NeoLabs are the new AltCoins, seed rounds the new ICO.
DeepMind is BitCoin
OpenAI Ethereum
Anthropic Solana
xAI is DogeCoin
There are some that will find specialised niches, others who are actual businesses. Most can't be bothered and are probably mainly Ponzi.
Won't stop people investing..
Adjustment for living in Britain? :)
me: Yay! I'm running my own company now, I am no longer forced to use Microsoft Teams for meetings.
also me: *waiting to join the third Teams call of the day, this time with our law firm*
I have plenty of colleagues from pre deep learning days who turned “missing out” into a personal goal and core component of their research taste.
To be fair, If the missing out part in FOMO is interpreted as continuing to work on something which now looks like very limited impact relative to new areas that opened up where your expertise is useful than pe heaps FOMO is a good thing.
Don’t forget the Gary Marcus/Yann Lecun subculture
I think GPT now do some new kind of personalization. I once asked it to roleplay as a pirate ghost for a kid’s escape room game, now it writes me Deep Research essays with pirate ghost lingo thrown in.
It’s the “Spotify mixing in nursery rhymes in my gym playlist” problem all over again.
In the distant future, our European children may rediscover a usable internet after all.
Cursor 2.0 is great, but desperately needs background music.
Simple recipes be like
Mathematical breakthrough of the year: Financial Times finally calculating the normalizing constant of the uniform distribution over ALL outcomes.
All I see is SeqSalt
There are pockets of other stuff. ALT/COLT crowd seem to be content continuing to prove/improve bounds. Causal inference with ML is a bit of a thing (although likely pretending/promising to be AI for science for the money).
Getting the zucchini right seems to be a nontrivial dependency of this
How is this not against the code of conduct?
I’m very bad at getting things done but pretty good at making things happen. 🤷🏽♂️ How does this work?
My favourite vegan cream substitute is pasta water. Not only does it work better for pasta sauces, it reduces risk of death by assassination after your Italian friends learn that you put cream in carbonara…
We explain in the supplementary material the process we ran internally (no IRB) There is a nice independent reaction article published in the same issue of PNAS about the ethics of these experiments: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Take for example the “time to first head” (TTFH) function whose input is a pseudorandom coin flip sequence. This function’s output (pseudogeometric) will be super sensitive to the random seed. Many machine learning experiments behave a lot more like TTFH than empirical averages.
Problem is, empirical averages is not how pseudorandom are used. For example: Pseudorandom sequence is used to generate a permutation for stochastic optimisation, or to simulate random moves in a sequential game like chess. The whole trajectory depends critically on what happens at the beginning.
Thinking Machines co-founder Andrew Tulloch reported/rumoured to receive £3.5bn pay package over 5 years to rejoin Meta.
To put this into perspective, this would approximately cover Armenia's entire education budget (over the next 5 years).
Not accounting for income/capital gains taxes of course.
Just realised how hopeless and inadequate it feels when - accidentally - I google for information instead of asking ChatGPT (equivalent).
Context: I was looking for a bedtime reading book that is complex, for preteens but structured as a collection of stand-alone episodes rather than one long novel
I can certainly imagine causing harm with all of these.
But then by this logic Microsoft Teams and JavaScript should also be on the list🤷🏽
Is Pope Leo giving the NeurIPS keynote this year?
When I applied to PhDs, I could derive the E-M algo
after 5 yrs of uni and I felt I stood out. Many applicants didn’t do much ML before.
This year, Miranda, barely out of high school starts her undergraduate with a NeurIPS spotlight, two AI olympiad medals, having bern to EEML 2x plus AI retreat 😨
I’m curious what should/could they have done which in hindsight would have worked?
This seems to assume NGOs in those countries actually developed any productive counterstrategies or actionable insights. My impression in Hungary is that they pretty much barely hold on. I’m not sure what there is to learn other than getting a preview of what’s coming.
@nsaphra.bsky.social thank you f or your service, keep up the good work
