I wrote a very long post on what a machine learning artifact is, how files work, safetensors, pickle, and a lot more, as a way to understand the new GGUF local LLM file format.

vickiboykis.com/2024/02/28/g...

"In-Context Learning Creates Task Vectors" does some nice state substitution/patching experiments to tease apart function construction/selection vs function application in ICL - fun stuff huggingface.co/papers/2310....

Frequent SF (Nob Hill) sighting recently: astonished & delighted tourists taking photos/videos of the self-driving cars.