Who I think is a Ph.D. for… after dropping out of one I recently shared a video about my PhD, or rather, why I decided to quit. Here are my thoughts on who should consider doing one.
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Equivariance in Machine Learning: Maurice Weiler’s Educational Guide
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Check out this amazing blogpost by @maurice_weiler on equivariance. Besides an amazing researcher, Maurice is also a fantastic educator. No better source to learn equivariance IMO.
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YouTune: Fine-tune MusicGen with YouTube Audio
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I've added a feature to @charliebholtz’s YouTune, you can now easily fine-tune MusicGen using the audio from YouTube videos:
— fofr (@fofrAI) 8 novembre 2023
> python tune.py <youtube-url> –audio
Try it here:https://t.co/e4vNmeWEeX https://t.co/0bVV98SGka pic.twitter.com/1arMNKmJq0I've added a feature to @charlieholtz
’s YouTune, you can now easily fine-tune MusicGen using the audio from YouTube videos: > python tune.py –audio Try it here: https://
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Honoring Engineers Scientists Mathematicians Shaping World Today
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Today, we're honoring the engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who are shaping the world! #NationalSTEMDay #STEMDay See what they're doing http://
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ChatGPT Voice Feature Issues With Web Search Transcript
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This morning I tried using voice to ask ChatGPT to get some football scores from the web, as now it has all the features baked in. Seemed like it was working, but then I checked the transcript.
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GPT-4 Vision and DALL-E 3 iterative avatar generation
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I'm using GPT4 vision and dalle3 together to try and reproduce my abstract avatar. I asked it to: – analyze the original image
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Open Source AI Emerges as Counterweight to Proprietary Systems
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The counterweight to closed/proprietary AI is open/free AI.
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ControlNet for LCM Now Available for Image Generation
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Oh nice! I didn't know controlnet for LCM had landed.
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Mistral 7B in Stuffed Parrot Raises Safety Concerns
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This person has put a Mistral 7B model into a stuffed parrot and displays Chinchilla Equation (2) on his torso. Does anyone have his number? This seems a little unsafe.
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Design and AI: Insights from Volum Conference Bergen
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Good morning from Bergen Today I’ll be talking a little bit about design and AI. If you are at the Volum konferens don’t hesitate to come and say hello