There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They burn too weakly or are too far away to be seen directly, even if you stare.
It used to be the case that reviewing a contributor's PR was a form of "investment" in that contributor. They'd learn from your feedback, grow, take it into account for future contributions, etc.
Unfortunately with agents I feel that's largely gone.
I thought the GTA 6 beta was complete bs. Went to the store today, clicked "Play Beta", and the installer actually started downloading. No tricks. Link in replies. 👇
I've always been both curious and suspicious about the still high accuracy even after skipping most of the labor work while trying to learn something. It's called "distillation", but what do you still miss and don't want to miss in training and learning?
when mathematics gets complicated enough the primitives will be more mind-like than number-like, and the proof techniques will have to adapt where neo-mathematicians can then go..
"am I... the counterexample?" and then attempt to be the counterexample (or example)
#OTD in 1945, Edmund Melson Clarke was born. Clarke received the 2007 #ACMTuringAward with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology that is widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.
Model checking is widely used to verify designs for integrated circuits, computer networks, and software. It has made the technology that underpins modern life possible. https://t.co/kUZuchxd0A
#TuringAward #computerscience #ModelChecking
every research team needs to spend some time learning how their modeling code lowers down to gpu kernels
example: rms norm vs layernorm
industry assumes rms norm is cheaper. you don't need the x̂, it looks simpler, so it must be faster, so it got adopted
but that's not true. both rms and layernorm are memory bound kernels (the amount of time it takes to get the data to gpu cores is longer than the amount of time it takes to do the computation on said cores)
both take the same amount of time e2e
so can probably train the model right with either, but maybe it makes a difference (e.g why diffusion models still use norms with an affine shift e.g adaLN)
i get why. as open-source models get better and, inevitably, commoditized across the inference providers, overall serving speed determines user experience determines which model gets adopted
but there's no reason to superstitiously avoid free things
Experience is just fine-tuning. Real intelligence is far more than training data + experience.
Replacing doctor's “experience” with Lymph will show what evolution does to each new generation. The young will surprise the experienced.
e/acc bio/acc
Eventually, much of AI will converge towards intuition-guided symbolic world modeling, i.e. deep learning-guided program synthesis. It is inevitable. Symbolic modeling lets a system construct a compact, reusable, highly generalizable mental model of a problem space using minimal data.