So do these non-medical masks we're all meant to be wearing actually do anything?
Well yes, yes they almost certainly do. Here's a thread about the current science.
Let's start by explaining this striking picture of a researcher speaking in a laser scattering chamber.
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- The Czech Republic went from zero mask usage to 100% in 10 days, and in the process they halted the growth of new covid-19 cases. How? They made their own! They didn't need government help; they did it themselves. It's time for #masks4all. See why: youtu.be/BoDwXwZXsDI 1/
- Here's a complete unedited video of asking Grok for its views on the Israel/Palestine situation. It first searches twitter for what Elon thinks. Then it searches the web for Elon's views. Finally it adds some non-Elon bits at the end. ZA 54 of 64 citations are about Elon.00:00
- Wtf? The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was entirely full of null characters. How does this happen?Replying to @CroodSolutions @SamunoskeX and 3 othersYou're correct. Full of zeros at least.
- Now that ChatGPT has rolled out custom instructions to most users, try out this instruction -- it makes GPT 4 far more accurate for me: (Concat the rest of this 🧵 together and put in your custom instruction section)
- I just uploaded a 90 minute tutorial, which is designed to be the one place I point coders at when they ask "hey, tell me everything I need to know about LLMs!" It starts at the basics: the 3-step pre-training / fine-tuning / classifier ULMFiT approach used in all modern LLMs.
- As data scientists, we (with @math_rachel) have done our best to look at the data around covid-19, and what it means to you and your community. Our view: it is appropriate to be very concerned, and significantly change your lifestyle, right now. 1/13 fast.ai/2020/03/09/cor…
- Wow! What on earth happened here? (I don't mean "why did so many people move to a different social network," but "why did they all go to 🦋")
- Here, in full directly on Twitter, is "A Hackers' Guide to Language Models". This 90 minute tutorial is designed to be the one place I point coders at when they ask "hey, tell me everything I need to know about LLMs!" It covers both @OpenAI models and open source ones in depth.00:00
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- New analysis. Texas re-opened early, without requiring masks. Things are looking bad. NB: chart shows hospitalizations, not cases, so this is not a side-effect of increased testing.
- Announcing FastHTML. A new way to create modern interactive web apps. Scales down to a 6-line python file; scales up to complex production apps. Auth, DBs, caching, styling, etc built-in & replaceable and extensible. 1-click deploy to @Railway, @vercel, @huggingface, & more.
- OK everyone's asking me for my take on the OpenAI stuff, so here it is. I have a strong feeling about what's going on, but no internal info so this is just me talking. The first point to make is that the Dev Day was (IMO) an absolute embarrassment.
- Our new course, "From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion", is finally done after 8 months of work!!! With >30 hours of video content (all free, no ads!), you'll learn how to create and train a Stable Diffusion model starting from pure Python 🧵 fast.ai/posts/part2-20…
