Father, Software Engineer, ML and data type. Long COVID since Dec 2021.
Berlin, Germany
Joined September 2009
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Josh Devins retweeted
After a long wait, our longitudinal long COVID study is finally published in @NatureComms: nature.com/articles/s41467-0…. We find a skeletal muscle alterations in patients with #longcovid, which worsen with exercise. 1/n
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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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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
ALT A few bullet points: - LangChain encourages tool lock-in for little developer benefit, as noted in the OP. There is no inherent advantage into using them, and some have suboptimal implementations. - The current implementations of the ReAct workflow and prompt engineering are based on InstructGPT (text-davinci-003), and are extremely out of date compared to what you can do with ChatGPT/GPT-4. - Debugging a LangChain error is near impossible, even with verbose=True. - If you need anything outside the workflows in the documentation, it's extremely difficult to hack, even with Custom Agents. - The documentation is missing a lot of relevant detail (e.g. the difference between Agent types) that you have to go diving into the codebase for. - The extreme popularity of LangChain is warping the entire AI ecosystem around the workflows to the point of harming it. Recent releases by Hugging Face and OpenAI recontextualize themselves around LangChain's "it's just magic AI" to the point of hurting
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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_…
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Josh Devins retweeted
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…
ALT a flyer for a read-in demonstration being held at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on May 10, 2023, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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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
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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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The token classification pipeline in 🤗Transformers has just received a great improvement!
It is now super easy to specify the strategy to use when aggregating entities.
Thanks a lot to the contributors that led this effort! @rezakakhki @joshdevins @narsilou and Francesco Rubbo
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Want to learn about some of the latest neural network advances in Information Retrieval🔎? Then join us for our online master-level course "Advanced IR" @tuvienna!
We'll revisit some IR basics, NLP techniques, and then focus on cool new neural IR methods🔥 github.com/sebastian-hofstae…
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We are excited to announce that #HaystackConf will be hosting a debate at this year's #bbuzz
Join @anshumgupta, @joshdevins, @jobergum and @FlaxSearch as they help you find what the right search engine is for you.
Find all the details here: 2021.berlinbuzzwords.de/sess…
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Find out how our invited speakers compared #Elasticsearch #Solr and @vespaengine at the Haystack LIVE! Meetup - video now available at youtube.com/watch?v=SzZ_A9G6… - thanks so much @anshumgupta @jobergum @joshdevins !
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Welcome @elastic to the MS MARCO leaderboard chasing fray! Entry by @joshdevins has claimed the best traditional ("non-neural") crown from @srchvrs in document ranking... Blog post: elastic.co/blog/improving-se… Leaderboard: microsoft.github.io/MSMARCO-… (11/25/2020 Elasticsearch entry)
