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by gajomi 3y ago
I didn't see any of the specific job titles you mentioned on the career site. Perhaps this is part of the "antedisciplinary" method you refer to? Practically speaking though, should one just use the "Open Apply" opt
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by gajomi 3y ago
PSA... check out this guy's LinkedIn profile. It's a great read.
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by gajomi 4y ago
I think that is why he asked the rhetorical "which masks?".
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by gajomi 5y ago
There are a couple starting points you could take. I spent a weekend hacking out a program that generates fake word/definition pairs with a transformer model set against a dictionary: https://youtu.be/XnJ2TKAn-Vk?t=1547
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by gajomi 5y ago
Let me take a stab at this (I'll maybe take it halfway there). First of all we want to know what kind of matrix we are talking about. Imagine that you have a whole bunch generative models (its best if you imagine a fully connected Bolt
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by gajomi 5y ago
+1 on the whole references as a nice introduction. I think the authors overstate the preparation of their hypothetical "pedestrian" (either that or they need to get away from the physics department a bit more often), but a great r
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by gajomi 5y ago
I have been using the phrase "Artificial Stupidity" as well, but with the opposite meaning. Specifically I like to think of human-like artificial stupidity as a challenge for machine intelligence, in which an algorithm is able to
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by gajomi 5y ago
This would be the opposite of a Turing test though, since most people wouldn't be able to do this.
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Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’(sciencenews.org)
1 points by gajomi 6y ago|0 comments
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by gajomi 6y ago
I can imagine a variant of this card that tries to tackle the point you bring up. Not all purchases are equal. Some of them have negative carbon footprints. The tree planting offsets the footprint for every purchase. These things are not ea
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by gajomi 6y ago
It seems to me that they are basically describing a variational formulation of the "optimization perspective" of reinforcement learning, which is cool, but I am confused... where is the supervised learning? Like what is the input
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by gajomi 6y ago
FYI this is the _first_ call which is dominated by the JIT process. So not really "this time to plot" so much as the "time to compile". Calls to the resulting jitted function will be on the order of what you quote (I hav
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by gajomi 6y ago
> it sounds like they've increased the accuracy of a neural network model of a system, notably for edge cases, by training it on complete a complete model of said system. Not quite. It's really just that they require the dynami
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by gajomi 6y ago
> we shouldn’t just be ranking people by age, if we want to come to moral outcomes? Agreed. But I think quantifications can still be useful. Person-years probably aren't the right sort of quantification though, in that they blend to
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On the first sequence without triple in arithmetic progression(mathoverflow.net)
2 points by gajomi 7y ago|0 comments
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by gajomi 7y ago
How is it speculative? The background does not always allow for the discrimination to be made but in the random sample of ~20 faces I looked it was the main factor in maybe 1/4 of the cases (I was %100 accurate on this random sample).
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by gajomi 7y ago
Came here to pretty much write these same notes. The fact that you need to know the spectrum of all the minors really limits the usefulness for solving general eigen* problems. But I can imagine that this could make a great starting point f
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by gajomi 7y ago
FYI you need to type something into the "Secrete message" and ask to "Encrypt" using the prepopulated "LM context". Both the context and secrete message change the encrypted message
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by gajomi 7y ago
It's probably too hard to answer the general question about "how to gain math intuition". Mathematics is just too vast. However, you have written > I think when I took physics it really brought out these flaws and lack of
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by gajomi 7y ago
Stupid question... Are there equivalent (in the sense of being fast and having nice interfaces) solvers for #SAT problems? A whole pile of inference in machine learning can be framed in this way which makes me curious.
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by gajomi 7y ago
> Absolutely useless Not at all. To say "we don't know" might mean that we don't know the order of magnitude. Order of magnitude estimates to the first or second decimal place are oftentimes more than enough to hone i
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by gajomi 8y ago
I never met him, but he definitely had a big impact on my life. Like so many I was first exposed to computer programming through Microsoft BASIC. These days I make a living working as an engineer at one of his philanthropies. But what I wil
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by gajomi 8y ago
Honest question from a less than A1 level Russian student... Is there really a significant difference between the two? I have no doubt that there is different vocabulary etc. and of course that there are political reasons to count them as d
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by gajomi 9y ago
Just FYI as noted above, 0.7 is the harbinger of 1.0. It is functionally equivalent to 1.0 except deprecation warning, serving essentially as a migration version. So while not out yet, 1.0 is around the corner!
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by gajomi 9y ago
This makes me think... are there any special circumstances in which clothes need to be folded in such a special way and with sufficiently high throughput that this kind of machine could make headway? Oftentimes general purpose technologies
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by gajomi 9y ago
The parent comment was referring not to Carolyn Cherry's 3 hour commute but Michael Perkins 80 minute commute.
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by gajomi 9y ago
It is a problem, but a technical problem thats well understood within the relevant communities. A quantification of "various tolerances" is one notion of diversity, but as you have deftly pointed out there are many other quantifia
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by gajomi 9y ago
"Diversity" may be an emotionally charged word, but also is a useful and common word in the biological sciences for a number of purposes. Of note especially is its common usage in ecology relevant to the CDC's goals of catalo
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by gajomi 9y ago
>It really made me question just how many people who happen to share my political positions, do so because they genuinely understand and agree with the policies, and not because it's just what you're supposed to do when you hav
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by gajomi 9y ago
>The amount of money flowing through capitalism would astound you I really like this one. During my biology days, there was a fellow PhD student in the lab who had spent 15+ years in corporate IT before joining academia, and he always ha

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