Sam Elamin

I have been writing code for over 15 years and have worked with relatively complex distributed systems. These are my own experiences comparing the web3 world to traditional software engineering 🧵

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@sh_reya That's always a sign of strong interest. Well done!

@samelamin Opened the course discord after lecture and found 125 questions 😆

recovering from the LLM as a Judge lecture we taught today💀 ask me anything

@soiswis hey bro trying to get a hold of you. Please reach out

@sh_reya Signed up! See you there

happening tomorrow at 11am PT! Sign up to watch us vibe code a data annotation interface and look at the data for an AI application! can’t wait to live vibe code 👩🏽‍💻

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@sh_reya Agreed. I'm finding NL to SQL significantly better for both accuracy and relevance Ofcourse it's significantly harder than tradtionaly RAG especially in large orgs with TBs of data with datasets and relationships aren't well defined

Embedding retrieval based on cosine similarity does not necessarily find task-specific context/prerequisite knowledge that the LLM must logically compose together to give a correct answer. Case in point: NL to SQL can be much more effective than any SQL-less retrieval strategy

This is the most practical AI agents paper I have read to date. I agree with almost all of it. I think challenge X4 (which past interactions should the AI consider) uniquely arises from poor AI systems design—AIs don’t have the same correlations or associations that humans do, so why would humans be able to craft the exact historical/relevant context for the AI well? System prompts should permit anything and everything and determine what is relevant to the task

what makes LLM frameworks feel unusable is that there's still so much burden for the user to figure out the bespoke amalgamation of LLM calls to ensure end-to-end accuracy. in docetl.org, we've found that relying on an agent to do this requires lots of scaffolding

@sh_reya is one of the pioneers in this space. Another brilliant thread If you are doing any work with LLMs and unstructured data then be sure to give her a follow!

@sh_reya Well done Shreya, this is awesome 👏🏾

Excited to release v1 of the DocETL UI! Here’s a tutorial-like video of me analyzing all the ICLR 2024 reviews for common types of weaknesses mentioned: youtu.be/IlgueVqtHGo?si…

@triagulon1 How come?

Is it antisemitic to ask if innocent Palestinian lives are worth less than innocent Israeli lives?

Imbue has officially joined @GoogleStartups Web3 startup program marking a significant milestone in our innovation journey. Backed by a generous $200k in credits we are ready to #MakeWeb3WorkForYou imbue.network/blogs/imbue-jo…

@bkchr @Polkadot I don't think they realised how difficult this migration is going to be 🙃

Maybe running your own @polkadot isn't as simple as just copying code 🤔

@zachxbt please check your dm

Finally back from a great @Polkadot decoded. It was truly a pleasure meeting so many passionate people in the ecosystem and putting faces to names we talk to so much Ps. We need more fellowship meets @bkchr @kianenigma @rphmeier @seunlanlege @TinkerGabe @joepetrowski ❤️

@bkchr @rphmeier @gakonst I always thought it was a silly metric, one that @shawntabrizi rightly criticises. A super computer node will run significantly faster than my laptop. I would say that the more accessible a network is to run the more likely we get more participants and a greater network effect

@rphmeier @gakonst TPS is such an easy gameable number that depends so much on the used transaction that you can not really use it to compare different kind of systems.

sometimes wonder how people say 10k or 1m tps with a straight face, what did you bench on? transfers in a testbed with 10-100 boxes peered directly on datacenter hardware with all state hot in memory?? bruh

We are excited to launch our new website, signalling our recent pivot to become a decentralized freelancer marketplace. We aim to empower clients and freelancers worldwide and drive adoption in the Web3 landscape. Together, we will #MakeWeb3WorkForYou.🧵: imbue.network/about-us/

As the UK government begins evacuation of British nationals from Sudan, I thought it would be worth providing an overview of the situation currently facing Sudanese people in the UK's asylum system 🧵

📰 hear ye, hear ye - the first @paritytech news update! 🗣️ Parity does a lot of amazing work for the @Polkadot ecosystem which often goes untalked about. Here is a recap from the last month of work - I'll be sharing all the *PUBLIC* information I'm allowed to 👀 Please RT if you find this useful 🔁 1) Parity Signer is now -> 'Polkadot Vault' and has undergone a beautiful refresh. Download it on the App Store. Android coming soon(tm) 📦 2) Big ups to the @ink_lang team who have released v4 which is now deployed on @AstarNetwork & @Aleph__Zero - two amazing teams leading the way with WASM. Also ink! has been under security review by @OpenZeppelin 👌 3) OpenGov coming soon to Polkadot! The FRAME team has been busy working on the PR among other things. github.com/paritytech/pol… 🧑‍💻 4) Something else from the FRAME team 🪟 This great staking report, with recent updates to the core development and the dashboard itself polkadot.network/blog/staking-u… 5) Over to the marketing side, we have some new hires to help lead the marketing effort, including a new Creative Director 🎨 and @aj_asterio who some of you may know 😉 as a community manager for North America 🇺🇸 6) The marketing team wrote this great thread about what a breakthrough OpenGov is for web3 - with 120k views! x.com/polkadot/statu… ✨ 7) Polkadot was represented at ETH Denver with great talks from @rphmeier & @shawntabrizi 16 teams also attended the @Polkadot booth to showcase their product and promote the Polkadot ecosystem 💕 Polkadot was also represented at SXSW - the only blockchain team to be there! 1⃣ 8) I spoke with @rphmeier about Polkadot's blockspace centric future around two of the key tech changes coming this year: 💳 Pay As You Go Parachains & 🔃 Async backing. Listen here youtube.com/watch?v=P0CNA_… 9) Did you know @paritytech has been working on a sample mobile app with a built in light client? Written in Flutter, this is forkable for any team wanting to add their product to it, or just see how it works. github.com/paritytech/tra… 📱 10) The devrel team has been doing an amazing job, attending conferences and helping organize hackathons. They have also been creating detailed technical deep dives into Polkadot specifics, on twitch and youtube youtube.com/watch?v=uio4_6… 🖥️ 11) The next wave of applicants for the Polkadot Blockchain Academy has closed with 700+ applicants. The PBA team has been doing incredible work, from qualifying applicants, organizing the next event, and placing graduates from the previous wave into Polkadot parachain teams. 👥 That's it for this month! Again these are just SOME of the updates - lots more in the works. If you found this useful, please engage with the post! Like 💓, comment ✍️, share 🙇, subscribe 🗒️, hit the notification bell 🔔 etc etc