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Builder journey to streaming data platform (Founders Talk #95) Apr 20, 2023

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This week Adam is joined by Alex Gallego, Founder & CEO at Redpanda Data, to share his builder journey to create the Redpanda streaming data platform.

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Redpanda

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Capabilities of LLMs 🤯 (Practical AI #219) Apr 19, 2023

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Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities have reached new heights and are nothing short of mind-blowing! However, with so many advancements happening at once, it can be overwhelming to keep up with all the latest developments. To help us navigate through this complex terrain, we’ve invited Raj - one of the most adept at explaining State-of-the-Art (SOTA) AI in practical terms - to join us on the podcast.

Raj discusses several intriguing topics such as in-context learning, reasoning, LLM options, and related tooling. But that’s not all! We also hear from Raj about the rapidly growing data science and AI community on TikTok.

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Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
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Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in HuggingFace | GitHub
Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Wolfram ChatGPT
Comparing LLMs
LangChain
Learn about LLMs:
- Emergence and reasoning in large language models (Jason Wei)
- Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence
Learning Prompting
Getting Started with Transformers:
- Transformers course (free)
- Tasks at Hugging Face
Training your own LLM Models:
- Efficient Large Language Model training with LoRA and Hugging Face
- PEFT (Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning)
Dolly blog post
Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

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How do you do, fellow Hack Clubbers? (Changelog Interviews #536) Apr 19, 2023

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This week we’re joined by Zach Latta, the Founder of Hack Club. At 16, Zach tested out of high school and moved to SF to join Yo as their first engineer. After playing a key role at Yo, he founded Hack Club to help teen hackers start coding clubs around the world. Today, teen hackers can meet IRL, online, at a hackathon, or leverage Hack Club Bank a fiscal sponsor to create their own organization. Hack Club is the program Zach wished he had in high school.

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Invest in the future hacker generation
hackclub.com
Hack Club Bank
hackclub/sprig
Sprig - The game console where every player is a creator
Meet the 18-year-old who left his job at ‘Yo’ to spread the joy of coding
Founders Talk #81: The future of code search with Quinn Slack
Changelog Interviews #369: Five years of freeCodeCamp
with Quincy Larson
SSH Tron
The World’s Longest Hackathon: The Hacker Zephyr, July 2021
ToorCamp

Thanks to the “How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?” meme for this title’s inspiration.

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Free Dolly, GitHub Accelerator's cohort, improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source & what the heck are passkeys?! (Changelog News #40) Apr 17, 2023

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Kara Deloss announces GitHub Accelerator’s 2023 cohort, Databricks releases the first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use, Mihai Parparita writes how he improved Tailscale thanks to Apple’s open source & Neal Fennimore asks and answers the question: Passkeys: what the heck and why?!

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I'd like to add you to my professional network (JS Party #271) Apr 14, 2023

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The panel dives into a topic that makes most software developers cringe: Professional networking. Starting with a definition - what does it even mean? - they go into hacks they’ve found for getting more comfortable with networking, building your network in person or online, and then using your network to find new job opportunities or consulting work.

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Good Conversations have lots of doorknobs

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Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Changelog Interviews #535) Apr 14, 2023

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This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.”

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Cory Doctorow – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
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Domain-driven design with Go (Go Time #273) Apr 13, 2023

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Matthew Boyle, the author of Domain-Driven Design with Golang, sits down with Jon & Mat to talk about (you guessed it!) DDD with Go.

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Computer scientists as rogue art historians (Practical AI #218) Apr 12, 2023

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What can art historians and computer scientists learn from one another? Actually, a lot! Amanda Wasielewski joins us to talk about how she discovered that computer scientists working on computer vision were actually acting like rogue art historians and how art historians have found machine learning to be a valuable tool for research, fraud detection, and cataloguing. We also discuss the rise of generative AI and how we this technology might cause us to ask new questions like: “What makes a photograph a photograph?”

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Computational Formalism Art History and Machine Learning

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Ken Thompson's keynote, Tabby, The LLama Effect, Codeberg & facing the inevitable (Changelog News #39) Apr 10, 2023

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Ken Thompson’s 75-year-project is a jukebox for the ages, Tabby is a self-hosted AI coding assistant, Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for open source software, content and projects, TheSequence explains The LLama Effect & Paul Orlando writes about Ghosts, Guilds and Generative AI.

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LLMs break the internet (Changelog Interviews #534) Apr 07, 2023

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This week we’re talking about LLMs with Simon Willison. We can not avoid this topic. Last time it was Stable Diffusion breaking the internet. This time it’s LLMs breaking the internet. Large Language Models, ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, Bing, GitHub Copilot X, Cody…we cover it all.

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