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On: The Open Source AI Definition RC1 Is Available for...

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also see https://gradientflow.com/open-source-principles-in-foundatio...

On: The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants th...

[datascientist]

Alignment is hard: "If the LLM has finite probability of exhibiting negative behavior, there exists a prompt for which the LLM will exhibit negative behavior with probability 1." Source: Fundamental Limitations of Alignment in LLMs https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11082

On: Laion-5B: A new era of open large-scale multi-moda...

[datascientist]

Creators of the data quality tool for computer vision, fastdup, continue to improve on their free release https://github.com/visual-layer/fastdup

Here's a short video of some recent results for LAION 400M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlRCm29Upu4

On: Airflow's Problem

[datascientist]

Recent perspectives from the creators of Prefect, Dagster, Flyte, and Orchest => https://gradientflow.com/summer-of-orchestation/

[claytonjy → datascientist]

Seems to be missing Temporal/Cadence, which I'm very excited about, but I've never heard of Flyte or Orchest.

On: Comprehensive Guide on Data Visualization with Pan...

[datascientist]

If you need to scale out or speedup pandas, there's Modin https://modin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (which uses Ray from)

On: Neural Networks, Manifolds, and Topology (2014)

[datascientist]

Gunnar Carlsson will be teaching a related tutorial ("Using topological data analysis to understand, build, and improve neural networks") on April 16th in New York City https://conferences.oreilly.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-n...

On: Building an AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras

[datascientist]

RISE Lab's Ray platform (now includes RLlib) is another option https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/introducing-rllib-a-composable...

On: PyTorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in P...

[datascientist]

Chainer's Define-by-run apporach is also described here https://www.oreilly.com/learning/complex-neural-networks-mad...

On: Ask HN: What's the state of the job market in data...

[datascientist]

A few months ago Mikio Braun wrote a great post on this topic (the need for data scientists with strong software development skills) https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/what-is-hardcore-data-science-...

On: Gigaom Closes Down

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