Dr. Miko
@doctormiko.bsky.social
Accidental Data Scientist, former mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. Love all the things. Some current and past interests: boardgames, home brewing, coffee, D&D, self-hosting, Argentine tango
Dormant blog: https://datacasual.com/
Dormant blog: https://datacasual.com/
It took him almost 6 years, but @howard.fm finally did it: I made my first contribution to an open source project :D
December 15, 2024 at 11:50 AM
It took him almost 6 years, but @howard.fm finally did it: I made my first contribution to an open source project :D
Google: oh by the way, we have Gemini 2 Flash. AND A REAL-TIME MULTIMODAL API. What?
December 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Google: oh by the way, we have Gemini 2 Flash. AND A REAL-TIME MULTIMODAL API. What?
Happy to report that the mysterious "David Mayer" problem is not anymore. Chat GPT can now David Mayer at your heart content...
December 7, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Happy to report that the mysterious "David Mayer" problem is not anymore. Chat GPT can now David Mayer at your heart content...
Fun fact on my "What is the smallest integer such that its square is larger than 15 and smaller than 35?" test, o1 got it worse than o1 preview, sticking to its 4 answer even after giving the correct definition of integers
December 5, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Fun fact on my "What is the smallest integer such that its square is larger than 15 and smaller than 35?" test, o1 got it worse than o1 preview, sticking to its 4 answer even after giving the correct definition of integers
I wish “data driven” didn’t mostly mean that the data is being driven
December 4, 2024 at 6:20 PM
I wish “data driven” didn’t mostly mean that the data is being driven
Python regex TIL: `.` does _not_ match a newline character. If you want to consider all the lines as one big string, use the `re.DOTALL` flag. Also interesting: `re.MULTILINE` flag to make `^` and `$` match start and end respectively of each line docs.python.org/3/library/re...
re — Regular expression operations
Source code: Lib/re/ This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to those found in Perl. Both patterns and strings to be searched can be Unicode strings ( str) as well as 8-...
docs.python.org
December 3, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Python regex TIL: `.` does _not_ match a newline character. If you want to consider all the lines as one big string, use the `re.DOTALL` flag. Also interesting: `re.MULTILINE` flag to make `^` and `$` match start and end respectively of each line docs.python.org/3/library/re...
After witnessing the democratic wreck that the American constitution allows, I am wondering "What did Gödel see?"
December 2, 2024 at 10:13 AM
After witnessing the democratic wreck that the American constitution allows, I am wondering "What did Gödel see?"
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ChatGPT cannot say “David Mayer”. WTF?
November 30, 2024 at 7:19 PM
ChatGPT cannot say “David Mayer”. WTF?
Once again I need to thank @howard.fm who inspired me (and taught me a few tricks) to be able to gain a really good intuition around the content of the “Attention is all you need” paper
November 30, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Once again I need to thank @howard.fm who inspired me (and taught me a few tricks) to be able to gain a really good intuition around the content of the “Attention is all you need” paper
Then:
- On 🦋: 🦋 is so much better than birdsite!
- On birdsite: oh, they only talk about birdsite on 🦋!
Now:
- On 🦋: BURN AI TO THE GROUND! (also, very interesting AI stuff)
- On birdsite: Lol! Look at 🦋 falling!
WHY CAN'T WE HAVE GOOD THINGS?
- On 🦋: 🦋 is so much better than birdsite!
- On birdsite: oh, they only talk about birdsite on 🦋!
Now:
- On 🦋: BURN AI TO THE GROUND! (also, very interesting AI stuff)
- On birdsite: Lol! Look at 🦋 falling!
WHY CAN'T WE HAVE GOOD THINGS?
November 29, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Then:
- On 🦋: 🦋 is so much better than birdsite!
- On birdsite: oh, they only talk about birdsite on 🦋!
Now:
- On 🦋: BURN AI TO THE GROUND! (also, very interesting AI stuff)
- On birdsite: Lol! Look at 🦋 falling!
WHY CAN'T WE HAVE GOOD THINGS?
- On 🦋: 🦋 is so much better than birdsite!
- On birdsite: oh, they only talk about birdsite on 🦋!
Now:
- On 🦋: BURN AI TO THE GROUND! (also, very interesting AI stuff)
- On birdsite: Lol! Look at 🦋 falling!
WHY CAN'T WE HAVE GOOD THINGS?
I asked this question
What is the smallest integer such that its square is larger than 15 and smallest than 35?
To a bunch of models. They ALL* answered 4 instead of the correct answer (-5).
Let me dive into a 🧵:
*Ok, almost all of them. See below. (1/6)
What is the smallest integer such that its square is larger than 15 and smallest than 35?
To a bunch of models. They ALL* answered 4 instead of the correct answer (-5).
Let me dive into a 🧵:
*Ok, almost all of them. See below. (1/6)
November 29, 2024 at 11:16 AM
I asked this question
What is the smallest integer such that its square is larger than 15 and smallest than 35?
To a bunch of models. They ALL* answered 4 instead of the correct answer (-5).
Let me dive into a 🧵:
*Ok, almost all of them. See below. (1/6)
What is the smallest integer such that its square is larger than 15 and smallest than 35?
To a bunch of models. They ALL* answered 4 instead of the correct answer (-5).
Let me dive into a 🧵:
*Ok, almost all of them. See below. (1/6)
I really really liked this video from @mattcolville.bsky.social
If you are interested in D&D, its history and evolution, and have an hour or so to spare well worth che
youtu.be/wDCQspQDchI?...
If you are interested in D&D, its history and evolution, and have an hour or so to spare well worth che
youtu.be/wDCQspQDchI?...
Arguing About D&D in the 1970s.
YouTube video by Matthew Colville
youtu.be
November 28, 2024 at 10:51 AM
I really really liked this video from @mattcolville.bsky.social
If you are interested in D&D, its history and evolution, and have an hour or so to spare well worth che
youtu.be/wDCQspQDchI?...
If you are interested in D&D, its history and evolution, and have an hour or so to spare well worth che
youtu.be/wDCQspQDchI?...
Python TIL: `prod` in the `math` module exists. Thanks @howard.fm
November 27, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Python TIL: `prod` in the `math` module exists. Thanks @howard.fm
My way to python packages has been for years conda/mamba for environments + pip for packages. I am very interested in trying uv, but I cannot find a clear and simple explanation of what it brings to the table. Can anybody explains me simply what are its advantages and why everyone seems to love it?
November 27, 2024 at 1:35 PM
My way to python packages has been for years conda/mamba for environments + pip for packages. I am very interested in trying uv, but I cannot find a clear and simple explanation of what it brings to the table. Can anybody explains me simply what are its advantages and why everyone seems to love it?
Reposted by Dr. Miko
My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch.
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
November 26, 2024 at 6:15 AM
My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch.
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
fleuret.org/dlc/
And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!)
fleuret.org/lbdl/
Reposted by Dr. Miko
People imagine that maintaining a Linux box requires dedicated sysadmins and lots of time.
But actually if you’re doing normal stuff in a normal way, you can just leave it be, as long as you set it up right in the first place.
But actually if you’re doing normal stuff in a normal way, you can just leave it be, as long as you set it up right in the first place.
Still have a DO server from 2012 with 100% uptime that's never been upgraded. All it does it enable some reverse tunnels. I should check in on it the poor thing
In the end I got emotional and couldn't bring myself to kill little `riesling`, who's remained loyal this whole decade.
So I embarked on a journey to update Ubuntu 14.04 to 24.04. What an adventure! `failed to execute process '/usr/bin/ln'` almost killed me.
But I made it, a decade of updates!
So I embarked on a journey to update Ubuntu 14.04 to 24.04. What an adventure! `failed to execute process '/usr/bin/ln'` almost killed me.
But I made it, a decade of updates!
November 26, 2024 at 9:32 AM
People imagine that maintaining a Linux box requires dedicated sysadmins and lots of time.
But actually if you’re doing normal stuff in a normal way, you can just leave it be, as long as you set it up right in the first place.
But actually if you’re doing normal stuff in a normal way, you can just leave it be, as long as you set it up right in the first place.
Today I found about the story behind RebeccaPurple. I read the old blog posts. And cannot stop crying.
November 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Today I found about the story behind RebeccaPurple. I read the old blog posts. And cannot stop crying.
WHAT? CHATGPT CAN ACTUALLY BUILD POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS? AS IN, IT WILL LET YOU DOWNLOAD THE ACTUAL FILE? MCKINSEY, WE ARE COMING FOR YOU! #dataBS @simonwillison.net Did you know that?
November 13, 2024 at 9:59 AM
WHAT? CHATGPT CAN ACTUALLY BUILD POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS? AS IN, IT WILL LET YOU DOWNLOAD THE ACTUAL FILE? MCKINSEY, WE ARE COMING FOR YOU! #dataBS @simonwillison.net Did you know that?
After months and months of OpenAI, I jumped the gun and subscribed to Anthropic too. Claude is so much better and it's not even close. I am genuinely curious: do you have examples of query that work definitely better with o1-preview than Sonnet? I want concrete examples #dataBS
November 11, 2024 at 8:47 AM
After months and months of OpenAI, I jumped the gun and subscribed to Anthropic too. Claude is so much better and it's not even close. I am genuinely curious: do you have examples of query that work definitely better with o1-preview than Sonnet? I want concrete examples #dataBS
Is it just me or the ChatGPT app just lost the ability to resume conversations in advanced voice mode? If I stop the conversation and resume it, it will start with the legacy voice mode. There seem to be no way to pre prompt an AVM convo?
November 3, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Is it just me or the ChatGPT app just lost the ability to resume conversations in advanced voice mode? If I stop the conversation and resume it, it will start with the legacy voice mode. There seem to be no way to pre prompt an AVM convo?