Panic just makes it sound more real, I think. They were saying stuff like "Eek, our technology is TOO dangerous and advanced and we need to be regulated :-O" when they definitely didn't actually want to be regulated.…
this is part of why I think most researchers get less productive over time... Someone gets some big result during grad school or early career, get some big job from it, and then struggle to get new results of similar…
yeah this is what drives me crazy about LLM writing. Most of the time the prompt has all the info you need and is like maybe a few sentences. Then the LLM expands it into a few paragraphs... I guess if someone is…
I've been using claude while trying to setup a new personal site. It's very nice to be able to say "I want a nice looking menu with links to other pages" and it spits out something good enough. I would feel very weird…
is the kobo store not good/convenient compared to kindle? I thought the kobo store was pretty good, but it is my first and only e-reader.
yeah I was being very hyperbolic (and am on the younger side, so tbh wasn't very aware of a lot the x projects... I think those are even riskier than I meant.) google was probably the worst example for me to use tbh,…
can very much agree about not writing stuff like reductions yourself, unless you have good reason to. but this sort of feels like another "implement everything with <nvidia stuff> and you'll have a great time!! (but…
I really wish there were better options to PMPP... It's by far the most up-to-date book, but I totally agree the writing is sort of bad and some of the code examples are straight up incorrect. So tl;dr, you have at…
I think Jensen Huang said this recently, and I've had a similar opinion for a while, but a lot of companies seem uncreative with how they use their employees. like google probably has >10k people working on stuff like…
it's so great to see people boosting "security" in a way that also just happens to require locking in to big-tech approved apps that send all your data to big-tech so that they can deliver ads to you via your big-tech…
literally watched it last night and was struck by how much "personality" it has.
Input (Eminem lyrics): there's vomit on my sweater already, mom's spaghetti. Output: Facing some early-stage operational challenges today. Already dealing with some unexpected "output" on my professional attire, but…
I feel like that's true when the font is insanely small, which I guess was good when people would print entire proceedings. Reading two column super small font on a computer is super annoying though tbh.
A personal guideline for a lot of stuff is that a function may be too long when people add comments to mark what sections of it do. (ofc not really a hard rule). I just think it's easier to see "oh this is calling the…
I kind of dislike the benchmarkification of AI for science stuff tbh. I've encountered a LOT of issues with benchmark datasets that just aren't good... In a lot of cases they are fine and necessary, but IMO, the…
This may not be the actual reason in this case, but I think it's good to be aware of: A non-zero chunk of "ai for science" research done at tech companies is basically done for marketing. Even in cases where it's not…
Actually I just happened to see this: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/how-chaotic-is-chaos-how.... It's basically explaining the same thing, but much better than me :-)
I'm not an expert on this, so take this with a grain of salt. Chaotic PDEs are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. This essentially makes it so that any numerical solution will (quickly) diverge from the true…
it feels like Nvidia has 30 "tile-based DSLs with python-like syntax for ML kernels" that are in the works lol. I think they are very worried about open source and portable alternatives to cuda.
I think very few of these "replace numerical solver with ML model" papers do anything to verify invariants are satisfied (they often are not well preserved). They basically all just check that the model approximately…
100% of the time I get a call, it's spam, a doctor, or my mom.
I've decided 100% of papers saying their modification of a neural network is interpretable are exaggerating.
I have heard that their internal review processes for papers have started telling people to not say stuff like "XYZ may be useful for climate research" or "this is an alternative energy source that's environmentally…
I think they're misusing "forward propagation" and "backward propagation" to be basically mean "post training inference" and "training". they seem to be assuming n iterations of the backward pass, which is why it's…
they're probably using a new temperature-reading AI that processes a video feed of a computer screen that displays the temperature as determined by an AI-powered thermometer that uses AI to convert a heat profile into a…
Panic just makes it sound more real, I think. They were saying stuff like "Eek, our technology is TOO dangerous and advanced and we need to be regulated :-O" when they definitely didn't actually want to be regulated.…
this is part of why I think most researchers get less productive over time... Someone gets some big result during grad school or early career, get some big job from it, and then struggle to get new results of similar…
yeah this is what drives me crazy about LLM writing. Most of the time the prompt has all the info you need and is like maybe a few sentences. Then the LLM expands it into a few paragraphs... I guess if someone is…
I've been using claude while trying to setup a new personal site. It's very nice to be able to say "I want a nice looking menu with links to other pages" and it spits out something good enough. I would feel very weird…
is the kobo store not good/convenient compared to kindle? I thought the kobo store was pretty good, but it is my first and only e-reader.
yeah I was being very hyperbolic (and am on the younger side, so tbh wasn't very aware of a lot the x projects... I think those are even riskier than I meant.) google was probably the worst example for me to use tbh,…
can very much agree about not writing stuff like reductions yourself, unless you have good reason to. but this sort of feels like another "implement everything with <nvidia stuff> and you'll have a great time!! (but…
I really wish there were better options to PMPP... It's by far the most up-to-date book, but I totally agree the writing is sort of bad and some of the code examples are straight up incorrect. So tl;dr, you have at…
I think Jensen Huang said this recently, and I've had a similar opinion for a while, but a lot of companies seem uncreative with how they use their employees. like google probably has >10k people working on stuff like…
it's so great to see people boosting "security" in a way that also just happens to require locking in to big-tech approved apps that send all your data to big-tech so that they can deliver ads to you via your big-tech…
literally watched it last night and was struck by how much "personality" it has.
Input (Eminem lyrics): there's vomit on my sweater already, mom's spaghetti. Output: Facing some early-stage operational challenges today. Already dealing with some unexpected "output" on my professional attire, but…
I feel like that's true when the font is insanely small, which I guess was good when people would print entire proceedings. Reading two column super small font on a computer is super annoying though tbh.
A personal guideline for a lot of stuff is that a function may be too long when people add comments to mark what sections of it do. (ofc not really a hard rule). I just think it's easier to see "oh this is calling the…
I kind of dislike the benchmarkification of AI for science stuff tbh. I've encountered a LOT of issues with benchmark datasets that just aren't good... In a lot of cases they are fine and necessary, but IMO, the…
This may not be the actual reason in this case, but I think it's good to be aware of: A non-zero chunk of "ai for science" research done at tech companies is basically done for marketing. Even in cases where it's not…
Actually I just happened to see this: https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/how-chaotic-is-chaos-how.... It's basically explaining the same thing, but much better than me :-)
I'm not an expert on this, so take this with a grain of salt. Chaotic PDEs are extremely sensitive to initial conditions. This essentially makes it so that any numerical solution will (quickly) diverge from the true…
it feels like Nvidia has 30 "tile-based DSLs with python-like syntax for ML kernels" that are in the works lol. I think they are very worried about open source and portable alternatives to cuda.
I think very few of these "replace numerical solver with ML model" papers do anything to verify invariants are satisfied (they often are not well preserved). They basically all just check that the model approximately…
100% of the time I get a call, it's spam, a doctor, or my mom.
I've decided 100% of papers saying their modification of a neural network is interpretable are exaggerating.
I have heard that their internal review processes for papers have started telling people to not say stuff like "XYZ may be useful for climate research" or "this is an alternative energy source that's environmentally…
I think they're misusing "forward propagation" and "backward propagation" to be basically mean "post training inference" and "training". they seem to be assuming n iterations of the backward pass, which is why it's…
they're probably using a new temperature-reading AI that processes a video feed of a computer screen that displays the temperature as determined by an AI-powered thermometer that uses AI to convert a heat profile into a…