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Becoming a dad simultaneously made me more empathetic (seeing a little person from the beginning for all they are) but also more impatient (fewer hours in the day), but beyond that…

For R+RStudio users, any opinions on the switch? Assistant seems to be the big departure, trying to work out if worth losing keyboard shortcut muscle memory for

Beside the point but I really love the rainbow sparkles trailing the cursor on the netscape theme of this blog. Takes me back to a time when the internet was...fun

Someone has pointed out on X/Twitter that the "novel discovery" made by the AI system already has an entire review article written about the subject [0] [0] https://x.com/wildtypeh…

While this is an excellently written piece and really insightful into the state of higher education funding, what seems to be missing from the debate is concrete ideas of what shou…

It seems the take home is weight decay induces sparsity which helps learn the "true" representation rather than an overfit one. It's interesting the human brain has a comparable me…

Interestingly, on Monday a preprint [1] was posted calling into question a major Nature paper from 2020 that associated the microbiome with multiple cancer types [2] (though within…

Does anyone have high level guidance on when (deep) RL is worth pursuing for optimization (e.g. optimizing algorithm design) rather than other approaches (e.g genetic)?

The divide between literature/arts and STEM feels related to a push in modern culture that every moment must be productive (or in some sense profitable), though I have a hard time …

Anecdotal, but as a pre-smartphone teenager I was a night owl which has gradually vanished despite the introduction of smartphones, so I think there's more at play

Likely going to be a wave of research/innovation "regularizing" LLM output to conform to some semblance of reality or at least existing knowledge (e.g. knowledge graph). Interestin…