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ML Engineer in healthcare

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Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last yr.

Washington DC is the hottest city in the country because it's the only one where people spend all day walking around a paved-over swamp in a wool suit

Dr. Kari L. Jordan@drkariljordan.carpentries.org · last yr.

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The Carpentries@carpentries.carpentries.org · last yr.

... we have had to rescind our proposal because it was flagged for DEI content, namely, for “the retention of underrepresented students, which has a limitation or preference in outreach, recruitment, participation that is not aligned to NSF priorities.”

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last yr.

Non-partisan AI supporter here I see plenty of absurd science fiction claims about things that AI cannot do all the time Sal Kahn's description of AI teaching assistants there feels doesn't feel unrealistic to me - I think you could build that with our 2025 era models

Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle@drdoylesays.bsky.social · last yr.

It is always such a bummer to hear otherwise smart people on smart podcasts breezily opine that “ADHD is overdiagnosed.” It is far, far, far (far) more common for ADHD to be missed or ignored, especially in girls & adults, than it is to be inappropriately diagnosed or treated.

ponder@ponder.ooo · last yr.

(looking at a hammer) what a horrible calculator (looking at a table saw) dogshit calculator (looking at a pencil) also a pretty unreliable calculator (looking at a kitchen knife) why the fuck would you even make this, nobody needs a calculator that might chop your thumb off

hortonhearsafoo@horton.hearsa.foo · last yr.

I was just saying at #PyConUS that I thought traditional metrics were underrated. I think we jumped to “do everything with LLM as a judge” too soon

Yapei Chang@yapeichang.bsky.social · last yr.

🤔 Can simple string-matching metrics like BLEU rival reward models for LLM alignment? 🔍 We show that given access to a reference, BLEU can match reward models in human preference agreement, and even train LLMs competitively with them using GRPO. 🫐 Introducing BLEUBERI:

Yapei Chang@yapeichang.bsky.social · last yr.

🤔 Can simple string-matching metrics like BLEU rival reward models for LLM alignment? 🔍 We show that given access to a reference, BLEU can match reward models in human preference agreement, and even train LLMs competitively with them using GRPO. 🫐 Introducing BLEUBERI:

hortonhearsafoo@horton.hearsa.foo · last yr.

I don’t know anyone working in tech who doesn’t have a story about having to go around official processes to get something done. Condition 1 from the OP holds in almost all cases. If you haven’t, I guess congrats on only working at perfect workplaces in your career? But it’s not a bad thing to do.

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · last yr.

The weak version of this — telling a story where you accomplished something by going outside official channels or processes — is often corrosive to leadership and is only a positive when 1) leadership is bad and needs to change; or 2) you are being invited into leadership with a change mandate

hortonhearsafoo@horton.hearsa.foo · last yr.

I think anti-AI people are pivoting to social shaming over using ChatGPT because they’re realizing they’ve already lost the battle of trying to convince people it’s totally useless.

hortonhearsafoo@horton.hearsa.foo · last yr.

I’m hosting an LLMOps open space at 11am tomorrow in Room 316, here’s my pitch: Do you have strong feelings about LangChain? Do you struggle to understand why Google provides two APIs to call the same Gemini models? Are you tired of hearing the word "agentic"? See you there! #PyConUS

hortonhearsafoo@horton.hearsa.foo · last yr.

I will claim it: I use GenAI at work to write code, documents, and emails, and even to spice up my Slack announcements with fun little emojis

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last yr.

okay, if you think gAI is a positive, that its "here to stay", and you're so proud of using gAI to write create art, claim it. Disclose when you use it to read, write, think, create. Have the integrity to publicly declare that you used gAI--its all the silence and secrecy that is so interesting.