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How I Don't Use LLMs


I enjoy shocking people by telling them I don’t use LLMs.This isn’t true, but it’s morally true for the reference class I’m in (people who wrote a book about...

I was there when GBMs still beat neural networks on tabular data.I was there for Keras 1.0, and trained 100-class image recognisers on a Sandy Bridge Xeon CPU(and ok later a single Titan GPU, once Procurement got their shit together).I was there when GANs started working. (I do write quite a few letters of recommendation at this point, but sending out raw slop would be a disservice to my students; the supposed prose would make them sound exactly like every one of their hapless slop-dressed peers. Help remembering a term on the tip of my tongue (“what do you call it when…”) Working out what words to google in a new field (“list the names of some natural anticancer mechanisms”) Hit-and-miss for unpacking acronyms and getting in the loop.

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