Zoomy Izumi

OpenAI "Assistants": Untangling the threads

Dear reader, So, you've stumbled upon my corner of the internet, eager to decode the enigma of OpenAI's "assistants". Well, brace yourself for a journey through the convoluted, yet intriguing, world of OpenAI's "assistants". Brace yourself for a long introduction and explanation followed by a break down of the code.

Digital Diatribes

Visceral response to certain visual stimuli

NOTE: This is just my personal experience, skip this if you don't care. Dear reader, Today, I'm delving into the peculiarities of the mind—specifically, mine. As well of the anecdote of how it occurred. I was playing around with Image Generation, one of the images that got generated caused

Cerebral Static

Reflecting on OpenAI Dev day announcments

* Introduction * The Mysterious Link * Features & Changes in the Spotlight * GPTS: A Layman's Toy or a Glimpse of the Future? * Updated GPT-3.5 Turbo: A Lackluster Improvement? * GPT-4 Turbo: A Step Up or Just a Side Step? * Assistants * Consistency Decode: A Thrilling Prospect or a Hardware Nightmare? * Performance and Feedback * GPT-4

Immersive Impressions

A City of Broken Dreams: A review of Cities Skylines 2

tl;dr Felt like I had too high expectations but that was quite shattered just by launching the game, feels early access and rushed out. Would have preferred honesty. C rank. * Introduction * First impression: A rough start * The Good: Glimmers of Brilliance * The Bad: Dusk Falls Over the Digital Concrete

Visual Studio Code: Unbind "Copilot Chat" from CMD + I

* First access "Keyboard shortcuts" * From the menubar: Code → Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts * OR ⌘ + KS (Hold down CMD and then type K and S while ⌘ is held down) * Search for "Chat" or more specifically it is "Inline chat: Start Code Chat" * Right Click the offending entry → Remove Keybinding This gonk feature has

Threads - Initial impressions

I've spent the past few days navigating the tiny labyrinth of "Threads," the new social media contender daring to rival Twitter. Fittingly I've done something quite meta, I've composed my initial assessment right within the app, threading my thoughts in real time. The result? A real-time view into my explorations,

Recent Social media events: Technological Tantrums

So dear reader it's The first week of July 2023 and the world is still hot with technological tantrums. First we had Reddit and now Twitter. Both of which are not at a full blown melt down yet, but are no longer very promising. So it seems these past few

Final Fantasy 16 - Lost it's Magick

tl;dr Devil May Cry on a diet, mid game, B tier. If you've never played an "action" game before and would like to try then this game won't be bad. If you expecting an JRPG or an RPG then this is not the game you are looking for. Alright,

LoRA Experiment 8 - Making progress and overturning my past findings

tl;dr Two main points 1. Do not upgrade your Nvidia drivers to Version 535! If you have then downgrade to version 531 2. At least double your training's Network Alpha based on your Network Rank Oh, isn't this a pleasant surprise? It appears that my previous findings have been

My take on OpenAI's API Updates for June 2023

Dear reader, this is just going to my take on what was published so the source of truth is https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates, https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt/function-calling and the emails they sent out to the developers on the day. As I read through the latest

'Function calling', OpenAI's API new feature.

Well dear reader, I woke up this morning, checked the news and I got quite excited, OpenAI had decided to shake things up again. They've updated their LLM and one of the stand out features was the ability to add "functions" flaunting it as a 'more reliable way' to pair

My thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty's requirements

This is going to be a post about my thoughts the machine requirements so if you looking for a preview or something this is the wrong place. I was quite surprised when I woke up this morning, out of the blue—a tweet from the Cyberpunk team about the much-anticipated

System Shock - The generation gap

tldr; If you played the original; have fun this might not be for you. If not well then don't get swept up by the hype - if you are thinking of getting this game consider the fact that are you able to live without all the quality of life updates

Falcon 40b - Putting the cart before the horse

tl;dr It's uses naive censor which means it is not understanding the input and it's slow. Could not complete my experiment due to frustration. Falcon 40b The latest 'breakthrough' in the LLM scene, praised to high heavens for shedding its god-awful proprietary skin to embrace the cool, 'in-vogue' open

Dispelling Confusion: A Closer Look at the Authentic 'Tree of Thoughts' Repository

I was going to do a post about tree of thoughts and I did try it's nice to have a theoretical explanation and an example you can run to see the results. But something more important came up while I was looking into this so I thought I'd share it

My initial thoughts of Github Copilot X

Tl;dr I am unimpressed by Github Copilot “X” chatbot or whatever it’s cosplaying. This tool is about as impressive as a leaky tap – it drips out the occasional coherent suggestion, but mostly it's just annoyingly persistent white noise. If you're the type that enjoys sugar-coated nonsense, then by

My dive into Vector databases

Toying with technology - there's a distinct thrill to it, isn't there? Particularly when you get to muck about with VectorDBs, a piece of tech that's as fascinating as it is perplexing. Imagine my surprise, when the same tech popped up in Langchain. Two birds, one stone, I thought; a

The phonies: "AI chat" in the app store, rise of the imposters.

Buckle up, we're diving right in. Apple and their 'App Store' — you'd expect nothing but perfection, right? I am rather dissatisfied, but you can't help but raise an eyebrow at the landscape they've allowed to develop. OpenAI, the tech world's hot topic, making waves yet again. This time, it's with

The murky privacy that goes with chatting to ChatGPT

Well dear reader, prepare yourselves for a chilling revelation that's sure to make you think twice about your online habits. For those of you already treading carefully, consider this a cautionary tale. And for the inquisitive bunch, let's just say you'll be walking away with a newfound sense of caution.

LoRA experiment 7: A basic look at Network Rank and Network Alpha settings

Tl;dr In my case the best settings I found so far to be are: Repeats 20, Network rank 86, Network Alpha 86, epoch 10. 💡This has been overturned, Set your Network Alpha to be double your Network Rank for LoRA Training. (Experiment 8 findings) At last, some progress! Be

Technology is supposed to make life easier, not bankrupt you.

So I completely forgot about Google's keynote, I usually don’t bother with it as I feel their announcements are usually boring and hard to get excited by.You can only hear that they are adding some sort of “AI” to google search and see fake demos every year, or

My initial impressions of Google Bard

So I was in a rush to write this article because i want to use this as a reference to see how my opinion will change in a few months time, so here we go. Well, it's been quite an exciting day with the release of Google Bard (And other

My personal reflections on the the words "LLM", "AI" and my perceptions

Something has been on my mind and I’d thought I’d share my thoughts. Firstly this is more of an inward problem of me struggling to acknowledge LLMs as “AI” even though by the current definition I am wrong. When I picture AI, I often have these grandiose ideas

Talking Tokens: A ChatGPT Primer for the Inquisitive Mind

Let's begin unraveling the Mysteries of Tokens. I initially understood this and wrote this, but in that space of time it looks like OpenAI has an official post on this so it might be better to read that instead. But I wanted to post mine anyway after deliberating about it.

Golden week 2023

Golden Week this year definitely marked a return to the hustle and bustle of pre-pandemic life. Tokyo was alive with excitement. Though I'm not one to complain, it was a bit too intense for my taste this time. I mean, just navigating through the sea of people in Shibuya was