camilo ortiz

interested in reinforcement learning and comp neuro. software eng @google. he/him.

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

@y0b1byte i like food-related classes, like sandwiches and pizza, that seems pretty fun. maybe go over simple html so they can see what websites are made of?

[Sebastian Risi @risi1979]

Biological brains 🧠 are characterized by neurons of many different classes. Yet most artificial neural networks only use one activation function throughout.

We show that through neural diversity alone we can solve RL problems in networks with random weights 🤯

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

Since we've been looking for more things to do, @emilymbender @mmitchell_ai @mcmillan_majora and I wrote a statement about the horrible "letter" on the AI apocalypse, the very first citation of which, was our #StochasticParrots paper.
https://t.co/6kFtBcXhZj

[Mediapolis Journal @mediapolisjrl]

Kola Heyward-Rotimi (@KolaHR) investigates Eko Atlantic and the speculative aesthetics of “corporate Afrofuturism” as a mode of neoliberal world-building.
https://t.co/yVuTp4jo2i

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

@txstokes any inspiration from francis bacon?

[Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr]

i'm going to go out on a limb and say no spanish-speaking person was involved in the design of this name, nor in the approval chain... 🤦‍♂️

(also, comments on the tweet did not disappoint!)

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

@jeanqasaur the tests 🫡

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István Orosz — Babylonian Labyrinth (etching, 2012)

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Here's a cute example, due to Itamar Turner-Trauring (@[email protected]), who observes that Google gave bad results which were written about in the news—which the new GPT-Bing used as reliable answers. Autogenerated trash feeding the next cycle, with one step of indirection.

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

wooooow i’ve never heard generated music this good

https://t.co/xgoFAZTHSW

[Bruner/Cott @BrunerCott]

Construction is underway at the @AmherstCollege Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum!

Inspired by the Lyceum of ancient Athens, this 20,000-sf project combines an existing, historic house w/new construction to create a new facility for the College’s Center for Humanistic Inquiry

[Austin Kocher, PhD @ackocher]

ICE reported that it has been posting WRONG DATA for over four months. Adding to the confusion, ICE frequently posts data, replaces it, and replaces it again without any indication that changes have taken place, or which are the "correct" numbers.

https://t.co/eRKpufpI1C

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

???

[Edward Grefenstette @egrefen]

@emilymbender No thanks.

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

a backprop alternative with local gradients??

https://t.co/lCJoRo20Ye

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

@blueapex LOL :)

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

Duncan + team found a neuronal circuit with bistable high-activating and low-activating rates given excitatory/inhibitory inputs. They think such networks could be involved in decision making processes in the hypothalamus. Really accessible + interesting talk.

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

Twitter can’t deprecate the source field until all devices / places running twitter no longer need it.

Deprecating takes time!

[April King 🌀 @CubicleApril]

hardcore engineering

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

@KolaHR thinking about this again

[Kola @KolaHR]

the vibes are beyond us and impenetrable

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

@and_i_ooooop @gsmakesmusic my gf also got me into drinking coff

[camilo ortiz @camilodoa]

@gsmakesmusic doggie some ppl r addicted