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by osazuwa 8mo ago
I'm interested in chatting. Have a way to contact you?
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How well does ChatGPT attribute effects to causes? (Poorly)(newsletter.altdeep.ai)
3 points by osazuwa 4y ago|0 comments
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by osazuwa 5y ago
In a dooms-day scenario, you're best bet is to affiliate yourself with a local, ideologically coherent group whose identity is driven by a narrative of historical persecution and already practices pooling resources. In the event of go
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by osazuwa 5y ago
It amazes how much raw ingenuity goes into scams and hustles.
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by osazuwa 5y ago
Found one on Airbnb https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/9906314
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by osazuwa 5y ago
A friend of mine (mid-West redhead) spent years in China doing research. She came back to the US to do her PhD, and FBI started hassling her, asking if she was spying for the Chinese. Finally ended when she called that agent's superi
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How to build AI that helps creatives(gamalon.com)
1 points by osazuwa 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Any SaaS that offers embeddable REPL for teaching code?
1 points by osazuwa 6y ago|1 comments
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by osazuwa 6y ago
End slack.
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by osazuwa 6y ago
People here are saying it's a red flag. I'm not so sure. I don't think it's smart for the company. Just like I didn't think it was smart for Thiel to ask "Star Wars or Star Trek?" as a shibboleth for pol
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by osazuwa 6y ago
The main distinction in investment. If you take investment, especially VC investment, no one gives a f*ck about cost savings. Your job is to provide an exit to investors are soon as possible, and you do that by growing market share. If yo
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by osazuwa 6y ago
unless all the black folks in your neighborhood work in tech, why would they follow this?
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by osazuwa 6y ago
Timnit Gebru was famous before her firing, partially for papers on addressing bias in machine learning algorithms -- which makes it a juicy story. You can sleep soundly knowing that most black people, lacking her fame, well have bad experie
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by osazuwa 6y ago
H1Bs are also easier to exploit.
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Falsification by Imagination: Deep causal generative models and algo fairness(altdeep.substack.com)
2 points by osazuwa 6y ago|0 comments
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by osazuwa 6y ago
> but it's due to the math indicating that it's an advantageous spot to do it, not because of anything he's observed about his opponent. I wonder about this distinction. This seems it would make sense if all the players p
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by osazuwa 6y ago
I think that's true for 2 player games but not >2 player games? reference: https://int8.io/counterfactual-regret-minimization-for-poker...
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by osazuwa 6y ago
I don't disagree. But the premise is not that getting good at making less blunders than your opponent in chess isn't fun or fulfilling. It is that getting good at making less blunders in chess doesn't transfer to real life
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by osazuwa 6y ago
Thanks. I was the author of the post. Are you suggesting it is harder to bluff in online poker? Or that somehow taking the game online means bluffing doesn't work as well? Here is a good post on bots, if you haven't seen it: ht
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Stranger Things can make you smarter about OpenAI's GPT-3 language model(altdeep.substack.com)
2 points by osazuwa 6y ago|0 comments
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How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better at life(altdeep.substack.com)
74 points by osazuwa 6y ago|90 comments
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Stranger Things can make you smarter about OpenAI's GPT-3 language model(altdeep.substack.com)
1 points by osazuwa 6y ago|0 comments
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A riddle proves there's no “objective” predictive model(altdeep.substack.com)
1 points by osazuwa 6y ago|0 comments
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by osazuwa 6y ago
A few points for context: 1. Those R squared numbers in table 2 are quite low. The statistical analysis itself is painfully basic. I'm a statistician, and I've a bookshelf full of excellent books written by statisticians who pub
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by osazuwa 6y ago
don't get dragged into that false dichotomy. treating fairness as a merely technical problem is a cop out. in addition to looking at dataset and algo, look at the processes that generate data, how the data is collected/selected
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by osazuwa 6y ago
Protest is an effective means of political participation. I mean that literally, not ideologically. Protest gives society a channel for communicating political grievance. It leads to organized political activism. It gets people elected
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by osazuwa 6y ago
I'm actually pleased it was a study on white folks because since we know that this disease disproportionately kills blacks in the US, and blacks tend to have higher rates of vitamin D deficiency (because of the sunlight/skin pigme
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by osazuwa 6y ago
I dunno. Seemed like a good way to do the layoff to me. Do the hard thing in one swoop. Should they have separate meetings where people who haven't gotten fired yet hear rumors and have to writhe in uncertainty until they get the cal
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by osazuwa 7y ago
"Then why don't you live stream yourself pooping? Why don't you let people walk into your house and look around, just out of curiosity?" Tell them their privacy belongs to them. When they let someone shift the questio
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How to be smart about algorithmic bias: A Primer(altdeep.substack.com)
2 points by osazuwa 7y ago|0 comments

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