Chris Maness
@oneprayingmantis.bsky.social
Engineer @ nCino changing the future of banking through Data and AI, Elected Official, Dad, somewhat of a techno optimist, living in rural South Western Virginia.
Stock market is doing so bad today. The only thing that’s gonna end up higher at the end of the day is the price of eggs.
March 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Stock market is doing so bad today. The only thing that’s gonna end up higher at the end of the day is the price of eggs.
Looks like this would be an interesting job. Just don’t forget the human element, numbers, and data can only show us so much
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: ✅
Come join us!
Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
boards.greenhouse.io
March 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Looks like this would be an interesting job. Just don’t forget the human element, numbers, and data can only show us so much
So what are the crypto folks calling this? The Great Rug Pull?
March 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
So what are the crypto folks calling this? The Great Rug Pull?
You can help by joining your local library’s “friends of the library” or similar organization. I am a member of our local group and last year we raised enough to get ADA compliant doors installed.
Let’s give libraries more money
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
You can help by joining your local library’s “friends of the library” or similar organization. I am a member of our local group and last year we raised enough to get ADA compliant doors installed.
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"Having overcome my broader skepticism, I find I’m just shocked at the mental gymnastics militant cynics will execute to avoid admitting that generative AI is doing anything particularly unique or useful."--@mikecaulfield
I do see that too sometimes.
mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/critical-r...
I do see that too sometimes.
mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/critical-r...
Critical Reasoning with AI: How we know LLMs are applying reasoning patterns, and not just reverse image searching
Writing this because I'm tired of having this argument
mikecaulfield.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Having overcome my broader skepticism, I find I’m just shocked at the mental gymnastics militant cynics will execute to avoid admitting that generative AI is doing anything particularly unique or useful."--@mikecaulfield
I do see that too sometimes.
mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/critical-r...
I do see that too sometimes.
mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/critical-r...
No shockers here I love sci-do fantasy and a good non-fiction book www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...
Goodreads 2024 Year in Books
Check out My 2024 Year in Books on Goodreads!
www.goodreads.com
January 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
No shockers here I love sci-do fantasy and a good non-fiction book www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...
Have I reaffirmed my love the Gruvbox theme for IDEs lately? I couldn’t imagine a more pleasing color palette for code.
December 13, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Have I reaffirmed my love the Gruvbox theme for IDEs lately? I couldn’t imagine a more pleasing color palette for code.
Homography is very useful in straightening out distorted images (think document images scanned at weird angles) always loved the OpenCV explainer: docs.opencv.org/4.x/d9/dab/t...
https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d9/dab/tutorial_homography.html
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docs.opencv.org
December 4, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Homography is very useful in straightening out distorted images (think document images scanned at weird angles) always loved the OpenCV explainer: docs.opencv.org/4.x/d9/dab/t...
Reposted by Chris Maness
For anyone interested in fine-tuning or aligning LLMs, I’m running this free and open course called smol course. It’s not a big deal, it’s just smol.
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December 3, 2024 at 9:21 AM
For anyone interested in fine-tuning or aligning LLMs, I’m running this free and open course called smol course. It’s not a big deal, it’s just smol.
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Another common challenge is annotating the data once you have it.
Take an incremental approach and build in some simple predictions to allow you to collect ground truth that your user annotates to build more accurate predictions.
Take an incremental approach and build in some simple predictions to allow you to collect ground truth that your user annotates to build more accurate predictions.
Data is the most fundamental requirement to build a good machine learning system.
Common challenges:
- Not having enough of it
- Poor-quality
- Nonrepresentative training data
- Not enough relevant features
- Too many irrelevant features
- Low diversity
Garbage in, garbage out.
Common challenges:
- Not having enough of it
- Poor-quality
- Nonrepresentative training data
- Not enough relevant features
- Too many irrelevant features
- Low diversity
Garbage in, garbage out.
November 30, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Another common challenge is annotating the data once you have it.
Take an incremental approach and build in some simple predictions to allow you to collect ground truth that your user annotates to build more accurate predictions.
Take an incremental approach and build in some simple predictions to allow you to collect ground truth that your user annotates to build more accurate predictions.
I’d love some suggestions of people to follow in the EV space or robotics space.
November 26, 2024 at 5:01 AM
I’d love some suggestions of people to follow in the EV space or robotics space.
In 2006 Twitter came out while I was in high school, it was an amazing place to talk to people about Web 2.0 and what was going on the world of tech. It was a niche community where everyone was real. We’ve lost that over the years but BlueSky is recapturing some of that magic that Threads couldn’t.
November 25, 2024 at 9:45 PM
In 2006 Twitter came out while I was in high school, it was an amazing place to talk to people about Web 2.0 and what was going on the world of tech. It was a niche community where everyone was real. We’ve lost that over the years but BlueSky is recapturing some of that magic that Threads couldn’t.
The more I leverage LLMs, the more I appreciate their efficacy in swiftly prototyping text-based ML and AI concepts, eliminating the need for gathering ground truth data, extensive training, or modeling. I recently built a zero-shot text classifier with 95% accuracy in a single day.
November 21, 2024 at 12:55 AM
The more I leverage LLMs, the more I appreciate their efficacy in swiftly prototyping text-based ML and AI concepts, eliminating the need for gathering ground truth data, extensive training, or modeling. I recently built a zero-shot text classifier with 95% accuracy in a single day.