Eric Chang

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In other words, I had been building many V1s, but none of them would have made the product stand out from another “GPT-wrapper”-SAAS.
Why are AI Products Doomed to Fail? | by Jeremy Arancio | Nov, 2023 | Towards AI
But I value it. I value it because I’m self-protective, because I’m insular, because I feel uneasy unless I know I’m doing in the right thing.
containment
Developers can now describe functions to gpt-4-0613 and gpt-3.5-turbo-0613, and have the model intelligently choose to output a JSON object containing arguments to call those functions.
Function calling and other API updates
Some people, however, insist on making grandiose demands on themselves, on others, and on life conditions and yet do not seem to be notably disturbed. Usually, they resort to self-deception, rationalizing, pollyannaism, withdrawal, distraction, supernaturalism, alcohol and drugs, relying on supporters, and desirelessness.
Must musturbation and demandingness lead to emotional disorders?
This is an implementation detail, but it’s one that you can’t avoid for two reasons: APIs have token limits. If you try and send more than the limit you’ll get an error message like this one: “This model’s maximum context length is 4097 tokens. However, your messages resulted in 116142 tokens. Please reduce the length of the messages.” Tokens are how pricing works. gpt-3.5-turbo (the model used by ChatGPT, and the default model used by the llm command) costs $0.002 / 1,000 tokens. GPT-4 is $0.03 / 1,000 tokens of input and $0.06 / 1,000 for output. Being able to keep track of token counts is r…
llm, ttok and strip-tags—CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs
For compiling our code, we are going to use Judge0. Judge0 is a simple, open-source code execution system that we can interact with.
How to Build a Code Editor with React that Compiles and Executes in 40+ Languages
we’ve used our custom d3 plugin called d3-horizon-charts to visualize data from all sensors for an entire month.
Location + time: urban data visualization - MORPHOCODE
three main types of temporal primitives: a time point; a time interval or a time span.
Location + time: urban data visualization - MORPHOCODE
Dramatron is a system that uses large language models that could be useful for authors for co-writing theatre scripts and screenplays. Dramatron uses hierarchical story generation for consistency across the generated text.
Dramatron
when human programmers use functions and libraries for the first time, they frequently refer to textual resources such as code manuals and documentation, to explore and understand the available functionality. Inspired by this observation, we introduce DocPrompting: a natural-language-to-code generation approach that explicitly leverages documentation by (1) retrieving the relevant documentation pieces given an NL intent, and (2) generating code based on the NL intent and the retrieved documentation.
[2207.05987] DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs
At deployment, ML or ops engineers need to translate these batch features into streaming features for the prediction pipeline and optimize them for latency.
Introduction to streaming for data scientists
The actor aims to maximize the expected return R t . = ∑ ∞ τ =0 γ τ r t + τ with a discount factor γ = 0 . 997 for each model state. To consider rewards beyond the prediction horizon T = 16 , the critic learns to predict the return of each state under the current actor behavior: Actor: a t ∼ π θ ( a t | s t ) Critic: v ψ ( s t ) ≈ E p φ ,π θ [ R t ] (6) Starting from representations of replayed inputs, the dynamics predictor and actor produce a sequence of imagined model states s 1: T , actions a 1: T , rewards r 1: T , and continuation flags c 1: T .
[2301.04104] Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
The actor and critic neural networks learn behaviors purely from abstract sequences predicted by the world mode
[2301.04104] Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
The world model learns compact representations of sensory inputs through autoencoding 23,24 and enables planning by predicting future representations and rewards for potential actions
[2301.04104] Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
We suggest symlog predictions as a simple solution to this dilemma.
[2301.04104] Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
Predicting large targets using a squared loss can lead to divergence whereas absolute and Huber losses 18 stagnate learning
[2301.04104] Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
The DreamerV3 algorithm consists of 3 neural networks—the world model, the critic, and the actor—that are trained concurrently from replayed experience without sharing gradients,
[2301.04104] Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
owever, applying algorithms to new application domains, for example from board games to video games or robotics tasks, requires expert knowledge and computational resources for tuning the algorithms 3 . This brittleness also hinders scaling to large models that are expensive to tune
[2301.04104] Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
My sense is that this individualism goes hand-in-hand with Taiwan’s general laid-back-ness, and its tolerance — when nobody is snapping at you to fall in line, you learn to pretty much do what you like.
Eleven days in Taiwan - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
Taiwan feels like a highly individualistic place
Eleven days in Taiwan - by Noah Smith - Noahpinion
accretion of remittance building projects over time shapes the social spaces of migration here (one point on the migration trajectory) and there (the second point on such trajectory),
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
aided by the nations’ geographic proximity and intertwined economies, institutionalized a back-and-forth or “circular migration.”
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
Thus it remains unknown how immigration policy and immigration flows specifically influenced the building of, and people’s experiences of, remittance landscapes in Italy, Poland, or China at that time
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
by moving back and forth between two or more places, migrants build alliances “there” through “here,” essentially expanding the scope of “home” to include both “there” and “here.”
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
. An architectural analysis of the spaces of their houses demonstrates remittance houses are a unit of analysis for larger social, political, and architectural discourses about migration and global building practices in rural localities.
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
focuses on how migration is interwoven with the hopes and dreams of building a house in one’s hometown.
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
the remittance house has crystallized migrant narratives and desires amid shifting cultural milieux. Artifacts of complex relationships, these houses are also embedded in the macro processes of globalization and transnational migration.
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
emphasize remitting and migration as key components of contemporary transnational building practices across the globe.
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
Nestled in a poor Mexican town reliant on sugar cane and corn farming, this mansion is an exceptional example of what I call the “remittance house.” This term refers to a house built with money earned by a Mexican migrant in the United States who sends dollars—remits—to Mexico for the construction of his or her dream house
AH110 - Material + Spatial Glocal Perspectives
To a large extent, the major business centers in the world today draw their importance from these transnational networks. There is no such entity as a single global city—and, in this sense, there is a sharp contrast with the erstwhile capitals of empires.
AH110 - Global Cities
Globalization has given rise to new information technologies, the intensifying of transnational and translocal dynamics, and the strengthening presence and voice of sociocultural diversity.
AH110 - Global Cities
These sociologists confronted massive processes—industrialization, urbanization, alienation, and a new cultural formation they called “urbanity.” Studying the city was not simply studying the urban. It was about studying the major social processes of an era.
AH110 - Global Cities
The city and the metropolitan region have become locations where major macrosocial trends materialize and hence can be constituted as an object of global studies
AH110 - Global Cities
Jacobs argued that utopian planners neglected to see the on-the-ground social relations that made city neighborhoods lively, vibrant places.
AH110 - Planning The City
Radiant City would facilitate and rationalize plans for mobility in the city, including multiple levels of roadway for automobile traffic.
AH110 - Planning The City
r planned to decongest the center of the city by creating organized density at the heart of his cities.
AH110 - Planning The City
City planning, according to LeCorbusier, was too important to be left in the hands of everyday people. Instead, he argued for the expertise of the city planner and the science of a profession to design cities.
AH110 - Planning The City
the Chicago School drew on paradigms from the natural sciences to understand social processes in the city. Through a model of human ecology, they introduced concepts like invasion and succession, symbiosis, and dominance and growth.
AH110 - Planning The City
the Chicago School used the city as a laboratory to understand the social processes of the modern metropolis.
AH110 - Planning The City
a group of sociologists at the University of Chicago began to explore the city as their urban laboratory. These sociologists, known as the Chicago School, emerged as the leading theorists of contemporary city life (~1915).
AH110 - Planning The City
Simmel suggests that the only way to survive everyday life in the contemporary city is through the adoption of a blasé attitude
AH110 - Planning The City
Howard identified nature, or “country” as the inseparable basis of physical and aesthetic expression in human society
AH110 - Planning The City
Howard proposed the garden city idea: unifying “town and country” in new and revitalized communities, as a central path toward resolving the mounting antagonisms of rapid urban growth; a garden city was to be set in nature as much as infused by nature throughout
AH110 - Planning The City
Their visions of each was expressed, respectively, as the Garden City and the Radiant City.
AH110 - Planning The City
The conditions of the industrializing city–the squalor described by Engels, for example–prompted the desire to plan cities.
AH110 - Planning The City
The Industrial Revolution that called the people of Europe to its cities did not automatically foster enlightened and effective government planning and housing policies
AH110 - Planning The City
The urbanite had become a hybrid, wholly dependent upon external conditions of supply and demand over which the individual had no control.
AH110 - Planning The City
What was new was the monotony of industrial work and the strict and constant supervision under which it was carried out. It may have been because the repetitive work was so dulling and dehumanizing—in addition to the fact that through the practice of child labor, adults had become socialized to accept their condition—that workers had neither the energy nor the will to successfully resist the imposition
AH110 - Planning The City
It was the dimensions of this growth that led Davis (1955, 433) to conclude that “the transformation thus achieved in the nineteenth century was the true urban revolution, for it meant not only the rise of a few scattered towns and cities, but the appearance of genuine urbanization in the sense that a substantial proportion of the population lived in towns and cities.”
AH110 - The Ancient City
a number of other changes, having no direct relationship to industrial or manufacturing technology, were occurring at the same time, each seemingly amplifying the effect of the others.
AH110 - The Ancient City