yoavg

Some remarks on Large Language Models

Yoav Goldberg, January 2023

Audience: I assume you heard of chatGPT, maybe played with it a little, and was imressed by it (or tried very hard not to be). And that you also heard that it is "a large language model". And maybe that it "solved natural language understanding". Here is a short personal perspective of my thoughts of this (and similar) models, and where we stand with respect to language understanding.

Intro

Around 2014-2017, right within the rise of neural-network based methods for NLP, I was giving a semi-academic-semi-popsci lecture, revolving around the story that achieving perfect language modeling is equivalent to being as intelligent as a human. Somewhere around the same time I was also asked in an academic panel "what would you do if you were given infinite compute and no need to worry about labour costs" to which I cockily responded "I would train a really huge language model, just to show that it doesn't solve everything!". We

jjnilton

Disclaimer: I'm not the original author of this sheet, but can't recall where I found it. If you know the author, please let me know so I give the attribution.

The original author seems to be Charles Edge, here's the original content, as pointed out by @percisely.

Note: Since this seems to be helpful to some people, I formatted it to improve readability of the original. Also, note that this is from 2016, many things may have changed, and I don't use macOS anymore, so I probably can't help in case of questions, but maybe someone else can.

Mac Network Commands Cheat Sheet

After writing up the presentation for MacSysAdmin in Sweden, I decided to go ahead and throw these into a quick cheat sheet for anyone who’d like to have them all in one place. Good luck out there, and s

shekibobo

How to create custom button styles using Android's AppCompat-v7:21

Introduction

AppCompat is an Android support library to provide backwards-compatible functionality for Material design patterns. It currently comes bundled with a set of styles in the Theme.AppCompat and Widget.AppCompat namespaces. However, there is a critical component missing which I would have thought essential to provide the a default from which we could inherit our styles: Widget.AppCompat.Button. Sure, there's Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionButton, but that doesn't actually inherit from Widget.ActionButton, which does not inherit from Widget.Button, so we might get some unexpected behavior using that as our base button style, mainly because Widget.ActionButton strictly belongs in the ActionBar.

So, if we want to have a decently normal default button style related to AppCompat, we need to make it ourselves. Let's start by digging into the Android SDK to see how it's doing default styles.

Digging In

revolunet

var externalModules = [
    'fs',
    'events',
    'react',
    'react-addons',
    'lodash'
];

module.exports = {
    vendors: {

ilazarte

/**
 * Cycle detection function
 * Outputs count and grouped cycles with a from key path and to key path.
 * The executing browser should have console.group and .groupEnd functions.
 * 
 * Based on:
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14962018/detecting-and-fixing-circular-references-in-javascript/14962496#14962496
 * 
 * @param  {Object} obj Any js object
 * @return {void}     

ilazarte

;=> (let-map [i (range 5)] (inc i))
;(1 2 3 4 5)
;=> (def books '({:name "The Great Gatsby" :href "urlA"}
;                {:name "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" :href "urlB"}))
;=> (let-map [b books] [:li [:a {:href (:href b)} (:name b)]])
;([:li [:a {:href "urlA"} "The Great Gatsby"]] [:li [:a {:href "urlB"} "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"]])

(defmacro let-map
  [decl form]
  "Usage: (let-map [i (range 5)] (inc i))" 

Chouser

(ns n01se.externs-for-cljs
  (:require [clojure.java.io :as io]
            [cljs.compiler :as comp]
            [cljs.analyzer :as ana]))

(defn read-file [file]
  (let [eof (Object.)]
    (with-open [stream (clojure.lang.LineNumberingPushbackReader. (io/reader file))]
      (vec (take-while #(not= % eof)
                       (repeatedly #(read stream false eof)))))))

Unitech

/*
 * object.watch polyfill
 *
 * 2012-04-03
 *
 * By Eli Grey, http://eligrey.com
 * Public Domain.
 * NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
 */

CristinaSolana

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

eligrey

/*
 * object.watch polyfill
 *
 * 2012-04-03
 *
 * By Eli Grey, http://eligrey.com
 * Public Domain.
 * NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
 */