martingoodson

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by martingoodson 2mo ago
Don't watch any kind of screen in the evening. Read a book instead. You'll fall asleep sooner.
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by martingoodson 5mo ago
"Conclusions: This meta-analysis confirmed that skipping breakfast is associated with overweight/obesity, and skipping breakfast increases the risk of overweight/obesity. The results of cohort studies and cross-sectional stud
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by martingoodson 6mo ago
People seem to be misunderstanding this paper. It doesn't claim that any previous papers have overestimated contamination. That would only happen if scientists didn't routinely use blanks as a comparison, which they do. E.g. &quo
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by martingoodson 1y ago
Title needs to be changed. It completely misrepresents this research. There was no comparison between human written and AI written stories.
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by martingoodson 2y ago
Honestly, I think if I wasn't there, she still would have loved it. She related to it like a person.
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by martingoodson 2y ago
I played with this last night with my four-year old daughter. We had fun with asking Miles to explain what bones are made of etc. Today, she asked "where has that robot guy gone?". Crying now because I won't let her talk to M
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What books should a junior programmer read?
1 points by martingoodson 2y ago|1 comments
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by martingoodson 2y ago
Written by someone who knows what they are talking about.
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by martingoodson 2y ago
I've worked in data extraction from documents for a decade and have developed algorithms in the space. I've developed a product using LLMs for this purpose too. This article is essentially correct.
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by martingoodson 2y ago
I work in financial data and our customers would not accept 96% accuracy in the data points we supply. Maybe 99.96%. For most use cases in financial services, accurate data is very important.
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by martingoodson 2y ago
We hosted Ziming Liu at the London Machine Learning Meetup a few weeks ago. He gave a great talk on this fascinating work. Here's the recording https://youtu.be/FYYZZVV5vlY?si=ReoygVJMgY9oje3p
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Baptiste Roziere gave a great talk about Code Llama at our meetup recently: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_mhMi-7ONWQ I highly recommend watching it.
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Art of the Essay: Recommended Texts and Resources(web.stanford.edu)
2 points by martingoodson 3y ago|0 comments
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Do you have any reference for this claim, or are you guessing? It was reported that the algorithm was a Gradient Boosting Machine by investigators who gained access to the code. https://www.lighthousereports.com/suspicion-ma
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by martingoodson 3y ago
I think because it's a relatively 'younger' field, there is a bit more need to know about the foundations in AI than in programming. You hit the perimeters a bit more often and need to do a bit of research to modify or create
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Not at all. It's something I've seen in practice over many years. Neither skill set is 'better' than the other, just different. There is a need for people who are able to build using available tools, but who don't h
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Most comments here are in one of two camps: 1) you don't need to know any of this stuff, you can make AI systems without this knowledge, or 2) you need this foundational knowledge to really understand what's going on. Both perspec
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by martingoodson 3y ago
It's not about critical thinking: the employees were about to sell up to $1B of shares to thrive capital. This debacle has derailed that.
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An AI for Humanity(rssdsaisection.substack.com)
2 points by martingoodson 3y ago|0 comments
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Sorry! Here's the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10169
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by martingoodson 3y ago
We discussed this at our meetup last night. See here for paper reference and subscribe to get an alert when the recording is uploaded: https://www.meetup.com/london-machine-learning-meetup/events...
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by martingoodson 3y ago
The deeper problem here is that review sites don't work well for things as personal as books. I've read many books based on excellent reviews in amazon, and hated many of them. Most people don't have the same taste as me. Lik
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by martingoodson 3y ago
This is to misunderstand Miles Davis. The point is that he treated the trumpet player with respect, as if he was taking to a trumpet player, not a child. He was engaging with a group of peers. The evidence for this is that he went on the hi
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by martingoodson 3y ago
This new law is irrelevant to these points. Vertebrate animals were already considered sentient in UK law. So sharks, dolphins, turtles, fish etc were already covered. Your outrage comes several years too late.
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Sorry for not being clear enough. The point is that this £100M is very likely to be spent on the Turing Institute since it seems to suck up all AI funding in the UK. It will therefore likely be wasted.
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by martingoodson 3y ago
That's a good point. Thank you. Officially the open source model was released by the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich’s CompVis lab. I agree that's something of a technicality.
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Of course there are pockets of good work, like in any research institute. It's difficult to point to anything really pushing the envelope in AI research though. You have any evidence to the contrary?
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by martingoodson 3y ago
The failure to do any meaningful work related to the most important breakthrough in AI ever is objectively bad.
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The Alan Turing Institute has failed to develop modern AI in the UK(rssdsaisection.substack.com)
172 points by martingoodson 3y ago|149 comments
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by martingoodson 3y ago
Because it's irrelevant to the point I'm making in the piece. Like I wrote, lack of infrastructure can be fixed with funding. The other issues can't.

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