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I get confused with tensor computation libraries (or computational graph libraries, or symbolic algebra libraries, or whatever they’re marketing themselves as these days). I was first introduced to PyTorch and TensorFlow and, having no other reference, thought they were prototypical examples of tensor computation…
A reference guide to fundamental machine learning equations with correct implementations and clear explanations of how they connect to each other.
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.
There is a new clear best (non-tiny) LLM.
I attended the Story Discovery At Scale data journalism conference at Stanford this week. One of the perennial hot topics at any journalism conference concerns data extraction: how can we …
To kick off this series, will start with something simple yet foundational: linear regression via ordinary least squares. While not particularly exciting, linear regression finds widespread use both as a standalone learning algorithm and as a building block in more advanced learning algorithms.
Large language models (LLMs) still feel a bit like magic to me. Of course, I understand the general machinery enough to know that they aren’t, but the gap between my outdated knowledge of the field and the state-of-the-art feels especially large right now. Things are moving fast. So six months ago, I decided to close…
( This is the text of a talk I delivered at the Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day in Stuttgart on Friday November 10th, 2023. Note: early draft, contains some typos, I'll fix them next week when I get home. )
A framework for reasoning about AI-based changes you encounter or create.
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
I find this literature irritating and opaque. This is at least somewhat because I do not yet understand it well, and there's too much of it. But clearly I need to wrap my head around it, before I become technically obsolete. My scare quotes in the title of these notes thus derive in part from jealousy and fear. But…
How can we do better interviews in the age of AI
how developmental biology might contain the secrets to life, intelligence, and immortality
After seeing the poor feedback of Watson in Bridge Crew, I decided to take my four digital assistants for a spin. After 21 questions across four assistants, I learned that Alexa cannot give basic information about Amazon Prime videos, none of them can properly understand which movie you're looking f
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.
Tonight, I took the time actually to read DeepMind’s AlphaCode paper, and to work through the example contest problems provided, and understand how I would’ve solved those problems, and how A…
Current recommendations of agentic coding.
false memory implantation in adults is easy (bonus: here's one way to do it)
In this post I’ll describe how I wrote a short (200 line) Python script to automatically replace facial features on an image of a face, with the facial features from a second image of a face.
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Physics likes optimization! Subject to its boundary conditions, the time evolution of a physical system is a critical point for a quantity called an action. This point of view sets the stage for Noether's principle , a remarkable correspondence between continuous invariances of the action and conservation laws of the…
Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
