For example, if you want to understand how deep learning works, you could read *our* book. There's a few paragraphs at the start about some of the history (because it's pretty interesting, and helps understand "why") but 99% is "how it works".
@jeremyphoward
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Mac Windows Linux Operating Systems Philosophy Comparison
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macs are designed for folks that looking at the outside of computers. windows is for those who don't care what it looks like. linux is for those who want to spend ALL THEIR FUCKING TIME looking at their computer's innards.
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Conspiracy Theories About AI: It’s Actually Mathematics
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They think it's a conspiracy. But actually it's math.
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Understanding Transitivity in Scientific Comparisons
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Some folks don't understand the property of transitivity. If A is better than placebo, and B is better than A, then B is better than placebo. Therefore we don't need to compare B to placebo, if we have a comparison of B with A. This confuses some people terribly.
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AI Impact on Power Concentration and Historical Revolutions
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Wow interesting – thanks for sharing. BTW what bit do you disagree with? You think historically revolutions haven't generally stopped concentration? Or that AI doesn't make them potentially ineffective?
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Hinton’s Safety Measures May Paradoxically Increase AI Risks
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Ironically the stuff Hinton pushes for is what makes this more likely. 🙁
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Tech imbalance may prevent wealth revolution outcomes
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Historically massive wealth concentration eventually falls to revolution, eventually. But tech imbalance might make this option go away.
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AI Safety as Tool for Power Concentration and Digital Feudalism
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I don't think it's totally out of the question that a small bunch of power-hungry arseholes create a new feudalism though. The whole AI "safety" thing could help provide the means for that power concentration, through compute controls and surveillance. It would be hard to undo.
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Remote Work Trends: Workforce Resistance to Office Returns
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tbh i'm not rushing back to the office
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Adam Optimizer: Fast.ai’s 2018 Breakthrough Research Discovery
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Guess who was the 1st to point out that Adam can be used for pretty much everything? (Answer: it was @fastdotai back in 2018 — @GuggerSylvain
's first research project in fact!) https://
fast.ai/posts/2018-07-
02-adam-weight-decay.html
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