• paulgb 10 months ago

    Simon Wilson’s (simonw on here) blog is good, lots of good notes from someone who actively plays with a lot of LLMs.

    https://simonwillison.net/

    • daceba 10 months ago

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    • FranklinMaillot 10 months ago

      AI explained. It's a youtube channel that gives a nice in-depth overview of the latest papers in the field of LLMs.

      https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official

      They also have a free newsletter and more behind a Patreon subscription.

      https://signaltonoise.beehiiv.com/p/the-3rd-era-of-ai-langua...

      https://www.patreon.com/AIExplained

      • a_c 10 months ago
        • reinaldnaufal 10 months ago

          https://gwern.net/#deep-learning

          Gwern is the place for me. His deep dive on meta-learning is always interesting.

          • khafra 10 months ago

            Recommending Gwern on any technical topic is practically cheating; he always has in-depth, impeccably referenced overviews, complete with experiments he has done.

            For deep learning in particular, I will add Neel Nanda's interpretability work: https://www.neelnanda.io/mechanistic-interpretability

            • joenot443 10 months ago

              He's the best writer online. If you're reading this Gwern, know that you're greatly admired.

              • moonlessday 10 months ago

                blog design is goat

              • Two_hands 10 months ago

                Hey I have a blog site where I write about implementing different papers and doing deep dives on the papers!

                https://ym2132.github.io

                I try to go for those things you're looking for. It's hard to find good resources nowadays with real people behind them.

                I hope you enjoy the posts. Feel free to reach out about anything on there

                • freeqaz 10 months ago

                  Reading through this now. Really appreciate the knowledge sharing!

                  Your content is amazing and with some more polish I feel like it would really shine! (Some sentences not flowing quite right is a little confusing for me, reading the GAN deep dive)

                  • Two_hands 10 months ago

                    Hey, thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you're finding it interesting!

                    Noted I am quite new to writing like this, where exactly was it confusing? I'll definitely take this on board and try to increase the clarity in my writing.

                  • MaxPimento 10 months ago

                    Neat ! Bookmarked :)

                    • input_sh 10 months ago

                      You've created an account just for this two word comment?

                      Totally not suspicious.

                      • Two_hands 10 months ago

                        Fwiw I didn't create that account, I didnt notice it was so new earlier. It is a bit weird though

                        • chrisweekly 10 months ago

                          random tangent: I like your input.sh website

                        • Two_hands 10 months ago

                          Thank you!

                      • ed 10 months ago

                        It’s a big field!

                        But if you’re in a few discords and a bunch of subreddits, you’re doing it right.

                        The most interesting stuff happens in GitHub PR’s, but you have to know where to look. Kohya’s misnamed SD3 branch has a ton of good flux hints, for example. It’s also where furkan gets pretty much all his content, before it gets paywalled.

                        Unfortunately, unless you participate full-time it’s hard to follow along. But if you really dig in and learn to modify your tooling (Comfy, kohya etc), you’ll start to come across some really impressive people who are all self-taught, and very accessible.

                        It’s totally possible to work your way up to the frontier with a few months of hacking. (And disposable income for GPU time.)

                        And the overlap between image AI’s and LLM’s is actually pretty great since they’re all transformers under the hood.

                        Civit, in my experience, is a good source for weights but most of the guides are written by people without much actual experience.

                        If you haven’t already, use tensorflow or wandb to get an intuitive understanding of your training parameters. It’s very easy to connect your tools to these services. This is by far the most helpful thing I’ve done, and something I really regret not doing sooner.

                      • _giorgio_ 10 months ago

                        http://x.com

                        You can find 99% of companies and reasearchers. Just follow them. If you need some names, just ask!

                        • crimsoneer 10 months ago

                          I hate that this is true, but it is. If you want ot keep up to date with news, following on X + hanging around on discord is the way.

                          • dweinus 10 months ago

                            A site run by a fascist transphobe? Hard pass.

                            • dagelf 10 months ago

                              But you're happy living in a country built on the bones of ??? run by warmongering ???

                            • delduca 10 months ago

                              x requires an account.

                              • _giorgio_ 10 months ago

                                LOL

                            • aznumeric 10 months ago
                              • richardvsu 10 months ago
                                • grayxu 10 months ago

                                  r/LocalLLaMA

                                  • postalcoder 10 months ago

                                    LocalLlama is the place. Really high quality people and discussion there and surprisingly collaborative. Very different than most subreddits.

                                    • TNWin 10 months ago

                                      How is /r/machinelearning

                                      • ratedgene 10 months ago

                                        good but not as community-oriented I'd say as locallama

                                        the machinelearning subreddit has a lot of great experts there.

                                        /r/learnmachinelearning isn't moderated well enough

                                    • vid 10 months ago

                                      I like LocalLLaMA because it's not just for algorithm/math experts, it's for people who want to use LLMs locally (as the name says), so there is often practical discussion on how to use "off the shelf" models and kits. This also implies a patient crowd who will sometimes go into great detail about specific details, since there are many non-specialists.

                                    • ushakov 10 months ago

                                      Go to one of the AI Tinkerers events in your area?

                                      https://aitinkerers.org/p/welcome

                                      • sva_ 10 months ago

                                        This one sends a fairly good (generated) summary each day:

                                        https://buttondown.com/ainews

                                        • keiferski 10 months ago

                                          This is a pretty good weekly roundup of art-related developments:

                                          https://aiartweekly.com/

                                          • twp 10 months ago

                                            Keep a broad perspective: https://pivot-to-ai.com/

                                            • alfanick 10 months ago

                                              https://www.lesswrong.com/ for HN-style longer AI-related posts, especially around alignment and consciousness

                                              • trustno2 10 months ago

                                                I think that's what OP is not interested in

                                                • olalonde 10 months ago

                                                  Indeed, OP's "disinterested" list matches LessWrong almost perfectly.

                                                  > Disinterested: CEO said, politics, winter, alignment, eats us all, not a human, etc.

                                                  • Vecr 10 months ago

                                                    Isn't it pretty niche to not want discussions of winter or alignment? I guess you can go read Nick Land? If there's not at least a mini-winter or alignment some time soon it's going full Nick Land, right?

                                                    What I mean is, Nick Land is the only person I know of who can at least sort of credibly claim to have a theory for why alignment isn't just not guaranteed, but is in fact impossible, and there's ~no chance of a lasting winter.

                                                    • trustno2 10 months ago

                                                      what

                                                      OP wants technical discussions

                                                      • Vecr 10 months ago

                                                        Even then isn't it irresponsible to avoid talk about progress from other labs vs the probability of winter? Either way you could get wiped out hard, investment wise and product/startup wise.

                                              • ravix 10 months ago
                                                • sumnole 10 months ago

                                                  Huggingface community

                                                  • hunterhod 10 months ago

                                                    Chipp AI public discord is pretty active and folks tend to talk about the latest stuff there. It’s a mostly non-technical crowd though.

                                                    • quitit 10 months ago

                                                      https://hype.replicate.dev/

                                                      Let me know if that’s a good fit.

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                                                        • paraschopra 10 months ago

                                                          I like Machine Learning Street Talk discord server.

                                                          • bbyford 9 months ago

                                                            www.machine-ethics.net if you've interested in the ethics of AI

                                                            • gom_jabbar 10 months ago

                                                              Here's a primary literature review on Nick Land's thesis that AI and capitalism are teleologically identical and will converge on the event horizon of the techno-economic singularity.

                                                              It's AI hype to the max.

                                                              https://retrochronic.com/

                                                              • Vecr 10 months ago

                                                                Not really not "eats us all, not a human" though. Do OP's requirements really make sense?

                                                              • beeboobaa3 10 months ago

                                                                Just simulate your own with some LLMs?

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                                                                  • 1oooqooq 10 months ago

                                                                    ask chatgpt about your favorite research echo chamber

                                                                    • anon1094 10 months ago

                                                                      This is why I'm creating https://medium.com/ai-engineers to focus on the rising class of AI engineers and practical content for devs who want to use AI to build apps.