Revfad Blog

Category: Machine Learning

  • YOLO doesn’t see a poppy?

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    David Faden
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    I’m excited to start playing with You Only Look Once, https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/. The installation instructions worked beautifully: % git clone https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet% cd darknet% make% wget https://data.pjreddie.com/files/yolov3.weights% ./darknet detect cfg/yolov3.cfg yolov3.weights data/dog.jpg…data/dog.jpg: Predicted in 0.334838 seconds.dog: 57%car: 52%truck: 56%car: 62%bicycle: 59% Neat! I think this also my first time encountering this license: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet/blob/master/LICENSE.fuck. One little project I…

  • “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?”

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    David Faden
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    A couple thoughts looking at this fascinating paper from 2023: “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?”:

  • Short review: Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

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    David Faden
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    I enjoyed Emmanuel Ameisen’s book Building Machine Learning Powered Applications. (Companion Github repo.) I believe I’ve encountered most of the ideas in it before through work, etc., but it was still helpful to see them laid out altogether. (It makes me thankful again to coworkers who shared helpful ideas previously.) I also appreciated the interviews…