The success of diffusion models is a great example of the impact that a new mathematical paradigm can have. All the hyper-parameter tuning in the world can't beat a few lines of thoughtful math.
New Fields medalist June Huh recalls past conversations with older Fields medalist Heisuke Hironaka.
I wonder if this is what the Turing Test feels like from a language model's perspective
"'I have this math competition experience, that ... you have to be fast,' [Wang] said. 'But June is the opposite. … If you talk to him for five minutes about some calculus problem, you’d think this guy wouldn’t pass a qualifying exam. He’s very slow.'"
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being a statistician is fun cause you can tell people that the data they worked so hard to collect isn’t enough or won’t answer the questions they want answers to and move on while everybody hates you
Google is so aggressive about mining e-mail receipts for data to sell ads that Amazon no longer tells you what you bought in their emails, and now I honestly can’t tell which company is being the bigger asshole to customers.
I'm seeing this a lot in my timeline. Strongly disagree with "research should be X" and "if your research has a Y, you're doing it wrong". Sometimes there's a path, sometimes it's all weeds. Sometimes it's play, sometimes not... so what? As Atyiah said, the goal is to understand
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