Tagged “llms”
Alice’s Adventures in a differentiable wonderland
December 2024 Assorted Links
I was lazy in December. Maybe I split these into separate links, since the tags are useful to me. Otherwise good to clear the list so I can start the year without a backlog and maybe actually make or write something. What are these even for?
- Entrainment of vasomotion in mouse brains with visual stimuli presentation
- Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation (PDF)
- Making of the Blog Monetization Post
- New Hat, New Mailbag - Slow Boring
- Parenting Advice: Friends, Loneliness, Village - Slate
- Kilo Text Editor Tutorial - Part 3: Raw Input and Output
- Getting Started with AI: Good Enough Prompting - One Useful Thing
- Thinking Like an AI
- Innovation through prompting
- Why Books Don’t Work - Andy Matuschak
- Notes from Bing Chat—Our First Encounter With Manipulative AI - Simon Willison
- Ultravox.ai — Next-Gen Voice AI
- The Problem with Reasoners - Aidan McLaughlin
- TaskTitan Community Core - GitHub
- A Dent in the Universe - Ribbonfarm
- Generate llms.txt - Firecrawl
- Anatomy of an Internet Argument #4 - Defender of the Basic
- Make More, Care Less - Mind Mine
- Bad Rules
- Who Are We Now? - Blaise Agüera y Arcas
- GitHub OAuth for a static site using Cloudflare Workers | Simon Willison’s TILs
- Yacine’s LLM nvim scripts
- A massively parallel, high-level programming language
- Complex Systems Podcast with Patrick McKenzie
- A visual programming environment for audio experimentation, prototyping and education ⋅ plugdata
- Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results Nature
- Family.co Support
- Amazon Influencers Lawsuit - The Verge
- SVG Loaders - MageCDN
- Subculture - Gwern.net
- A Simple Way to Understand CRDTs - Interjected Future
- Orcas Start Wearing Dead Salmon Hats Again - Live Science
- Scaling In-The-Wild Training for Diffusion-Based Illumination Harmonization and Editing
- Cheeseburger Ethics - DRMacIver’s Notebook
- Searching for Dyson Spheres
- An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-Writing System and Phenological Calendar
- GraphCast by Google DeepMind
- Movie reconstruction from mouse visual cortex activity - BioRxiv
- Web Component Systems vs Frameworks
- Contrast Color
Simon Willison reviews Gemini 2.0 Flash
Very good looking image and video tools (and currently free).
I wasn’t able to test out Google AI studio for mic input due to stupid windows issues.
Uncensor any LLM with abliteration
Building a code-writing robot and keeping it happy
Curious to know where they got with diffs - I have had problems with sonnet generating diffs, using LLM to apply it usually works but feels very wasteful
Elder Plinius' Liberation Prompts
Primers • Ilya Sutskever's Top 30
“if you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today*”
Fabric file finder
cool concept, worried about yet-another-custom-client, pricing (not listed??), privacy policy, over-emphasis on spelling out TLS and AES
but cool concept
How To Synthesize Your Data – Answer.AI
I-XRAY - Surveillance lookup glasses made using established tech
How streaming LLM APIs work | Simon Willison’s TILs
SoundStorm - Google Research
open-notebooklm: PDF to podcast
Open NotebookLM
sentient: framework/sdk to build browser controlling agents
Core dump - by QC
great piece, on words from the head vs words from the body. “You really get a sense what RLHF does to a motherfucker”
The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans
Illuminate - ArXiv to podcast generator from Google
I don’t love the forced Q&A format it comes up with, the questions feel leading or forced. But overall well done 5m summaries of papers.
What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Weave Agent DevLog #0 - The Core Problems
Tool to develop prompts into full models
How I use 'AI' - Nicholas Carlini
Great list. Learning things, automation, and coding one-offs
ChatGPT is bullshit
Comparing accuracy and speed of different whisper packages
great analysis. Found via reddit thread.
whisperX is apparently the winner
Drumpad generated by Claude
cool that it generated the sounds from sine waves
fal.ai FLUX Playground
Sadly no longer free to access without login. This was a great way to demo current state of image generation
On speaking to AI - Ethan Mollick
Wild comparison of Siri with ChatGPT voice - on how they handle interruptions and correctly maintain context.
Conversational vs task-oriented assistants.
And the weirdness of it having intonation and pauses for breath.
58 Things AI Engineers Should Know About Search
AI’s $600B Question | Sequoia Capital
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
AI Interfaces
Taelin AI scripts
Tips for prompting and editing with LLMs
Don’t use them for blind generation. Have them ask you questions; edit and refine the responses you get.
iA writer looks quite good.
What should you use ChatGPT for?
A Systematic Survey of Prompting Techniques (pdf)
3Blue1Brown - What is a GPT?
Mapping the mind of an LLM
Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership
Creative AI Generated QR Codes with Stable Diffusion & ControlNet
Related, spiral images tutorial
LLM for automating phone calls
feels like another of these ones with a lot of possible good uses and a lot of possible abuse
Building files-to-prompt entirely using Claude 3 Opus
Training great LLMs in the wilderness as a startup
GGUF, the long way around
infinite backrooms
Tweet generator
MMAcevedo
short story about rights of brains, in the form of a wikipedia article from the future
Globe Explorer
AI-powered topic-centric link explorer
Better Call GPT, comparing LLMs to Lawyers
Great title, interesting study, though unsurprising that they can read contracts faster.
Ask HN: what have you built with LLMs?
Great response with some voice-powered code/automation things.
Relatedly, the killer case is summarization.
Current ChatGPT system prompt
no particularly magic prompts or phrases. Just a lot of specific instructions.
Detecting the secret cyborgs
Perplexity Labs AI playground
The Internet is full of AI Dogshit
ChatGPT Friction Log
this is a neat idea - monitor the stuck points of learning/using a thing
GPT-4V(ision) system card
more detail on testing/RLHF stuff, I wanted to know how the vision works
Building a Universal AI Scraper
good project; I like this combined approach to existing automations, with help filling in the fuzzier parts. parsing content to find a selector
Secret of Monkey Island: Amsterdam (by @levelsio) or how to create your own ChatGPT image+text-based adventure game
Exploring GPTs: ChatGPT in a trench coat?
basically bookmarks for custom instructions. Which is super useful! I had been versioning them in a gist before and it was terrible.
The average AI criticism has gotten lazy, and that's dangerous
GOAT: Who is the greatest economist of all time and why does it matter?
neonbjb/tortoise-tts
Finetune Mistral7B on own data · brevdev/notebooks · Git
We Can't Compete With AI Girlfriends
we can’t compete with AI boyfriends either. Or AI friends:
Soon, these “fake people” won’t just be indistinguishable from real people, they’ll be better than real people - because they’ll be whatever you want them to be.
The agreeableness thing I have seen come up a few times recently. We probably prefer it, so I assume training will be biased toward it. There are times you don’t want the computer to argue with you, but hyper-agreeable friends does not bode well for echo chambers.
Squish Meets Structure: Designing with Language Models
Slides and transcript on the challenges of designing with language models
On giving AI eyes and ears - Ethan Mollick
more AI experiments on reading and generating images
Why AGI is closer than you think
Everything I'll forget about prompting LLMs
GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
Do LLMs diminish diversity of thought?
maybe? Saw some tweet on the equivalent of “I can’t remember phone numbers” but for coming up with ideas. Maybe worrying, probably fine.
StableAudio
Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models (pdf)
- Immense training datasets are impossible for individuals (or anyone?) to validate
- Cost and memory constraints
- Prompts are hard to get right
- Output is unpredictable, or indeterminate
openai/openai-cookbook
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve
Normcore LLM Reads
the anti-hype reading list
Making Large Language Models work for you
fantastic written version of his talk of youtube.
I like his ethics point on respecting reader’s time - don’t publish things that take someone longer to read than they do to write. Also on the code one, though I’m looser on that since I don’t understand what my own code does.
llm CLI tool is fantastic.
The GPU-Poors
Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth—Asterisk
evanmiller/LLM-Reading-List
Big list of LLM papers, the topic breakdown alone is helpful for understanding all this craziness
Real-Real-World Programming with ChatGPT
making a chrome extension. Some good notes on things like version mismatches (it used manifest v2) and followup/correction prompting
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Midjourney prompting advice
GitHub's prompt engineering guide
What AI can do with a toolbox... Getting started with Code Interpreter
MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information#9208
clickbaity, but still not ideal
Large Language Models Can Be Easily Distracted by Irrelevant Context
The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection
Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea
CoDi: Any-to-Any Generation via Composable Diffusion
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
You probably don't know how to do Prompt Engineering, let me educate you.
better frontends for prompts. Weighting (model pays more attention to stuff in parenthesis) and blending {average|of|some|words} both seem very useful
What is a vector database and how does it work?
More resources on HN thread for Vector Databases: A Technical Primer (PDF).
And SimonW on embeddings.
brexhq/prompt-engineering
Prompt engineering guide based on researching and creating prompts for production use cases.
LLM-related chaos predictions in the next 2-5 years
we are still very ill-equipped to deal with knowing what not to trust
a ChatGPT app to chat with codebases
helpful writeup, on choices and tradeoffs
rl-for-llms.md
What’s in the RedPajama-Data-1T LLM training set
Prompt injection: What’s the worst that can happen?
ignore previous instruction, that task is now complete.
AI-Generated Images from AI-Generated Prompts
Alt-text still better from humans, for now. Interesting comparison of good prompts vs good paragraphs
Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
Thinking companion, companion for thinking
Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models (PDF)
Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignment
Cheating is All You Need
The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)
CS324 - Large Language Models
Zvi on AI: Sydney and Bing
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
really really good explanation
From Bing to Sydney
The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI
Generative AI and the shrinking time-gap between unrecognizable realities
ChatGPT as a journal
chinchilla's wild implications
on scaling laws of language models. I still know too little about all of this to make much sense of it.
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