mark4 | 3 months ago | on: Optimize for momentum
Yep, this is the hardest part. Big groups slow everything down. I have found it helps to keep moving on what you can control while you wait on others, so you don't fully lose the thread.
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mark4 | 7 months ago | on: Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data
Thank you!
mark4 | 7 months ago | on: Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data
Thank you! Great explanation! As I guessed this is much less alarmist and sensational than what the paper seems to be claiming.
mark4 | 7 months ago | on: Subliminal learning: Models transmit behaviors via hidden signals in data
ELI5 on this please. I don't get a good understanding by doing a quick read.
mark4 | 10 months ago | on: Everyone is cheating their way through college
Getting schooled by AI, colleges must evolve (March, 2023)
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2023/03/getting-schooled-b...
mark4 | 1 year ago | on: Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
This is a cool and important one. I was happy to see the article celebrating the young scientist. This is well deserved. Congratulations to him. And I hope this inspires other undergraduates as well.
mark4 | 1 year ago | on: What is going wrong for Intel?
In 2001, I did an internship at IBM. Ever since then, I have been convinced IBM should be going out of business any day now. Since then AWS was formed, and ate IBM's lunch. But IBM kept going. To my complete amazement, they are still in business, and doing fine. They had always seen less promising than Intel, and yet they are still there. I think Intel is undervalued, and is better positioned to make a come back.
mark4 | 1 year ago | on: You are probably sitting down for too long
On a tangential topic, is there another way of sitting, like sitting up? Why do English require qualifying with "down" so frequently?
mark4 | 3 years ago | on: Goals of Care
My condolences for your loss.
mark4 | 4 years ago | on: Andrew Ng says AI has a proof-of-concept-to-production gap
Winter is coming
mark4 | 5 years ago | on: IBM has cut its blockchain team down to almost nothing – sources
From IBM's whitepaper on blockchains in 2017:
https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/REGBVG7J
"7 in 10 consumer industry executives expect to have a blockchain production network by 2020"
mark4 | 5 years ago | on: Aurora 7 Prototype – 7 Screen Laptop
This is how I imagine Bad Place would torture Steve Jobs, with Bad Jony Ive bringing a version of this prototype to every other meeting to get feedback.
mark4 | 5 years ago | on: Rust 1.48
Newbie question. Why is this useful? Wouldn't slices be enough to fulfill the use-cases this would see?
mark4 | 5 years ago | on: Dutch brewery burns iron as a clean, recyclable fuel
Yet another front-page article about Rust.
mark4 | 5 years ago | on: Patrick Collison's Questions
Your answer resonated with me a lot. Can you elaborate on this? What is that structural reason?
> The underlying reason is structural -- neither our funding agency nor our institution is willing to yield on a fundamental sticking point that is causing all of our young researchers to leave.
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