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by sdenton4 3y ago
I think it's a genuinely tough problem. Keeping documentation up to date is a Sisyphean task - it's great that Amazon has managed to to some extent, but it's hella difficult for small teams. There's some amount that can
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by sdenton4 3y ago
A very tiny number of high schoolers have ever come up with a genuinely new discovery in number theory, which is the proposed bar above...
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by sdenton4 3y ago
High school students found to be non-sentient by AI critics. Film at 11.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Ha, I was working on neutral voice compression, which consists of an encoder which creates what the kids are calling tokens these days, and a decoder which synthesizes speech from the tokens. AudioLM puts a language model on top of the comp
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Eh, I think your definition leans too much on the particulars of human communication. Take, for example, a scrub jay initiating a red tailed hawk to scare other birds away from a food source. It's a pretty common occurrence. There&#x27
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by sdenton4 3y ago
If only there were some way to produce some kind of "interval" of scores where you were confident that the actual score sat, and then had some way of comparing these intervals between the different models...
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by sdenton4 3y ago
That's helpful! I've done a lot of work in audio synthesis, which is notoriously difficult measure. The gold-standard is human ratings of audio quality, but it is tough to design good tests (easy to fatigue raters) and the iterati
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by sdenton4 3y ago
When I was a kid, they handed us a blank laptop and a Gentoo Stage-0 install CD. And we liked it!
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Bernie Krause was originally a musician, but then got a PhD in bioacoustics and is now much better known for that work https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Krause
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I invite you to examine the notes of the international ornithological congress... The difference between species and subspecies is quite subtle, and subject to interpretation, because no one is really going to do the experiment to find out
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by sdenton4 3y ago
It's not necessarily unethical - it's a problem of resource allocation under constraints. You can either let the person who stays connected for weeks stick around, or free up space for less frequent users who are also paying custo
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by sdenton4 3y ago
There's a terrible conflict of interest in my local deli, where the person taking my order also collects my money. Shocking that it's allowed.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I can train a bird song recognition model in about two days in a v100 which performs decently well on upwards of three thousand species, and generalizes reasonably to real world data (beyond a somewhat skewed training data distribution). Hu
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Not necessarily! Feel free to gather some data on 3 year old skills on imagenet... I'll wait.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Conference takes years, though... It's entirely possible that back prop is unrealistic but far more efficient than biological learning.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The extreme upper limit of human hearing is around 20khz, so cats really are hearing things that we don't, and for good reasons. Sensitivity to different frequency ranges is more or less independent of anything else. Birds have heighte
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I got blood work done once last year because it's a reasonable thing to do when you turn 40. Not regular at all, and I was feeling fine at the time. I'm not sure why you're so invested in the idea that eating protein is hard
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by sdenton4 3y ago
There are real differences in audio perception, though. Frequency range and sensitivity to different frequencies is a big difference in other animals; I would expect cats (who chase rodents, which often have very high pitched or even ultras
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by sdenton4 3y ago
'West Coast pilsner' occasionally hits the sweet spot of hoppy and low ABV.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Are vegetarians typically 'inexperienced' long enough to lose lifespan, though? Fwiw, I've been vegetarian for like twenty years, don't really track much of anything in terms of vitamin intake, and am doing just fine acc
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The gravity model is similar though: we posit a force that pulls things together, but we don't know /why/ that force seems to exist, no more than the ancients knew /why/ the planets seemed to move in smaller circles
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Nobody's arguing that the heliocentric model wasn't better for a variety of reasons... simply that getting superseded doesn't make the previous approach 'not science.' All models are wrong, some are useful, and all
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by sdenton4 3y ago
This is incorrect: Epicycles were a model of planetary motion - the theory was that the planets moved around the earth, but also had additional circular motion as they moved along their path around the earth. This model explains the apparen
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Understanding is a moving target, though. Newtonian mechanics was incorrect for modeling the solar system as well - as it was eventually superseded - but that doesn't mean it wasn't a scientific understanding of planetary motion.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Ask Feynman why magnets works... And he'll say no one knows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA It's the same in ML. Good predictions do come from real ideas about how the systems work - ideas in informat
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by sdenton4 3y ago
We've got lots of datasets at this point in history - it ends up being pretty reasonable to formulate a hypothesis, propose a change to the ML system, then see how it does on a host of datasets. Most papers focus on one or two datasets
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Add enough epicycles and you've got a Fourier transform... Epicycles were a great idea but applied for the wrong reason.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Would it be possible to take ~$100k of VC funding to get the 'VC-funded' benefits without actually giving up any real control of the company?
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Well... lots more here. My impression was that African mammals survived in part because they co-evolved with humanity, and didn't get quite the shock as other places where humans showed up fully formed. https://en.wikipedia.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Fascinating - that's lower than I would have guessed. It seems ocean water is 2.5% salts, which, yeah, is pretty damned salty compared to anything I cook...

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