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doing ML stuff at answer.ai / fast.ai 🇯🇵-based 🇫🇷man
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I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

submitted 132 days ago • 19 comments

I wonder if some kind of model could fill this in...

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you @bsky.app team for correcting the mistake. Glad to be back!

submitted 153 days ago • 39 comments

people on this platform will take your words out of context, twist, not mention your correction, because they just want to hate on what you work on, and insult you comfortably. I'll keep posting here about my work but will not be interacting with anyone who wants to bash on my company.

submitted 153 days ago • 5 comments

i exclusively consent to my tweets being used for training neural networks. if you are not a neural network, stop reading this immediately

submitted 154 days ago • 17 comments

This might sound obvious, but bullying and threatening people doing perfectly legal things because you morally don't agree with them is wrong. People stifling any serious discussion by doing this, albeit for another set of morals, is actually the exact reason that made a lot of people migrate here.

submitted 154 days ago • 1 comment

Some days I really like this place, and then there are others in which there's a level of puritanical fervour that permeates a lot of public discourse that I find off-putting. Some of the over the top hateful responses wouldn't be out of place in the Hellsite.

submitted 154 days ago • 4 comments

We should make sure that only really big companies can afford to pay really big copyright holders to access the data needed to do stuff with AI, and keep everyone else out. Wouldn’t that be just super?

submitted 154 days ago • 6 comments

I'm disheartened by how toxic and violent some responses were here. There was a mistake, a quick follow up to mitigate and an apology. I worked with Daniel for years and is one of the persons most preoccupied with ethical implications of AI. Some replies are Reddit-toxic level. We need empathy.

submitted 154 days ago • 29 comments

I'm a TA for the new fast.ai course which starts in less than 30 minutes, and which sold out in <48 hours. It's so cool to see it all coming together

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

OLMo 2 is out 🥳 7B and 13B trained on 5T tokens, and meticulousy instruction tuned using Tulu 3 recipe. Simply the best fully open models yet. Really proud of the work & the amazing team at @ai2.bsky.social

submitted 155 days ago • 9 comments

I noticed a lot of starter packs skewed towards faculty/industry, so I made one of just NLP & ML students: go.bsky.app/vju2ux Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!

submitted 158 days ago • 102 comments

Creating a 🦋 starter pack for people working in IR/RAG: go.bsky.app/88ULgwY I can’t seem to find everyone though, help definitely appreciated to fill this out (DM or comment)!

submitted 158 days ago • 32 comments

Here is a list of ML OSS & Open Source / Science enthusiasts I found on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/8MFcfXd Let me know if you find such people here! I'm still new here and probably the list misses many must-add people, so let's built it together💪

submitted 161 days ago • 41 comments

Mat is not on 🦋—posting on his behalf! It's time to revisit common assumptions in IR! Embeddings have improved drastically, but mainstream IR evals have stagnated since MSMARCO + BEIR. We ask: on private or tricky IR tasks, are rerankers better? Surely, reranking many docs is best?

submitted 161 days ago • 4 comments

It amuses me to think that there’s someone out there convinced “the other app” is Threads and is sitting there like

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

If you're an NLP researcher and haven't made it into either Starter Pack yet, please let me know! We're over halfway full at this point 😧 go.bsky.app/JgneRQk

submitted 163 days ago • 40 comments

Me: not yet fully used to mentally mapping the Yen so copy-pasting a subscription amount to get a conversion from Google's advanced AI parsing Google: don't worry fam I know exactly the unit you're looking for

submitted 164 days ago • 1 comment

Me: not yet fully used to mentally mapping the Yen so copy-pasting a subscription amount to get a conversion from Google's advanced AI parsing Google: don't worry fam I know exactly the unit you're looking for

submitted 164 days ago • 1 comment

New here? Interested in AI/ML? Check out these great starter packs! AI: go.bsky.app/SipA7it RL: go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg Women in AI: go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg NLP: go.bsky.app/SngwGeS AI and news: go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS You can also search all starter packs here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

submitted 172 days ago • 68 comments

I made this starter pack for AI dataset folk: go.bsky.app/JxqKW4Q Let me know if you want in!

submitted 165 days ago • 5 comments