anyone ever see a really good reel on instagram that spurs them to stop scrolling, but now im wondering whether that’s training the algorithm to not show me tho reels because i leave the app after them…
how to fix 🤔 ur annual why is social media broken complaint
not stressing about things outside your control somehow doesn’t extend to when you’re waiting for tests to run and you keep check whether 1/100000 failed flakily
this has been the semester of using Grounding DINO + SAM2 for open vocabulary object segmentation in images 😂. Curious if anyone has other recs for text input -> segmentation?
wild takeaway of the week from algos class: for some hard problems, it’s significantly easier to find solutions with stronger guarantees than to solve the general case
recently realized that policy debate and the startup pitching process are kinda similar:
harms - what are you solving for, inherency - why hasn’t it been solved yet / why now?
solvency - how do you solve the harms