HuggingFace and Open Source AI Meetup in SFO Mar 31st(twitter.com)
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HuggingFace and Open Source AI Meetup in SFO Mar 31st
https://twitter.com/BrigitteTousi/status/1640771873985142786
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It's weird when people call the city "SFO". My first thought was, why is it in an airport?
If you travel at all for work, you find that some cities have a second airport miles outside the city, or there are lots of cities with two names. The airport codes for different cities then start to become synonyms for the cities because that's what you type when you're going there.
Other people have different reasons for doing things, everything is weird when you think about it, and when you think about it a little more you realize that means that nothing is weird, just different.
Other people have different reasons for doing things, everything is weird when you think about it, and when you think about it a little more you realize that means that nothing is weird, just different.
FWIW that was my second thought; my first thought was "wow that's super convenient!!!"... and then I was sorely disappointed :(.
Especially weird since SFO is not in San Francisco.
and the event is for the whole metro area and people who want to travel there, but closer to SFO than the other airports
Well, I think it’s just as weird to refer to it as “the City,” as if there aren’t literally over 100 cities in the 9 Bay Area counties.
There are only two “the city” cities in America.
New York and SF.
If someone asks me where I’m from, anywhere between Santa Cruz and Sacramento, and I say “the city” they will know it’s SF.
New York and SF.
If someone asks me where I’m from, anywhere between Santa Cruz and Sacramento, and I say “the city” they will know it’s SF.
It's optimal IMO. Anything shorter is too ambiguous, anything longer is longer than it needs to be.
You think "SF" is ambiguous compared to SFO?
Yes especially when you consider things that aren't places.
Science Fiction being a big one.
There's Santa Fe, CDMX though. You may have decided that Santa Fe, NM is too small, but you may not have considered that one.
People don't normally call that SF though - but they could. And that's why SF ought to have a more narrow use than SFO.
Science Fiction being a big one.
There's Santa Fe, CDMX though. You may have decided that Santa Fe, NM is too small, but you may not have considered that one.
People don't normally call that SF though - but they could. And that's why SF ought to have a more narrow use than SFO.
"ATL" got lucky. I couldn't think of anything else to call our city in just three letters.
Plus our airport itself is huge. "Busiest airport in the world" (usually).
Plus our airport itself is huge. "Busiest airport in the world" (usually).
It must be a Canadian who wrote that
Can't wait. I'll be there showing off my frontend for exploring locally running LLMs (toolkit for managing prompts, branching conversations, and pre/post prompt programmatic mangling) gonna be a fun time.
(must say it's funny that with the advent of all these crazy tools i've been spending most of my time writing regex to marshall/interpret the somewhat irregular text streams into more useful formats, feels like i'm doing nothing at all interesting yet the output often feels magical)
(must say it's funny that with the advent of all these crazy tools i've been spending most of my time writing regex to marshall/interpret the somewhat irregular text streams into more useful formats, feels like i'm doing nothing at all interesting yet the output often feels magical)
A lot of interesting people who are working on OSS AI will be there. Whom do you wanna meet? Is there any person we should invite particularly?
Is the event totally full? I'm in the Mission but I guess I missed the earlier announcements. I'll keep an eye out for future events!
There are new spots available, email me if you'd like to meetup (not required): https://partiful.com/e/fE0XH0PrSOZB9ezYuFbW
"HuggingFace" might be the worst name I've ever heard of for an organization.
Cockroach was deemed worse by more people, but the company continues to succeed and haters dies off
Cockroach is so bad it's good
MongoDB is the worst name in my opinion.
Get used to it — it's the new GitHub [for LLM stuff, for now].
...but you have heard of it
It makes me crazy too. It reminds my of Hugin[0], which is a library for panorama stitching of photos. Somehow it's too close to that in my brain and neither really makes sense or sounds good.
[0] https://hugin.sourceforge.io
[0] https://hugin.sourceforge.io
That's because they started out as a chat bot for teens.
I wonder if they'll ever attempt to revive that product, backed by LLMs.
I wonder if they'll ever attempt to revive that product, backed by LLMs.
The number of times the hugging face emoji shows up in their documentation makes it feel oddly wholesome.
Wow I definitely thought it was named after the facehugger from Alien.
Gotta be terrible for SEO
It's named after an emoji, but I don't know why.
I love the name!
Damn, wish I could attend but I only found out about this once the event was full ):
Crash it. It’s more fun that way anyway.
What do you mean? Would they let anyone in?
tartine and other restaurants at sfo are quite the draw!