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Care a lot, try hard, have fun. @eugeneyan's Id. 🏂

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@eugeneyalt
eugene
2 years
Note to self:.• Work hard.• Keep learning.• Cherish loved ones.• Find people who inspire you.• Be kind & egoless.• Eat healthy, exercise, sleep well.• Read & write.• Practice gratitude & meditate.• Be present.• Enjoy food & nature.• Don’t sweat the small stuff.• Smile.
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@eugeneyalt
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I could be wrong, and maybe it's skill issue on my part. if so, please tell me! because I'm lazy and want to spend less effort on evals and writing prompts / specs!. nonetheless, I've not heard any anecdotes of ds*y optimizer outperforming basic error analysis and prompt writing.
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
52 minutes
but for folks with basic machine learning background and are used to building eval datasets, error analysis, and communicating well to human annotators and LLMs, just stick to what you're doing now.
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
53 minutes
I guess TL;DR it's helpful if you're an engineer that prefers to write code instead of crafting your prompts and doing error analysis, and have some basic auto-optimizer rewrite that prompt for you. build a dataset of 10 samples (lol) and just throw it in.
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
54 minutes
what's the difference you ask? it's ~10% difference on the eval against a dataset of a few hundred samples.
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
55 minutes
going through GitHub issues, it's clear ds*y is meant to be a programming model, not an optimizer. and it's decent at the former, but not so great at the latter. I guess I had such high expectations for the latter that I was bound to be disappointed lol.
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eugene
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i can't seem to get the optimize functionality to work. it can't hillclimb my evals even with 400 training samples. yea, it helps you beat a 1-2 sentence prompt baseline in 20 minutes. but, it doesn't beat something well crafted based on a few hours of error analysis.
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eugene
59 minutes
tried ds*y again for another project. I can understand why people like it; instead of writing free-form system and user prompts and templates, you can write code and just rely on it. this part makes sense (though I think there's extra juice in customizing templates). however, . .
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
4 days
RT @eugeneyan: My workflow after a weekend of claude coding on jupyter notebooks.• plan mode.• point claude at and….
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eugene
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exercise + working in the data mines = good sleep
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eugene
5 days
sad that claude code doesn’t work as well with notebooks. as it iteratively works though a task, it adds cells to the top, not the bottom of the notebook. nothing a instruction can’t solve though.
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
5 days
just claude code and me pair hacking ❤️
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
5 days
intervals done
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
5 days
❤️ weekend sleep ins to catch up on sleep debt. now for some cardio before semantic ids
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
6 days
RT @eugeneyan: Looking to do a lot of data munging on my 128gb laptop over the weekend. Mostly tabular and json data. What are people using….
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
11 days
thus, i consider myself wealthy in the aspects that matter to me: peace of mind, time, health, relationships, fulfilling work i enjoy, and front row seats to puppy jujitsu
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
11 days
on work: i think of work differently from most. for me, it's an education and play, where my goal is to learn every day, do good work, and have fun. during this vacation, i read papers (semantic ids) and trained models. i aim to live this tweet everyday.
@eugeneyan
Eugene Yan
1 year
Surround yourself with people whose "work" is their calling, craft, and play. They are intrinsically motivated, are driven to excel and do what's right, and and get so much shit done just because it's fun.
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
11 days
i'm especially grateful for the wealth of friendship, where we have offers to crash in mochi haus and basecamp haus whenever we're in sf, and have friends that take time out of their busy schedule to show us around, have meals, and celebrate each other with each other
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
11 days
we also have our health, which let us hike and climb, eat somewhat unhealthily, and sit in a car for a dozen hours at a time. as we get older, this will probably slip away, so i have to remind myself to not take it for granted and be grateful and live life to the fullest each day
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@eugeneyalt
eugene
11 days
but beyond money, i also had the luxury of time, where i could just take a week off and do a road trip with the wife and pup, spending days on the road just enjoying the journey and each other's company.
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eugene
11 days
on money: while i don't consider myself rich in terms of what's in my investment and bank account, i consider myself fortunate in that i don't have to worry about how i'm going to pay my rent or have huge loans or medical bills. in that sense, i consider myself wealthy i guess?.
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