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Bobby Mantoni

Time Signatures and Trusting AI

I’ve been listening to a lot of psytrance recently. I love the relentless, hypnotic basslines and the endless variations of rhythm, melody…

Sep 26

Time Signatures and Trusting AI

Sep 26

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Tabula Not Rasa — We are not blank slates

What current AI lacks on the journey to AGI

Nov 20, 2023

Tabula Not Rasa — We are not blank slates

Nov 20, 2023

Bobby Mantoni

Profiling CUDA/GPU vs C++/CPU

CUDA is very cool. My RTX 3080 has 8704 CUDA cores, so can do an incredible amount of parallel processing. The NVIDIA programming model…

Sep 19, 2023

Profiling CUDA/GPU vs C++/CPU

Sep 19, 2023

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RTX 3080 vs GTX 1660S vs AWS G3 Tesla M60 Llama-2 LLM fine-tuning performance

I upgraded my GPU and thought I’d compare training performance between my original GTX 1660 Super, the GPU AWS gives you with a g3…

Sep 10, 2023

RTX 3080 vs GTX 1660S vs AWS G3 Tesla M60 Llama-2 LLM fine-tuning performance

Sep 10, 2023

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Brass For Brain

Prompts as the new coding language: The abstraction battleground for jobs and purpose

It’s often said that AI will replace us or take our jobs. Maybe. But, which jobs first? I’ll argue that Gen AI will replace most work that…

Sep 7, 2023

Prompts as the new coding language: The abstraction battleground for jobs and purpose

Sep 7, 2023

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Finding Waldo with TensorFlow

My sons and I have been doing Where’s Waldo books recently, so of course while we were hunting for him one night I thought of training a…

Aug 23, 2023

Finding Waldo with TensorFlow

Aug 23, 2023

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Llama-2 LLM local experiments to test political bias, vs GPT-4

In my last post I highlighted the explicit biases and epistemic risks of Anthropic’s “Constitutional AI.” Here, I’ll experiment with…

Jul 30, 2023

Llama-2 LLM local experiments to test political bias, vs GPT-4

Jul 30, 2023

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Running the Llama-2 LLM at home

This turned out to be surprisingly easy. Huggingface makes many pre-trained models available, including Llama-2, along with some libraries…

Jul 29, 2023

Running the Llama-2 LLM at home

Jul 29, 2023

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Brass For Brain

The Dangers of Constitutional AI: Intelligent Censorship

A LinkedIn post by Anthropic caught my attention the other day. They used the word “harmless” to describe their goals with their latest…

Jul 20, 2023

The Dangers of Constitutional AI: Intelligent Censorship

Jul 20, 2023

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ML: How linear models can predict non-linear patterns

May 12, 2023

ML: How linear models can predict non-linear patterns

May 12, 2023

Bobby Mantoni

Bobby Mantoni

Parallel programming, CUDA, AI and Philosophy. Degrees in both. Software engineering veteran. Father, Proud American.

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