Zev Averbach

@[email protected]
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American in Switzerland, I love learning, coding (Python, C, web), and playing chess with my kiddos.
personal sitehttps://zev.averba.ch
pronounshe/him
Zev AverbachAug 26, 2023
KatJul 6, 2023
Twitter: I follow news and political giants, but all I see are bad people and arguments
Bluesky: I follow 10% of my old friends who were able to get out of twitter in time and sometimes it works
Threads: I follow my friends but I can’t see them through the algorithm of businesses
Mastodon: oh look a beekeeper in the Netherlands
Zev AverbachJul 24, 2023

Did you know if you shuffle a deck of cards eight times, it winds up the same as at the start??

https://github.com/zevaverbach/card_shuffling

(from the book "How Many Socks Make a Pair?")

GitHub - zevaverbach/card_shuffling

Contribute to zevaverbach/card_shuffling development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Zev AverbachJul 14, 2023
Axel RauschmayerJul 14, 2023
Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized
224GB/s, killer security, no radio interference—but you can't block the beam.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/light-based-lifi-promises-amazing-wireless-speeds-just-not-through-walls/
Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized

224GB/s, killer security, no radio interference—but you can't block the beam.

Ars Technica
Zev AverbachJul 10, 2023

Hey, I downloaded all my Freshbooks data using my own Python library for it; here's some details in case you ever need to:

https://zev.averba.ch/freshbooks

#python #freshbooks

How To Download All Your Freshbooks Clients and Invoices

Using my Freshbooks API wrapper, download all your data in JSON format.

Zev Averbach
Zev AverbachJul 7, 2023
Dr. Juande Santander-VelaJul 7, 2023

Some #FollowFriday recommendations in the LLM topic:

- @emilymbender is quite critical of the framing of Large Language Models (LLMs) as AI, the AI doomism, and how most journalist talk about LLMs.
- @alex cohosts the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 vidcast/podcast with Emily Bender, and is the Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute.
- @timnitGebru wrote the Stochastic Parrots paper, and was fired from Google for raising discrimination issues, and the real dangers of LLMs.

Zev AverbachJul 4, 2023
Hynek SchlawackJul 4, 2023
welcome @hjwp!
Show threadZev AverbachJul 4, 2023
@ainmosni Alfred, put the dock on the right and minimize it, kitty terminal, Moom for window management
Show threadZev AverbachJun 26, 2023
@mistersql thanks for taking the time, Matthew! Will take this to heart.
Zev AverbachJun 25, 2023

Anyone have a bead on how to promote yourself in the Fediverse?

I need to shout out my revised personal site in the coming weeks, along with a lot of new writeups about past projects, and I'm wondering how best to do that.

Back in the blue check swamp there was more of a feedback loop in the form of likes/retweets. I'm wondering if the dearth of that here is due to being on a small instance??

Would appreciate any advice, please re-toot.

Zev AverbachJun 13, 2023
Simon WillisonJun 13, 2023

Blogged a few notes on the flurry of API announcements from OpenAI today - I'm most excited about the new Functions support (effectively the ReAct pattern baked into their APIs) and the new gpt-3.5-turbo-16k model, which offers a 16,000 token context limit (4x the existing 3.5 turbo model) at a price of $0.003 per 1K input tokens and $0.004 per 1K output tokens—1/10th the price of GPT-4 8k

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jun/13/function-calling/

OpenAI: Function calling and other API updates

Huge set of announcements from OpenAI today. A bunch of price reductions, but the things that most excite me are the new gpt-3.5-turbo-16k model which offers a 16,000 token context …