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Flerovium more like flavorvium amiright

25.12.2024 00:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3 Modes of Making with AI – johnowhitaker.dev

Related thoughts while I try and find a good way to formulate this: johnowhitaker.dev/essays/junk_...
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02.12.2024 18:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

AI & Junk Food

When you optimize food for short-term preference, you get sugary, salty brain hacks. Yum, unhealthy in excess.

When you optimize models for short-term preference, you get flattering, verbose, sloppy brain hacks. Cool, unhealthy in excess.

Do you agree? What's 'healthy food' for AI?

02.12.2024 18:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

First example that sprung to mind was reading base64 text

27.11.2024 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Examples of fractals resulting from neural network training in a variety of experimental configurations

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish to those for which training diverges.

Even better, a video: vimeo.com/903855670

12.02.2024 05:38 — 👍 140    🔁 30    💬 7    📌 2

Hello bsky, I'm not sure what I'll post where - Twitter/X is still my default. But I do also put most of the interesting stuff on my site's "Everything" page, which has an RSS feed, if you want to see that stuff without X :)
johnowhitaker.dev/all.html

17.11.2024 18:20 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0