Ben Schmidt / @benmschmidt@vis.social
VP of Information Design @nomic_ai, building new ways to understand, explore, and edit embedding models. Former history professor and digital humanist.
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Big day for the Web: Chrome just shipped WebGPU without flags. Someone on @nomic_ai's GPT4All discord asked me to ELI5 what this means, so I'm going to cross-post it hereβit's more...
@jeffmanuel @A_NeedhamNYU @LarryGlickman Yeah the UX is on a shoestring because they don't have the immense resources to focus on any one of the many different types of collections...
@A_NeedhamNYU @LarryGlickman Oof Andrew you gotta put a trigger warning for me on this kind of content--the last thing I did at NYU was supervise a data science student training mo...
@thomasgpadilla Putting on my hat: I mean, in the US context railroads got 1/12 of the land in the West for free and provoked massive discontent until the establishment of the Inte...
I think we can call it shut on 'Open' AI: the 98 page paper introducing GPT-4 proudly declares that they're disclosing *nothing* about the contents of their training set. https://t...
@clured @hippopedoid @pavlinpolicar @nsmarkov There are ways to make it look worse, and I'm sure Pachter will find them eventually. E.g. you could plot the second largest number in...
@miriamkp @dennismhogan I did this as a grad student for my advisor--not all the archives, but 'take a scan through the Rawls papers,' etc. Something I've been thinking about how/w...
This "End of the English major" article ain't very good... The cardinal sin is continuing elite media's myopic focus on Harvard. (Amplified by treating ASU, itself a major research...
@jtheibault FWIW, pretty sure this is a poor explainer of the mechanics of chatGPT... The model it presents is that it's perpetually picking the next word at a time (A theory of ec...
@seefryar @karpmj yeah there's a really difficult challenge here if Af-Am (or black history generally) gets set up as a lifeline to a discipline that can only change slowly and tha...
@MilHist_Lee @jdryan08 @HealeyParera @JakeAnbinder @dbessner @jnthnwwlsn There are shades of grey in literally everything. But many, many history PhD students are trained at depts...
@ConorRestall @blprnt Yeah, that's similar to what I'm doing. What's your cost threshold for the original graph creation? @kcimc and I were talking about what the maximum would be-...