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Damn. I bought rl.ai when I was a grad student but it's been laying fallow since I can't really blog about the stuff I'm working on right now. How does one go about selling their d…

According to others, that story is severely embellished: https://savingjournalism.substack.com/p/i-talked-to-elon-mus...

I see a lot of really divergent results with these time series database benchmarking posts. Timescale's open source benchmark suite[0] is a great contribution towards making differ…

A good idea and very cleanly implemented. I imagine that there's a ton of other possible applications that don't require much modification to the code. Thanks for sharing!

None of these solutions are ideal, although Zenodo's better than most. As far as I can tell, they're all targeted more towards the final, authoritative release, so it seems you're …

Who, whom? Less tersely: this article is one in a long procession of journalists trying to exert control over tech. The opening example (Speech2Face, which they aver is transphobic…

This was great, actually. I don't program in Scala, but it was very interesting to hear about the difference between types as abstractions vs types as they are used. For unfamiliar…

Depends what you mean by "practical". Assuming you've done CV/ML stuff before, you could probably get something working pretty well over a weekend, and I think I could solve it com…

In the words of John von Neumann, there's a lot more that's known than is proved. It's often frustratingly difficult to go from the known to the proven; still, just because somethi…

It would be nice if citing repositories were easier-- either for generating a reference for my own code or acknowledging when I've used someone else's code in my research. There's …

> A theory is nothing but a way to turn (a finite number of) measurements into predictions. That's a very nice way of putting it. Is there a particular book, lecture, or other reso…

Furthermore, over the long term it can change the texture of the Reddit community. What sort of person quits using Reddit after becoming frustrated with yet another imposed hassle?…

It's consistent with it. Rich used to be very bullish on neural nets, then somewhat dismissive of them (due to the fragility/inadequacy of FCNs), and then increasingly enthusiastic…

You have misunderstood Sutton's argument. Quoting Rich: One thing that should be learned from the bitter lesson is the great power of general purpose methods, of methods that conti…

It's a loathsome book for some people, even angsty teenagers, because not all of them are angsty for the same reasons. I didn't enjoy it either when I was reading it, but later app…

I believe "crank" suffices, or possibly "poseur".

It depends– if you're trying to run a specific algorithm on your new supercomputer, then you'd almost certainly be better off paying for researchers to optimize or improve on that …

Hey Will-- congratulations on the publication. It's very cool to see an algorithm reflected in the brain, and the turnaround (from idea to implementation to experiment) in... what,…

Slow compared to what? You could write equivalent verbiage for the slow progress of mathematics, chip design, or cinematography-- the only difference is that uninformed randoms fee…

My word choice is more driven by exposure to the dataset that I'm working with. There's been some recent successes with autoencoders trained on virtual sensory input (i.e., video g…