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AI is rapidly evolving and the distinction between teacher and student is fading. In Eastern philosophical and religious traditions there is the concept of the "beginner's mind" or the capacity to experience the world with child-like wonder and inquisitiveness. This is a collection of diverse posts on AI from the instructional to the philosophical, the lighthearted to the serious; all things to all people in search of the beginner's mind.

Check out AI Joel Kowalewski’s new track  Desert Solitude. He’s still training. But he’s working through the dive bar circuit; a poet and a rambling man, he  knows the better part of a dusty road–another desert, another a nowhere town. Look out for his album. 

Fashion, Art, Design, and AI

Joel Kowalewski, PhD  Fashion reflects far deeper biological and sociological factors, and a great deal can be gleaned about human nature through a history of fashion. My interest in writing about the topic originates from a love of art and design but equally, although it may seem contradictory,

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Introduction to Embeddings and Tokenization

Joel Kowalewski, PhD Finetuning LLMs for Specific Tasks Introduction to Embeddings and Tokenization At the core of modern language models (LLMs) like GPT-3,4 and BERT are the concepts of embeddings and tokenization. Tokenization initially was simply a method to group text data into smaller packets that are easier

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UCLA COM SCI 750 Talks

Table of Contents Introduction This post is a walkthrough for a series of two public talks given in April and May 2023 for the COM SCI series at UCLA. It was on transformers, diffusion models, and discussed specific examples such as Open AI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 for

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