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Roam Research Notes on “SELF-REFINE: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback” by Madaan Et. Al June 6, 2024
Author:: Madaan Et. Al. Source:: link Review Status:: [[complete]] Recommended By:: [[Andrew Ng]] Anki Tag:: self_refine_iterative_refinement_w_self_feedback_madaan_et_al Anki Deck Link:: link Tags:: #[[Research Paper]] #[[prompting [[Large Language Models (LLM)]]]] #[[reflection ([[Large Language Models (LLM)]])]] Summary Overview SELF-REFINE is a method for improving outputs from large language models (LLMs) through iterative self-feedback and refinement. This approach uses […]
Mark Nagelberg
Roam Notes on The Batch Newsletter (Andrew Ng) – We Need Better Evals for LLM Applications May 31, 2024
Author:: [[Andrew Ng]] Source:: link Review Status:: [[complete]] Anki Tag:: andrew_ng_the_batch_we_need_better_evals_for_llm_apps Anki Deck Link:: link Tags:: #[[Article]] #[[Large Language Models (LLM)]] #[[evals]] #[[[[AI]] Agents]] #[[Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)]] Summary Evaluating Generative AI Applications: Challenges and Solutions Challenges in Evaluation: Evaluating custom AI applications generating free-form text is a barrier to progress. Evaluations of general-purpose models […]
Mark Nagelberg
Roam Research Notes on Dwarkesh Patel Conversation with Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken – How to Build & Understand GPT-7’s Mind May 28, 2024
Author:: [[Dwarkesh Patel]], [[Trenton Bricken]], and [[Sholto Douglas]] Source:: link Review Status:: [[complete]] Anki Tag:: dwarkesh_douglas_bricken_build_and_understand_gpt7_mind Anki Deck Link:: link Tags:: #[[Video]] #[[podcast]] #[[Large Language Models (LLM)]] {{[video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTuuTTnjxMQ}} [[[[Large Language Models (LLM)]] context length]] (0:00 – 16:12) Importance of context length is underhyped. Throwing a bunch of tokens in context can create similar improvements […]
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What are your “Big Projects”? December 30, 2022
One thing that has become clear to me as I get older and raise a family is that human beings need a bigger purpose in life. We need big goals and big dreams that we can endlessly pursue. Without this, we inevitably stagnate and decline. You can clearly see our need for a higher purpose […]
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Notes on The Kimball Group Reader Chapter 1: The Reader at a Glance December 10, 2022
Author:: [[Ralph Kimball]], [[Margy Ross]] Reading Status:: #complete Review Status:: #[[complete]] Tags:: #books #[[dimensional modeling]] Source:: link Roam Notes URL:: link Anki Tag:: kimball_group_reader kimball_group_reader_ch_1 Anki Deck Link:: link Setting up for Success 1.1 Resist the Urge to Start Coding ([[Ralph Kimball]], DM Review, November 2007) (Location 944) Before writing any code or doing any modelling […]
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Notes on “Why Take Notes” by Mark Nagelberg October 28, 2022
Author:: [[Mark Nagelberg]] Source:: link Reading Status:: [[complete]] Review Status:: [[complete]] Anki Tag:: nagelberg_why_take_notes Anki Deck Link:: link Blog Notes URL:: link Tags:: #[[Spaced Repetition Newsletter]] #[[Blog Posts]] #[[PKM]] #[[note-taking]] #[[triple-pass system]] #retrieval #elaboration #[[knowledge management]] #[[articles]] Notes Two pillars of the "Triple-Pass System": Note-taking Spaced repetition Why note-taking is necessary: Preparing for [[Spaced Repetition]] […]
Mark Nagelberg
Why Take Notes? October 28, 2022
You can access an Anki deck and Roam Research notes on this article here. My personal knowledge management system (the “Triple-Pass System”) has two key pillars: Note-taking (AKA “second brain”) to store consolidated information on the content that I read Spaced repetition to retain the most important information from my notes forever, at minimal cost […]
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Notes on “3 Things I Wish I did as a Junior Dev” by Theo Browne October 23, 2022
{{[video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rC4cTRZeWc}} Author:: [[Theo Browne]] Reading Status:: [[complete]] Review Status:: [[complete]] Tags:: #Video #programming #learning #[[Career]] Blog Notes URL:: https://www.marknagelberg.com/notes-on-3-things-i-wish-i-did-as-a-junior-dev-by-theo-browne/ Roam Notes URL:: link Anki Tag:: theo_browne_3_junior_dev_tips Anki Deck Link:: link Notes Overview: [[Theo Browne]] talks about the 3 main tactics he used when he was a new developer to level up extremely fast. Tip […]
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Notes on “The Year of Fukuyama” by Richard Hanania October 15, 2022
Title:: The Year of Fukuyama Author:: [[Richard Hanania]] Reading Status:: #complete Review Status:: #[[complete]] Tags:: #articles #[[politics]] #[[democracy]] #[[political science]] URL:: https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/the-year-of-fukuyama Source:: #instapaper Roam Notes URL:: https://www.marknagelberg.com/notes-on-the-year-of-fukuyama-by-richard-hanania/ Anki Tag:: hanania_year_of_fukuyama Anki Deck Link:: link Notes Many incorrectly misunderstand [[Francis Fukuyama]] as saying nothing will ever happen again. His argument was not that there would […]
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Notes on “The First Room-Temperature Superconductor Has Finally Ben Found by sciencenews.org” October 14, 2022
Title:: The First Room-Temperature Superconductor Has Finally Been Found Author:: [[sciencenews.org]] Recommended By:: [[Tyler Cowen]] Reading Status:: #complete Review Status:: #complete Tags:: #articles #superconductor #technology #innovation #[[new technology]] URL:: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/physics-first-room-temperature-superconductor-discovery Source:: #instapaper Roam Notes URL:: link Anki Tag:: science_news_room_temp_superconductor Anki Deck Link:: link Notes Scientists reported the discovery of the first room-temperature [[superconductor]], after more […]
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