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Category Archives: My Thoughts
Vector Search
Vector Search, also known as similarity search, is the technique that represents data points as vectors in a multi-dimensional space.
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Top Level Domain(s)
I recently saw, more like noticed, the .so TLD on an email I got. First, this was a marketing email and I almost immediately was going to delete. But it just so happened that it was from this service I recently signed up for and have been evaluating. So I decided against deleting it right away and that is when I noticed the TLD.
I almost immediately checked to see if the service was using the same TLD for their website — it is not. it is a .com like any, most, other sites I interact with. Yes, there are a few .ai TLD that I have been dealing with more recently.
But going back to the .so TLD — why was I “bothered” by this. I have to assume that I am “bothered” because I can’t define feeling to it.
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Large Language Models
ChatGPT became publicly available in late 2022 and ever since there seems to have been a race in this AI domain. I have not really been really into the whole thing but am getting really interested.
A very high level timeline (will need to update / correct at some point)
2017 – some scientists at Google publish a paper, “Attention is all you need” proposing a new model called Transformer
2018 – GPT-1 with 117M Parameters
2019 – GPT-2 with 1.5B
2020 – GPT-3 175B
2022 – we have RLHF, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, and ChatGPT
2023 – GPT-4 1T
2024 – GPT-4o
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Room Next Door, The
How to become a ‘supercommunicator’
Not that I personally am aspiring to become a “super communicator”, I can’t help wanting to better in this area. It is something I have wanted for a long time, if not always.
But my own desires aside, it is an interesting topic. Why are some individuals better at this than others? There probably is something about it that cannot be replicated / learned but maybe there is some aspects that can be. Also, what is it to be a super communicator?
A while back one of my managers, or maybe it was my CS Network Professor, told me that most communications fail because no one actually pays attention to what was said and what was heard.
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IF
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The Second Battle of Fallujah, 20 Years Later
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Jersey Girl
Trump Wins Second Term
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