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Jan 4 5 tweets 2 min read
Books I read in 2022.

I wrote a short summary, my thoughts, and some excerpts I thought represented the book so you can see if it’s something you’d be interested in.

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Some favorites:

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

A human data processor trained to encrypt data with his mind to protect it from criminal groups.

Two intertwined stories between dystopian Tokyo and a strange isolated town
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The beautiful Dorian Gray makes an impulsive wish to stay young while his portrait remains the same, aging over time to absorb the damage of his wild life.

Genius writing and dialog that explores our obsession with youth and beauty.
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Dystopian fantasy novel about a world where ashes fall from the sky and the lower classes are enslaved by the immortal Lord Ruler and his aristocrats. A group uses a type of magic called allomancy, to draw magical powers from metals, to fight back.
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

Aphoristic musings on a wide range of topics such as morality, religion, psychology, art, and science. It is written in an energetic, poetic, rhapsodic style. Controversial and guaranteed to provoke a reaction. Not for everyone.

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Nov 1, 2022
What is "Zero-Shot", "One-Shot", "Few-Shot", and "Fine-Tuning" in the context of @openai #gpt3?

From the #gpt3 paper
arxiv.org/pdf/2005.14165…

These terms refer to how many examples a language model needs to perform a task
"Fine-Tuning" is the most common and traditional approach.

100s to 100k+ labeled examples are used. It has strong performance on many benchmarks but needs a new large dataset for every task.

It's better for specific use cases than general tasks.
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Intended to be "worldly" advice for students to develop an understanding of strategy before studying his tactics and philosophy. Image
"Do not think dishonestly."
"The Way is in training."
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🌩️ Tweet Storm about how to use the latest AI and NLP techniques for note-taking, personal knowledge management, and productivity.

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Graph Analysis

There are lots of graph theory techniques to analyze your notes..

Imagine a "social network" for Game of Thrones. You could see how "Daenerys" is related to "Jon Snow" and the other characters. Image
Definitely try the @logseq Graph analysis plugin which uses "Adamic-Adar" to calculate similarity. It can also discover paths between distant notes.

github.com/trashhalo/logs…

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How to use #gpt3 for #gpt3poweredlearning like my machine learning study guide:

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1. Ask it to create a high level study guide:

"Write a curriculum for a ${type of person} to study ${topic}" Image
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"Write a curriculum for ${type of person} to study the most important ${subtopic} concepts for ${topic}" Image
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