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I resonate with the author's point that I can modify my own website to my will. I use hugo to build my website and I wrote my own theme. It's clunky, but control over the design/bu…

Using Django w/ frontend frameworks has been a struggle for me. (I only dabble as a hobbyist.) I think splitting the backend off into a restful API makes the marriage work. I've lo…

Does the peak starting in mid-2020 correspond to mass speculative / adversarial / bandwagon hiring by tech companies during the pandemic?

Looks fun, but I don't quite understand this product: - Do the buttons map to configurable skills / prompts? - Is it meant to be used remotely with some independence (like codex re…

You'd be right to be surprised by lack of mention of quaternions. I (blog author) was not too familiar with them when I did the work this post is based on. With the benefit of hind…

Hello, blog author here. I agree the math appears overkill. I wrote this as a learning aid for myself with the benefit of hindsight of having worked with some drone sims. I wanted …

It's my blog. Bartosz Ciechanowski's work was my inspiration!

Good work! I wonder if meta-learning can play a better role here compared to heuristics or hindsight. MAML requires hessians, but first-order MAML or Reptile variants could help ap…

These day's I'm super-into information theory and entropy, so I liked the connection made at the end. I'm a visual person, and I found this schematic of SVD on the wikipedia page v…

This is very impressive! I researched fault-tolerant octorotor control using RL in grad school for a NASA project. Perhaps this may be helpful[1, see section 8.3]! The field is mov…

Check my understanding & follow-up Qs: An auto-encoder is trained on [activation] -AV-> [text] -AR-> [activation], where [activation] belongs to one layer in the LLM model M. Archi…

Very cool! Interesting how the choice of solver affects the solution. Euler doesn't handle misbehaved equations very well. You can see this in the Helix setup where the bodies just…

I should read up on Tailscale more. I have been using ddclient[1] or the router's built-in dynamic DNS[2] to set up my servers / homelab. This leaves the endpoints exposed to the p…

cue the bell curve meme for learning autonomy: ____.----.____ ______/ \______ _____/ \_____ ________________________________________ (simulations) (real world data) (simulations) S…

https://iahmed.me Hugo website, with a theme I made from scratch myself. Github Pages deployment. Here's my first website from when I was in college and had no experience in web de…

This reflects my experience. Yet, I feel that getting reliability out of LLM calls with a while-loop harness is elusive. For example - how can I reliably have a decision block to e…

The paper finds: - For LLM-assisted output, the more complex the LLM-writing is, the less likely the paper is to be published. From eyeballing, at WC=-30, both have similar chances…

I can vouch for this with my experience. Back in grad school, I was out making new friends. I was playing tennis 4-5 times a week. I'd invite players for post-game coffees (in the …

Do I understand this right? A light-weight speculative model adapts to usage, keeping the acceptance rate for the static heavy-weight model within acceptable bounds. Do they adapt …

This takes me down a memory lane! For my undergrad capstone project, we made a cubesat tracker for our university's satellite using a RPi/Arduino/Software-defined-radio to receive …

I am working on a budgeting app! Features: - Local. No internet connection needed. - Manual. Every transaction is added by the user. - One-off or arbitrarily recurring transactions…

Thank you very much! I had been reading up on effect of diet for treatment & management. I like the focus on citations.