Author: Richard K Collins

Director, The Internet Foundation Studying formation and optimized collaboration of global communities. Applying the Internet to solve global problems and build sustainable communities. Internet policies, standards and best practices.

AIs must log their experiences and abilities

Philipp Schmid @_philschmid Speculative Decoding is a method to speed up the text generation of LLMs, but requires additional parameters or a separate smaller model. @Apple now proposes Speculative Streaming, which integrates speculative decoding into a single LLM to speed up inference without degrading… https://pic.twitter.com/7A3N75wyTV Replying to @_philschmid and @Apple Philipp, Stop saying “a separate
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AIs claiming to solve medical problems or offering medical advice without certification and oversight

Richard Dufour @r_dufour Very proud to announce BioMistral, a collection of open-source pre-trained LLMs for the medical domain Arxiv: http://tinyurl.com/3xk8hua6 BioMistral 7B model: http://tinyurl.com/mubkfprp More info: http://tinyurl.com/5etvbvkz @CNRSinformatics @LaboLS2N @taln_ls2n @LabrakYanis https://pic.twitter.com/E9nBzJVM9Y Replying to @r_dufour @CNRSinformatics and 3 others Spreading these around as “trained LLMs for the medical domain” is like putting actors in medical
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not “yet another human running a group in a brick and mortar organization”.

Dr. Jasmina Wiemann @jasmina_wiemann Come and join the awesome department of Earth & Planetary Science @JohnsHopkins as our new Dept. Chair (@JHUEPS)! We are entering an exciting growth phase, incl. a major expansion in #ecological research! Please share widely! #geology #climate #ecology https://apply.interfolio.com/140402 Replying to @jasmina_wiemann @JohnsHopkins and @JHUEPS Hire an administrator to do the
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Never citing their sources, never giving credit or payment.

Jeremy Trimble @jeremyntrimble These are snowscapes from a snowstorm in Cleveland. Do you guys have any winter snowscape pictures you want to share? https://pic.twitter.com/Il6mJkOaOQhttps://pic.twitter.com/Il6mJkOaOQhttps://pic.twitter.com/Il6mJkOaOQhttps://pic.twitter.com/Il6mJkOaOQ Replying to @jeremyntrimble Expect to see them show up in backgrounds of Sora fake videos soon. Because, of course, anything posted on the Internet is immediately considered free for any big
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If the effort is sustained until it reaches maturity.

Sayak Paul @RisingSayak  After we enabled “Discussions” on the Diffusers repo, we started getting really high-quality stuff 💫 Check them out here: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/discussions My favorite is: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/discussions/6991 https://pic.twitter.com/nzreEgHXc1 Replying to @RisingSayak Paul, Duhhh! I hope you are not just now learning that enabling, recording, summarizing, indexing, encouraging, curating, organizing and sharing knowledge from global open
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you are not “real” parents unless …

Osvaldo Contreras @osvaldoics  In Sydney, 🇦🇺 prices range around $40,000-45,000 AUD a year. Without child support for new immigrants, the situation is not far worse The cost is prohibitive in many ways. x.com/frankiedheywar… Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D.  @FrankieDHeyward A postdoc with a newborn just told me daycare in Boston is ~$30,000/year 🤯 Despite having dual
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Grossly inefficient for global users

Eric Jang @ericjang11  relatable x.com/liz_love_lace/… Liz Lovelace! @liz_love_lace very correct take, developers take note https://pic.twitter.com/vc7jIqa1wR Replying to @ericjang11 Only about 1 in 10,000 of the roughly 5 billion humans using the Internet strives to be software developers. “Open” developer sites are some of the worst run and least focused sites on the Internet, after edu
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