Daniel Jeffries
@danjeffries1.bsky.social
I'm an author, futurist, thinker, systems architect and applied AI engineer.
https://danieljeffries.substack.com/
https://danieljeffries.substack.com/
When we eventually look back at this early AI era, we'll see that some of the dumbest advice was "don't learn coding" or "don't learn to draw" or "don't learn to write."
Always keep learning.
No matter what happens, keep learning.
Always keep learning.
No matter what happens, keep learning.
March 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
When we eventually look back at this early AI era, we'll see that some of the dumbest advice was "don't learn coding" or "don't learn to draw" or "don't learn to write."
Always keep learning.
No matter what happens, keep learning.
Always keep learning.
No matter what happens, keep learning.
Small snippet of my holiday reading. What's on your list?
December 24, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Small snippet of my holiday reading. What's on your list?
Great write up on my new fav fine tuning, training + inf engine: ms-swift from Alibaba group. Supports every freaking model that matters, a massive amount of full + PEFT finetuning, has tons of backends wrapped, like lm-deploy, vLLM, unsloth, deepspeed, etc. Awesome.
www.shelpuk.com/post/fine-tu...
www.shelpuk.com/post/fine-tu...
Fine-Tuning Llama 3.1 with SWIFT, Unsloth Alternative for Multi-GPU LLM Training | Shelpuk AI Technology Consulting
Learn how to fine-tune the Llama 3.1 model with SWIFT for efficient multi-GPU training. This guide covers everything from setting up a training environment on platforms like RunPod and Google Colab to...
www.shelpuk.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Great write up on my new fav fine tuning, training + inf engine: ms-swift from Alibaba group. Supports every freaking model that matters, a massive amount of full + PEFT finetuning, has tons of backends wrapped, like lm-deploy, vLLM, unsloth, deepspeed, etc. Awesome.
www.shelpuk.com/post/fine-tu...
www.shelpuk.com/post/fine-tu...
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One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
December 6, 2024 at 6:38 PM
One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”
Learn something new every day.
December 3, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Learn something new every day.
Scoop a jar of water out of the ocean and put a lid on it...Study it in its segregated state.
Where is the ocean in that jar?
Where are the tides and the currents?
Pour it back into the ocean and it returns to its integrated state. The temporary entity no longer exists.
- Jed McKenna
Where is the ocean in that jar?
Where are the tides and the currents?
Pour it back into the ocean and it returns to its integrated state. The temporary entity no longer exists.
- Jed McKenna
December 1, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Scoop a jar of water out of the ocean and put a lid on it...Study it in its segregated state.
Where is the ocean in that jar?
Where are the tides and the currents?
Pour it back into the ocean and it returns to its integrated state. The temporary entity no longer exists.
- Jed McKenna
Where is the ocean in that jar?
Where are the tides and the currents?
Pour it back into the ocean and it returns to its integrated state. The temporary entity no longer exists.
- Jed McKenna
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If you are new to Bluesky and are an AI Enthusiast.
This hand-picked list (#2) of Newsletter AI writers on Substack, these writers and experts covers a broad spectrum of insights for you that I highly recommend.
Strong in breaking news, LLMs, Generative AI impact, etc.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
This hand-picked list (#2) of Newsletter AI writers on Substack, these writers and experts covers a broad spectrum of insights for you that I highly recommend.
Strong in breaking news, LLMs, Generative AI impact, etc.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 30, 2024 at 5:49 AM
If you are new to Bluesky and are an AI Enthusiast.
This hand-picked list (#2) of Newsletter AI writers on Substack, these writers and experts covers a broad spectrum of insights for you that I highly recommend.
Strong in breaking news, LLMs, Generative AI impact, etc.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
This hand-picked list (#2) of Newsletter AI writers on Substack, these writers and experts covers a broad spectrum of insights for you that I highly recommend.
Strong in breaking news, LLMs, Generative AI impact, etc.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Why we're still in the Atari 2600 era of AI agents and not the PS5 era.
My team works on building agents every day and every team I talk to keeps running into the same problems, whether they have 1M or 10B in the bank.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-illogi...
My team works on building agents every day and every team I talk to keeps running into the same problems, whether they have 1M or 10B in the bank.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-illogi...
The Illogical Logic of Agents: Why They Suck and What We Can Do About It
The Eightfold Path to Better Agents
danieljeffries.substack.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Why we're still in the Atari 2600 era of AI agents and not the PS5 era.
My team works on building agents every day and every team I talk to keeps running into the same problems, whether they have 1M or 10B in the bank.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-illogi...
My team works on building agents every day and every team I talk to keeps running into the same problems, whether they have 1M or 10B in the bank.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-illogi...
Amazing article on DeepSeek, the folks because the excellent open source o1 model, R1.
"While Americans excel at 0-1 innovation, Chinese excel at 1-10 application development."
The Chinese are smashing Americans and Europeans in the open source AI race.
www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...
"While Americans excel at 0-1 innovation, Chinese excel at 1-10 application development."
The Chinese are smashing Americans and Europeans in the open source AI race.
www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...
Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
Annotated translation of its CEO's deepest interview
www.chinatalk.media
November 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Amazing article on DeepSeek, the folks because the excellent open source o1 model, R1.
"While Americans excel at 0-1 innovation, Chinese excel at 1-10 application development."
The Chinese are smashing Americans and Europeans in the open source AI race.
www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...
"While Americans excel at 0-1 innovation, Chinese excel at 1-10 application development."
The Chinese are smashing Americans and Europeans in the open source AI race.
www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-c...
Why LLMs are smarter than you and much dumber than your cat.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-llms-a...
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-llms-a...
Why LLMs are Much Smarter than You and Dumber than Your Cat
And What We Can Do About It - A Blueprint for AGI
danieljeffries.substack.com
November 28, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Why LLMs are smarter than you and much dumber than your cat.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-llms-a...
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-llms-a...
My latest talk, "The Illogical Logic of Agents, Why the Suck and What We Can Do About It" is now on youtube.
youtu.be/TbnIA0Er5jA?...
youtu.be/TbnIA0Er5jA?...
Illogical Logic: Why Agents Are Stupid & What We Can Do About It // Dan Jeffries // Agents in Prod
YouTube video by MLOps.community
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November 27, 2024 at 6:54 AM
My latest talk, "The Illogical Logic of Agents, Why the Suck and What We Can Do About It" is now on youtube.
youtu.be/TbnIA0Er5jA?...
youtu.be/TbnIA0Er5jA?...
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Games are reasonable stepping stones as testbeds for AI progress. NetHack and text adventure games hit on modern AI weaknesses. I literally just gave a talk on why we should take Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games seriously as AI challenges.
This may sound odd, but game-based benchmarks are some of the most useful for AI, since we have human scores and they require reasoning, planning & vision
The hardest of all is Nethack. No AI is close, and I suspect that an AI that can fairly win/ascend would need to be AGI-ish. Paper: balrogai.com
The hardest of all is Nethack. No AI is close, and I suspect that an AI that can fairly win/ascend would need to be AGI-ish. Paper: balrogai.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Games are reasonable stepping stones as testbeds for AI progress. NetHack and text adventure games hit on modern AI weaknesses. I literally just gave a talk on why we should take Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games seriously as AI challenges.
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else-more than ruin, more even than death. It's subversive + revolutionary, destructive + terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions...thought is...indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages.
- BR
- BR
November 25, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Men fear thought more than they fear anything else-more than ruin, more even than death. It's subversive + revolutionary, destructive + terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions...thought is...indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages.
- BR
- BR
What are the best machine learning accounts to follow on here? Let me know the ones you love!
November 25, 2024 at 7:19 AM
What are the best machine learning accounts to follow on here? Let me know the ones you love!
Discovered the world's finest cracker today.
Paper thin Italian crackers nicknamed sheet music because they're so thin you can read sheet music through them.
You need these in your life.
Trust me. I'm a doctor.
Paper thin Italian crackers nicknamed sheet music because they're so thin you can read sheet music through them.
You need these in your life.
Trust me. I'm a doctor.
November 23, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Discovered the world's finest cracker today.
Paper thin Italian crackers nicknamed sheet music because they're so thin you can read sheet music through them.
You need these in your life.
Trust me. I'm a doctor.
Paper thin Italian crackers nicknamed sheet music because they're so thin you can read sheet music through them.
You need these in your life.
Trust me. I'm a doctor.
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The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
November 22, 2024 at 1:54 PM
The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope - Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent—
that is what Wisdom wants us to be.
Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
that is what Wisdom wants us to be.
Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
November 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent—
that is what Wisdom wants us to be.
Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
that is what Wisdom wants us to be.
Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading this masterpiece for a second time and it's even more exquisite than the last time.
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amzn.to/3Z1y6az
November 22, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Reading this masterpiece for a second time and it's even more exquisite than the last time.
amzn.to/3Z1y6az
amzn.to/3Z1y6az
A high IQ without wisdom, common sense, and self awareness is worthless.
November 21, 2024 at 2:43 PM
A high IQ without wisdom, common sense, and self awareness is worthless.
In my latest article I paint a hopeful but realistic view of the future, threading the needle between the screaming headlines of AI utopia or AI doom.
What we most desperately need is a heavy dose of realism.
We need the middle path of AI.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-middle...
What we most desperately need is a heavy dose of realism.
We need the middle path of AI.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-middle...
The Middle Path for AI
People Love to Spin Tales of AI Doom or AI Utopia, But It's Time to Take a Realistic Look at AI. Reality is Often Stranger Than Fiction.
danieljeffries.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:06 AM
In my latest article I paint a hopeful but realistic view of the future, threading the needle between the screaming headlines of AI utopia or AI doom.
What we most desperately need is a heavy dose of realism.
We need the middle path of AI.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-middle...
What we most desperately need is a heavy dose of realism.
We need the middle path of AI.
danieljeffries.substack.com/p/the-middle...
Bam. Been waiting for this to open to the public. Stands a good shot at being a rival to the big, bad X!
February 7, 2024 at 3:36 PM
Bam. Been waiting for this to open to the public. Stands a good shot at being a rival to the big, bad X!