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Time and time again, this blog does not fail to impress. I especially liked her piece on Diffusion models from earlier this year; It was a very nice, simplified

Time and time again, this blog does not fail to impress. I especially liked her piece on Diffusion models from earlier this year; It was a very nice, simplified version of a complex topic that named some of the most important papers and contributions over the last few years. All the while, the blog wasn't overly simplified like other blogs seem to do all to often (not providing key derivations of formulas, discussing topics at a glance, reading more like a PR piece than an actual informational blog.)

sharemywin 5y ago
Here's a list of her other interesting papers. https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/archive.html https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/archive.html
abhgh 5y ago
Agree. She had a very informative tutorial session yesterday on self-supervised learning at NeurIPS-2021. While I don't think the recording is publicly available [1], the slides are [2]. [1] https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/tutorial/21895 https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/tutorial/21895 [2] https://nips.cc/media/neurips-2021/Slides/21895.pdf https://nips.cc/media/neurips-2021/Slides/21895.pdf
orzig 5y ago
> Time and time again, this blog does not fail to impress "This is an impressive blog" (I agree!) I just wanted to make sure everyone else glancing through gets your intended message because I had to read it twice
- spijdar 5y ago
  Interesting, I also initially read it with a negative impression, e.g. "this blog constantly fails to impress me", even though that's the opposite of what the sentence says. Not to derail the topic, but anyone have any insight on why that might me? Pretty sure it's fine, idiomatic English. Am I just primed to expect negative criticism in HN comments? :/
  - johnsutor 5y ago
    https://www.grammarly.com/blog/3-things-you-must-know-about-double-negatives/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/3-things-you-must-know-about-... Apparently it's an "unnatural aberrations", so you were right in reading it with a negative impression.
- malshe 5y ago
  I had to re-read that line as well. I have huge respect for Lillian's work so this line just didn't make any sense to me, forcing me to read it carefully!
- johnsutor 5y ago
  On second glance, the double negative in my comment does make it a bit hard to read. Sorry about that!

sharemywin 5y ago

Here's a list of her other interesting papers. https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/archive.html https://lilianweng.github.io/lil-log/archive.html

abhgh 5y ago

Agree. She had a very informative tutorial session yesterday on self-supervised learning at NeurIPS-2021. While I don't think the recording is publicly available [1], the slides are [2]. [1] https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/tutorial/21895 https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/tutorial/21895 [2] https://nips.cc/media/neurips-2021/Slides/21895.pdf https://nips.cc/media/neurips-2021/Slides/21895.pdf

orzig 5y ago

> Time and time again, this blog does not fail to impress "This is an impressive blog" (I agree!) I just wanted to make sure everyone else glancing through gets your intended message because I had to read it twice

spijdar 5y ago
Interesting, I also initially read it with a negative impression, e.g. "this blog constantly fails to impress me", even though that's the opposite of what the sentence says. Not to derail the topic, but anyone have any insight on why that might me? Pretty sure it's fine, idiomatic English. Am I just primed to expect negative criticism in HN comments? :/
- johnsutor 5y ago
  https://www.grammarly.com/blog/3-things-you-must-know-about-double-negatives/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/3-things-you-must-know-about-... Apparently it's an "unnatural aberrations", so you were right in reading it with a negative impression.
malshe 5y ago
I had to re-read that line as well. I have huge respect for Lillian's work so this line just didn't make any sense to me, forcing me to read it carefully!
johnsutor 5y ago
On second glance, the double negative in my comment does make it a bit hard to read. Sorry about that!