I think CodeGemma is great but I also worked on so I'm biased. The 2B model especially is fasssssssssssttttttttttt, even on CPU architectures.

Try it out yourself.

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Here's a quick video on how to tune Gemini Pro

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AI Village is back for DEF CON 32! We're looking for talks on all things ML + Security, but this year we're getting small! 'Smart' devices, AVs, on-device facial recognition, and more! Show us how you broke them!

Submission deadline is 12-May-2024! aiv2024.hotcrp.com

Think Python updates:

I just posted new chapters at allendowney.github.io/ThinkPython

It is available now for pre-order from Bookshop.org, which supports local bookstores
bookshop.org/a/98697/978109…

And we're on schedule to ship mid-June!

The GenAI guidebook is now restructured around the most common personas I've seen such as App Developer, or Fundamentals enthusiast, Policy Maker, or Executive.

Check them out here. Many new articles to come

ravinkumar.com/GenAiGuidebook…

There's a real dollar value to this.
I published a free book on statistics bayesiancomputationbook.com

Yet people still purchase Intuitive Bayes courses for hundreds of dollars, Even after I tell them they can read the book for free

A 10 minute overview of various ways to finetune LLM models

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This is the first of many updates this year, with more livestreams to come!

✨ Next week I'll be livestreaming with Allen Downey for Vanishing Gradients Podcast about _Statistical and Algorithmic Thinking in the AI Age_ and his new book _Probably Overthinking It_! 🖖

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You can register for free below.

We'll talk about the key statistical and…

Intuitive AI Study Club - Model Safety twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Next session of the Intuitive AI book club is on Sunday at 8AM pst. The focus will be model safety.

All the details are in the livestream description
youtube.com/live/A-Ym1QbTT…

Safety is as important as model capability progression. Here's a list of references I've found helpful which come from a range of perspectives.

ravinkumar.com/GenAiGuidebook…

Intuitive AI Study Club - Pretraining and mid year break twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Missed the live session on 'Automatic Probability - Q&A' by Ricardo Vieira at the PyMCon Web Series?

Don't worry, we've got you covered! The recording is now available on YouTube.

📺 Watch the recording now: youtu.be/IdHAST6hgds

#PyMC onWebSeries #event #PyMC

Intuitive AI Study Club - Language Model Basics twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Don't buy my book off of Amazon, but do leave a review. That's currently the best outcome me as an author can ask for.

Not saying I like this situation but it is what it is!

When an author asks future customers to not buy off Amazon: you know it’s bad.

So many tech books are pirate versions. Actively assisted by Amazon’s policies.

Intuitive AI Study Club - Neural Net Architectures twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Next study club session is scheduled. It covers production grade NN code, different architectures and why we use both. I'll talk through the tools we use at Google; Flax, Tensorboard, and a sprinkle of colab.

All the details below. See you in a week
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My take on learning and coding faster with LLMs. The video is for the Intuitive Bayes audience but the advice is relevant for other learners/coders

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Condolences to the twitter engineers that will be working double overtime for the next couple of weeks