Nicolay Gerold

💰 PayPal is planning an ad network built off your purchase history LINK

PayPal plans to create an ad network using data from billions of customer transactions to target ads more effectively.

The new ad initiative, led by Mark Grether, aims to help businesses sell more by using PayPal's detailed knowledge of users' purchasing histories.

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We can't share the exact formula for our search ranking, but here are the few parameters we consider:

• Exact match (rank #1)


• Frequency of matching lexemes using ts_rank


• Similarity score using similarity


• Type of record


• Popularity of the search result


• Similarity between the result’s alias and query


• Inverse of the result’s string length

Amershi et al . [3] state that software teams “flight” changes or updates to ML models, often by testing them on a few cases prior to live deployment. Our work provides further context into the evaluation and deployment process for production ML pipelines: we found that several organizations, particularly those with many customers, employed a... See more

Disruptors reading this today, look to that top right quadrant. Those are the low-hanging, productizable fruit.

One bonus consideration: It’s worth studying the services that have high failure rates and been difficult to perform in the past. Can AI do much better? Then it’s worth pursuing.

In your sport of choice:

Perform a 5-minute Zone 5 effort. Make this a Very Hard effort but leave yourself room to improve next time.

Calculate the average power, or pace, of this effort.

The following week, perform 5x one-minute efforts at that power/pace.

Rest duration is equal to work. So 5x 1/1 will take you ten minutes.

Because of the rest, you... See more

eneral-purpose models

• 1.1B: TinyDolphin 2.8 1.1B. Takes about ~700MB RAM and tested on my Pi 4 with 2 gigs of RAM. Hallucinates a lot, but works for basic conversation.


• 2.7B: Dolphin 2.6 Phi-2. Takes over ~2GB RAM and tested on my 3GB 32-bit phone via llama.cpp on Termux.


• 7B: Nous Hermes Mistral 7B DPO. Takes about ~4-5GB RAM depending on

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Adala is an Autonomous DA ta (Labeling) Agent framework.

Adala offers a robust framework for implementing agents specialized in data processing, with an emphasis on diverse data labeling tasks. These agents are autonomous, meaning they can independently acquire one or more skills through iterative learning. This learning process is influenced by... See more

Trying to get a better understanding of how prompts work in relation to fine-tunes, and trying to see if any of them are actually reliable enough to be used in a "production" type environment.

My end goals are basically

• A reliable AI assistant that I know is safe, secure and private. Any information about myself, my household or my proprietary ideas

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