Ummmm he just said “algorithms are fake” do I throw a chair?
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Diner encounter with ChatGPT mention causes awkward moment
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Help I’m at a restaurant and someone just mentioned ChatGPT what do I do (they do not appear to speak French)
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Postdoc Position: NLP and Speech Processing for Police Relations
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We have a postdoc position available! Come join our computational social science project on using NLP and speech processing on body-worn camera data to help improve police-community relations!
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Nuanced Conversations About Generative AI With Journalists
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There's been a lot of shade about how journalists are covering generative AI. But I had the pleasure of speaking with @chrislhayes and @karaswisher @profgalloway this week, and it reminded me there are still spaces where nuanced conversations about AI can happen.
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Hierarchical Partitioning for Differentially Private Heatmap Computation
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Today on the blog, read all about how we use a hierarchical partitioning procedure to build an efficient differentially private algorithm for computing heatmaps with provable guarantees #DifferentialPrivacy → https://
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Netflix Paid Sharing Strategy Fails to Drive Expected Revenue Growth
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Netflix sells off: so far, ‘paid sharing’ appears not to be accomplishing anything Are the ‘borrowers’ already walking away? https://
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Mars College launches livecoding club for experimental learning
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Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning: Foundational Topics
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Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning A handy collection of pen-and-paper exercises in machine learning. Covers foundational topics related to machine learning such as linear algebra, optimization, graphical models and etc… This is a relevant resource for anyone who
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Microsoft SPTAG: Distributed Vector Search Library for Large Scale
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Bing Vector Search GitHub – microsoft/SPTAG: A distributed approximate nearest neighborhood search (ANN) library which provides a high quality vector index build, search and distributed online serving toolkits for large scale vector search scenario. https://
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Unpredictable Performance Spikes in Scaling Neural Networks
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I think this is a reasonable point in theory. In practice, we don't have those model sizes. But assuming that we did, I think there's still something interesting going on with emergence, e.g., "We can't predict a performance spike at say 10B with models from 5B, 4.9B, 4.8B…"