Alec Gunny

Full time kook.

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

The folks at the Georgia Tech Center for Relativistic Astrophysics were cool enough to let me come talk about some of the challenges in putting machine learning to work in gravitational wave astronomy, you can check out the talk here https://t.co/90IaIIBAKl

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@bgrover05 Cash

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@bgrover05 We taking the mf Bears or starting the new rivalry early??

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@UMO love that you do it this way, the organ solo on Opposite of Afternoon you've been doing recently was one of my favorite things I've seen live all year

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@UMO absolutely jaw-dropping statistic

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

New way to decouple the rich from public transportation infrastructure about to drop 👀👀👀

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Imagine avoiding that soul-crushing, hourlong slog — say from Santa Monica to downtown L.A. on a Tuesday morning. Instead, you hail an air taxi that will hop over the gridlock and get you there in nine minutes.
https://t.co/Q1lnVsqoGG

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@iaifi_news @NatureAstronomy Ok fine close second https://t.co/dwqi8jZPHJ

[Nature Astronomy @NatureAstronomy]

Press release: https://t.co/yGVJ5h9Xbc

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

Excited to share work done with my awesome colleagues in @iaifi_news on deploying deep learning systems for gravitational-wave astronomy, published today in @NatureAstronomy https://t.co/KmrBRYyz2L.

I can confidently say this will be the biggest news you'll see today in astron-

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@bgrover05 thoughts and prayers king 🙏🙏

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

Just turned down anesthesia at the dentist and he didn’t even tell me what a tough little guy I am 🥺

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@UMO Played this at a free show at the Santa Monica pier in 2016 and it was the best money I never spent

[MIT Physics @MIT_Physics]

Taming the data deluge -- A National Science Foundation-funded team will use artificial intelligence to speed up discoveries in physics, astronomy, and neuroscience. https://t.co/5a5J0nrc2i @ScienceMIT

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

This is the really important stuff that most of the hype and pessimism around DL tends to criminally undervalue: domain experts taking off-the-shelf (-ish) DL components and engineering them into a system that has the potential to do something Cool and Good™️

[François Chollet @fchollet]

From the same team: a visual neuroprosthesis -- the first deep-learning-based system capable of serving as an interface between the visual world and the visual cortex, with the potential of enabling blind people to see.

https://t.co/CLPZbCkYd5

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

EM looking at rich dorks

[Dave Lee @heydave7]

My main takeaway from Tesla AI Day:

Tesla is building a synthetic brain for the real physical world. That synthetic brain already goes in their car robots and will go into their humanoid robots…

And @elonmusk @karpathy & entire @tesla team are highly underrated by the world.

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@UMO The transition from this into AG

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@bgrover05 got 'er

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

Talk about an immunity challenge @JeffProbst please dm me for ideas I literally cannot miss

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

There’s only one real way to settle this

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

@rachmagach Rachael.

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

One obvious answer would be that these problems will be resolved with more innovation. But after a decade of most of the world's top ML talent working almost exclusively on this, at what point do we start to wonder if these problems come from the fundamental incentive structure?

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

Serious question for ML friends: at this point, is there an argument against requiring robust public disclosure of data and optimization objectives used in building content recommendation algorithms, especially if the people building them are going to make claims like this?

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@tdietterich @RichardDawkins Do you have any recent study that shows the causal role of FB and social networks in political polarization?
FB is an easy target for scapegoating, but let's look at the data.
[I say "recent" because post 2017 FB newsfeed ranking is *very* different from previous incarnations].

[Alec Gunny @AlecGunny]

Like, to take FB as an example, if strong IP laws exist to incentivize innovation, at what point does the obvious public interest here outweigh the need to discover novel ways of getting vets to join hate groups?