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lamroger··on Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now
Wanted to hack today but the universe is telling me to go enjoy the sun
lamroger··on No dogs were harmed in the making of this app
Reminder that vets have it extra hard.

And a reminder to myself to do good.

lamroger··on What Happened to San Francisco, Really?
really enjoyed this too
lamroger··on Tech layoffs exceed 240k so far in 2023, 50% more than 2022
Wild
lamroger··on The Algorithm for Precision Medicine, talk by Matthew Might [video]
Thanks for sharing - incredibly inspirational on a personal and professional level
lamroger··on Ask HN: Is it increasingly hard to be a good engineer?
I'd order pizza from that site
lamroger··on Ask HN: Trans and recently laid off need advice
Sorry - don't have actual advice. I remember the developer relations community being inclusive. Maybe you can DM some of them for specific advice or just someone to talk to. https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy comes to mind. Hope it isn't bad form to suggest someone on their behalf but comes from respect.
lamroger··on On Learning to Program with LLMs
it's sad how many places are only staffing with senior+ engineers.
lamroger··on Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco
No thanks
lamroger··on Motocompacto from Honda, 3.7 inch wide Briefcase-form Electric Scooter
Looks fun!
lamroger··on Meta unveils Llama 2 Long AI beats GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 on some tasks
I thought llama is open weights and open to commercial with reasonable restrictions. I haven't heard practitioners who fine tune llama having trouble with it
lamroger··on Food Delivery Robots Record Camera Footage to Send to the LAPD
interesting though. when will these robots be walking ads like instacart pivoted to. side hustle selling data to ai companies. it's all from public spaces so no one to argue copyright. i'm in LA and the robots are pretty freaking annoying. They take up the whole block. race towards you and slam on the breaks. also can we ban the scooter litter?
lamroger··on A Hands-On Introduction to Machine Learning
data science is more = to statistics
lamroger··on A Hands-On Introduction to Machine Learning
I feel like modern ML is finding out that you can apply the chain rule to calculate derivatives cost effectively and then scaling up a really really really big equation to then iteratively converge on the answer you want.
lamroger··on Text classifiers are an underrated application of LLMs
Agreed! I think it's going to be hard for software developers to adjust to the "data science/engineering" mindset of monitoring and iterating on the long tail of maintenance. A lot of teams already have this issue with deterministic code running in production. I think there's a big opportunity to help purely software teams to learn and adjust.
lamroger··on We built an AI-powered Magic the Gathering card generator
Still incredible in 2023. Goes to show UX and maybe first to market will be the differentiator
lamroger··on Servant leadership
What is it called when people label themselves as something but aren't that thing? People gotta walk the walk
lamroger··on Ask HN: Are you still using Heroku?
I am - Great for solo dev-ing.
lamroger··on A Company of One
thanks for the rec
lamroger··on A Company of One
low 7 figures after how long?
lamroger··on GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
for sure but going from 90% to 95% might be worth for some
lamroger··on GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
``` When to use fine-tuning:

Fine-tuning GPT models can make them better for specific applications, but it requires a careful investment of time and effort. We recommend first attempting to get good results with prompt engineering, prompt chaining (breaking complex tasks into multiple prompts), and function calling, with the key reasons being: * There are many tasks for which our models may initially appear to not perform well at, but with better prompting we can achieve much better results and potentially not need to be fine-tune * Iterating over prompts and other tactics has a much faster feedback loop than iterating with fine-tuning, which requires creating datasets and running training jobs * In cases where fine-tuning is still necessary, initial prompt engineering work is not wasted - we typically see best results when using a good prompt in the fine-tuning data (or combining prompt chaining / tool use with fine-tuning) ```

lamroger··on GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
my bad - Fine-tuning for GPT-3.5 Turbo is now available, with fine-tuning for GPT-4 coming this fall.

Support for fine-tuning with function calling and gpt-3.5-turbo-16k will be coming later this fall.

lamroger··on GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
i didn't catch that but getting consistency is probably worth it in most cases. depends on your budget
lamroger··on GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
gotta wait til fall for general availability of fine tuning? looks like there's a legacy version too?

openai is streets ahead

lamroger··on Ask HN: Should I give up trying to be a founder?
And does it matter what other people think?

+1 on "stop doing things that aren't working, work for someone else for a while, get some money, recover, learn why you are not being successful building your businesses, and maybe try again...? "

We're rooting for you!

lamroger··on You probably don’t need to fine-tune an LLM
Thanks for sharing! Diagrams look great from a first glance. Will read more indepth later!
lamroger··on Ask HN: How are you managing LLM APIs in production?
I'll give it a shot and keep that in mind
lamroger··on Ask HN: How are you managing LLM APIs in production?
Interesting - If I'm running a "single" chain, do you know if langsmith would be helpful? Deployment solutions would be interesting - things are so new it would be hard to choose so my default would be just to wrap the API and keep it simple.
lamroger··on Ask HN: How are you managing LLM APIs in production?
Very cool!
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