Life Hack: Embrace the embarrassment of being a beginner.
The only way to accomplish something meaningful is to endure days, weeks, months, or even years of embarrassing failure.
Every expert started out as a beginner.
Those who embrace the embarrassment will eventually win.
GPT-4 and Gemini are systems and products, not models. There must be lots of engineering tricks and hard-coded rules, and we would never know how many models are inside the systems before open-sourcing. Requesting comparison with them is unfair in scientific research.
Very sad to learn that CR Rao who pioneered information geometry passed away August 22nd at the age of 102 years.
RIP
Background: https://t.co/B39OO7QeS9
News:
https://t.co/CE9Eb7WyUy
Once an introvert leaves, they leave forever. Do they miss you? Listen. The way they've mastered detachment is scary. They go total monk mode on you. Cold. Silent. Absolutely stoic. Trust me, they can act like they never knew you. Like ever.
The distance between a thousand dollars and a million dollars is skills.
The distance between a million and 100 million is character.
The distance between a 100 million dollars and a billion dollars is time.
A simple formula to lose belly fat
· Get 8 hours of sleep
· Walk 10k steps daily
· Drink primarily water
· Lift weights 3x a week
· Eat single ingredient nutrient dense foods in a caloric deficit
Do this for 90 days straight and watch your waistline start to disappear.
100% work or 100% rest.
Your creative output is like a battery. You have about 3-4 hours you can dedicate to pure focus. Most people are operating at half capacity. They don't go full force on quality work because they don't take the time to recover from psychological fatigue.
Completing 1-3 priority tasks in the first 4 hours of the day, every day, for years, aimed toward your ideal future, will get you far ahead of those working all day on scattered tasks to the point of burnout.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.
I have written a very short mathematical summary of the main ingredients of denoising diffusion models.
https://t.co/RGVUKTcpFa
Most of this is directly borrowed from the amazingly clear slides of @ValentinDeBort1 https://t.co/9mpVF6fQ0l
The proximal map projects on a level set. For l^p norms, it is a thresholding operator shrinking toward 0. It induces sparsity for p smaller than 1. https://t.co/Vele8ENGWT
Woodbury formula allows one to compute in two different ways the solution of Ridge regression. It allows one to even use infinite-dimensional feature spaces (p=inf) via kernelization. https://t.co/3c56BFPepI https://t.co/8dXitSEX2C