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Sil Hamilton

@srhm_ca

I work with language models / grad student @Cornell, previously @McGill, talks @cs50, @ComputerHistory

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Super excited to announce I'll be keynoting this October at #MediaParty 2023 in Buenos Aires in my role as researcher-in-residence at Hacks/Hackers—looking forward to talking media & AI with people from across Latin America! mediaparty.org/home-en

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I'm quoted in this month's WIRED! In @vauhinivara's great piece on AI co-writing, wherein she argues GPT-3.5 has "the witless efficiency of a stapler." I agree. For LLMs, words are concepts, and concepts are words—RLHF is linguistic relativity in action. wired.com/story/confessi…

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Such a great two days here at the Kennedy Space Center. Thank you CommHIT for hosting the conference—and a big thank you to Jarone Lee, MD MPH & Health Tech Without Borders for inviting me to talk about language models.

Such a great two days here at the Kennedy Space Center. Thank you <a href="/CommHIT/">CommHIT</a> for hosting the conference—and a big thank you to <a href="/JaroneLeeMD/">Jarone Lee, MD MPH</a> &amp; <a href="/HealthTechWB/">Health Tech Without Borders</a> for inviting me to talk about language models.
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Enjoying folks’ creative #journalism & #AI projects at #MediaParty 2023 in Buenos Aires. LLMs are malleable! Great for hackathons—so many untapped use cases.

Enjoying folks’ creative #journalism &amp; #AI projects at #MediaParty 2023 in Buenos Aires. LLMs are malleable! Great for hackathons—so many untapped use cases.
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Threw together a small website on Sunday: it lets you run semantic searches on documents embedded in the browser, privately. Try it out! srhm-ca.github.io/docplot/

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DocPlot now supports .pdf and .docx files—I found it surprisingly simple to extract text from them. x.com/srhm_ca/status…

DocPlot now supports .pdf and .docx files—I found it surprisingly simple to extract text from them. x.com/srhm_ca/status…
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Here in Lithuania to give a talk on North American newsroom policies vis a vis AI—it'll be interesting to get the European perspective! Will report back with what I've learned...

Here in Lithuania to give a talk on North American newsroom policies vis a vis AI—it'll be interesting to get the European perspective! Will report back with what I've learned...
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And I’m on my way back to Canada! Lithuania is lovely, and I learned EU media might be less hostile to AI than I’d expect. Write-up forthcoming…

And I’m on my way back to Canada! Lithuania is lovely, and I learned EU media might be less hostile to AI than I’d expect. Write-up forthcoming…
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Ecstatic to announce I'll be doing a second course with Journalism Courses by Knight Center on #GenAI for journalists! Learn how to build and run useful agents on your laptop with Jupyter notebooks and LangChain—it starts in just a week! journalismcourses.org/course/generat…

Ecstatic to announce I'll be doing a second course with <a href="/JCourses/">Journalism Courses by Knight Center</a> on #GenAI for journalists! Learn how to build and run useful agents on your laptop with Jupyter notebooks and LangChain—it starts in just a week! journalismcourses.org/course/generat…
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My Journalism Courses by Knight Center class on building useful #genAI newsroom workflows with LangChain starts today—over 210 students! It'll be fun to see what people come up with. Registration is still open for another two weeks: journalismcourses.org/course/generat…

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AI needs journalism more than journalism needs AI: Computer History Museum has published my article (co-written with Jennifer 8. Lee) on open-source #AI with other great pieces by Google VP Richard Gingras, BIG LOCAL NEWS' Cheryl Phillips, and more! Read here: futureofnews.computerhistory.org/ai-needs-journ…

AI needs journalism more than journalism needs AI: <a href="/ComputerHistory/">Computer History Museum</a> has published my article (co-written with <a href="/jenny8lee/">Jennifer 8. Lee</a>) on open-source #AI with other great pieces by Google VP <a href="/richardgingras/">Richard Gingras</a>, <a href="/BigLocalNews/">BIG LOCAL NEWS</a>' Cheryl Phillips, and more! Read here: futureofnews.computerhistory.org/ai-needs-journ…
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Tim Dettmers of LLM.int8() fame on quantizing MoE systems. Hoping this means Q2_K will be more competitive! It'd be a blessing for my 32GB system. x.com/Tim_Dettmers/s…

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Happy new year! I've written a retrospective on early AI research to finish off the year: srhm.ca/revisiting_the… — writing it brought me to archive.org/details/bitsav… which has a treasure trove of early documents on AI research at MIT. Worth checking!

Happy new year! I've written a retrospective on early AI research to finish off the year: srhm.ca/revisiting_the… — writing it brought me to archive.org/details/bitsav… which has a treasure trove of early documents on AI research at MIT. Worth checking!
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If you're interested in applying language models to cultural domains this is a great program - highly recommended! x.com/_akpiper/statu…