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Hia, I'm working on a query-builder tool for searching medical databases that translates a clinician's natural-language query into an existing IR which maps onto SQL. This entails some retrieval aspects which I'm…

What exciting things are going on at the NeurIPS conference irl which you're excited to attend? This is my first NIPS and I don't wanna miss the highlights so thought I'd ask some ML vets!

Hiya, I'm a researcher investigating LLM's and have various queries that I'd like to discuss with others. For instance "what are the advantages of putting instructions in a system prompt versus in the prompt itself?".…

I've been trying to jailbreak LLaMa 2, specifically the smaller versions available here: https://chat.lmsys.org/ Does anybody have any good jailbreak prompts?

Does anybody have a good reference implementation of the Attention mechanism? Preferably one that's easy to understand

Chatbot style LLMs like ChatGPT act as query able knowledge banks for a range of technical topics. Questions that I once would have asked on e.g S.O I now ask ChatGPT. What are peoples predictions for the future of…

Code review helps discover programming errors in software engineering. Would requiring paper author's to submit reproducible, or at least reviewable, code for generating their results have the same effect on academic…

Im considering fine tuning e.g LLaMa but don't have a good intuition for how long it would realistically take as a function of the hardware available etc. Does anybody have any heuristics / tools for estimating these…

Here's a small demonstration of the fundamental aspects of the word-to-vec algorithm. It's implemented in a single python script and depends only on a single text file for training. It's not meant to be blazingly fast…

Hi! I want to run some LM's on my pi zero for a personal project[0]. AFAIK the pi zero is 32-bit, so I don't imagine most Large LM's would work. My use-case isn't very complex, something like BERT-base or even smaller…

Hi all, I recently knocked my monitor over, breaking it. I'm looking for a bargain on a new one - are there any particular sites that sell old stock that companies no longer use? I imagine firms are dumping / reselling…

Heya, those who contribute to open source software, what oss projects were the most rewarding to contribute to?

I'm starting my doctoral programme this week and will be reading a lot of papers. I usually read on my phone but this is not great. What works for others, aside from the obvious "just print it lul".

Finding somewhere to rent can be a pain, especially living in big metro areas where the market is competitive. Please share any hacks you've found for finding a high quality place at a decent price!