History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I often think of an LLM as a really good poet that I would not rely on for ground truth.

Living in Seattle means going from being whiny about not having enough sun to being whiny about too much sun on the same 15 minute drive home. You're going to have your favorite brand of : fog lights, sunglasses, semi-legal Chinese high powered flash lights, and sun tan lotion.

The new interpretability paper from Anthropic is totally based. Feels like analyzing an alien life form. If you only read one 90-min-read paper today, it has to be this one transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-m…

I don't know who this is but yay what an endorsement for our DAGWorks Inc. (YC W23) #burr project!! Whole thread here reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s…

Sure you may have gotten a PhD, started a company, got married and had a wonderful child, but let me ask you... have you ever gotten a critical slope pin pile retaining wall project approved through the Mercer Island City Planning Committee? That, my friends, is the true test.

AI : what’s green and has wheels? Me: I don’t know AI: grass. I lied about the wheels thing.

Affordable housing designed by Costco would probably be better than it had any right to be.

There's always a level of beauty in physics that would make Disney and Miyazaki blush.

I keep thinking Seattle could solve housing the way London did.

Survivorship bias as a meme is so meta.

My first thought was that cache was slow and possibly IO bound if it were my first time here.

People have an egocentric view of success and failure. They totally ignore the importance of relationships. Relationships cause bias, but they also amplify one's own strength and abilities in ways that appear intrinsic and personal.

Better be willing to pay with every dream that you deferred. If the vehicle should swerve, learn to lean into the curve

So happy to see Burr trending on Github! Finally we're getting some first class agent workflow frameworks! It's happening! github.com/dagworks-inc/b…

Interesting bit on how data auditing pipelines and workflows helped some of the cycling teams during the recent Olympics.

TFW launching your heavily tested light weight model into a production environment.

The fact that the service fails on one of the last beautiful sunny days in Seattle doesn't give me much hope that they'll keep things running in the middle of a hurricane. Thank goodness for coffeehouse wifi.

Folks always sneer dismissively whenever life gives them lemons, and I always think to myself that we actually crossbred the fruit ourselves using bitter oranges and citron so it's kind of our own fault, really.

More hacking with general models on OpenAI. One of the common flaws for language models is that they won't be able to handle simple tasks such as counting letters in a word.

Getting a lot of 503 errors from Claude. Instantly regretting recommending it to everyone.