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by legel 1mo ago
Thanks Olivier! Very kind. Cool technical insights. I agree 100% that learning ecoregions is too difficult. I believe that AI will help us to simulate ecosystems, just like physics equations simulate gravity. The Natural Capital project fro
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by legel 1mo ago
I'm a Visiting Scientist at UC Berkeley focusing on AI for ecology. Always great to see fellow technologists in this space! For the past few years I've maintained a free open source project called Ecodash ( https://ecoda
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by legel 3mo ago
You are wrong. Text tokens are high-dimensional vectors, not 8 bits per character. Every token has a deep embedding, e.g. 1024 float values per text token. DeepSeek-OCR proved 10x+ compression from visual embedding of text, which was a grou
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by legel 4mo ago
For anyone in AI, this reads like someone starting a new company called Google
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by legel 5mo ago
Very very warm nostalgic fuzzy feelings here
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Recursive Self-Improving Software Engineering Agents(github.com)
2 points by legel 6mo ago|0 comments
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History of transportation: dominant modes and innovations, 1600-2100, by decade(claude.ai)
4 points by legel 6mo ago|0 comments
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Dark Patterns from Google Workspace and Google Labs Flow(knowledge.workspace.google.com)
9 points by legel 6mo ago|1 comments
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by legel 6mo ago
I've been using Google Workspace for over a decade. Historically, after removing a user from your organization, it was always easy to migrate their data (e.g. Google Drive folders) to your own user. Suddenly, I recently had a nightmare
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by legel 8mo ago
Once upon a time, the "stupid hazing ritual" made sense. Now it means company is stupid.
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by legel 8mo ago
One could use any number of LLMs on real-world problems. Why are we still interviewing like its 1999?
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by legel 9mo ago
I happen to have a background at this interface as well, as the founder of DeepEarth and Ecodash.ai. I can tell you that I would greatly value such experience in collaboration, although I am not currently hiring. While having such a specifi
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by legel 9mo ago
Just shared this myself. Very lovely!
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by legel 10mo ago
Thanks for reporting these metrics and drawing the conclusion of an underlying breakthrough in search. In his Nobel Prize winning speech, Demis Hassabis ends by discussing how he sees all of intelligence as a big tree-like search process.
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by legel 11mo ago
All of this read and written on a smartphone. Reversion to the past is not preparation for the future.
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by legel 1y ago
Very cool! The training objective is clever. The 50+ filters at Ecodash.ai for 90,000 plants came from a custom RAG model on top of 800,000 raw web pages. Because LLM’s are expensive, chunking and semantic search for figuring out what to fe
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by legel 2y ago
I’m glad Ilya starts the talk with a photo of Quoc Le, who was the lead author of a 2012 paper on scaling neural nets that inspired me to go into deep learning at the time. His comments are relatively humble and based on public prior work,
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by legel 2y ago
Math comes from brains.
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by legel 2y ago
Obviously the article is challenging the view — scientific or not — that mitochondria are not living. Side note: previously I was funded by NSF and NASA to study such questions from biophysics and astrobiology. That said, this was a delight
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Diving into the Mind of Geoffrey Hinton(ecodash.substack.com)
2 points by legel 2y ago|0 comments
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by legel 2y ago
Restricted Boltzmann Machines were a huge revolution in the field, warranting a publication in Science in 2006. If you want to know what the field looks like back then, here it is: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/ab
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Prithvi WxC: Foundation Model for Weather and Climate(huggingface.co)
1 points by legel 2y ago|0 comments
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by legel 2y ago
Congrats to Jayesh and team! I was lucky to meet the founding CEO recently, and happy to let everyone know he's very friendly and of course super intelligent. As a fellow deep learning modeler of Earth systems, I can also say that what
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by legel 2y ago
It was fascinating to see the counter-proposal to the Army Corps of Engineers for Miami's design of a downtown wall to deal with storm surges: https://dirt.asla.org/2022/09/12/uproar-causes-u-s-army-corp.
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by legel 2y ago
As a technical engineer, I’ve learned the value of starting sentences with “basically”, even when I’m facing technical uncertainty. Basically, “basically” forces me to be simple . Being trained to say words like “Alternatively”, “But…”, “W
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by legel 2y ago
Which is why it is incredibly depressing that OpenAI will not publish the raw chain of thought. “Therefore, after weighing multiple factors including user experience, competitive advantage, and the option to pursue the chain of thought mo
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by legel 2y ago
This haiku response is art.
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by legel 2y ago
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jebara/4771/handouts.html
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by legel 2y ago
I remember taking Andrew Ng’s (delightful) Coursera ML and believing I knew ML. Then I took a Columbia ML graduate course IRL: it was like being hit by a train.
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by legel 2y ago
I love the questions the writer presents to effectively manage the psychological and personal dimensions of solo development: 1. How much time can I afford to spend on this without feeling bad? 2. What can obstruct me from finishing this wi

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