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Incubator Q&A Is LLM fine tuning the same as transfer learning?

When people talk about fine tuning LLMs, it sounds a lot like glorified transfer learning. Is it the same thing, or is it a distinct technique? What are the differences?

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Incubator Q&A Is LLM fine tuning the same as transfer learning?

TL;DR: Fine-tuning is not the same as transfer learning, but is often a part of transfer learning. The goal of transfer learning is to "transfer" information from one model to some other model. T...

posted 7mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta Make proposed community tags mandatory

Every question in the Incubator Q&A category should have 1 or more tags for a proposed community, so that it is clear which community or communities the question is intended for. Currently it ...

3 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Make proposed community tags mandatory

I agree - the obvious candidate for these mandatory "community" tags are those listed for each community below "Descriptions". The "community" tags should be optional on meta, since posts here mig...

posted 7mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the difference between content aggregation and content syndication

Content Aggregation Content aggregators tend to collect and link to lots of content. This is especially prevalent for news. Many news sites don't do their own reporting. Rather they display a lis...

posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Is time reverse possible in Minecraft?

Yes, it's possible to reverse time in Minecraft. You can do so by using a negative integer in a /time add command. /time add -1000 While a /time subtract doesn't exist, you may still use any in...

posted 10mo ago by General Sebast1an‭

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Incubator Q&A Does feeding multiple luminous stones to each dondon produce better gems in TotK?

In Zelda Tears of the Kingdom you can feed luminous stones to animals called "dondons" which then later produce gems. How do you optimize this process? You can feed each dondon up to 5 stones, bu...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Is fresh content always needed for SEO?

The flip side of "fresh" content is "evergreen" content which is useful for a long period of time. News sites need lots of fresh content because most users need the latest news, not news that is w...

posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Should I buy down my mortgage rate?

Some lenders offer an option where one can pay additional money in closing costs to get a lower APR. This is often called a rate or point "buy down". Is this a good idea?

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A Free alternatives to GPT-3/4?

What free alternatives are available to the GPT-3 and GPT-4 large language models (LLM)? Are there competing models with similar capabilities that I can download and run on my own computer?

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Incubator Q&A How to receive responses incrementally from OpenAI API?

Sometimes responses from the OpenAI API are large and it takes a long time to receive them. During this time the program appears to hang since there is no output. Is there a way to incrementally r...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How can I give an AI sandboxed file access?

I want to give an AI the ability to read, write and manipulate files on my computer, such as with the OpenAI function calling feature. The goal of this is to use the AI to work on a project compris...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How can I give an AI sandboxed file access?

One approach would be to containerize AI activity. For example: Create a folder to serve as the AI's workspace Create a Docker container Use bind mounts to mount the workspace to the container...

posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Parameters of openai.ChatCompletion.create

The Python library for OpenAI has a method openai.ChatCompletion.create which takes various parameters like messages, functions, and so on. I could not find documentation for these in the context o...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Can Tabletop Games Codidact be given as the support site for a board game?

If I design a board game, can I list Tabletop Games Codidact as a place to ask any questions? Does this depend on whether the game is free or paid for? Does this depend on whether the game is open...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Incubator Q&A What are the support vectors in a soft-margin SVM

I know what Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are and how they work, but I regularly get confused by what exactly the support vectors are. In case of linearly separable data, the support vectors are ...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Meta Would it be possible to enable special features in the Incubator Q&A?

Is it possible to have special features enabled in the Incubator Q&A? I have tried to port one of my an answers for a question on Machine Learning, but it was written for markdown with MathJax...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Why can't we use linear regression on logits for solving logistic regression problems?

Consider a machine learning problem with inputs $\boldsymbol{X} \in \mathbb{R}^{N \times D}$ and corresponding labels $\boldsymbol{y} \in \mathcal{Y}^N$. When the problem is to solve a regression ...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Incubator Q&A Light fixture uses dimmable LEDs and a dimmer switch, but flickers -- how can I fix this?

My dining room includes a chandelier ceiling fixture with five sockets, controlled by a dimmer switch on the wall. I've lived here for 20 years and this was already in place when I moved in; I don...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A LEDs flicker even without a dimmer

The LEDs in some rooms of my house flicker when the switch is on. There is no dimmer, it's a basic toggle switch. When the switch is off, they stay off as normal. How can I troubleshoot and fix th...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A What stages are important for water filters?

Many companies sell water filters for improving the composition of water received from city mains. There is a variety of models with different number and types of filter stages, and corresponding p...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A What stages are important for water filters?

What filter stages or combinations are important for an average residential consumer getting municipal water? None. Municipal water plants already do all that for you. They also have to test the...

posted 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A How to properly store cordless tool batteries?

Current lithium ion batteries are best stored for long life at around 70% of full charge. However, getting there and maintaining that for typical home power tools may be more trouble than it's wor...

posted 9mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A How do you test the quality of a coax cable?

My internet is provided via a coax cable. The speeds are much less than advertised, and the ISP's technician said it's because my coax cables are low quality and degrade the signal. The cables are...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How do you test the quality of an ethernet cable?

How can I confirm that an ethernet cable is free of defects? I have a bunch of ethernet cables around my house. Some are apparently defective, and cause network problems when used. When these prob...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by manassehkatz‭