The log that dare not speak its name.
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Ben Schmidt
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VP Information Design, Nomic, building interfaces to latent spaces with data visualization; onetime history & digital humanities professor.
Anyone know what the metaphor underlying Peirce's type-token distinction is? I think I always sort of assumed it was about typography, but it's actually numismatics, right? Is that widely understood?
@simon I think I remember seeing you in 2022 or early 2023 write about how LLMs are really good at helping API design, since they have seen all the APIs in the world and know what developers will be expecting. Do you know where that is? Writing an internal doc about API design, wanted to link to it.
Today Nomic released version 3.0 of GPT4All, the easiest and best way to run LLMs on your own computer without the cloud. Fully FOSS. If you haven't ever run a private local LLM -- or even if it's been 6 months -- try some of the llama3 or mistral derivatives, and chat locally with your own documents. It's remarkable how good open-source local quantized models have gotten, even as commercial models have been stuck at GPT-4 level for a year.
Come work at Nomic! I'm hiring a front end/Web engineer to build the next generation of data interfaces for curating, exploring, and model-building from text and image data. Apply here or pass it on: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/nomic.ai/42e7a74f-9a26-42fb-9b48-5af6b0698045
I appeared on a podcast with Paul Butler talking about browser technologies: https://podcast.browsertech.com/episodes/ben-schmidt-of-nomic-talks-webgl-and-webgpu-for-ai-embedding-visualization
Browsertech | Ben Schmidt of Nomic talks WebGL and WebGPU for AI embedding visualization
Paul was joined by Ben Schmidt of Nomic to talk WebGL, WebGPU, and the challenges of visualizing large-scale AI embeddings in the browser.Nomic links:NomicBen Schmidt@nomic_ai on twitter@benschmidt...
Does anyone know why and when Google Maps switched back from using a globe at the farthest-out zoom levels, and back to Web Mercator? (I would guess the answer is A/B testing revealed people got confused and they turned t off quietly, but maybe there's a story somewhere?)
Andrew GoldstoneVictory for CFU-UAW! NYU's non-tenure-track faculty voted 553-72 for the union. Those are the numbers we like to see. This is a nationally significant victory for the fastest-growing category of faculty in the US—and for all who care about the quality of higher education.
There is power in a union! #solidarity
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/new-york-universitys-non-tenure-faculty-elect-union-in-uaw-win
According to the most recent Stack Overflow poll most Rust programmers aren't even old enough to vote!