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senior software engineer in conversational ai. working primarily with php & laravel. he/him

current fixations: conversational games

Websitehttps://elliotmassen.com/
@thomas Agreed. Although, what do you make of GitHub's hijacking when you are vieiwng file contents? As large code files aren't always fully rendered, the hijacked CMD+F allows you to find across content that might not yet be rendered.
@simonhamp Big fan of Netlify here too!

There's so much going on in the LLM space right now! July saw the announcement of three new developments in large language models: Llama 2, Claude 2 & OverflowAI. As a way to help myself stay up-to-date with it all, in this post, I'll provide a very brief summary of each model.

https://elliotmassen.com/posts/three-new-llms-july-23/

Three new Large Language Models announced in July

July 2023 saw the announcement of three new developments in large language models: Meta’s Llama 2, Anthropic’s Claude 2, and StackOverflow’s OverflowAI. In this post, I’ll provide a very brief summary of each model. While it’s promising to see the space continue to expand beyond OpenAI’s offerings, many questions still exist surrounding training data ownership, reliability, and biases of these models. Llama 2 Meta’s Llama 2 model is a general purpose large language model that was released on 18th July.

@ramsey Ooh I might have to give that a go!
having a bunch of fun looking into the various haunts of cybernetics. i really had no previous sense that it was such a broad field
i had no idea until recently how on earth guitar pickups work. it's really interesting stuff. anything that's to do with magnets instantly becomes ten times more
intriguing to me.

I've recently got into a decent habit of reading lots of great articles on software engineering, tech, AI, etc - so I thought to collate them each month and share any thoughts or highlights. Here's a few articles I bookmarked last month.

https://elliotmassen.com/posts/from-the-bookmarks-december-2022/

From the Bookmarks: December 2022

December came and went before I knew it! And now here we are in 2023 all of a sudden. Thankfully I still found some time to read some interesting articles. Here’s a few bookmarks from December: Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming “Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming” by Christoffer Ekerot highlights the importance of smaller, constrained languages that perform a small set of tasks well. The article makes an argument that although higher level languages are useful for many tasks, to solve a problem they require you to write an algorithm, whereas little languages (while providing less capabilities) worry about the algorithm(s) for you.

@levofski Out of interest, where are you planning to migrate to?
@rolfdenhartog Welcome! 👋🏻 Same here re. Laravel - although still using facades! 😂
@randohinn Welcome :)