Thom Jenkins

“You and I never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

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Imagination without knowledge leads you astray.
Knowledge without imagination leads you nowhere.

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Resident Goose

You smile as the geese return,
Look wistful as they fly away.
Would it surprise you at all to learn
That some of us loyally stay
In this off-season habitat?
Given you failed to notice that
Is it really the goose you love
Or a cycle of abuse from above?
Is it that, in reality,
You praise your sun’s prodigality?
(You’d think human ingenuity
Would find richer forms of promiscuity.)
That whooshing honking from the sky
Offers a shared temporal space.
And the best we who remain nigh
Can offer, is a poop bomb to the face.

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@RoryStewartUK earnestly celebrating the success of policing speech in ultimately policing thought #theRestIsNewspeak

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@campbellclaret as soon as you treat reputation as currency you are bankrupt.

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A fire spits and spittles with the same sputum it later roars. It simmers and simpers and later soars. Like Sonata Pathetique, the Mona Lisa, or any tour de force.

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This is working well for me, yielding significant improvements on lipids and blood pressure, as well as just general mood and, dare I say it, physique: https://t.co/sxy4oIzLHu Yes, I’m sad enough to have taken the pestle and mortar on work trips. I use a Fitbit tracker to help keep me on the straight and narrow but resent needing it. Good luck!

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@hthieblot Maple Grove, Minnesota doesn’t even make the list? Wtaf 😱

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And all the while I was thinking: stacking a woodshed would be a solid test for AI. (But please do not deploy.)

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@f Flourishing
Death
Fate worse than death

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@BingBongBrent @FarkasTim @NinaPanickssery My initial thought was that this was reinforcement learning. But think you’d be looking at 100k to 1M loops doing it that way.

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@BingBongBrent @FarkasTim @NinaPanickssery Very nice work. Any global residual here? Like will it see this as an opportunity to globally improve its concept of an apple- or would that require some LoRA type pipeline?

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Looks like state-of-the-art robotics training footage to me.

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Invented in 1937, Leroy lettering turned shaky handwriting into precision. Before computers, professionals used it to make documents clear.

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@noahsolomon Want a bet on who can build this first? …but where would we place the bet… Dang it, more needed than you could possibly have imagined.

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@noahsolomon @lisbonai_ Most said word at the conf

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The uber driver just said, in an accent (I’m in Portugal), “It will take about 12 minutes.” To which I replied: “It’s nice to meet you.” Trying to pass it off as an English thing.

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Bob the blob is learning to play #rl

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Agents take two types of risk:
- irreducible risks, and
- acceptable risks

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Nice articulation of the innovator’s dilemma: “To obtain a lot of reward, a reinforcement learning agent must prefer actions that it has tried in the past and found to be effective in producing reward. But to discover such actions, it has to try actions that it has not selected before. The agent has to exploit what it already knows in order to obtain reward, but is also has to explore in order to make better action selections in the future. The dilemma is that neither exploration nor exploitation can be pursued exclusively without failing at the task.” Sutton & Barto

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@excelduru Fenton