👋 Inspired by recent conversations with friends, and based on a long history of automating away every job I've ever had (from data processing to PM work):

Am sharing a few ways that I'm using Gemini 1.5 and 2M+ tokens of context in @GoogleAIStudio to automate the boring parts of DevRel and UXR!

Reminder that you can stuff quite a bit into 2M+ tokens (hours of video, years of emails, full codebases, etc.) and that, over time, we expect 2M tokens ➡️ infinity, cost ➡️ $0, latency ➡️ near instant. (1) Uploading a dated codebase (in this case, Flax 0.7.5), and a newer version of the codebase (Flax 0.8.5), then analyzing changes.

You can generate documentation changes based on the differences in code; blog posts or release notes describing the code changes; and - a favorite - update old tutorials based on the new versions of the APIs.

✨🤔 Wondering how far a person can get with "make this code faster", "make this code more readable and reusable", "refactor this code to be more concise" in the prompt.

👇🏻Am also impressed Bard deduced that I was attempting to implement a multiplication table! ✨👩‍💻 Jazzed to imagine a future where we all have friendly, competent technical assistants that cheerfully answer n00b questions about chemistry, physics, math, and programming.

📝 Citing sources would be a strong next step, just as we cite potentially recited code in snippets!

👩‍💻 If this is what ChatGPT is like (a variant of InstructGPT), then GPT-4 is going to be *bonkers*.

👇🏻A thread of my favorite examples of ChatGPT, for source code-related tasks:

https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598077257498923010

https://twitter.com/ntkris/status/1598293124471668737

📊 Is anyone else *super* dissatisfied with the tech industry's preferred/tracked open-source metrics?

@github stars; pip install or download counts; @-mentions or tags on social media: all of these stats can, and will, be gamed. We can do much better!

👇🏻Here are some ideas: @github (1) Projects listing a particular repo as a dependency.

This can be easily tracked via GitHub's dependency graph, or by scraping which Dockerfiles, conda environment YAMLs, etc. reference a library or framework.

🤖 Reinforcement learning in production is a very nascent space, but a fast-growing and multi-faceted one (everything from game dev to operations research)!

👇To showcase this, am compiling a list of projects that are using @raydistributed and RLlib to enable their experiments: @raydistributed (1) 👾 Game development

Everything from multi-agent reinforcement learning; to game balancing and boss optimization; and (even sometimes outside of the realm of RL, but still powered by Ray): in-app game recommendations.

https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1521632353520553984

The longer I work on open-source ML tools, the more convinced I become in decoupling libraries.

Crafting simple, delightful, and composable user-facing APIs is *endlessly difficult*; you shouldn't also have to have a PhD in distributed systems in order to make those APIs scale. Library authors should be able to focus on building concise, extensible features for their users–that help domain experts go from having an idea, to realizing it, as quickly as possible.

Asking those authors to worry about hardware, or data / model parallelism, is unreasonable.

Would ❤️ to see @Gradio support for @RayDistributed Serve!

🙌 Serve enables model composition (stitching multiple models together, in an inference pipeline); auto-scaling; and the integration of arbitrary Python business logic, based on inputs / outputs:

github.com/ray-project/ra… @Gradio @raydistributed What might models+business logic stitched together in a pipeline look like?

🛰Cycle through 10K+ satellite images
☁️Remove all images w/ cloud cover
🌊If a satellite image shows a sediment plume:
📐Estimate the size/volume of the plume
🌧Log volume, lat/long, and recent rainfall

🧵 Are you interested in recreating a similar experience in VS @Code, using open-source extensions and tools?

👇 Thread below:

https://twitter.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/1497031777986117632

@code 📝 For docstring & source code generation: check out @HuggingFace's open-source alternative to Copilot, called Code Clippy, which is powered by GPT-J:

github.com/CodedotAl/gpt-…

(And for additional features like source code explanation, check out Copilot!)

https://twitter.com/ferdinandboas/status/1417756499498131459

Your company and your projects can get considerable value out of traditional machine learning methods, *without* giant language models or massively-scaled architectures —

just like you can still exercise, or hike, or rock climb, even if you aren't prepping to conquer Everest. Also: traditional models are generally cheaper to implement; more straightforward to explain and understand; and easier to maintain.

Giant models are exciting, from a research perspective; & can unlock capabilities. But you don't *have* to use them, if a smaller hammer works. 🤷‍♀️

"Software experts are—of necessity— comfortable with high cognitive friction. They pride themselves on their ability to work in spite of its adversity.

Normal humans, who are new users of these products, lack the expertise
to judge whether the cognitive friction is avoidable." "High cognitive friction polarizes people: it either makes them
feel frustrated & stupid for failing, or giddy with power at overcoming the extreme difficulty.

These people either adopt cognitive friction as a lifestyle, or
they go underground and accept it as a necessary evil."

TIL that Claude Shannon's revelation that 0s and 1s could convey information was a *master's thesis*, and that he was only twenty-one. 😲 "He gave engineers the conceptual tools to digitize information and send it flawlessly (or, to be precise, with an arbitrarily small amount of error) -- a result considered hopelessly utopian up until the moment Shannon proved it was not."

"I get taught life lessons all the time. Probably the most important one is that people will tell you [that] you can’t do something, and you have to ignore them because you can."

- Alan Cooper, @ComputerHistory Oral History (2017)

archive.computerhistory.org/resources/acce… "Are you working to become a good ancestor -- to make something truly interesting -- or are you just working to make money?

Because you can make money by burning villages down and rebuilding them; that’s a good way to make money, but it’s not a good way to be a good ancestor."

A thread:

College had always been very grad-school-focused, for me: do the NSF REUs, do the industry internships, take the GRE, get a PhD, be lady Carl Sagan.

But halfway through senior year, my mom got very sick (heart issues); and I needed to get a big-girl-job to support us. Role: developing geophysics plug-ins & geoprocessing scripts at Chevron.

That job isn't something that I would have selected, by a long mile—but it let me experiment with machine learning, with data science, and with tools like Spark, on massive amounts of accelerators/compute.

Hey, internet: just in case you're not one of those engineers who hears "Hey, compilers!" and comes running delightedly, here's a thread on why I think #MLIR is going to transform the machine learning industry:

(1/n)

for more technical details, ref: ai.google/research/pubs/… We're seeing an explosion of domain-specific accelerated hardware (yay!).

@GoogleAI's TPUs are an example of this, sure; but you also have @Apple's specialized chips for iPhones, @BaiduResearch's Kunlun, and literally *thousands* of others.

The way that you program for
(2/n)

had a really odd dream that I co-founded a startup

pitch: applying transfer learning concepts to education

(ex: if you're an engineer who is adept at natural language processing, what additional machine learning concepts would you need to master to solve computer vision tasks?) 🧠 we used @KhanAcademy data to train the models (zero idea how imaginary-startup got access to it, but 🤷‍♀️)

the dream ended with our acquisition by @Coursera, who eventually seized complete control of the undergraduate (101- and 201-level) and enterprise education markets 💪

✨💡 This is an ace idea from @sarah_edo! 💕

👩‍💻 Be on the lookout for a @TensorFlow Advent Calendar tomorrow, as well, highlighting meaningful, high-impact projects and papers from our community. If you'd like for yours to be considered, please shoot me an @-mention!

https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1068500649233563649

✨#TFadvent begins today! 😄

For our first project, I'd like to highlight this accessibility example from @shekitup that uses @TensorFlowJS to interpret sign language—and then translates those signs into input that can be used by a home assistant! 🗣️✨

medium.com/tensorflow/get…

Noogler training doesn't start until tomorrow (😭), so have spent the day derping around @Stanford!

(I think that this was the first building I ever wandered into, back in July 2010 - was presenting a poster at the Lunar Science Forum, and had 30min to dash on/off campus. 🤗💕) 👩‍🎓HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS #ClassCrashing

✨🧠 The ecosystem that has grown up around @TensorFlow in the last few years blows my mind. There's just so much functionality, compared to some of the other, newer frameworks.

👉Consider this an ever-expanding thread for me to take notes + wrap my brain around products. Ready? 1) @TensorFlow Extended (TFX)

It's no secret that I 💕 #TFX and all of its tooling for deploying machine learning models into production. If you care about keeping your models up-to-date and monitoring them, you should check out the product + its paper.

tensorflow.org/tfx/?hl=zh-cn

a friend asked me to play with @meitu_kr (app) because she wants me to explain what filters are applied / if any are deep learning related

this retouching is CRAZY 😳

📃: Facial skin beautification via sparse representation over learned layer dictionary ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/77275… ✨💄The company has an entire research team dead-focused on "beautifying" images/video (MTLab: Meitu Imaging and Vision Lab), and a slew of academic publications: mtlab.meitu.com/en/article

👉 It also looks like they'll be releasing an API / SDK soon: mtlab.meitu.com/en/apply

👋 Hi, friends! A couple of folks DM-ed asking about the difference between @GoogleColab and @GoogleCloud #DataLab.

📒 Both services are built with @ProjectJupyter, and look kinda similar; and both are useful for data exploration! - but that is the extent of the overlap. (1/n) ✨📒 @GoogleColab doesn’t require any setup or other @Google products to be used; though notebooks are stored on @GoogleDrive.

It’s intended primarily for interactive use- which means some long-running background processes may be stopped. It currently only supports Python. (2/n)

✨👩‍💻 Spent the morning diving deep into @GoogleCloud to create demos for my upcoming geoscience ML workshop.

🧠 The learning curve for any new cloud platform is steep; but I found so many nifty new features!

Ex: free deep learning image cloud.google.com/deep-learning-…

#LearnInPublic ✨📒 Tbh, though: have mostly been living in @GoogleColab.

You can run @TensorFlow, @scikit_learn, etc. for free directly in a browser using CPU/GPU/TPU; and there are a wealth of example notebooks available to play with.

Ex: this deep-dive on ethical ML
pair-code.github.io/facets/