newhaus1994

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by newhaus1994 2y ago
the natural language tasking for actions between apps is the first thing that's made me excited about anything related to the latest AI craze. if apple can keep it actually private/secure, I'm looking forward to this.
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by newhaus1994 2y ago
"Oxen of the Sun" is, in a sense, the apex of English literature to me. The modernists had a knack for essentially believing that if they just tried hard enough and wrote with enough complexity, they could capture essential truths
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by newhaus1994 3y ago
Yeah, my understanding is the ULMFit paper was the “genesis” Of fine-tuning in the way we mean it now.
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by newhaus1994 3y ago
IR theorists sometimes try to get around this by narrowing the focus to direct great-power wars, which always felt like a cop-out to me (I'm a political scientist) EDIT: although to be clear, the last time I checked, I believe the stat
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by newhaus1994 3y ago
I really do love New England towns in general. I went to undergrad at a small Vermont college and being walkable or bikeable to restaurants, bars, grocery stores, etc. but also being immersed in nature was one of the greatest experiences I&
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by newhaus1994 3y ago
Perhaps I snuck in a bit of a hot take I had when doing my thesis ;) I find that GR’s cadence and vibe follow Ulysses; the psyche deconstruction that occurs alongside physical meandering through mundane locations are so similar (to me) as t
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by newhaus1994 3y ago
I think it's worth trying again--it has a story, but its plot structure is in direct conversation/opposition to the modernists, so it's looser, more chaotic, and more deconstructed. As such, I read GR forcing myself to let go
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by newhaus1994 3y ago
I wrote my undergrad thesis on Gravity's Rainbow and the book has stuck with me more than perhaps any other. It's a post-modern retelling of Ulysses, for one, but not just that. It's a post-apocalyptic novel but also a novel
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by newhaus1994 4y ago
“Just” linear alg, LOL. I made it through calculus 2/3 in high school but linear algebra gives me fits, especially since I only ever learned it in a data science context. Linear algebra is freakin’ tough!
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by newhaus1994 4y ago
My understanding is that multi-modal models are the primary focus of OpenAI right now, due to their stated goal of achieving AGI. This product is probably better thought of as an offshoot of their work to create a fully generalizable model,
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by newhaus1994 4y ago
This appears to be heterodox here, but this statement is nothing to be alarmed about. IRBs have been mandating this type of risk analysis for decades for the subjects of research, and it is barely a leap to start thinking about collateral d
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by newhaus1994 4y ago
This feels weird at first glance, but the IDE is staying as RStudio. I love the company and all they’ve done to make data analysis more accessible, so good on them and may they succeed even more in the future. Still not sure what Quarto is
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by newhaus1994 4y ago
Zerohedge really shouldn’t be tolerated here at this point in time, to be honest.
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by newhaus1994 5y ago
This is some good climate news for once. The fast pace of renewable energy rollout can and will help us avoid catastrophe.
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by newhaus1994 6y ago
Love the design but debit cards always feel a bit dicey to use.
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by newhaus1994 6y ago
at this point, it should be abundantly obvious that the point of mask-wearing is collective protection from asymptomatic people. You’re a bad person because you’re actively putting others in harm if you’re not wearing a mask in public, beca
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
Clearly. I also think that the pain of the centralization of tech like this will be felt in the scope of years, while the increase in the automation of propaganda and radicalization will be felt in the coming months. Like I replied to the o
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
In spite of all that we're studying wrt abuse potential, I (and my team) generally support open-sourcing tech, and I hope that we can contribute not to "oh this is dangerous, don't release" but rather to "oh this is
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
Might be able to get 745M down to work on a single GPU. I'm definitely not using all 24GB, so fp16 might be able to get it down enough.
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
We (the Middlebury Institute's CTEC) are an extremism and terrorism research lab, and so we're tracking the ways that tech is used by terrorists and extremists. For a lot of nonstate orgs with sophisticated propaganda arms, an ide
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
I'm the lead researcher on the Middlebury Institute project looking at fine-tuning the bigger models, and I got OOM on 745M and 1.5B originally. I had to get an Azure instance with 24GB VRAM to handle it (using nshepperd's codebas
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
The criteria is pretty straightforward: you apply the "intolerance of intolerance" to the first intolerant action in the chain, i.e. the one that infringes unprompted on someone else.
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
> When you say “you can’t blame Amazon, they’re just paying market wages” what you’re saying is “profit is the only thing that could possibly matter.” You put your finger on the thing that bothers me most about the free-market critique o
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
I don't have time to reply to this in-depth, but I think that your comment actually elucidated the biggest issue, which is that this demonization and distrust of the mainstream media has conflated commercialized TV news like CNN (which
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
It's... pretty incredible that this comment subtly shifts the blame for fake news from networks of coordinated, decentralized, anti-mainstream actors to the mainstream. It's almost like this comment itself is about "enforcing
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
I mean, that is the coalition partner in government right now, so it's a big deal...
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by newhaus1994 7y ago
> DO other countries not use it because they are not a collection of geographically / culturally / and relatively-recently separate states that have united so there is little reason to adopt a system that fairly treats unique s