Things I Learned - 21 Jan 2024
This week, I learned: When comparing Mistral with 4b quantization vs unquantized: 2 responses were significantly shorter and fairly different 1 was identical 1 was almost identical but shorter by a few words 1 was slightly longer and fairly different #PREDICTION As humans have more conversations with LLMs, they will replace video watching and interactive gaming with conversation based role play. New game genres will evolve Lilac is an LLM-based data curation tool. Use it to search by concept (e.g. PII, duplicates, etc.) and then drop/update the results. Lungs have a Hausdorff dimension of 2.97 – giving them one of the highest surface area to volume ratio. Brains are 2.8. Sierpinski Pyramid is exactly 2 – which is weird. To solid-paint twice the size, you need 4 times as much paint. How I write podcast. Tim Ferriss High bars are constraints. I set the strongest constraints against the scarcest resources. Like reputation Being a category of one is more defensible than a competitive advantage Content always beats presentation. When in doubt, push for more interesting content Regular publishing improves thinking To build a habit, do less than you think you can do. That makes it easier to build momentum on the habit and sustain during crunch times There is a lot of mediocrity in the world. If you’re doing something (in a winner take all ecosystem), be the best. Top lawyers are exceptional proofreaders. They are able to see what is unclair, and what is redundant, and what has loop holes very quickly. Forcing yourself to cut down from a thousand words to 200 to a paragraph to a sentence takes you through a phase transition where you discover something unexpected The more outrageous the question, the more likely it is to be useful in generating a new perspective Eleven-labs speech synthesis with voice cloning is at the uncanny valley. With two 5-minute samples, my voice sounds a fair bit like my voice but is very clearly not my voice. I find stability ~ 30%, similarity ~ 80% and style ~50% gives a reasonable outcome. But the default voices (e.g. Joseph, George, Charlie) are excellent. Practical AI podcast: AI predictions for AI by API is the norm today and will grow Just having AI is no longer a differentiator AI is part of life, not just work #TODO Explore quickdrop from Stability for Maruti #TODO Explore Codium VS Code plugin and Continue.dev Hybrid systems that combine stats, ML, DL and AI models will grow AGI and AutoGPT resurgence RAG will continue to be a focus GPT4 will be beaten by open source models. Special purpose models beat it already Self hosted and cloud hosted models will grow for security Small language models will grow Productivity will be enhanced rather than replaced Multi modal models will grow Cost efficiency will grow in focus GPT Builder help explains how the GPT Builder updates GPTs - including some very interesting prompts