The Daily Index — Thursday, August 17, 2023 · TLDR Index

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NEW CONDA PACKAGE MANAGER PIXI

Dependency management is one of the hardest parts of working in Python. Conda aims to solve that issue, but the underlying package manager in Conda hasn't seen much love. Pixi is a new manager that is, of course, written in Rust.

prefix.dev · 5 min

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GOOGLE DEVELOPING AI LIFE COACH

DeepMind, Google’s artificial intelligence research lab, has been testing new technology that could effectively turn generative AI into a personal life coach.

Source unavailable · 3 min

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ENHANCING CONTINUAL LEARNING THROUGH RICH REPRESENTATIONS

A new approach named L3DMC boosts the performance of continual learning by preserving prior knowledge and enabling better adaptation to new concepts. It accomplishes this by combining the benefits of different fixed-curvature spaces and operating in a higher-dimensional space.

arxiv.org · 14 min

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ALIGNING TINY STORIES MODELS

Reinforcement learning is probably the best tool for aligning large language models today (and even vision models). However, it is challenging when you need a bunch of human data to train a reward model. What if you can just “use prompting”? This is another great example of a trend of RLCF - C for computational.

philliphaeusler.com · 11 min

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THE MATHEMATICS OF TRAINING LLMS

An extremely deep dive into the viral Transformers Math 101 article and high-performance distributed training for Transformers-based architectures.

latent.space · 35 min

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DOES AI JUST SUCK?

AI is extremely hyped, but there are multiple areas where it still needs a lot of work.

freddiedeboer.substack.com · 5 min