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ashertrockman

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About ashertrockman

AI research scientist at Google. Recently: CS PhD student at Carnegie Mellon

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    Comment #47209750

    It feels downstream of CMU's "reasonable person principle". They know that people are going to use AI on their homework, but they trust that they want to learn and improve their sk…

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    Comment #47128789

    Yeah of course, I've been thinking about this a lot and I'm updating my beliefs all the time, so it's good to hear some more perspectives A) I see what you mean. But I'm more so th…

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    Comment #47127733

    A) The "IP" they're concerned about isn't the same IP you speak of. It's the investment in RL training / GPU hours that it takes to go from a base model to a usable frontier model.…

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    Comment #44637108

    Somebody could use this as a starting point. http://touchscale.co/ You'd have to collect new data on touch strength vs. weight to get the regression parameters. (If you do this, le…

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    Comment #44637031

    On iPhones at least a hack was to rest a metal spoon on the screen and weigh something in the spoon...

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    Comment #44636151

    If anyone happens to be using an iPhone 6S... http://touchscale.co/

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    Comment #26983212

    The choice of activation function isn't entirely clear to me, but I think it's definitely possible to make a network that operates entirely in the frequency domain. It would probab…

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    Comment #26668083

    SIGBOVIK is proud to have published this groundbreaking work in its 2021 proceedings, which were released today. Also, check out the author's video: https://youtu.be/HLRdruqQfRk Fo…

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    Comment #12493480

    Essentials of Programming Languages; an introduction to functional programming, as well as other concepts.

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    Comment #12493414

    Really clever. I am working through EOPL, and this seems pretty familiar; it's the procedural representation of a database! Can't wait to deploy this with my next web app.

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    Comment #10920418

    Apparently this is a known issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=394296

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    Comment #10491724

    It is definitely more accurate than that. I made some changes to make sure it is compatible with all sensitivity settings.

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