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A treasure hunt named Project Skydrop was recently run by creators Jason Rohrer and Tom Bailey. Unfortunately, the treasure has already been found, but I’ve been searching for the treasure with Monte Carlo simulations for the last 5 days. The true location of the treasure hasn’t been announced yet, but I believe I now know […]
My old friend Ryan Casey posed this question recently, and wrote up a nice theory with a proposed solution to the question which he calls Probabilistic Knowledge Synthesis (PKS). The purpose of my post here is to respond to Ryan’s theory and offer my own perspective on the question of whether LLMs can synthesize new […]
Social media is the new nicotine. The Surgeon General already declared as much for youth in May, and as of yesterday is being urged by 42 state attorneys general to do so for adults as well. I see it’s toxic effect every day on my family, including myself, my kids, and my wife. We are […]
The new reality is that the next wave of climate tech investments will be bold, outlandish, desperate, and probably dangerous. In 2022 the world had a viable path towards solving climate change. The recipe was simple enough: just rapidly scale out climate technologies like renewables, EVs, heat pumps, alternative proteins, and low carbon concrete and […]
The contract between creators and distributors of digital content is broken. The Contract Since the dawn of the Internet, the basic contract between search engines and content creators has been this: Content creation makes economic sense when search engines send large amounts of free traffic that can be converted to ad revenue by the creator. […]
Creating a portfolio of your data science projects is generally a great idea. But as an NLP hiring manager, there is one common portfolio project that I’ve always kind of shrugged at: sentiment analysis. So when I recently analyzed a large data set of job postings and blog articles, and found evidence to confirm my […]
The data science blogging community has been fascinated with generative AI over the last few months, proven by the fact that a peak of almost 14% of all data science articles mentioned ChatGPT in mid-April 2023. That’s why I was completely shocked to discover that data science job postings in June 2023 almost never mentioned […]
A thriving community of data science bloggers has been extremely active in the first half of 2023, helping us all come to grips with the revolutionary advances in generative AI such as ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and more. Here at Skillenai, we have gathered data on over 9000 articles from over 2000 unique authors, providing us […]
ChatGPT has revolutionized the field of data science within a very short time. As great as ChatGPT is, it’s closed-source nature limits its usage by data scientists to prompt engineering. But a zoo of open source large language models (LLMs) such as Falcon, Gorilla, Llama, and Orca have made rapid advancements in recent months. So […]
Opportunity The community of data science content creators is bustling right now as the whole world’s eyes are on the rapid advancement of AI. Some try their hand at writing articles for sites like Towards Data Science, others write posts for LinkedIn, and others create newsletters using tools like Substack. Pain Points What’s missing from […]