Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
"Your diet doesn't need a name or a belief system, just enough nutrients."
@martykendall2
“Relentless execution without knowing what to execute is a crime.”
Steve Blank
“they are experimenting unnecessarily when the problem is not yet known”
Melissa Perri
“The skill of actually figuring out what you need is probably as important as what you do after you figure it out.”
Pradeep GanapathyRaj via Matt LeMay
“The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.”
Naval
- I've been asked by few first year PhD about how to start LLM research on X, say long context modeling. My number one suggestion -- though it seems a bit of unconventional -- is *not* to read any papers related to long-context, but to talk to the model - Talk to the model about a text book, course slides, financial reports, novels, nonfictions, any... See more
- @emollick Put in the reps. If you aren't hitting the chatGPT cap multiple times a day, you have 0 business reading a research paper The open area of research is what can we use LLMs for, not how do we build better LLMs and the papers are outdated anyways
- It is odd when folks get mad when I say AI is already useful. We are only 18 months into LLMs & there have already been many controlled trials finding LLMs are useful, firms have public case studies with real metrics, etc Lots of reasons to critique AI, “uselessness” isn’t one.