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Umar Butler
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Umar Butler's personal blog at umarbutler.com covers ai and data. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Umar Butler's blog, where he writes about law, technology and AI, and about his work on Australian law, including the largest open database of Australian law and how he built it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /open-australian-legal-corpus2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-29
What Hacker News says?
The blog about might interest you: https://umarbutler.com/about/ I’m Umar Butler, an Australian data scientist, legal technologist and AI researcher. This is my blog where I write about law, technology, AI and everything in between. As part of my research into legal technology and AI, I have published, inter alia, the first dataset for training LLMs on Australian law, the largest open database of Australian law and…
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on “Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia”Submitted Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia as a story · 401 points
HN discussionNope, the map is built atop the Open Australian Legal Corpus, which is the first open database of Australian law (you can read about how I built it here: https://umarbutler.com/how-i-built-the-largest-open-database... ). Unfortunately, AustLII is free but not open-source (as in licensed under an open-source licence: https://austlii.edu.au/copyright.html ).
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on “Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia”Submitted Prompt engineering is not dead as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere are two reasons I can think of why someone might reuse a tokeniser: 1. They want to continue pretraining a model instead of starting from scratch. But actually people might not know that you can pretty easily reuse model weights even when training with a new tokeniser (I’ve got a blog post on how to do that: https://umarbutler.com/how-to-reuse-model-weights-when-train... ). 2. Because it’s convenient for end u…
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on “Automatically Detecting Under-Trained Tokens in Large Language Models”Submitted Show HN: Mapping almost every law, regulation and case in Australia as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Just one note - the link in your Github readme to https://umarbutler.com/open-australian-legal-corpus doesn't seem to go anywhere. Thanks for the heads up! I've fixed that now. > For someone interested in using the data (and help out with bugs/issues), where would you suggest starting? I think the best place to start is by downloading the Corpus (visit https://huggingface.co/datasets/umarbutler/open-australian-l..…
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on “Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law”Submitted Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFantastic work, and really appreciate the write up. It's quite timely for me - I'm from a tech background and have just started studying Australian law, and was thinking about doing exactly this - so you are years ahead of me :). Just one note - the link in your Github readme to https://umarbutler.com/open-australian-legal-corpus doesn't seem to go anywhere. For someone interested in using the data (and help out wit…
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on “Show HN: how I built the largest open database of Australian law”Submitted How to classify long documents without breaking the bank as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey HN, Last month, I had the honour of seeing my article on how I built the largest open database of Australian law ( https://umarbutler.com/how-i-built-the-largest-open-database... ) reach the front page. Due in large part to the outpouring of support and encouragement I received for my work from HN, I became determined to publish the first open LLM for Australian law by training a model on my database. I am excit…
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on “Show HN: I built the first open LLM for Australian law”Submitted Show HN: I built the first open LLM for Australian law as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Prompt structure matters: examples first, instructions later as a story · 1 points
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