@ori If you have contact to the alumni organization of EPFL, be sure to send them an email! And tell your other alumni colleagues, so they can do the same. I think if you're a critical mass (20? 30?), this might speed it up a lot.

We discussed it internally, but so far it was a: "not really sure if it's worth the trouble"...

Seems to be another #LLM #TLDR day :) I like this essay "The Bullshit Machines", here some nice quotes:

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BULLSHIT involves language or other forms of communication intended to appear authoritative or persuasive without regard to its actual truth or logical consistency.

ANTHROPOGLOSSIC systems are computer programs or algorithms designed to mimic the way that humans use language.

We are easy prey for an anthropoglossic machine: surely a machine that writes like us must also think like us.
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https://thebullshitmachines.com/

Now I need to read the second half of the lessons :)

A nice TLDR from a 3.5h deep-dive into LLMs. I'm also proud because for the last 2.5 years I have been catching up with how these things work, and most of the TLDR is known to me :)

I have still a lot of questions, though...

https://anfalmushtaq.com/articles/deep-dive-into-llms-like-chatgpt-tldr

#LLM #TLDR #deep-dive #article

We have mastodon at #epfl now! If you have an @epfl.ch mail address (doesn't work for the alumni (yet), but make some noise, and you might be added :), you can join here:

https://social.epfl.ch

Funny thing happened yesterday when giving my email address @gasser.blue to an insurer:

me: "[email protected]"
she: "@gasser.bluewin.ch"
bluewin.ch is a common provider here
me: "No, @gasser.blue only"
she: "OK, @gasser.blue.ch"
me: "No, just @gasser.blue"
she: "???"
me: "Yes, it's not common, but actually an allowed name"
she: "Ah, that's funny, I didn't know. All good then!"

I thought it was interesting: very smart to fix common mistakes people make, but not geeky enough (yet) to know all TLDs by heart :)