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kellogh

@kellogh@hachyderm.io

I'm a software engineer and sometimes manager. Currently #Raleigh but also #Seattle. Building ML platform for a healthcare startup. Previously, built an IoT platform for one of "those" companies.

Open source: dura, fossil, Jump-Location, Moq.AutoMock, others

Do I have other interests? No, but I do have kids and they have interests. I think that counts for something. I can braid hair and hunt unicorns!

I put the #rust in frustrate

He/Him

#metal #science #python

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kellogh, to LLMs
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one thing i love about #LLMs is asking it “how tf do i do X” and it responds with 5 ideas, four of which are terrible but one is far better than anything i’d thought of. or their all terrible but one makes me realize i’ve been thinking about the problem wrong

kellogh,
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also, #LLMs cause me to think a lot about the multifaceted nature of intelligence. we used to over-weight language skill, but now that LLMs have that in spades, it’s apparent that there’s more going on

for example, spontaneity. if it had an ounce of sponteity, it could suggest approaching the problem differently

adron, to random
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Talked to some Americans yesterday that are still of the mindset that the reason every nation on Russia's border is because of "western" influence.

Yeah, no shit, why would any nation want to be like Russia, that'd be batshit insane. But oddly, they didn't mean it that way.

But also oddly, they were able to admit there's zero advantage to being aligned with Russia vs. the western world.

The juxtaposition of that thought just boggles my mind. I don't get it, and reasoning is atrocious.

kellogh,
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@adron right? the countries that border us want to be exactly like us! 😂

Cmastication, to random
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I just spent a couple of days with https://www.perplexity.ai and it amazes me that this startup has done what Google, with unlimited funds, has failed to do. Perplexity is good. Really good. And I'm trying to figure out how to jettison Google and default everything to Perplexity. I'm pleased to spend a few bucks a month to make search useful. But even the free version is better than Google.

kellogh,
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@Cmastication how is the paid version compared to free?

kellogh,
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@Cmastication ah, i was hoping i could use you as a probe, oh well

kellogh, to python
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goodness! no GIL, incremental garbage collection, and a JIT? all in one release? 3.13 is starting to feel like a real language! https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html

lzg, to random
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there's a layer of corporate people who are interested in virtual presence in meetings, because for them meetings are not about information or problem solving, but about signaling and self-presentation. being seen at the meeting is much more important than the content. also, seeing their underlings at a meeting gives them some sense of power as well. their problem to solve is "how can I be more visible at all times"

kellogh,
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@lzg it’s threads like this that make me wonder if i’m autistic

kellogh, to random
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i’ve seen a lot in my career, but until now, i’ve never seen religious fervor like there is against AI. there’s a lot of religion around AI in most directions, but crypto had that too

what’s crazy about this phase is that if people took time to understand what accelationists see, they wouldn’t come to the same conclusions, and we’d have far more interesting and productive conversations about it

but instead we’re caught in tired arguments about “it’s just linear algebra”

futurebird, to random
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I've largely dismissed the strain of AI alarmism based on the notion the a computer will be so smart that the danger it poses to humanity is outsmarting us.

There are real dangers in AI, most of them relate to people using these technologies in improper ways due to having a poor understanding of what they really are... and most important the exploitation & degradation of the human body of knowledge creativity represented by publicly available digital information. 1/

kellogh,
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@dnavinci the hypothesis is that performance increases predictably with increases in data size, model size and compute. it’s held since 2020, and hallucinations have decreased at a predictable rate

if i’m not an expert (i never claimed to be, so you’re right), why are you demanding to see my credentials? that makes zero sense outside simply being an asshole

annmlipton, to random
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Always be closing

kellogh,
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@annmlipton @andrew having talked to a few people about this, the charges actually were unclear — if you consume Fox News. speak it into existence, i guess

carnage4life, to random
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GPUs are a scarce resource and if you run multiple companies that are all using AI then you’ll have to play favorites.

Matt Levine had a newsletter on the topic of Musk’s investors now having to guess which company he’ll focus on. Looks like Tesla lost this round.

kellogh,
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@tob @carnage4life i’m no expert, but i think there needs to be a more clear handoff of assets. especially since tesla is public, and not primarily owned by Musk, siphoning resources from Tesla is effectively stealing from investors

kellogh, to OpenAI
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anyone else seeing an outage? even perplexity is out for me

kellogh,
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yup, it's a thing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40575096

kellogh,
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, , and are all out. is this the uprising?

kellogh,
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@mercutio also llm works fine too (which also makes it easy to switch to another model completely in case the API stops working)

kellogh,
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exactly what you'd expect an AI to say

kellogh,
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@jimfl the media is being completely unfair https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/04/openai_chatgpt_outage/

Cmastication, to random
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Microsoft does so much so well these days. But this Microsoft Recall product is like watching a grown man carefully placing his hand in a door jamb and then repeatedly slamming the door on it. Obviously stupid from conception.

From: @SecurityWriter
https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

kellogh,
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@Cmastication @SecurityWriter I figure Apple wouldn't build a product like Recall because their entire business is built on consumer trust, whereas Microsoft sells to enterprises and it's actually very appealing to be able to spy on employees

kellogh,
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@williamgunn @Cmastication @SecurityWriter yeah, thus far they weren't subject to an ad business, so they've never had tension between privacy and business, but AI does change this.

i've heard news that they're partnering with OpenAI/Anthropic. So maybe they deal with it by not dealing with it. But I also see a lot of academic papers from them training new (small) models. So idk, but i do know they're not going to directly endanger consumer trust, that seems clear

norootcause, to random
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I’ve heard some people suggest that NVIDIA is the only one making money off of AI, but it’s just not true.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/305003/20240526/ai-now-generating-millions-revenue-small-caribbean-island.htm

kellogh,
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@norootcause squatting doesn’t happen only at the gym

dev, to random
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Me, to myself, at the estate sale: No, the place does NOT need an oversized harp

kellogh,
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@dev @dan @regehr @amytabb 😡

moorejh, to LLMs
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Our KRAGEN paper is out! This method combines LLMs & RAG with Graph of Thoughts for asking complex questions of a knowledge graph or any vector DB https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae353/7687047

kellogh,
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@moorejh that’s super cool. so it both uses an KG to ground it, but also outputs a graph for interpretability? how slow/expensive is it?

Lobrien, to ML

This is a very nice video on understanding attention in transformers https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/attention

kellogh,
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@Lobrien oh wow, i never could crack it before, i think i vaguely get it now

kellogh, to random
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“what tech stack do you prefer on side projects?”

i don’t even understand that question anymore. i used to care a lot, but now i’m like, “idk what’s the side project?”

definitely the path of least resistance mostly, but sometimes you just want to learn a new tech stack, so that

kellogh, to random
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my 3yo exhibits this thing i call stochastic walking, where her exact walking path is wholly unpredictable, except that (1) it’s always in my way and (2) if i step into her probabilistic path cloud, her actual path will definitely converge with mine with absolute certainty

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