Vlad Iliescu 🐬

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Machine learning at NRGI.ai, Microsoft MVP on AI.

tfr b/c wtfn

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Vlad Iliescu 🐬Jan 19, 2025
It's been like this for over 30 seconds. #joyofusingmastodon
Vlad Iliescu 🐬Jan 19, 2025
Hugging Face's smolagents do have a sense of humor 😅
Vlad Iliescu 🐬Dec 16, 2024

I've tried to document my thought process for picking a dependency injection library, and I've ended up with a bit of a rant on the state of DI in FastAPI/Python.

https://vladiliescu.net/better-dependency-injection-in-fastapi/

(Better) dependency injection in FastAPI

A bit of a rant on the state dependency injection in Python/FastAPI, and an implementation using the Injector and FastAPI-Injector libraries

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Vlad Iliescu 🐬May 15, 2024
Vincent D. WarmerdamMay 15, 2024

✨Announcement Time✨

I've been working on something new that's out now: a NLP with spaCy course. It's a collaboration with @mkennedy from TalkPythonTraining. I've always loved his podcasts and it was super cool to work together.

https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/getting-started-with-spacy

If you're keen to explore NLP or spaCy, curious how to run data projects or eager to see what Huggingface/LLMs may offer these days ... it might be just the course for you.

Proceeds also help support the Python podcasts.

Getting Started with NLP and spaCy course

There is a lot of text data out there and maybe you're interested in getting structured data out of it. Maybe ...

Talk Python
Vlad Iliescu 🐬Apr 19, 2024
Simon WillisonApr 18, 2024
Love this theory by @alexhern that the reason ChatGPT uses words like "delve" a lot is that OpenAI outsource a lot of their RLHF annotation to workers in Nigeria, and Nigerian formal English has a slightly different vocabulary https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/16/techscape-ai-gadgest-humane-ai-pin-chatgpt
TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. Plus, new AI gadgets are coming for your smartphones

The Guardian
Vlad Iliescu 🐬Mar 15, 2024

New newsletter issue is out, this time it's about a new GenAI community that’s entirely unrelated to that Gen V series you prolly haven’t seen, a brilliant article comparing the mass-production of digital goods to the mass-production of physical goods, tips on speeding up batches of OpenAI calls, and some safety info for when you just want to try out new PyTorch models.

https://vlad.substack.com/p/genaiclubro-artisans-speeding-up

GenAIClub.ro, artisans, speeding up OpenAI, and staying safe when downloading random models

Hi friends, and welcome to another issue of this newsletter! Let’s see what’s on the menu — a new GenAI community that’s entirely unrelated to that Gen V series you prolly haven’t seen, a brilliant article comparing the mass-production of digital goods to the mass-production of physical goods, tips on speeding up batches of OpenAI calls, and some safety info for when you just want to try out new PyTorch models.

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Vlad Iliescu 🐬Mar 2, 2024
arnicasMar 1, 2024
My newsletter today covers AI video gen (weirdness), new image gen tools, lots of game articles, tools for visualizing embeddings, a great video about NPC labor, a good LLM poetics article from Allison Parrish... sf&f book recs! etc! #ai #books #games https://open.substack.com/pub/arnicas/p/titaa-52-latent-ghosts-fiddling?r=sv8a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
TITAA #52: Latent Ghosts Fiddling

Video Gen Fun - Image Gen Alts - NPC Labor - Embedding Vis - Dune Ornithopters - Game AI Reports

Vlad Iliescu 🐬Feb 10, 2024
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Feb 9, 2024

Me: opens Xcode

Me: “ok nerds, watch and learn”

Me: chat.OpenAI.com

“How do I remove duplicate rows from a table where the id matches in swift using the c SQLite api”

Vlad Iliescu 🐬Dec 10, 2023
Waxy.orgDec 8, 2023
World of Goo 2: the classic physics puzzler is getting a sequel 15 years after the original https://worldofgoo2.com/
World of Goo 2

Vlad Iliescu 🐬Dec 8, 2023
Martin Paul EveDec 7, 2023
Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois (@ted_underwood)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-underwood-ai-optimist-humanities-language-literature-research-bill-gates-2023-12
Our greatest AI visionary isn't Sam Altman or Bill Gates. It's Ted Underwood.

In a world filled with AI skeptics and chatbot alarmists, Ted Underwood is making one of the strongest cases for the value of artificial intelligence.

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