Rami's Readings #39
The latest on AI Policy, LLMs, Game Theory, Mistral 7B, Zephyr 7B, Forecasting, Techno-Optimism, FTX Trials, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #39 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, videos, Twitter threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering technology, business, culture, fashion, travel and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
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🤖 AI Reads
Sweeping New Biden Order Aims to Alter the AI Landscape
Notes: Important development, but will avoid commentary. See #7.
Playing Repeated Games with Large Language Models
Notes: I started diving into game theory recently. Interesting paper about LLMs and repeated games.
Mistral 7B: A 7.3B Parameter Model Outperforming Llama 2-13B
Notes: Paper. Prompt Engineering Guide.
Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LM Alignment
Notes: Fine-tuned Mistral 7B from the team at HuggingFace. GitHub Repo.
Generative AI Exists Because of the Transformer
Notes: Great explanation of Transformers, the cornerstones of LLMs.
Another Good Prompt Engineering Guide
Notes: Another great prompt engineering guide if you are looking to learn.
💼 Business Reads
This New Forecasting Model Is Better than Machine Learning, Researchers Say
Notes: You do not need machine learning for every problem. I repeat…
Reeling from climate doomer-ism, read this:
You must read ’s coverage of the FTX trials. The latest:
That is all for this week. Signing off from Redmond, WA.