hzay

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by hzay 11mo ago
We can't just look up info using an LLM. We have no clue what its weights and biases are based on, and whatever other layers control the output. Just a total black box. It would be an irreplaceable loss if we lost wikipedia to LLMs.
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by hzay 11mo ago
When I was learning ML, I spent a lot of time using sentence transformers. Seriously underrated. Happy to see it here.
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by hzay 11mo ago
How do you debug it properly? Suppose you see others not have the mysterious difficulties that you have. What if they were simply pretrained - through prior exposure to that material? How would you even know that this was the case? I think
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by hzay 1y ago
Hey I'm reading that book too! Glad to meet you! I love that book.
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by hzay 1y ago
I mean, my friend's wife is an eye surgeon. My husband's cousin is a pediatrician, with neonatal specialty. I'll take software engineering.
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by hzay 1y ago
Lots of happy examples in this thread. Let me add mine. My 3 year old vastly prefers complex carnatic music to cocomelon (and its ilk). He can listen to a 15 minute, intricate song without losing interest, and will ask for it in a loop. Chi
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by hzay 1y ago
Some languages are supposed to be very difficult & mentally taxing to learn, because they have many conjugations. But a native speaker with very low intelligence (however you measure it) has zero trouble conjugating it all correctly.
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by hzay 1y ago
ITT: ppl saying LLMs are v helpful The keyword in title is "bullish". It's about the future. Specifically I think it's about the potential of the transformer architecture & the idea that scaling is all that's ne
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by hzay 2y ago
I started with this 3 part course - https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning-in... . I think the same course is available at deeplearning.ai as well, I'm not sure, but I found coursera's forma
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by hzay 2y ago
I learned ML only to satisfy my curiosity, so I don't know if it's useful for interviewing. :) Now when I read a paper on something unrelated to AI (idk, say progesterone supplements), and they mention a random forest, I know what
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by hzay 2y ago
Not the poster you responded to but I learned quite a bit from kaggle too. I started from scratch, spent 2-4 hrs per day for 6 months & won a silver in a kaggle NLP competition. Now I use some of it now but not all of it. More than tha
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by hzay 2y ago
What an incredible waste of words. What is this even based on? For a start, where I'm from, there is no marker around the age of 40 (or 35 or 45). It's the age when people are extremely busy because of career & kids. Secondly,
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by hzay 2y ago
Thanks for asking this -- your question made me realize I don't have much experience with pain at all! The answer is pretty run of the mill stuff -- I got my finger stuck in a door-crack-like spot. Ugh. Childbirth pain is not horrible
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by hzay 2y ago
Pretty common. I did.
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by hzay 2y ago
> Imagine someone being a brain surgeon also interested in the heart, kidneys and urinary tract, nose-throat-ears, ... that's a Renaissance Doc. Do you mean that such a Renaissance doc this is not a good thing? I think this is exact
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by hzay 2y ago
He meant that micromanaging and getting into details is good (not disparaging him here, fwiw I agree with him), but he didn't want to come right out and say it. Also, I think he's not yet sure what else it involves -- like the 100
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by hzay 2y ago
My amnesia is somewhat intentional. Like some of the commenters here, I'm doubtful if I should really take it everyday. Just seems excessive? Did it during pregnancy ofc, and it's not like the early days of breastfeeding when you&
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by hzay 2y ago
This is great. My mother had osteoporosis and I hope they come up with a therapy she can use! However as a currently breastfeeding mother, I'm asked by doctors to take calcium supplements every day (I only remember it once a week or so
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by hzay 2y ago
Visualizing 3D matrix multiplications, and getting comfortable with it. Then there's basic calculus in understanding gradient descent. Can't think of any other advanced math that was necessary to grok the innermost workings of mos
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by hzay 2y ago
The end neither justifies nor undermines the means.
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by hzay 2y ago
Is it really secret though? It's the first thing you learn when you google "how to take bp". Like I'm not a medical person but when I was pregnant, I was asked to check BP and I asked the doctor "should I like avera
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by hzay 2y ago
Nice. I tried visualizing this algorithm here - https://visuallyexplain.pages.dev/kmp/algorithm-(wip) . The sidebar has a bunch of completed algos -- DFS, BFS, binary heap queries, dijkstra's, union find, topologi
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by hzay 2y ago
Does anyone know if there's something similar for plain old geometry? I need some proofs beyond basic ones (for ex, I need to know how to find out intersection points of 2 rotated ellipses on Cartesian space).
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by hzay 2y ago
Any parents here who have successfully managed this with their kids? Please share resources or ideas for newer parents.
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by hzay 2y ago
I so relate to that out of body experience. My story is different though -- 10 years ago, I was driving along the SF-LA scenic route (I forget its name). I'd rarely driven in US at that time and was brand new to the country. Suddenly I
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by hzay 2y ago
Aswath Damodaran speaks of a life cycle for companies. In his view, companies do decline and shut down after sometime. He makes it seem like a fact of life -- if it's true, then stock markets aren't so terrible after all. The decl
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by hzay 2y ago
I also have always slept with our child in our bed. This hasn't done much for my sleep.
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by hzay 2y ago
> there was a point where I thought to myself I haven't had more than 2 hours of continious unbroken sleep for few months Omg same, but for more than 2 years, because I'm a breastfeeding mom. Idk how this is healthy or normal!
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by hzay 3y ago
I love this story. It's a lot more humble and nuanced than the similar one by Ted Chiang called "Understand".
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by hzay 3y ago
> I get disproportionately angry at even low levels of unwanted noise. I also suffer from this problem. Is there a name for this?

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