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Izzy Miller
Personal blog · izzy.co/blogscultureai
Izzy Miller's personal blog at izzy.co covers culture and ai. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Izzy Miller's posts as a reference for a Discord bot that impersonates friends (robo-boys) and for a tech stack for fine-tuning LLMs on rented GPUs. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-04-12
- A Glitch in the SEO Matrix2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-19
What Hacker News says?
I want to make a Discord bot that impersonates all my friends and continues to refine the model as the conversations continue. Basically this [1] post, but with a more modern model and, ideally, reinforcement learning. Seems like this would fit the bill.... Is there anything else that would make this easier? [1] https://www.izzy.co/blogs/robo-boys.html
Comment linking /blogs/robo-boys.html
on “Show HN: LlamaGym – fine-tune LLM agents with online reinforcement learning”Submitted A Glitch in the SEO Matrix as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHN gets mentioned in the orgiginal accusation: https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-tracks-you-online-eve... "Facebook does not track users across the web," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. "Instead, we use cookies on social plugins to personalize content (e.g. Show you what your friends liked), to help maintain and improve what we do (e.g. Measure click-through rate), or for safety and security (e.g.…
Comment linking /blogs/a-glitch-in-the-seo-matrix.html
on “Facebook denies cookie tracking allegations (2011)”Submitted Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI tried to do something similar, following this blog post [1] however I didn't manage due to lack of GPUs. I tried to rent 4 A100s, which is what the author is doing, but there weren't any available. I signed up to 7 different cloud providers, including AWS, lambdalabs, vast.ai, coreweave, latitude.sh, tensordock. Eventually, I settled with a few A40s, but memory requirements weren't even close. [1]: https://www.izz…
Comment linking /blogs/robo-boys.html
on “Tech stack for fine-tuning LLMs”