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YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown This open problem taught me what topology is

"Constraints and impossibilities are your fuel for progress." -Grant Sanderson

Wow!

1. Best "beginners' beginning" definition of a topological space I have encountered.

2. It makes the case for the mathematical necessity of topology.

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#ITeachMath #MathSky

Thanks for sharing the progess over time - this is so awesome!!

In one year, I genetically engineered the boring Arabidopsis into a beautiful ornamental flower 🧬🌹

Here is how and why I gave this model organism a visual upgrade 🧵(1/7)

“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.

Honestly that sounds like so much fun to just idly mess about with - it's so cool

I somewhat fall into that category and find that it's helpful if loaded keywords are differentiated (e.g. bold) when I'm reading stuff above my level. It makes it easier to know what I need to look at to fill in the assumed knowledge gaps.

Making "intermediate+" content It's that the internet needs, and we're the only people who can create it for ourselves and our peers.

This week on Counting Stuff, I want the internet to have more "intermediate+" level content (so I can read it!) but writing at that level seems hard so I thought about why and ways to make it somewhat easier #dataBS

www.counting-stuff.com/making-inter...

a hamster is running in a clear cage in a room . ALT: a hamster is running in a clear cage in a room .

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ML practitioners have forgotten a fundamental lesson from statistics: correlation does not imply causation. Not only do most state-of-the-art methods neglect this crucial principle, but by doing so they often produce nonsensical or flawed causal models, akin to social astrology or physiognomy.

GitHub - ryokamoi/llm-self-correction-papers: Papers on Self-Correction of LLMs Papers on Self-Correction of LLMs. Contribute to ryokamoi/llm-self-correction-papers development by creating an account on GitHub.

Curious about LLM self-correction? Check out our reading list!
📚 github.com/ryokamoi/llm...

We feature papers & blogs in
* Key self-correction papers
* Negative results in self-correction
* Projects inspired by OpenAI o1

These designs are always so awesome mate! How much planning do they take?

Read through this making flashcards as you to: https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/ Then spin up a RAG-enhanced chatbot using pgvector on your favourite subject, and keep improving it when you learn about cool techniques --- Lots of people can get impressive demos up and running, but if you want to run AI products in production, you're going to have to do system evals. System evals make sure your product is doing what it says on the box with unquantifiable qualities. We wrote a zine on system evals without jargon: https://forestfriends.tech Eugene Yan has written extensively on it https://eugeneyan.com/writing/evals/ Hamel has as well. https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/evals/

Feels good to be mentioned on HN for engineers learning AI 🥰 Helping others is a big reason I write. Here's a list on ML/AI:

## Building AI systems
• Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems: eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-...
• What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs: applied-llms.org

So, do we distrust donuts?

I finished it.

so true - it's unnerving how quickly we're progressing towards AGI being plausible while being so unprepared to ensure proper use - this really isn't something we can fix after the fact if it goes wrong

AI systems could 'turn against humans': Tech pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns of artificial intelligence risks Global leader in artificial intelligence, Professor Yoshua Bengio, has called for more research and "guardrails" to develop artificial intelligence safely. Watch his exclusive interview with CNBC's Ta...

At the latest @oneyoungworld.bsky.social Summit, I had the opportunity to discuss the rapid advancements in AI and the importance of implementing both societal and technical safeguards with @cnbc.com's reporter Tania Bryer. Listen to the interview: www.cnbc.com/video/2024/1...

Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality

The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition:
www.bewitched.com/demo/gini

Understanding Multimodal LLMs An introduction to the main techniques and latest models

Outlined an AI research review article for December… I love traveling but I also can’t wait to be back on my computer 😅.
In the meantime, if you are curious how Multimodal LLMs work, I recently wrote an article to explain the main & recent approaches: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understand...

art teacher: Is that a bird or a plane?

young clark kent: *crumples self portrait*

From Wikipedia entry on Schumpeter: "Schumpeter's most popular book in English is probably Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. While he agrees with Karl Marx that capitalism will collapse and be replaced by socialism, Schumpeter predicts a different way this will come about. While Marx predicted that capitalism would be overthrown by a violent proletarian revolution, which occurred in the least capitalist countries, Schumpeter believed that capitalism would gradually weaken itself and eventually collapse. Specifically, the success of capitalism would lead to corporatism and to values hostile to capitalism, especially among intellectuals. "Intellectuals" are a social class in a position to critique societal matters for which they are not directly responsible and to stand up for the interests of other classes. Intellectuals tend to have a negative outlook on capitalism, even while relying on it for prestige because their professions rely on antagonism toward it. The growing number of people with higher education is a great advantage of capitalism, according to Schumpeter. Yet, unemployment and a lack of fulfilling work will lead to intellectual critique, discontent, and protests."

From wikipedia entry on Schumpeter: "Parliaments will increasingly elect social democratic parties, and democratic majorities will vote for restrictions on entrepreneurship. Increasing workers' self-management, industrial democracy and regulatory institutions would evolve non-politically into "liberal capitalism". Thus, the intellectual and social climate needed for thriving entrepreneurship will be replaced by some form of "laborism". This will exacerbate "creative destruction" (a borrowed phrase to denote an endogenous replacement of old ways of doing things by new ways), which will ultimately undermine and destroy the capitalist structure."

From wikipedia entry on Schumpeter: "Schumpeter's view of democracy has been described as "elitist", as he criticizes the rationality and knowledge of voters, and expresses a preference for politicians making decisions.[45][46][47] Democracy is therefore in a sense a means to ensure circulation among elites.[46] However, studies by Natasha Piano of the University of Chicago emphasize that Schumpeter had substantial disdain for elites as well."

More people should read Schumpeter. Homeboy passed in 1950 but he understood "emergence", the centrality of entrepreneurship and innovation in driving both economic destruction and growth, and the ultimate end of industrial-labor formulation of "capital".

Bayesian Neural Networks

Bayesian neural networks address overfitting by modeling uncertainty in the weights. Plus they can be trained using standard neural net tools using an algorithm called stochastic variational inference, which we cover at the end of this tutorial.

Free eBook: Machine Learning Systems by Vijay Janapa Reddi

Principles and Practices of Engineering Artificially Intelligent Systems

mlsysbook.ai

excited for you! gl

If you struggle with math and linear algebra, which is very useful for game development; this website is excellent to learn, interactive examples to learn Vectors, matrix, dot product. immersivemath.com/ila/index.html #gamedev #math

Professor Dave Explains on YT has a 166 video "maths (all of it)" playlist that literally covers from addition to university content. Also, pracisting solving problembs as much as possible is cliche but true

I still have to plug in an ol' USB-A sometimes and I'd say my lifetime success rate of getting it flipped the right way is around 15%, despite the 50% odds

Loose pages with tables listing topics for maths and coding with bright headings on a wooden table

Made some neat tables for the new and old content I'm going through this holiday to make it more fun and give me a block to tick off when I'm done #studysky #mathsky

any recs for resources to go through for this?