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Father, Software Engineer, ML and data type. Long COVID since Dec 2021.

Berlin, Germany
Joined September 2009
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Calling it now: The $86B OpenAI tender will someday be seen as the WeWork moment of AI. 👉GPT-5 will either be significantly delayed or not meet expectations. 👉Companies will struggle to put GPT-4 and 5 into production (see below) 👉Competition will increase, margins will be thin 👉The profits won’t justify the valuation, esp after MSFT’s hefty cut is taken out.
I know I say it a lot, but using LLMs to build customer service bots with RAG access to your data is not the low-hanging fruit it seems to be. It is, in fact, right in the weak spot of current LLMs - you risk both hallucinations & data exfiltration. platformer.news/p/amazons-q-…
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Interested in multilingual vector search with #Elasticsearch? New blog post drop featuring @Microsoft's multilingual E5 embedding model. Have a read, run the notebook, und suche in deiner Sprache! 😉 search-labs.elastic.co/searc…
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I'll go on the record with perhaps another contrarian opinion: Lucene HNSW is the future and (pure) vector DB vendors are in trouble. Why?
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Our papers of #ACL2023NLP: On Second Thought, Let’s Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning @oshaikh13, @icefox1104, @WilliamBarrHeld, @msbernst, @Diyi_Yang oshaikh.com/papers/cot-bias Poster Tue 11:00-12:30 (Frontenac Ballroom and Queen’s Quay)
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The Problem With LangChain
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Search for meaning, not just words. Introducing the Elastic Learned Sparse Encoder, an AI model for high-relevance semantic search across domains. This model expands beyond the query terms, delivering superior search relevance. Learn more here: go.es.io/3q2RohQ
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🔢 Embeddings from @elastic Deploy your embedding models on Elastic and access them through LangChain 💪 Read more from Elastic on the integration: elastic.co/blog/privacy-firs…
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ME/CFS is a terrible illness that removes people from their own lives. For #WorldMEDay, please consider watching this short video on it. More and more people you know will be getting ME/CFS from COVID, and it means so much to be understood. youtube.com/watch?v=RC9TjgE_… 1/
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Just how good are commercially available embedding APIs for vector search? An effort led by @ehsk0 evaluated a few of them - @OpenAI @CohereAI @Aleph__Alpha - on BEIR and MIRACL... Check out the results! arxiv.org/abs/2305.06300 - forthcoming #ACL2023 industry track paper
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Hey everyone in #Berlin - next Wednesday I'm going to be here. Maybe you'll join me? More details here: visitberlin.de/de/event/burn…
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Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay and it's time to start telling my story. I've had #LongCOVID for 1 year and 3 months. I'm getting better with time, but it's been a long road. I'll be posting my story over the next few days, so subscribe and follow along: joshdevins.substack.com/
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2.68% of Bavaria is suffering from #LongCovid this year, up from 1.15% in 2021.
Zahl der #LongCovid-Fälle 2022 in Bayern sprunghaft gestiegen In den ersten neun Monaten des Jahres litten in Bayern 350 000 Menschen nach einer #Corona-Erkrankung an langfristigen gesundheitlichen Folgen. Im gesamten Jahr 2021 seien 150 000 Fälle bekanntgeworden. #COVID19
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Very cool to see @huggingface integrated with @elastic! Great new release by @joshdevins: elastic.co/blog/whats-new-el…
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Elasticsearch 8.0 improves the scalability of vector search with fast approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search. Read our blog to learn more about this capability: go.es.io/3Lgyudk
We are proud to welcome two new members to our program comittee: @joshdevins and @anshumgupta. Both have been integral parts of the Berlin Buzzwords community for years and their vast experience will bring fresh input to #bbuzz. 2022.berlinbuzzwords.de/news…
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Forthcoming #wsdm2022 demo where @joshdevins @julietibs and I share thoughts about aligning the research and practice of building search applications. Within the Lucene ecosystem, it is possible to bridge the two worlds - to have your cake and eat it too! cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jimmylin/pu…
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