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Carpenter and park ranger sound gratifying. But truck driver? Can you help me understand the appeal?

I just took the Amtrak from Southern California to Seattle. Pros: - space! wide seats and leg room are awesome (I'm 6'5" so this is everything) - Freedom to move around and explore…

Similar to the author’s story, I crashed on my bike going pretty quickly on a busy road. No serious injuries but I ended up with scrapes and a softball-sized bruise which lasted ov…

From the figure in the first paper listed: > Responses to the query “Write a metaphor about time” clustered by applying PCA to reduce sentence embeddings to two dimensions. […] The…

I was thinking the same thing. That one accelerates its growth in the presence of radiation. But it also seeks out human flesh and brains to build its biomass intelligence blob, un…

Adding to the chorus: I like the older images and the precise year is important! The underground shelter is something that wouldn’t exist just a few years after that photo, or befo…

Great deep dive. I've learned a lot already and haven't even finished the introduction

Then why do I never get an “I don’t know” type response when I use Claude, even when the model clearly has no idea what it’s talking about? I wish it did sometimes.

I've found this "book" (series of jupyter notebooks) to be a fantastic course on the Kalman filter from basics to advanced topics. https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Fil…

They're all names of popular Kendrick Lamar songs. Don't ask me why though

Or maybe the final moment was a sigh of acceptance and gratitude for the live he lived. Nobody knows but him.

On a similar note, I really hope that the AI companies that don't make it, but have invested a lot in curating and annotating high quality datasets, would release them to the publi…

If you want to gain familiarity with the kind of terminology you mentioned here, but don't have a background in graduate-level mathematics (or even undergrad really), I highly reco…

I didn't find it confusing at all. I think it's totally ok to re-use phrasing made famous by someone else - this is how language evolves after all.

Interesting! I would like to learn more about how AI is being applied to robotics. Do you have any suggestions for how to keep up with developments/ideas in this field?

Very cool. I'm curious - did you find the results from your mixture of experts model to be (qualitatively) better than with the standard approach?

fyi I think you have bias and variance the wrong way around. Over-fitting indicates high variance

Then perhaps a method emerges out of this to make training faster (but not inference) - do early training on highly quantized (even ternary) weights, and then swap out the weights …

Because it shifts the burden (or at least appearance) of responsibility from those experiencing homelessness to the government orgs tasked with housing them.

This is great, but what is a possible use-case of these massive classifier models? I'm guessing they won't be running at the edge, which precludes them from real-time applications …

I imagine this is a stage in a larger plan to incorporate an AI assistant to excel? Being able to talk to your spreadsheet in natural language and have it do a bunch of analysis an…

That's the question I'm asking myself too. I live in Seattle, where you can't walk two blocks without seeing a new (wooden) residential building going up. I'm sure that newer build…

If I remember correctly, the algorithm in Alpha Go used a combination of reinforcement learning and searching the space of moves and possible outcomes to determine the next move. S…

I imagine that carbon footprint could be reduced substantially by this too, at least on a per-watt of utilized energy basis. Imagine if all computer chips used semiconductor materi…