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by axiom92 5y ago
All is not lost, as the dislike count is not independent of the number of views and the like count. Specifically, if a popular video has a small number of likes, one can safely assume that it has a large number of dislikes.
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by axiom92 5y ago
Congratulations! The app looks neat too. I worked on https://madaan.github.io/names/ a few years ago when my friends had a baby. The idea is slightly different (transferring Indian names to American names etc.), but th
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by axiom92 5y ago
PhD or not is one of those questions where if you find yourself asking it repeatedly (especially to others around you), the answer is no. You are exactly the kind of person who should be doing it! Good luck!
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by axiom92 5y ago
>Maybe this is why NLU has split from NLP. Sorry but can you be a bit more specific here? How exactly has NLU split from NLP?
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by axiom92 5y ago
The model, named Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, is about 3x bigger than GPT-3. The blog post doesn't provide a lot of numbers but looks like it beats the state-of-the-art in a couple of commonsense reasoning benchmarks. Still, it shows that
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Microsoft and Nvidia have created a 530B parameter language model(microsoft.com)
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by axiom92 5y ago
Related: you can see Toronto skyline from Niagara falls https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/11/what_toronto_looks_like_...
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by axiom92 5y ago
>The only people who praise this book are literature majors. The sweeping generalizations do a great disservice to your otherwise good review. I'm not a literature major, and I cannot recommend Don Quixote enough. My reason is simpl
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by axiom92 5y ago
35 out of 36 will be scarier to most people. In behavioral psychology they call this "denominator neglect." https://www.askattest.com/blog/guides/denominator-neglect
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by axiom92 5y ago
In case you were highlighting the person's h-index or citation count, there are a few shortcomings that these metrics suffer from [1], making it very hard to judge scientific impact. EDIT: Specifically, self-citation is the biggest iss
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by axiom92 5y ago
This person's h-index is 10x yours: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OHbcFkcAAAAJ&hl=en... ! Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02479-7
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by axiom92 5y ago
Similar: https://www.cell.com/patterns/fulltext/S2666-3899(21)00064-7 Dreams help the brain in generalizing the world. From the article: "That is, dreams are a biological mechanism for increasing generalizabi
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by axiom92 5y ago
>And glad the research suggests it. The article is actually arguing against aging being inevitable (in the article, "My answer may be right or wrong" and below). The author also links to a blog titled "Age reduction brea
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by axiom92 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/or9aqc/ro... The post has been removed but the video is still there.
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by axiom92 5y ago
This is what GPT-3 (davinci, the 175B parameter model) generates for real: * Prompt: ">White’s attack on black is brutal. White is stomping all over black’s defenses. The black king is gonna fall..." Fortunately there's a
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by axiom92 5y ago
For a minute I thought someone scooped our SIGBOVIK paper: https://madaan.github.io/res/papers/sigbovik_real_lottery.pd... !
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by axiom92 5y ago
Ummm I've been personally using Roam for over an year. The interface is neither slow nor clunky IMO (maybe Tiddly is faster, but I don't want to solve problems I don't have). I have a graph with > 1000 nodes that I use to
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by axiom92 5y ago
IMO https://roamresearch.com/ offers a more practical way of maintaining notes using graphs.
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by axiom92 5y ago
This is very cool! Looks like they have been working on it for a few years now. Here's a video from 2019 where someone from Stripe is giving a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDocEZ4f5ow .
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by axiom92 5y ago
Further down the article you will see: >For example, the question of the relative merits of programming languages often degenerates into a religious war, because so many programmers identify as X programmers or Y programmers.
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by axiom92 5y ago
Hah. Reminds me of this incident: https://newatlas.com/ai-art-auction-obvious-belamy/56984/ Someone downloaded the code for GANs (generative adversarial networks) from Github, generated (sampled) a painting using
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by axiom92 5y ago
Hmm I see your point. It's a bit abstract but makes sense to me.
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by axiom92 5y ago
>I would argue you should make a new family. Not sure what you mean by that? Is family always a good thing by definition in your books? (i.e., if X is bad, X is not a family). If so, then your deduction is correct but trivial, and over
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by axiom92 5y ago
>What makes family bonds so strong is that they won’t turn your back on you when you are in a bind. They are much stronger than friends. Stable households are the most important predictor for childhood success. This is blanket generaliza
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by axiom92 5y ago
>Even analytic beliefs are things you believe because you experienced arriving at them? What about scientific beliefs? Only a handful of people can really understand (or to align with your phrasing, _experience_ understanding) all the e
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by axiom92 5y ago
>These are the only things in life that truly matter. Not really, such lists are typically a function of personal experiences. For example, plenty of people would happily take family out from the list.
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Sure :)
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by axiom92 5y ago
Similar work (I'm the first author): generating temporal graphs from text using language models https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.10077.pdf .
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by axiom92 5y ago
Two different Wilf Davies (unless you were joking).
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A list of resources to help India during the second wave of Covid-19(docs.google.com)
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