Many-time bestselling author and prolific open-source R developer Hadley Wickham is our guest today. In it, we discuss Posit PBC's rebrand and why the Tidyverse needs to be in every data scientist's toolkit.

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Google announces Med-Gemini, a family of Gemini models fine-tuned for medical tasks! 🔬

Achieves SOTA on 10 of the 14 benchmarks, spanning text, multimodal & long-context applications.

Surpasses GPT-4 on all benchmarks!

This paper is super exciting, let's dive in ↓

It’s true. Signal is a better way to communicate, with everyone.

The US Alliance for Regulatory Capture.

This is a bit like Pan Am pushing bills in the 1950s to try to guarantee their monopoly on international travel.

The interests of the people sacrificed for the interests of the few.

Google, who massively benefits from Python, stops investing in its maintenance and improvement!? 😱

Is that true, Jeff Dean (@🏡)? How is that justified?
Digital commons, as OSS, work only if all pitch in, in particular the privileged.

I'm as excited as you are about your {lab, company, school}'s research, but perhaps rather than just hype, you can display a bit of scientific humility and tell me also what the challenges, gaps are.

we open sourced our chat interface.
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Data: Optimal initiation of #Paxlovid in hospitalized #COVID patients is 3 to 5 days

The findings suggest that the antiviral can prevent over 90% of viral replication if given at the optimal time, the authors say.

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BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements.

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes.

This is a game changer for American workers.

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Can’t overstate the importance of this. For a while I felt that the vibes were off in the tools that try to automate all of LLM pipeline dev (eg RAG hyperparams), but I couldn’t explain why. For LLMs, evals aren’t a fixed set of criteria & good and bad outputs

I'm so tired of being in rooms where people whisper about the absolute ARMY of Big Tech-funded people (most, but not all, ex-Googlers) that have popped up in nearly every corridor in DC where people are working on literally anything to do with AI. So let's talk about it! 1/12

Evals are arguably the hardest part of LLMOps. LLMs mess up, so we check them w/ other LLMs, but this feels icky. Who validates the validators??

We built an interface to align LLM-based evals with user preferences, learning a lot about why this is hard: arxiv.org/abs/2404.12272

Today at Answer.AI we've got something new for you: FSDP/QDoRA. We've tested it with AI at Meta Llama3 and the results blow away anything we've seen before.

I believe that this combination is likely to create better task-specific models than anything else at any cost. 🧵

i asked SARAH, the World Health Organization's new AI chatbot, for medical help near me, and it provided an entirely fabricated list of clinics/hospitals in SF. fake addresses, fake phone numbers.
check out Jessica Nix's take on SARAH here:
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg

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iOS open source chatbot!
Now my *mom* can, for the first time, see what I'm ethicsing on about.
This is a massive step forwards in terms of access.
Whether there's agreement that LLM-based chatbots are GOOD is another discussion, but it is undeniably a significant milestone.

This is insane. This woman’s health insurance company is using AI. And it’s denying her claim for her annual physical.

This is a very valuable resource for statistical knowledge! 📊

Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani interview authors of seminal papers in the field of Statistics: 📺👇

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