Rami's Readings #79 - Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Guide

The latest on AI, LLMs, Generative AI & High Skilled Work, OLMoE, rerankers, Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains, China's Internet Users, TSMC, and more.

Sep 09, 2024

Welcome to Rami’s Readings #79 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.

I’m happy to report my hand is healing quickly! I can’t wait until it is back to normal. In the meantime, jars, zippers, plastic bags, and doors continue to be my greatest nemeses… Especially mason jars. Any tips would be appreciated!

🤖 AI Reads

The Effects of Generative AI on High Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers

Notes: From MIT, Princeton, UPenn & Microsoft.

OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

Notes: Open, State of the Art MoE LLM.

Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Guide and Video Deep Dive

rerankers: A Lightweight Python Library to Unify Ranking Methods

Notes: This is an amazing Python library that allows you to easily swap between different ranking methods/models, e.g. colbert, GPT4, rankgpt, t5, cohere, etc.

💼 Business Reads

Brian Armstrong (Coinbase) argues the game-changing application for cryptocurrency is AI agents.

Notes: Maybe?

Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains is a Terrible Idea

Notes: I agree with Tyler C. Read this follow up. I don’t see how this policy won’t just lead to more elaborate tax planning and asset price distortions. A local example for my readers is WA. The state is imposing a 7% capital gains tax, but only on long-term capital gains greater than 250K from stocks, bonds, etc. on domiciled individuals. What did people do? Moved out of state (e.g. Bezos to Florida), refrained from selling above a cumulative 250k in gains, planned to sell more frequently to stay below the limit over the years, or completely changed investment strategies… There are more efficient ways to raise government revenues.