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Interactive Mutation Browser

The Century of Biology • 1 HN point • 23 Apr 23

🕹 Technology AI Web Software Programming ML

AI has revolutionized workflows in research, writing, and coding.
Challenges in academic publication push researchers to share new tools and research results in alternative ways.
Exploring new UI designs for protein language models can open up exciting possibilities for biologists.

Hot Topics #19 (Feb. 21, 2023)

The Merge • 0 implied HN points • 22 Feb 23

🕹 Technology ML Robotics Models Optimization Algorithms

Molecular optimization using multi-objective Bayesian optimization and GFlowNets.
Discovery of a simple and effective optimization algorithm, Lion, for deep neural network training.
DreamerV3 algorithm based on world models outperforms previous approaches in various domains.

Hot Topics #22 (Apr. 3, 2023)

The Merge • 0 implied HN points • 03 Apr 23

🕹 Technology ML Optimization Language Models Machine Learning Robotics

Fast Imitation of Skills from Humans (FISH) can train robots with less than a minute of demonstrations.
Regularization and Lipschitz regularization are key in Optimal Transport-Based Distributionally Robust Optimization.
Chain of Hindsight technique helps align language models with human preferences by training on feedback sequences.

Subjective AI/ML Digest: April II

Boris Again • 0 implied HN points • 23 Apr 23

🕹 Technology AI ML Research Applications Risks

Language models used to create believable simulations
New open-source language models with large parameters and datasets
Innovative AI projects like ChatGPT and DINOv2 making advancements

Hot Topics #23 (May 2, 2023)

The Merge • 0 implied HN points • 02 May 23

🕹 Technology ML

Boosted Prompt Ensembles can enhance large language models' performance for reasoning
Large language models like ChatGPT can excel in relevance ranking for Information Retrieval tasks
Autonomous driving systems can be trained efficiently using deep RL without simulation or expert demonstrations

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MythBusting LLMs: From GPU-rich Dreams to GPT-4's Gleam!

ScaleDown • 0 implied HN points • 19 Sep 23

🕹 Technology AI ML Computing Resources Innovation

Building your own GPT-4 equivalent is not easy
Having an LLM won't automatically give you a competitive edge
Having more GPUs doesn't always mean better outcomes

🥟 Chao-Down #253 Sam Altman looks to raise billions for AI chip factories, AI-generated products are coming to video podcast advertising, Amazon's struggles with making a next-gen "remarkable" Alexa

Chaos Theory • 0 implied HN points • 22 Jan 24

🕹 Technology AI Ethics Models ML Research

Sam Altman is looking to raise billions for AI chip factories.
AI-generated products are coming to video podcast advertising.
Amazon is facing challenges in making a next-gen 'remarkable' Alexa.

Underdog joins the fight

ML Under the Hood • 0 implied HN points • 05 Oct 23

🕹 Technology AI Cloud Models ML

Anthropic partners with Amazon in a $4B deal, offering access to second best LLM model through an API on AWS Bedrock
Cloudflare introduces Workers AI to run low-power LLM models worldwide, aiming for data localization compliance
Mistral AI releases a powerful 7B model with Apache 2.0 license, outperforming larger models and providing true open-source capability

Hot Topics #18 (Feb. 14, 2023)

The Merge • 0 implied HN points • 14 Feb 23

🕹 Technology ML Bioinformatics Code generation

Machine learning model predicts activation energies of hydrogen atom transfer in proteins
CodeBERTScore evaluates code generation using pretrained models
SWARM parallelism offers efficient communication for training large models

Heard the news? LLaMa is open source now. In a way...

ML Under the Hood • 0 implied HN points • 05 Mar 23

🕹 Technology ML OpenAI Product Development

LLaMa, a new GPT 3.0 model, is now open source for researchers to access and try out.
Running the LLaMa model requires decent hardware like Nvidia 3090 with 24GB VRAM and normal RAM.
OpenAI has introduced GPT-3.5 Turbo, which is not only better but also 10 times cheaper to use.