Federico Adolfi

In the privacy of your own mind you can substitute names like Cozy Sequences and Banal Spaces and even Mortal Wombat for the actual names. The important thing to remember is you don’t have to inflict this onto other people by posting it on oops sorry

Yup, same here, and my understanding is your guess is right

A surprising number of books:

Title: A friendly introductory primer on the first steps towards [subject]

Preface: for people who are extremely knowledgeable about [subject]

Good question. I don’t use lemon extract and I just double the other two

Lemon Gooey Butter Cookies Recipe - Tasting Table Recipe developer Hayley MacLean came up with this wonderful recipe for lemon gooey butter cookies, and it's an absolute must-try.

My bad! I follow this recipe but with 30% less granulated sugar and 100% more salt and lemon (trust me)

www.tastingtable.com/672074/lemon...

— Meanwhile, in some math department —

- this is so cool, what should we call it?

- easy, a kernel

- cool

- wait haven’t we used that term for 39 different unrelated objects already?

- what’s your point?

- yeah you’re right sorry

I cannot emphasize enough how important it is that you try these sooner rather than later

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This but for "realism" and philosophy

— Meanwhile, in some math department —

- this is so cool, what should we call it?

- easy, a kernel

- cool

- wait haven’t we used that term for 39 different unrelated objects already?

- what’s your point?

- yeah you’re right sorry

I’d love to lead my own research group but I’m worried about uncontrollable procrastination (spending 6 months on the lab acronym and logo)

MiniThread: I was reading this paper and through it was worth a comment because the results are very counterintuitive to me (and the authors too)

Miller, G. A., & Selfridge, J. A. (1950). Verbal context and the recall of meaningful material. The American journal of psychology, 63(2), 176-185.

The trend in the passage length dimension suggests we’re looking at a decelerating function of order (not a plateau). For longer passages than those studied, the strategy of building a few chunks out of local context would become infeasible and you’d have to integrate meaning more globally (maybe?)

If I were forced to trade my prince..hood..ness for something I wood rather have an m-dash than a mere hyphen

I’m looking at the public comments on a manuscript submitted to an ML conference

authors are being nasty to a reviewer because they think it’s secretly a chatbot, some randos are accusing a reviewer of using AI to hallucinate non-existent references, and yet others are showing the papers exist

👍🏻🫠

Funder: provide a thorough justification for your research program

Me: because if I do this, other researchers will do something else and *they* might discover something huge

I don’t know why people complain about writing research grants. It’s basically looking at your history and realizing that all the pieces represent excellent decisions and figuring out how they point in a specific and promising direction

which is definitely not a form of soul destroying self-harm

I don’t know why people complain about writing research grants. It’s basically looking at your history and realizing that all the pieces represent excellent decisions and figuring out how they point in a specific and promising direction

which is definitely not a form of soul destroying self-harm

Documentary filmmakers: the thing that makes these documentaries special is that you can hear the stories directly from the mouths of those who experienced these remarkable events

Also DFs: have a seat, you’ll be looking at the camera, here’s the script, stick to it, those exact words

Your random number generator: 27

You: great keep going

RNG: 37?

You: kind of lazy but ok go on

RNG: 37

You: come on now, think!

RNG: 2…6?

You:

RNG:

You:

RNG: 26 26

You:

RNG: 2

In what can only be described as one of my most spectacular failures of social inference, someone sitting next to me at the movie theatre asked me ‘what movie is this?’, I told them, then I thought about it for a moment and asked them politely how come they didn’t know what movie they came to see.

😂 Luckily, they were very gracious about it and just replied politely with the facts: they were just checking whether they were in the right room.

…instead of inferring non-batshitly that they were just checking if they were in the right room

In what can only be described as one of my most spectacular failures of social inference, someone sitting next to me at the movie theatre asked me ‘what movie is this?’, I told them, then I thought about it for a moment and asked them politely how come they didn’t know what movie they came to see.

Theoremlet

(Yes and) Interesting and weird that jumping over those boxes looks graceful at times but crawling under the rope looks pathetic at all times

An oven tray of cookies with powdered sugar on top. Crunchy on the outside, gooey on the inside.

Me: I developed a chemistry of lemon gooey butter cookies. It took many attempts but I managed to master the rationale, technique and execution, and today it is my pleasure to show you the result

Them: did you finally decide to just follow the recipe closely this time?

Me:

Me: to the letter

An oven tray of cookies with powdered sugar on top. Crunchy on the outside, gooey on the inside.

Me: I developed a chemistry of lemon gooey butter cookies. It took many attempts but I managed to master the rationale, technique and execution, and today it is my pleasure to show you the result

Them: did you finally decide to just follow the recipe closely this time?

Me:

Me: to the letter

A photo of a t shaped mark made with tape on the floor of a kitchen. Presumably a movie set. Meant to illustrate where the imperative to “hit the mark” comes from

Many character quirks make a lot more sense when you realize everyone in the show is playing ‘the floor is lava except for predefined marks’

A photo of a t shaped mark made with tape on the floor of a kitchen. Presumably a movie set. Meant to illustrate where the imperative to “hit the mark” comes from

Many character quirks make a lot more sense when you realize everyone in the show is playing ‘the floor is lava except for predefined marks’

A data point that speaks to this: without further assumptions, even finding relevant task circuits (a prerequisite for some kinds of explanation) is already challenging to do reliably in shallow feedforward nets, even for some notions of approximation.

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