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Friday Fun Thread for September 20, 2024

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I'm teaching a class on LLMs right now, and the students are working on a project to use LLMs to answer questions about the current election. (They're using a RAG based system to pull in news articles to answer the questions, and they're next assignment is going to be to get the system to respond in the style of Harris/Trump.)

Anyways, to evaluate the students' work, I needed to create a dataset of US election facts. I call it the Hairy Trumpet dataset (github link), and I'm surprised I haven't heard this pun on the candidates' names anywhere else yet. I especially like the pun because hairy trumpet is also the name of a weird fungus, which seems fitting for a dataset on politics.

Can you share the course content with me?

Github repo with course content: https://github.com/mikeizbicki/cmc-csci181-languages

All the lectures recorded and put on youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSNWQVdrBwoa4KNaiKr-ayUdROZdSZ_1E

(unfortunately the audio didn't capture on the first video)

Thanks. Seems like a neat course, I'll keep an eye on it to see what's coming.

Whoah, haven't seen you post in a while. Or maybe I wasn't paying attention.

edit: Wasn't trying to sound like an ass, was genuinely thinking you haven't posted in a while.

I haven't posted in a while. In fact I haven't visited in a while. That's not the mottes fault it's the internets fault, there's just much more important things like work and vacations happening in the real world.