The text has some great explanatory diagrams and looks to be a very high quality overview of ML thru the lens of probability, with lots of math. I was also recently impressed by Zhaos "Mathematical Foundation of Reinforcement Learning", free textbook and video lectures on YT : https://github.com/MathFoundationRL/Book-Mathematical-Founda... If you dont have a lot of time, at least glance at Zhaos overview contents dia…
The first lecture is so good. Not only from perspective of content, but how Zhao explain things about how to think about learning as a student. ty for recommendation.
I think we’ll need a GUI for the models to democratize interpretability and let even gamers explore them. Basically to train another model, that will take the LLM and convert it into 3D shapes and put them in some 3D world that is understandable for humans. Simpler example: represent an LLM as a green field with objects, where humans are the only agents: You stand near a monkey, see chewing mouth nearby, go there (yo…
I had a mind-bending Salvia trip at eighteen that went sort of like that. My mind turned into an infinitely large department store where each aisle was a concurrent branch of thought, and the common ingredient lists above each aisle were populated with words, feelings and concepts related to each branch. The PA system replaced my internal monologue, which I no longer had, but instead I was hearing my thoughts externa…
If you feel like being a hippie, you can find the "rendering engine for reality" in here: Mandelbrot (1980) – The Mandelbrot Set and fractal geometry
Julia (1918) – Memoire sur l'iteration des fonctions rationelles (Julia sets)
Meyer (1996) – Quantum Cellular Automata (procedural complexity)
Wolfram (1984) – Cellular automata as models of complexity
Bak et al. (1987) – Self-organized criticality. Wolfram, Gorard & Crowley (2020) - "A Class of Models with the Potential to Represent Fundamental Physics" - Kari & Culik (2009) - "Universal Pattern Generation by Cellular Automata". Just combine the papers, ofc, that is crazy - but its fun to be a bit crazy sometimes. It's one of my fav thought experiments, just for fun. :)
Books suck (imho). We need a new format to teach and learn this deep technical stuff. Not youtube, something interactive with exercises and engagement.
thanks. i was worried about job security for a nanosecond.
It's a wild world where "reading the documentation" or "researching a topic" has become a career superpower. I'm glad my education largely predated social media and cell phones, and that I learned to read and work problems independently. OTOH it often makes work a very lonely, taxing experience. Being a human index into documentation is a hell of a lot less fulfilling than working with people who also can read.
Books suck (imho). We need a new format to teach and learn this deep technical stuff. Not youtube, something interactive with exercises and engagement.
I urge you to rethink this perspective. All research shows that paper increases comprehension significantly over screens and even over eink. Additionally hand note taking again has a positive impact.
I feel like if all the things people believe and espouse about hallucinogens were true and not just the effect of permanently damaging your mind, with the illusion of wisdom, we’d be able to point at all the revolutionary scientific breakthroughs and discoveries made under the influence of hallucinogenic substances. However, everyone I’ve met who admits to having taken hallucinogens seems reduced in some way, rather…
This was sort of my experience with LSD. It just broke me. I fell into a deep depression afterward, but the reason was only partly due to damaging my mind. The other part of it was that the LSD made me realize where my life was going, and how completely unfulfilled I'd end up being in 10-20 years. In that way, it helped me course-correct. I'm healthier, more honest with myself, and got back into college because of th…
Unless you did a thumbprint, you're perfectly fine, no damage. Just get your shit together, that seems to be your takeaway. Sounds like it worked. Now you have to keep working on yourself rather than blaming a harmless drug for your problems.
I had a mind-bending Salvia trip at eighteen that went sort of like that. My mind turned into an infinitely large department store where each aisle was a concurrent branch of thought, and the common ingredient lists above each aisle were populated with words, feelings and concepts related to each branch. The PA system replaced my internal monologue, which I no longer had, but instead I was hearing my thoughts externa…
If you feel like being a hippie, you can find the "rendering engine for reality" in here: Mandelbrot (1980) – The Mandelbrot Set and fractal geometry Julia (1918) – Memoire sur l'iteration des fonctions rationelles (Julia sets) Meyer (1996) – Quantum Cellular Automata (procedural complexity) Wolfram (1984) – Cellular automata as models of complexity Bak et al. (1987) – Self-organized criticality. Wolfram, Gorard & Cr…
I used Wolfram’s physics approach to “model the absolute future and possible ethics of it”, I think it’s direct democratic simulated multiverse, you can find the link in my profile, if interested
From a brief search I see that it isn't (or it least not yet), but seeing how well-formatted the pdf is, and the fact that it's CC-licensed, you could print it yourself, or perhaps talk with them to organize a batch. Though I personally prefer to read these sorts of books directly from pdf, and am grateful to them for sharing it on arxiv.
I wonder if they're aiming for it to be a book. Hubotter describes it on his web page as "notes on Probabilistic AI".
The "book" is accompanying studying material for the course Probabilistic AI at ETH Zurich. Essentially each chapter is the material covered in one lecture (3hrs).
“When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These patterns and tapes laid down in our consciousness are walled off from each other. I see it as a vast labyrinth with high walls sealing off the many directives created by our personal…
I feel like if all the things people believe and espouse about hallucinogens were true and not just the effect of permanently damaging your mind, with the illusion of wisdom, we’d be able to point at all the revolutionary scientific breakthroughs and discoveries made under the influence of hallucinogenic substances. However, everyone I’ve met who admits to having taken hallucinogens seems reduced in some way, rather…
I don't know if he credits the drug for the inspiration but the inventor of PCR was famously a user of LSD.
If you feel like being a hippie, you can find the "rendering engine for reality" in here: Mandelbrot (1980) – The Mandelbrot Set and fractal geometry Julia (1918) – Memoire sur l'iteration des fonctions rationelles (Julia sets) Meyer (1996) – Quantum Cellular Automata (procedural complexity) Wolfram (1984) – Cellular automata as models of complexity Bak et al. (1987) – Self-organized criticality. Wolfram, Gorard & Cr…
I used Wolfram’s physics approach to “model the absolute future and possible ethics of it”, I think it’s direct democratic simulated multiverse, you can find the link in my profile, if interested