danielbigham

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by danielbigham 6y ago
The project I'm working on does this -- we define high level semantic entity types, and from that you can: - Define APIs that take those entities as inputs, automatically validating API arguments for you, automatically generating docum
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by danielbigham 6y ago
This is really nice. I experimented converting natural language to git log commands this week ( https://twitter.com/danielbigham/status/1294461750251839489 ), but mapping natural language to git sql might be better
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by danielbigham 6y ago
I love this. Yes, there are higher level languages that can be used for accomplishing these things, but people find themselves at the command line a lot, and having the ability to efficiently express your intent using a familiar language, w
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by danielbigham 6y ago
I made up the examples, and IIRC it was able to explain most things I tried. If others want to experiment with this, I used the "davinci" model with temperature 0.5, and here is the prompt / initial context I seeded it with:
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by danielbigham 6y ago
I experimented with it's ability to explain why something is nonsensical yesterday, and it did better than I thought it would: https://twitter.com/danielbigham/status/1288853412713508864/...
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by danielbigham 7y ago
Reminds me of this: http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/what-my-stroke-taugh...
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by danielbigham 7y ago
UWaterloo CS488! Some of the funnest 200 hours of my life. Here's what I produced 17 years ago. Kind of embarrassing next to your slick work! http://www.danielbigham.ca/raytracer/raytracer.htm
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by danielbigham 7y ago
One challenge with using things like trees to estimate long-ago temperatures is that you have to build a complex mathematical model to map to temperature, and I'm aware of at least one famous study that got the math wrong, to the point
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by danielbigham 7y ago
Something that I started doing recently is to create a "30 second summary" of each important concept, consisting of text and diagrams. I then record a 30 second video where I narrate, using good intonation, the 30 second summary.
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by danielbigham 7y ago
One of the ways I think about humility is that it is the ability of a person to successfully integrate information that requires some non-trivial refactoring of one's internal model of the world. Refactoring can be a costly operation,
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by danielbigham 7y ago
He's right -- they're called ideas.
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by danielbigham 7y ago
I wonder if spacetime, in addition to being curvable by mass, is also inherently curved at the scale of the universe.
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by danielbigham 7y ago
I think Lex is a great interviewer. Eric definitely threw him off a number of times, but I can't fault him.
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by danielbigham 8y ago
I absolutely love your sentiments. hug
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by danielbigham 8y ago
There is a wise phrase, "more with less", that people may be familiar with. I think this article fits into that paradigm nicely. Imagine the difference in global outcome if person A ate out each day of the week for lunch, while an
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by danielbigham 8y ago
This year for whatever reason I keep seeing the concept of "integration" in everything, and have also become interested in what feels like the opposite -- division and separation -- so when I read "Ego is all about division a
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by danielbigham 8y ago
These are the types of challenges I've been thinking about for the last year -- nice to be able to read the approach taken by others.
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by danielbigham 8y ago
Your question is timely -- in the last year I've started to be deliberate about this, and I've found a solution for myself that works really well. There are five important parts to my strategy: 1. Each idea gets its own notebook&#
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by danielbigham 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this link -- found it quite a good read.
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by danielbigham 8y ago
Found this article very insightful -- the universe when it is working well is like a giant pattern matcher operating at every level of abstraction, bringing together those things which make a good match. The converse is exemplified by what
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by danielbigham 8y ago
A bit off topic, but I've never seen "fractal" and "chaotic" conjoined before. If you feel like expanding on that I'd be all ears.
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by danielbigham 8y ago
I watched a debate involving William Macaskill last summer and he poses the hypothetical question: "You are outside a burning building and are told that inside one room is a child and inside another is a painting by Picasso. You can sa
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by danielbigham 8y ago
This article comes off too strong, but it's welcomed conversation. My take: Kurzweil is missing the mark to suggest unabated growth in computing or anything like a true "singularity" where a curve goes to infinity. However, I
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by danielbigham 8y ago
Yes, this conflation has bother me as well. In the long term it's an absolute slam dunk to transition to autonomous vehicles, but I'm a bit worried that they're feeling they need to hide the most important numbers in 2018 in
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by danielbigham 9y ago
I have a suspicion that in the future computers will use a vaguely DNN-like approach for compression, but I haven't seen any super compelling examples of this yet. I can say "imagine a photo taken at 2000 feet and 2 miles away of
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by danielbigham 9y ago
I think a critical eye can be a helpful viewpoint, but the rhetoric in this article is over the top to say the least (as others have pointed out). The use of the word "voyeur" is especially off color. Sure, some small percentage o
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by danielbigham 9y ago
I work in the field of natural language understanding and in the last few years I've figured out how to use that very advantageously wrt learning. Here's the approach I use: - Every time you come across a new term or concept, you
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by danielbigham 9y ago
In university I wrote an essay arguing that consciousness was something in another dimension of reality and that the brain "projected" it's perceptions into that dimension. I also argued that that other dimension didn't
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by danielbigham 9y ago
Amen. This author's thesis sounds pretty darn good to me.