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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,092 posts.
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Extracting Zooming Shots from 600 Hrs of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
In November of 2021, an anonymous source leaked 600 hours of police aerial surveillance footage to the non-profit transparency organization Distributed Denial of Secrets .
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Markov chain Monte Carlo without the bullshit (2015)
I have a little secret: I don’t like the terminology, notation, and style of writing in statistics. I find it unnecessarily complicated. This shows up when trying to read about Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Take, for example, the abstract to the Markov Chain Monte Carlo article in the Encyclopedia of…
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The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education
Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
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AI Data Laundering
Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
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A Minimalist Guide To Program Synthesis
a bare minimum introduction to modern program synthesis
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If AI can read, then plain text can be weaponized (2019)
Advances in AI have helped automate many tasks that involve processing text. However, text-processing AI algorithms have their own unique vulnerabilities, researchers at IBM, Amazon and University of Texas have found.
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Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018)
We introduce pico.js , a face-detection library written in JavaScript, and show how it works. Although similar projects already exist, our goal is to provide a smaller and computationally more efficient alternative.
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On AlphaTensor’s new matrix multiplication algorithms
Two acquaintances independently asked about this today, so it seems worth a write-up: recently (as of this writing), DeepMind published a new paper about a new practical fast matrix multiplication …
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False memory implantation in adults is easy
false memory implantation in adults is easy (bonus: here's one way to do it)
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The Illustrated Stable Diffusion
Translations: Chinese, Vietnamese. (V2 Nov 2022: Updated images for more precise description of forward diffusion. A few more images in this version) AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people’s minds (mine included). The ability to create striking visuals from text descriptions has a magical…
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How New Are Yann LeCun's “New” Ideas?
spoiler alert: not very
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The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine
v1.0 - Initial draft ‘Traders, trading, in a bazaar’ by Stable Diffusion What I’ll talk about # I started Didact AI in 2019, out of a firm belief that stock picking engines built on top of machine learning models could consistently beat the market, gaining and retaining profits.
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Nvidia in the Valley
Nvidia is in the valley in terms of gaming, the data center, and the omniverse; if it makes it to future heights its margins will be well-earned.
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Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs
I wondered how GPT-3 might do on the following problem: given a partially-connected graph, find a path between two nodes, or determine that no path exists. I wrote some code to automate generating …
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I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
The true dystopia of AI is that it can make Ugly Sonic look cool.
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Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?
Clever Hans and how corporate AI plays the media, in 2022
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AI Content Generation, Part 1: Machine Learning Basics
This technology is already changing the creative industry. Here's how it works.
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Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
Riley Goodside, yesterday: Exploiting GPT-3 prompts with malicious inputs that order the model to ignore its previous directions. pic.twitter.com/I0NVr9LOJq- Riley Goodside (@goodside) September 12, 2022 Riley provided several examples. Here’s …
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Online art communities begin banning AI-generated images
Online art communities have started banning AI-generated art, while others are facing public pressure from their own members to take a stand.
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The AI Unbundling
AI is starting to unbundle the final part of the idea propagation value chain: idea creation and substantiation. The impacts will be far-reaching.
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The Follower: Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken
How does this work? I launched the project on 12 September 2022. The YouTube video was just created with results of 10 days. I will publish new results on my socials. Press:
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On Device Learning
Before asking the question, how do I build AGI, you first must ask the question, what would I recognize as AGI?
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A Short Chronology of Deep Learning for Tabular Data
Occasionally, I share research papers proposing new deep learning approaches for tabular data on social media, which is typically an excellent discussion…
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Running Stable Diffusion on Your GPU with Less Than 10Gb of VRAM
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