bramzijlstra.com
Machine Learning Engineer with a background in Philosophy and AI.
I live in Amsterdam. Right now working at the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KVK). Also founder of a boutique consulting firm.
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I barely post anymore here. The engagement is so low for the non-biggest channels, barely existing.
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Alignment is a two way street
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I think this a big part of it. Developers talk about their experience with GenAI coding, but we come from way different places. I do a lot of solo prototyping for work, a lot of my code is a conversation starter. In this stage llms make you. 2-3 times faster, but in later stages it's maybe 20-30%
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bsky.app/profile/bram...
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Housekeeper: "I no longer think people should clean their own apartments"
Uber Driver: "I no longer think people should own their own car"
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I'm 179.5 cm, the metric equivalent. It's the most trustworthy length, no one would lie about it.
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Have mixed feelings as well. One the one hand debugging while vibe coding is super frustrating. On the other hand, it has been amazing for throwaway demo's and prototypes. I can aim for things I wouldn't have the time for normally.
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Excel is one of the safest messaging technology out there. No message leaves your device and no risk of the other person leaking information.
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I like them, it's a good heuristic to not read any text around it
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I wrote my bachelor thesis on paradoxes in self-reference and I dit that. Felt obligated to that.
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You said 'use a mixture of experts' so I invited every stakeholder in the company to the meeting
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If I ask chatgpt for some advanced text processing tasks it will recommend contrived string manipulation instead of calling an llm. If I then ask it to use gpt it will use the openai library of an earlier major release
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That's fine, just run it several times and in parallel. No downsides
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If you would make a coffee table book of these I would buy it
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Haha so LLM labs tell us AGI is around the corner but we have to tell the LLM that they exist?
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Humanity's Actual Last Exam
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It's like going to a realtor and they suggest to live under a bridge
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I like my language models like my drinks, distilled to the point where it produces gibberish
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It’s like being a hoarder but also your diplomas, tax documents and passport are somewhere in the filth
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This sounds like a wholesome version of trainspotting
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Deep seek for value prop
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People have such binary brains and find it difficult to fathom that LLM's can be both super useful and unnecessary or useless.
It's like saying "electricity is useless, I don't need it for cutting vegetables"
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I’m fine with following, US news is world news. My biggest pet peeve is when Americans can only talk about other countries’ politics by relating it to the US. Don’t think I’ve seen a single mention of the South Korean martial law without immediately turning it into US politics
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I doubt that a lot of people remember dogfooding with chatbots. I love llms but I haven’t encountered any that I like to use, and I don’t think that the product leaders use them themselves
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It was a blast
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Ethan, you talk a lot about interesting use cases of text based llms, what are in your opinion the value of image generators? Besides the wow effect I don’t really found a lot of use for them
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No thanks, the bridge is open source and thus free. I've been driving over the bridge for a few days now. Curious to hear how my local weights act in the interest of the CCP