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The Principles of Diffusion Models
- JustFinishedBSG 1y agoCTRL-F: "Fokker-Planck" > 97 matches Ok I'll read it :)
- joaquincabezas 1y agowhy am I only getting 26 matches? where's the threshold then? :D
- tim333 1y agoIt's all about the en dashes and Fokker-Planck vs Fokker–Planck.
- joaquincabezas 1y agoAI is definitely related to dashes!!
- dlcarrier 1y agoPDF files often break up sentences in ways that the find utility can't follow, so even if they ask have the same dash, it might not find them all. At least those names are uncommon enough you could search for just one.
- dvrp 1y agohn question: how is this not a dupe of my days old submission (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45743810) ?
- borski 1y agoIt is, but dupes are allowed in some cases: “Are reposts ok? If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Also, from the guidelines: “Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.”
- stathibus 1y agoin other words - "it is lol, also go pound sand"
- borski 1y agoThat's not what I said, but okay.
- bondarchuk 1y agoWhat's the problem? Someone submitted it for people to read but it didn't catch on, now it's resubmitted and people can read it after all. Everyone happy. Don't be so attached to imaginary internet points.
- dlcarrier 1y agoI presume that email address is for when you want to ask something of Hacker New, not to ask something about Hacker News. For example they probably didn't want posts like "Hey Hacker News, why don't you call for the revival of emacs and the elimination of all vi users?" and would rather you email them so they can ignore it, but they also don't want email messages asking "How do I italicize text in a Hacker News comments, seriously I can't remember and I would have done so earlier in this comment if I could?" and would rather you ask the community who could answer it without bothering anyone working at Y Combinator.
- fragmede 1y agoAre you saying this based on experience or are you projecting? In my experience (tho not asking how to italicize text using * characters) Dang and tomhow are happy to answer all sorts of questions. Sometimes they do get bogged down by the reality of running a site of this site manually, as it were, but I can't remember a question that didn't eventually get answered. I'll even tell them I vouched for this bunch of dead comments, was that the right thing to do? And one of them will write back saying mostly, but just fyi comment xyz was more flamebaity than idea, but thank you for asking and working on calibrating your vouch-o-meter.
- smokel 1y agoIf you're more into videos, be sure to check out Stefano Ermon's CS236 Deep Generative Models [1]. All lectures are available on YouTube [2]. [1] https://deepgenerativemodels.github.io/ https://deepgenerativemodels.github.io/ [2] https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rPOWA-omMM6STXaWW4FvJT8 https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rPOWA-omMM6ST...
- storus 1y agoI wish Stanford kept offering CS236 but they haven't run it for two years already :(
- mlmonkey 1y ago470 pages?!?!?!? FML! :-D
- leptons 1y agoReading this reinforces that a lot of what makes up current "AI" is brute forcing and not actually intelligent or thoughtful. Although I suppose our meat-minds could also be brute-forcing everything throughout our entire lives, and consciousness is like a chat prompt sitting on top of the machinery of the mind. But artificial intelligence will always be just as soulless and unfulfilling as artificial flavors.
- dhampi 1y agoGuessing you’re a physicist based on the name. You don’t think automatically doing RG flow in reverse has beauty to it? There’s a lot of “force” in statistics, but that force relies on pretty deep structures and choices.
- tim333 1y agoAlways is a long time. It may get better.
- theptip 1y agoIntelligence is the manifold that these brute-force algorithms learn. Of course we don’t brute-force this in our lifetime. Evolution encoded the coarse structure of the manifold over billions of years. And then encoded a hyper-compressed meta-learning algorithm into primates across millions of years.
- scatedbymath 1y agoi m scared by the maths
- BrokenCogs 1y agoAre you sure you're not scated?
- bondarchuk 1y agoIs there something equivalent in scope and comprehensiveness for transformers?
- gdmaher 1y agoCool (but long) text. I wanted an overview so I used claude to make a chapter-by-chapter summary, sharing in case anyone else finds it useful https://github.com/gmaher/diffusion_principles_summary https://github.com/gmaher/diffusion_principles_summary