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matznerd commented on Notion 3.0   notion.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
pembrook · 6 months ago
But why would I want my team generating/reading AI slop in our Wiki??
matznerd · 6 months ago
I do writing with RAG and it can be implemented to suprisingly good if you already have your own writing that the text is being generated from. FAQs etc can be pretty easy when your content is context for the AI.

After a few rounds of AI generating AI content from AI content, I'm sure it could eventually become slop...like the model collapse lol idk.

"AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

matznerd commented on Notion 3.0   notion.com/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
matznerd · 6 months ago
Dear Notion employees, please, if you're advertise mail and calendar as features, add them into your app and do not make them open in new tabs. I want an all in one thing, why is that so hard, you already have tabs built in? Thanks!
matznerd commented on Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall   joefatula.com/twoslice.ht... · Posted by u/JdeBP
matznerd · 6 months ago
okay but what about "c" being nearly the same as "z", neither of which look like the character and are nearly(?) identical. Is our brain supposed to just be able to figure it out?
matznerd commented on Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/hbcondo714
matznerd · 6 months ago
"A large new study published in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health provides evidence that exposure to certain workplace chemicals among parents may influence the severity of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms and contribute to behavioral, cognitive, and adaptive challenges in their children. The findings suggest that occupational exposures—especially to plastics, ethylene oxide, phenols, and pharmaceutical agents—may have broader developmental effects beyond autism diagnosis alone."

"The effects of parental occupational exposures on autism spectrum disorder severity and skills in cognitive and adaptive domains in children with autism spectrum disorder" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S143846392...

The person leading this study, Erin C. McCanlies, was forced out of the CDC, her division eliminated and she went into early retirement from the CDC. https://www.psypost.org/scientist-who-linked-autism-to-chemi...

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"The findings suggest that workplace exposures to several specific chemical classes were associated with worse outcomes in children with ASD. One of the strongest and most consistent patterns involved plastics and polymer chemicals. Fathers’ exposure to plastics was associated with lower scores across all cognitive and adaptive skill domains, including language, motor coordination, daily living skills, and overall functioning. When both parents were exposed, the deficits appeared to compound.

“I was surprised how strongly and consistently plastics and polymers stood out as being linked with multiple developmental and behavioral outcomes including irritability, hyperactivity, and daily living,” McCanlies told PsyPost.

Exposure to ethylene oxide—commonly used in hospital sterilization—was also linked to more severe autism symptoms, lower expressive language abilities, and poorer adaptive functioning. Similarly, parental exposure to phenol (used in construction, automotive, and some consumer products) and pharmaceuticals was associated with increased ASD severity and more pronounced behavioral challenges, especially hyperactivity and stereotyped behavior.

While the results do not imply that all children exposed to these chemicals will develop more severe symptoms, the patterns suggest that early life exposure to workplace toxicants may amplify certain developmental difficulties in children who already meet criteria for ASD. The study provides one of the most detailed looks to date at how parental occupation may relate not just to diagnosis, but to variation in how autism is expressed.

“Our findings suggest that certain parental workplace exposures may be related not just to autism, but to worse symptoms and autism behaviors,” McCanlies explained."

matznerd commented on Version of OpenAIs's new open source 20B model, optimized to run on Mac (MLX)   huggingface.co/lmstudio-c... · Posted by u/matznerd
matznerd · 7 months ago
These are 8bit versions On mac, use LM Studio to download it, just search "oss mlx", and note there is an mlx toggle box on search.

Link for the 120B version: https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/gpt-oss-120b-MLX-8...

Its taking 21 gb of memory on my 64 gb mbp, still tuning it and settling on context size, temp, and other settings.

My comment from yesterday:

"thanks openai for being open ;) Surprised there are no official MLX versions and only one mention of MLX in this thread. MLX basically converst the models to take advntage of mac unified memory for 2-5x increase in power, enabling macs to run what would otherwise take expensive gpus (within limits). So FYI to any one on mac, the easiest way to run these models right now is using LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai/), its free. You just search for the model, usually 3rd party groups mlx-community or lmstudio-community have mlx versions within a day or 2 of releases. I go for the 8-bit quantizations (4-bit faster, but quality drops). You can also convert to mlx yourself...

Once you have it running on LM studio, you can chat there in their chat interface, or you can run it through api that defaults to http://127.0.0.1:1234

You can run multiple models that hot swap and load instantly and switch between them etc.

Its surpassingly easy, and fun.There are actually a lot of cool niche models comings out, like this tiny high-quality search model released today as well (and who released official mlx version) https://huggingface.co/Intelligent-Internet/II-Search-4B

Other fun ones are gemma 3n which is model multi-modal, larger one that is actually solid model but takes more memory is the new Qwen3 30b A3B (coder and instruct), Pixtral (mixtral vision with full resolution images), etc. Look forward to playing with this model and see how it compares."

matznerd commented on Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507   huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3... · Posted by u/IdealeZahlen
setsewerd · 7 months ago
Since the ranking is based on token usage, wouldn't this ranking be skewed by the fact that small models' APIs are often used for consumer products, especially free ones? Meanwhile reasoning models skew it in the opposite direction, but to what extent I don't know.

It's an interesting proxy, but idk how reliable it'd be.

matznerd · 7 months ago
Also, these small models are meant to be run local so not going to appear on openrouter...
matznerd commented on Open models by OpenAI   openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
matznerd · 7 months ago
thanks openai for being open ;) Surprised there are no official MLX versions and only one mention of MLX in this thread. MLX basically converst the models to take advntage of mac unified memory for 2-5x increase in power, enabling macs to run what would otherwise take expensive gpus (within limits).

So FYI to any one on mac, the easiest way to run these models right now is using LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai/), its free. You just search for the model, usually 3rd party groups mlx-community or lmstudio-community have mlx versions within a day or 2 of releases. I go for the 8-bit quantizations (4-bit faster, but quality drops). You can also convert to mlx yourself...

Once you have it running on LM studio, you can chat there in their chat interface, or you can run it through api that defaults to http://127.0.0.1:1234

You can run multiple models that hot swap and load instantly and switch between them etc.

Its surpassingly easy, and fun.There are actually a lot of cool niche models comings out, like this tiny high-quality search model released today as well (and who released official mlx version) https://huggingface.co/Intelligent-Internet/II-Search-4B

Other fun ones are gemma 3n which is model multi-modal, larger one that is actually solid model but takes more memory is the new Qwen3 30b A3B (coder and instruct), Pixtral (mixtral vision with full resolution images), etc. Look forward to playing with this model and see how it compares.

matznerd commented on Open models by OpenAI   openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics
matznerd · 7 months ago
thanks openai for being open ;) Surprised there are no official MLX versions and only one mention of MLX in this thread. MLX basically converst the models to take advntage of mac unified memory for 2-5x increase in power, enabling macs to run what would otherwise take expensive gpus (within limits).

So FYI to any one on mac, the easiest way to run these models right now is using LM Studio (https://lmstudio.ai/), its free. You just search for the model, usually 3rd party groups mlx-community or lmstudio-community have mlx versions within a day or 2 of releases. I go for the 8-bit quantizations (4-bit faster, but quality drops). You can also convert to mlx yourself...

Once you have it running on LM studio, you can chat there in their chat interface, or you can run it through api that defaults to http://127.0.0.1:1234

You can run multiple models that hot swap and load instantly and switch between them etc.

Its surpassingly easy, and fun.There are actually a lot of cool niche models comings out, like this tiny high-quality search model released today as well (and who released official mlx version) https://huggingface.co/Intelligent-Internet/II-Search-4B

Other fun ones are gemma 3n which is model multi-modal, larger one that is actually solid model but takes more memory is the new Qwen3 30b A3B (coder and instruct), Pixtral (mixtral vision with full resolution images), etc. Look forward to playing with this model and see how it compares.

u/matznerd

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I am a futurist & biohacker, but since 2019 have been working to help counteract climate change by developing large-scale carbon removal projects and companies.

I currently run Metalplant, where we use hyperaccumulator plants to mine soil for nickel, while removing carbon dioxide through enhanced rock weathering.

Enhanced weathering works by crushing magnesium-silicate minerals and spreading them into fields to generate alkalinity that forces CO2 to become stored as bicarbonate for 10,000+ years. Olivine is one of the most efficient minerals at this process, but contains trace nickel ~0.3%.

Nickel hyperaccumulator plants grow natively in nickel-bearing soils and draw nickel up from the soil and store it in their biomass as a natural defense against predators. The plants are harvested and processed to pure nickel products. With optimized plants, hundreds of kilograms of nickel can be recovered per hectare per year.

Normally phytomining is as phytoremediation and the soil nickel level depletes, but by utilizing olivine weathering on these soils already containing nickel, we can resupply the nickel as the olivine weathers, stoichemetrically removing gross 300 tonnes of carbon for every tonne of nickel we replenish into the field.

The company was originally developed as a way to demonstrate how to create an economically viable carbon removal technology that creates valuable and important co-products that can drive the upscaling of the process.

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In 2017, I started Climigitation a non-profit think tank dedicated to promoting technologies and techniques to mitigate climate change and remove atmospheric carbon dioxide. Started as a non-profit, it was known as Project Vesta and the idea was to use tropical beaches to speed up Earth's natural long-term carbon-silicate cycle. In early 2021, I left Project Vesta after that, it was split into a non-profit and a for-profit PBC. Vesta has successfully deployed olivine onto beaches in Southhampton New York, and Duck, North Carolina and now focuses on beach nourishment.

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In the biohacking space, I was a "nootropics historian" and started and ran the nootropics company, Nootroo. I helped drive the adoption and acceptance of nootropics and in some ways biohacking in general. You can read a profile of me that is a snapshot from that time of my life in The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/10/the-brain-bro/497546/ And this is one of the last interviews I did on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYfsknlWHI You can also find interviews from that time in GQ, Men's Health, ABC Nightline News, NPR, The Guardian, among others. You can see the most accurate definition of nootropics at https://Nootroo.com

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*This is a personal account and posts here are opinions and do not represent the views of my company/orgs unless otherwise stated.*

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