPT-4 Actually, they have release some details about it, in this 99-page technical report https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774 (which is actually two papers
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by sfriedr 4y ago
Indeed! This is the weirdest thing. How can it be that it depends on whether I click or copy to the browser whether it works?...
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by sfriedr 4y ago
Location: Oxford, UK Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Depending on location (inside EU preferred, but willing to consider other options depending on the work) Technologies: LLMs, other Deep Learning models (e.g. Vision Transformer), p
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by sfriedr 4y ago
> I thought of reaching for Mathematica but resorted to pencil and paper, like a barbarian. A very computer-science perspective with the obligatory dose of hubris. Pencil and paper is continuing to serve a much older, much more consolida
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by sfriedr 4y ago
A lot of facets of this power balance have been mentioned. Here's a new one (I think): Imagine busy CEO B that doesn't care about your time, that you need to pester with emails to get his attention. Now imagine thinking-along CE
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by sfriedr 4y ago
As we speak nature is serving us with a particulay nasty "decision" called climate change. No, we're still at the mercy but just on a different scale. Earlier it was the individual, now it is the population.
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by sfriedr 4y ago
I do wonder what it was specifically that you didn't like training NN's. At least when doing research on NN's, everything is very interesting, as many many aspects of them aren't well understood.
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by sfriedr 4y ago
That's not quite true, as there are overlaps. To name just one big topic: Pseudorandom number generators. Here you have a (number) theory, including things like finite fields, to generate and understand deterministic numeric sequences,
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by sfriedr 4y ago
The free/proprietary distinction is only irrelevant for small-ish projects, on the order of a few months, where "good" is a one-dimensional measure in terms of features the application has: The risk of the software maintainin
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by sfriedr 4y ago
So how do you manage your banking and tax issues without going insane? Is your company providing you with high-quality tax advisors that help you deal with this issue?
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by sfriedr 4y ago
Diversifying your banking lowers your risk or being locked out of an account, but increases the risk of data and identity theft somewhat, as various digital copies of your IDs and other data now reside on even more servers, creating a large
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by sfriedr 4y ago
Is the NI really a must in UK? I have heard of people working there that are working only for a few years in academia who don't have an NI - or at least so they claim.
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by sfriedr 4y ago
One year (one day actually) in a decade comes close to the very definition of a black swan event. :) And yes, people will opt for convenience, not rational behavior: In some cases, that black swan event will cost more than the cost of incon
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by sfriedr 4y ago
This. Tax laws are very complicated and the 6 months rule is more a rule of thumb than a "hard" rule. In practice, the tax authorities have a set of tests they perform, where the time spend in a country is just one item among many
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by sfriedr 4y ago
I happened to be in Austria, when this happened: https://orf-at.translate.goog/v2/stories/2204205/2204206/?_x... If you had a bank card from a certain big Austrian bank ("Erste Bank"), that da
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by sfriedr 4y ago
"Maslow's hierarchy of needs considering the wide picture of house prices, home ownership and the wider changes seen in UK society." What do you mean by that? I cannot immediately see how house prices and home ownership issue
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by sfriedr 4y ago
How can you skip (at least parts of) KYC requirements these days? To me it seems KYC gets ever more pervasive: I had opened a bank account 5 years ago in the EU/UK space and 4 years ago closed it again. Now I opened an account again at
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by sfriedr 4y ago
This comparison is misleading, because it is based on a wrong perspective of how research works: In programming, if everyone would "just" be good enough, everyone could the elusive 10x programmer. In research, even if everyone wou
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by sfriedr 4y ago
I work in theoretical machine learning and what I don't like about this piece is how casually the author assumes that what goes us to the present state (hacky approaches where you converge to something "good enough", unless t