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The project I'm working on does this -- we define high level semantic entity types, and from that you can: - Define APIs that take those entities as inputs, automatically validatin…

This is really nice. I experimented converting natural language to git log commands this week ( https://twitter.com/danielbigham/status/1294461750251839489 ), but mapping natural l…

I love this. Yes, there are higher level languages that can be used for accomplishing these things, but people find themselves at the command line a lot, and having the ability to …

I made up the examples, and IIRC it was able to explain most things I tried. If others want to experiment with this, I used the "davinci" model with temperature 0.5, and here is th…

I experimented with it's ability to explain why something is nonsensical yesterday, and it did better than I thought it would: https://twitter.com/danielbigham/status/1288853412713…

Reminds me of this: http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/what-my-stroke-taugh...

UWaterloo CS488! Some of the funnest 200 hours of my life. Here's what I produced 17 years ago. Kind of embarrassing next to your slick work! http://www.danielbigham.ca/raytracer/r…

One challenge with using things like trees to estimate long-ago temperatures is that you have to build a complex mathematical model to map to temperature, and I'm aware of at least…

Something that I started doing recently is to create a "30 second summary" of each important concept, consisting of text and diagrams. I then record a 30 second video where I narra…

One of the ways I think about humility is that it is the ability of a person to successfully integrate information that requires some non-trivial refactoring of one's internal mode…

He's right -- they're called ideas.

I wonder if spacetime, in addition to being curvable by mass, is also inherently curved at the scale of the universe.

I think Lex is a great interviewer. Eric definitely threw him off a number of times, but I can't fault him.

I absolutely love your sentiments. hug

There is a wise phrase, "more with less", that people may be familiar with. I think this article fits into that paradigm nicely. Imagine the difference in global outcome if person …

This year for whatever reason I keep seeing the concept of "integration" in everything, and have also become interested in what feels like the opposite -- division and separation -…

These are the types of challenges I've been thinking about for the last year -- nice to be able to read the approach taken by others.

Your question is timely -- in the last year I've started to be deliberate about this, and I've found a solution for myself that works really well. There are five important parts to…

Thanks for sharing this link -- found it quite a good read.

Found this article very insightful -- the universe when it is working well is like a giant pattern matcher operating at every level of abstraction, bringing together those things w…

A bit off topic, but I've never seen "fractal" and "chaotic" conjoined before. If you feel like expanding on that I'd be all ears.

I watched a debate involving William Macaskill last summer and he poses the hypothetical question: "You are outside a burning building and are told that inside one room is a child …

This article comes off too strong, but it's welcomed conversation. My take: Kurzweil is missing the mark to suggest unabated growth in computing or anything like a true "singularit…

Yes, this conflation has bother me as well. In the long term it's an absolute slam dunk to transition to autonomous vehicles, but I'm a bit worried that they're feeling they need t…

I have a suspicion that in the future computers will use a vaguely DNN-like approach for compression, but I haven't seen any super compelling examples of this yet. I can say "imagi…