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@yoavgo

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@yoavgo
Nov 4, 2023
Replying to @yoavgo
what there is no overwhelming agreement on is what will happen the day after. how do we build a livable future here, for both israelis and palestinians. israel leadership is not thinking of this now, future looks grim. THIS is where protest effort and outrage should be invested.
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@yoavgo
Mar 30, 2021
first gen phenomena: my parents recently googled me, discovered google scholar, enrolled to get updates from my profile. and now they constantly forward me google update emails with remarks like "10 new citations! so proud of you son!!"
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@yoavgo
Apr 22, 2023
I was puzzled for a while as to why we need RL for LM training, rather than just using supervised instruct tuning. I now have a convincing argument, which is also reflected in a recent talk by @johnschulman2 . I summarize it in this post:
rl-for-llms.md
From gist.github.com
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@yoavgo
Apr 22, 2024
Replying to @_selftitled_
אם את חלק מההפגנה ודאי שאין מה לחוש מאויימת ממנה..
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@yoavgo
May 7, 2023
the birth story of json is so cool. "we needed a way to transfer data between the server and the client, and xml was terrible to parse, so we thought if we just format it as javascript, the browser will parse it for us". >>>
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@yoavgo
Jan 28, 2025
deepseek published their V3 model a month ago and that's where all the efficiency stuff was disclosed and discussed. why are people having the meltdown only now, after the R1 release?
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@yoavgo
Jan 17, 2023
the real issue w/ "understanding the math behind machine learning" is that, esp with the newer models, this will not really buy you anything. you can have a complete mechanistic understanding of everything in the process, it will not help you understand why/how these things work.
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@yoavgo
Mar 23, 2025
lex fridman is blabbering about his college days programming "if you wanted to write a chess engine you'd do it in lisp, all i remember is a sea of parenthesis, i wrote a chess engine, i played against the thing and it beat me" and i call bullshit, dude you were born in 1983.
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@yoavgo
Jun 24, 2023
"LLM understands X" is very different from: "LLM can answer correctly some questions that involve X" which is in turn very different from: "with the right prompt we can get the LLM to answer correctly some questions that involve X"
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@yoavgo
Dec 2, 2022
amazing. everyone are enthusiastically RTing this "breakthrough", but the actual explanation of the regex is plain wrong.
James Blackwell
@jwblackwell
Nov 30, 2022
OpenAI's new ChatGPT is mind-blowing. Asking it to explain a complicated regex with no context…
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@yoavgo
Sep 1, 2021
קצת חצופים שם ב-@TheMarker
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@yoavgo
Aug 27, 2021
my two cents on why NLP as a field is focusing on the ML-ish / algorithmic / leaderboard-ish aspects (incl., now, LLMs) and not on the underlying language phenomena: it is just so much easier, on so many levels.
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@yoavgo
Jul 28, 2024
Replying to @y0cuando
i thought you wanted israelis to leave palestine, no?
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@yoavgo
Jan 5, 2025
i was annoyed at having many chrome tabs with PDF papers having uninformative titles, so i created a small chrome extension to fix it. i'm using it for a while now, works well. today i put it on github. enjoy. github.com/yoavg/pdf-tab-…
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