bobmarleybiceps

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by bobmarleybiceps 9d ago
Yeah it's very short, but I can't remember if I read all of it, or just flipped through pieces. It has good advice and I think fairly "famous." (edit: this reminded me I still have my copy :-D) I know someone in a profe
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by bobmarleybiceps 10d ago
yeah, it would be almost shocking if an open source benchmark was NOT used ~somewhere in training. Perhaps just pre-training, but still. Neural networks can be fairly robust to some mistakes in their training data, so maybe it doesn't
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by bobmarleybiceps 12d ago
I agree the combined masters + phd is weird tbh. I think almost everyone treats it like "just focus on research and spend as little time on course work as possible." I would prefer it if courses were more flexible. I'm not a
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by bobmarleybiceps 12d ago
1. US a lot of international PhD applicants, so traveling before even being accepted is difficult, and 2. lots of people don't do a masters. when I applied to PhD programs (not in math) it was basically CV + personal statement + recomm
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by bobmarleybiceps 16d ago
I think people probably assume that openai / anthropics use of their data is probably like google's """limited""" use, in the sense that historically google wouldn't trivially be able to just tak
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by bobmarleybiceps 17d ago
numpy is pretty much all C and python. They may dispatch to some Fortran libraries, but I think basically all the internal implementations they have are C. IIRC, scipy does (did?) actually use a lot of fortran fwiw.
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by bobmarleybiceps 18d ago
I sort of wish they used c++ for some of the template stuff, especially since the code base already seems to have some C++ iirc. I also contributed a tiny bit in the past, and their C template system was a surprise. (but this is cool and I
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by bobmarleybiceps 18d ago
does this sort of fall into the bucket of counter-examples we've been seeing recently? I understand it's a construction causing blowup and that implies that the navier-stokes isn't regular / smooth, so sort of a counter
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by bobmarleybiceps 21d ago
if there's anything that would convince that LLMS are one of the biggest innovations ever, it would be this :-D
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by bobmarleybiceps 22d ago
guaranteed, up to lean itself having bugs that are exploited by the LLM :shrug:
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by bobmarleybiceps 22d ago
":-o omg our autonomous agents are more powerful than we could have imagined"
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by bobmarleybiceps 28d ago
I think it's not unreasonable or uncommon for big O to track separate variables without reducing them, just to highlight the (lack of) sensitivity of different parameters.
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by bobmarleybiceps 1mo ago
people should read turboquant's open review comments: https://openreview.net/forum?id=tO3ASKZlok
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by bobmarleybiceps 2mo ago
Yeah, I don't disagree with a registry. Especially for problems that are important to humans or are expensive for AI to prove/disprove. I partly just want to avoid a situation where the volume of hard-to-search-for results that a
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by bobmarleybiceps 2mo ago
I feel like at a certain point, there's is not necessarily a reason to go through the peer review publication process for some AI proofs. Not because "ai bad," but because at some point AI outputs should probably just be trea
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by bobmarleybiceps 2mo ago
Panic just makes it sound more real, I think. They were saying stuff like "Eek, our technology is TOO dangerous and advanced and we need to be regulated :-O" when they definitely didn't actually want to be regulated. ("T
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by bobmarleybiceps 3mo ago
this is part of why I think most researchers get less productive over time... Someone gets some big result during grad school or early career, get some big job from it, and then struggle to get new results of similar quality :shrug: With ML
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by bobmarleybiceps 4mo ago
yeah this is what drives me crazy about LLM writing. Most of the time the prompt has all the info you need and is like maybe a few sentences. Then the LLM expands it into a few paragraphs... I guess if someone is writing like a big fancy em
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by bobmarleybiceps 4mo ago
I've been using claude while trying to setup a new personal site. It's very nice to be able to say "I want a nice looking menu with links to other pages" and it spits out something good enough. I would feel very weird us
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by bobmarleybiceps 4mo ago
is the kobo store not good/convenient compared to kindle? I thought the kobo store was pretty good, but it is my first and only e-reader.
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by bobmarleybiceps 4mo ago
yeah I was being very hyperbolic (and am on the younger side, so tbh wasn't very aware of a lot the x projects... I think those are even riskier than I meant.) google was probably the worst example for me to use tbh, especially since i
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by bobmarleybiceps 4mo ago
can very much agree about not writing stuff like reductions yourself, unless you have good reason to. but this sort of feels like another "implement everything with <nvidia stuff> and you'll have a great time!! (but also coi
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by bobmarleybiceps 4mo ago
I really wish there were better options to PMPP... It's by far the most up-to-date book, but I totally agree the writing is sort of bad and some of the code examples are straight up incorrect. So tl;dr, you have at least one person who
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by bobmarleybiceps 4mo ago
I think Jensen Huang said this recently, and I've had a similar opinion for a while, but a lot of companies seem uncreative with how they use their employees. like google probably has >10k people working on stuff like "ensure
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by bobmarleybiceps 5mo ago
it's so great to see people boosting "security" in a way that also just happens to require locking in to big-tech approved apps that send all your data to big-tech so that they can deliver ads to you via your big-tech approve
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by bobmarleybiceps 6mo ago
literally watched it last night and was struck by how much "personality" it has.
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by bobmarleybiceps 6mo ago
Input (Eminem lyrics): there's vomit on my sweater already, mom's spaghetti. Output: Facing some early-stage operational challenges today. Already dealing with some unexpected "output" on my professional attire, but it’
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by bobmarleybiceps 7mo ago
I feel like that's true when the font is insanely small, which I guess was good when people would print entire proceedings. Reading two column super small font on a computer is super annoying though tbh.
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by bobmarleybiceps 11mo ago
A personal guideline for a lot of stuff is that a function may be too long when people add comments to mark what sections of it do. (ofc not really a hard rule). I just think it's easier to see "oh this is calling the load_some_s
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by bobmarleybiceps 1y ago
I kind of dislike the benchmarkification of AI for science stuff tbh. I've encountered a LOT of issues with benchmark datasets that just aren't good... In a lot of cases they are fine and necessary, but IMO, the standard for legit

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