Gavia Gray

YouTube video by TransVoiceLessons The Big Picture of Voice Feminization | A Comprehensive Overview | Lecture & Demonstration

The terms people usually use to describe the spectral differences are "vocal weight" and "resonance". Trans people and voice actors probably have the best resources on voice and how to talk about it, like @zheanna.bsky.social has some great videos on this www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZWQ...

With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights".
Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased.
ai.google/responsibili...

Folks are mostly missing the forest for the trees re: the recent Meta announcement. Specifically, the focus on the move from fact checking to community notes. There two different changes that are a much bigger deal that have received less focus. 🧵 1/11

Generated condensed version of https://github.com/mattjj/autodidact Generated condensed version of https://github.com/mattjj/autodidact - autodidact.py

I got Claude to condense github.com/mattjj/autod... to a single file to make it more readable: gist.github.com/gngdb/a6bdf4...
It's the same design as the core Jax autograd engine as far as I know.

Empirical Upper Bounds for Unstructured Sparsity in... Sparsity in deep neural networks promises two improvements in computational efficiency, fewer FLOPs spent both to train the network and to perform inference. We find that both may be quantified...

Our poster is up in the compression workshop for Esha Singh's paper on bounds for scaling sparsity. We investigated better ways to compare sparsity inducing regularizers by grounding to compute efficient dense models. openreview.net/forum?id=qOn...

My poster is up!

How do a neural network's final parameters depend on its initial ones?


In this new paper, we answer this question by analyzing the training Jacobian, the matrix of derivatives of the final parameters with respect to the initial parameters.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07003

code for this work is here: github.com/CerebrasRese...

I'll be presenting our poster on efficient estimation of critical batch size today at 4:30pm at NeurIPS 2024 neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

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I would put this even more strongly: open source AI is probably our only realistic chance to avoid a terrifying increase in concentration of power. I do not want to live in a world where the people with all the money also have all the intellectual power.

I'm shocked you would fail to see how this is motivated. The sentiment from people cheering this on Twitter and elsewhere is obvious.

A feature/bug of BlueSky is that you can back-date posts. People are using this to repost their tweets.
If you search for posts from the 1st century, there are jokes about the resurrection of Jesus. And, perhaps even funnier, some posts dated 24-11-20 instead of 2024-11-20.
bsky.app/search?q=unt...

when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer

The Epidemic of Violence Against the Transgender & Gender-Expansive… The 2024 Report

One of the hardest,and most meaningful, projects I do in my job is monitor the epidemic of fatal violence against the trans and gender-expansive community.

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance (#TDOR), we honor those we’ve lost over the last year.

reports.hrc.org/an-epidemic-...

How a handful of Toronto businessmen got their way on bike lanes provincewide 'Non-partisan group' Balance on Bloor includes a former PC candidate, donors, and real estate industry players

Good reporting here: www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

Open RL Benchmark: Comprehensive Tracked Experiments for... In many Reinforcement Learning (RL) papers, learning curves are useful indicators to measure the effectiveness of RL algorithms. However, the complete raw data of the learning curves are rarely...

Neurips reviews are now publicly available.
Don't forget to check out Open RL benchmark, very useful when implementing algorithms or checking performance/impact of hyperparameters.

openreview.net/forum?id=ZDv...

In summary, Ford's bike lane removals will, according to a new City Hall report:

- Cost $75 million in direct costs and sunk costs.
- Make traffic much, much worse for at least nine months during construction to remove lanes
- Have minimal long-term impact on car travel times.

We're cooked. The economy's cooked. The planet is really cooked.

But trans people are especially cooked, here in the U.S.

Because no one's coming to save us:

EDS, an HP Company 'Cat Herders' EDS, an HP Company 'Cat Herders'

I have just learned that when my dad said "it's like herding cats" he was probably referring to a 1999 superbowl ad www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Ma...

The legacy of Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, has died.

RIP Lynn Conway, chip design pioneer and transgender-rights advocate

news.engin.umich.edu/2024/06/the-...

From wiki: IBM fired Conway in 1968 after she revealed her intention to transition. IBM apologized in 2020 (!).

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Co...

To do machine learning research it's important to have a degree in maths so you can read the math in most papers, a degree in computer science so you can write replicable code and a degree in physics so you can talk to all the physicists here. Luckily, getting them will leave no time for research.

Years of plotting research yet no use for anything except calling `fig.tight_layout()` and hope.

When Karpathy said he can't watch any movie more than 20 years old he was actually using Cunningham's rule to get movie recommendations, obviously.

The fact about polar bear fur being technically transparent is dumb if you think that means you shouldn't say the fur is white but much more interesting if you know that the same transparent structure makes the bears mostly invisible in IR, so night vision would be useless.

The geomagnetic storm seems to be winding down, so if you still need to communicate across time with your dead father via ham radio to solve your mother's murder, now's the time!

The DVD rental store guy recommended this movie a few weeks ago and this post is within 1 hour of us pressing play on the movie and I didn't know this was what the plot was going to be. Unclear what powers over time the DVD rental store guy has.

Is "back to the old drawing board" just from looney tunes or were drawing boards a universal experience in the 40s?

It's wild how much better Fiesta Farms is

Weird side effect of trying to use copilot: when I know what I want to type, I try to type fast enough that it doesn't have time to suggest anything.