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by ericjang 7y ago
That reminds me of the flavor text of this Magic the Gathering Card ( https://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/card/details.aspx?multive... ) There's an experience worse than blindness—it's the certainty that y
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by ericjang 7y ago
I've probably missed something, but for how long does the borrower have to pay 9% of their sales? Is the debt paid in full once $15k (+interest?) is paid back? What is that interest rate?
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The Waymo Open Dataset(medium.com)
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by ericjang 7y ago
My bad, I accidentally unpublished it with my butter fingers.
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by ericjang 8y ago
Q1: What is your understanding of Thomas Lippert's motivations in doing what he did? Q2: What physical & behavioral similarities do you observe between you and your half-siblings? Do you have any insight on the nature vs. nurture d
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by ericjang 8y ago
I think that's a fair point, though I think that semantic meaning is often decided by popular vote. If the masses of undergrads excited about AI have decided that RL == "Deep RL" == DQN, then that's the practical definit
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by ericjang 8y ago
If I understand correctly from past announcements, OpenAI has roughly $1B committed in funding? So up until OpenAI attains a $100B valuation, its incentives are indistinguishable from a for-profit entity?
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What I Cannot Control, I Do Not Understand(blog.evjang.com)
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Uncertainty: a Tutorial(blog.evjang.com)
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by ericjang 8y ago
We were inspired by the (emergent) linearity property of Word2Vec representations (man - woman = king - queen). Vector addition (which is Abelian) make sense for representing sets of objects, e.g. (cup, table, ball) = (cup, table) + (ball)
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by ericjang 8y ago
I'm one of the authors of the paper. Many folks from our lab (including myself) are super bullish on "using robots to supervise representation learning and using representation learning to supervise robots". Happy to answer a
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by ericjang 8y ago
Very nice! Is the raw data publicly available? Or is it just scraped from Crunchbase?
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by ericjang 8y ago
Wow, this was profound and I hope this way of thinking will make a big difference in my life going forward. Thank you for this!
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by ericjang 8y ago
Yes, a recent exciting phenomena of interest to researchers is how and why the spectrum of the Hessian appears to separate into 2 parts - a "bulk" part that changes very slowly and "outliers" that change quickly. This su
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by ericjang 8y ago
This is neat! I hope you don't mind a bit of constructive criticism here, but early on in my research career I also thought it would be a good idea to "visualize the neural network connectome" in 3D (I implemented a very rudi
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by ericjang 8y ago
Great question! This is actually a surprisingly deep problem in ML, known as "anomaly detection" or "out-of-distribution" (OoD) detection. Another way to formulate this question: "given training data that only tells
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by ericjang 8y ago
Is there a strong reason as to why a 9.7% annualized return on the S&P is a correct assumption we should make about the future? I feel like in the 21st century, a lot of folks have come to put a lot of faith in the "stocks in the l
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by ericjang 8y ago
Firing the more senior person automatically is an interesting idea. Are there any companies that do this in a way that doesn't add excessive legal liabilities to the company?
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by ericjang 8y ago
Fungibility can hardly be true for the venture capital ecosystem. Many people who wanted to invest in Facebook, Snap, Uber, etc. could not do so. Founders of highly successful startups (or at least those on a promising growth trajectory) ar
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by ericjang 8y ago
Investment opportunities (which VC firms get the money, what deal flow they have, what investment opportunities the VC has) are most certainly not fungible. So I think it's helpful to think of the deal flow in reverse - even though &
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by ericjang 8y ago
I can't speak for all of her lab's work (a lab's output is far more than the Principal Investigator's contributions), but I really am inspired by the potential applications of high-resolution voxel printing developed by
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by ericjang 8y ago
This is a paper submission that was submitted to the ICLR 2019 conference. To preserve the integrity of the double-blind submission process please do not "dox" the identities of the authors. I am not an author of this paper. Previ
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Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis(openreview.net)
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by ericjang 8y ago
Hypothetically speaking, if one is opposed to some or all aspects of the "One China" doctrine, what can one do locally/globally to effect change? Or is the annexation of Taiwan a near-certainty via the forces of economics?
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by ericjang 8y ago
Great suggestions, thanks! Indeed, that's a beautiful connection and many proofs of reinforcement learning algorithms with function approximators actually use contraction mappings. Say hello to Kwabena for me if you get the chance ;)
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by ericjang 8y ago
My bad, I updated it to fix some typos and forgot to open up sharing settings. Should be fixed.
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by ericjang 8y ago
Thanks! There was an error in the embedded graphic, which I've updated. Edge costs E(A,B) should be log (A/B)
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by ericjang 8y ago
Glad you like it! Happy to answer any questions. I’ve been trying to make my writing accessible to both the HN and academic research community; let me know if you have feedback on how I can improve here
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by ericjang 8y ago
Let someone else waste the valuable resource :)
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by ericjang 8y ago
Auction the team as a resource to the highest bidder. I'm not positioned to deploy this resource effectively, so I'm likely to benefit most by trading it to a buyer who can't convert money into talent fast enough. The team is

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