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This reminds me of the latest Ken Stanley paper on representations. “Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis“ http…

Don’t forget about DNS over HTTPS which bypasses PiHole

Did you see their recent paper building on this? Throwback to Picbreeder! https://x.com/kenneth0stanley/status/1924650124829196370

- https://scale.com/blog/synthetic-data-fine-tuning-llms - https://eugeneyan.com/writing/recsys-llm/ - https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/sdg1

I’m currently working on a document parsing engine for a specific type of document. The inputs are usually PDFs. I’m able to get great structured output from both the latest Gemini…

It’s really useful for generating synthetic data for search and recommendations that you can use to train a smaller / faster model. This is especially useful if you don’t have lots…

Here's my really amateur understanding of this: - Conventional SGD: Fixed target (e.g. "make an exact replica of this butterfly image") and it follows greedy path to minimize the e…

From the author's tweet ( https://x.com/kenneth0stanley/status/1924650124829196370 ) Could a major opportunity to improve representation in deep learning be hiding in plain sight? …

Throwing this out into the ether. I want to learn Italian this year. I feel like there should be a service I can pay for that leverages Google's Gemini models or something like tha…

For anyone interested in NEAT, you’ll likely enjoy Ken’s later work on novelty search, open-endedness, etc. His book “Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objectives” i…

One downside of rolling it into an IRA is that you'll pay more in taxes to do backdoor roth IRA conversions every year. I think it's better to leave it in 401k if the fund options …

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@Jeremy, have you ever encountered Ken Stanley’s book “Why Greatness Cannot be Planned: The Myth of the Objective”? If you’re not familiar with him, he was the guy that invented th…

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Ken Stanley and Joel Lehman. This book was a fascinating read for anyone with ambitious objectives (or an interest in …

It’s not an unpopular opinion on HackerNews .

Allegis Global Solutions | Remote (US and Europe) | Full Time | https://www.allegisglobalsolutions.com/ Allegis Global Solutions is the biggest recruiting company in North America.…

This is what I do, it has worked great for me. The only annoying thing is I can’t get tab completing to work in my shell (ZSH). Something about the alias I think.

I am so grateful the FastAI team exists. It wasn't until I discovered their "Machine Learning for Coders" course that I really started to grok ML. I was in grad school trying to pi…

I work as a machine learning engineer on search & recommender systems, mostly focused on relevancy ranking in the recruiting space. It's unbelievable the pressure I have encountere…

This is one of the funniest things I've read all week, bravo