Aleksandr Drozd

Tonight's cocktail: kissel, or rather sbiten with lemon juice, cola syrup, honey and a splash of bourbon. Slow-Motion Sour.

Thought I am hallucinating that my computer freezes a bit when sun goes down 🧛 ☞ Bug in Broadcom firmware caused freezing when jumping bands over load + at dusk waves from weather radar bounce more from the sky, card perceive as congestion and searches for better band. Fixed 😊

Not to shill for Claude Code (actually trying Antigravity now ;) but I love this ASCII art and on my terminal color scheme, this night with crescent Moon looks especially neat ^_^ Like, late late evening but not yet midnight, remains of cobalt color.

Now I'm a man of culture too! I tried kuwai! I mean クワイ. I mean 慈姑. Tastes like a chestnut who became a root vegetable. Deep-fried. A bit bitter, but maybe that's from frying. Gives you that "find it in the forest and eat" feel, though this one was from the shop :)

📢 #NLProc I'm hiring! 2x PhD students (apply by Nov 22) & postdoc (Nov 15). These positions are part of a large project on the problem of attribution for LLM outputs to the original data sources, on which LLMs were trained. Job links on my website (in the bio) /1

@rezendi I remember using these when I was kid. Like, being eco-friendly before eco-friendly was a thing. I suspect pet-bottles contribute a lot and we can totally reduce their usage. We have to.

"The researchers found that 24 of the brain samples, which were collected in early 2024, measured on average about 0.5% plastic by weight." theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Great news! Based on requests, the submission deadline for the LLMxHPC workshop (@ IEEE #Cluster) has been extended to June 29, 2024. Submit your novel research on using #HPC to advance #LLMs and using LLMs to improve the design/operation of HPC systems. llmhpc.github.io/2024/

arxiv.org/abs/2404.08676 🚨Introducing ALERT🚨 , a large-scale safety benchmark of > 45k instructions categorized using our new taxonomy. ✨Using prior work such as Bo Decoding Trust and our Aurora-m huggingface.co/datasets/auror… and @jackclarkSF's awesome Anthropic-HH. 🙏

Workshop on Large Language Models and HPC will be in Kobe Sept 24 at @IEEECluster, still more than a month to submit a paper! Organized by @kevin_a_brown , Tanwi Mallick, Juliane Mueller and yours truly. Details at llmhpc.github.io/2024, 🔁 appreciated!

me: I’m pretty good with CSS. also me: and I don’t want to use JS on the server, so I’ll use a static site generator in Go... Static site generator in Go: running a JS-based JIT-compiler for a CSS framework used by a theme I choose... JIT-compiling CSS... damn hipsters...

As I'm trying to teach my daughter a bit of programming, had to brush the dust off the pycontextfree library... Here's the code for this one: github.com/undertherain/p…

#hpcmyths 6: We Will Soon Run at Zettascale! Read our discussion in @ProfMatsuoka et al. arxiv.org/abs/2301.02432 and discuss here at the #HPC twitter! Will we reach zettaflop/s performance or will fp64 lose relevance before?

You can do animation in PDF slides with latex ONLY with multimedia package, ONLY with LuaLaTeX ONLY in okular (on linux). JS based animation out for "security" reasons, XeLaTeX etc can't build multimedia, evince etc needs mouse click but in presentation mode it means next page 🤦

The 'Myths' paper is out: Satoshi Matsuoka, Jens Domke, Mohamed Wahib, Aleksandr Drozd, Torsten Hoefler. "Myths and Legends in High-Performance Computing" arxiv.org/abs/2301.02432" undergoing peer review. Hopefully the community will be engaged in yes/no discussions on Twitter!

I think I have some sort of sleepwalking issue... I suspect I wake up at night, unconscious go to my PC and delete those email to which it was too bothersome to reply...

📢 #NLPaperAlert: Outliers Dimensions that Disrupt Transformers Are Driven by Frequency with @gpuccetti92 @bkbrd Felice Dell'Orletta TLDR: remember how BERT over-relies on just 48 magic params? They're related to token frequency in training! /1 arxiv.org/abs/2205.11380

well, the #stablediffusion thing is indeed fun to play with. But feels rather then prompt engineering, might be better to shortcut directly to tuning the input vector.

@Yunae @_shiopan I don't question their ability, I question their intentions

@bkbrd @_shiopan Dude, learn Japanese, then complain about someone else’s ability to translate the language.

A Japanese book on supporting children on the autistic spectrum says that autistic kids are just like foreigners in the way they: -Don’t understand basic manners -Don’t get social rules -Have a weird way of thinking Pls be patient with them the way u would with barbaric gaijin🥺

@tomkXY @_shiopan Yeah man I feel so twisted when doing 変速 on my motorcycle, and then my router doing ポート変換 that's just so weird!

@bkbrd @_shiopan Dude it’s literally the same kanji as 大変 or 変態. You don’t need a broad Japanese vocabulary to understand this. In the same context where 外国人 are mentioned 3 times.

@LilyInJapan @_shiopan yeah see it well now. Says "interact as you would with a foreigner". Like, you know, use simpler grammar, stuff like that. Or you mean, we should really go hard at little bastards, let them learn some proper language?

@bkbrd @_shiopan Sorry I didn’t zoom enough :(