blog.samschneider.meIs Dev Culture Dead in 2024?When I started as a professional developer in 2015, I felt like a panda in a zoo. The elephants received hay shoveled through a hole in the wall while I received hand-picked bamboo and on-call veterinary services. I had a higher salary than non-dev...Aug 20, 2024·1 min read
blog.samschneider.meA Very Simple Example of Fine-Tuning an LLMNormally when you fine-tune an LLM you end up making Jeff Bezos just a little bit richer due to the enormous compute power required even for the simplest of fine-tuning. I tried every free avenue I could think of to demonstrate fine-tuning using Mist...Aug 16, 2024·6 min read
blog.samschneider.meHow to Create Your First Hugging Face DatasetModern AI tooling is mainly based on building models trained by lots of data rather than developing clever algorithms. This means that once you move beyond the basics of calling models others have developed and want to start training your own models,...Aug 12, 2024·3 min read
blog.samschneider.meIn a Few Words, What is Few-shot Learning?Imagine that you went to high school in a place where everyone was rich except for you. Your parents had very mediocre jobs, enough to put food on the table and pay for school fees but nothing else. Further imagine that you didn't want anyone else to...Aug 7, 2024·1 min read
blog.samschneider.meSassy Food Service Bot. Careful. Few-shot Learning is PowerfulMost AIs are almost annoyingly polite. I wondered how easy it would be to make a chatbot that delights in giving sass to customers. Well, turns out just 3 few-shot learning examples was enough. Don't try this at work kids! First, get set up with a Ju...Aug 5, 2024·2 min read
