Christopher Nolan's new movie Oppenheimer is a biopic about the Manhattan Project, set in Los Alamos, New Mexico—where I grew up. It is surreal how critical my small town of 13,000 was to the fate of the world. Hard to not feel the same about AI today…
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Develop Your Gut Instinct, Then Trust It Completely
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It takes time to develop your gut, but once it’s developed, don’t listen to anything else.
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Curriculum Learning with Positive Examples: Don’t Shoot the Dog
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Have you read Don't Shoot the Dog? I found it super interesting, there's the idea of curriculum learning with only positive examples first then negative examples for refinement https://
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Research sandbox for measuring functional correctness of generated code
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In research contexts, inside a sandbox, to measure functional correctness of generated code e.g. in the original Codex paper: https://
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Reductionist Explanations Fail to Explain Complex Phenomena
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“Particle collisions,” “chemical imbalance,” and “microbiome” are terrible explanations. Explanations that explain everything explain nothing.
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William Congratulated for CMU Enrollment in Tech Field
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Congrats to William and his proud parents. CMU is a great school for the field he's chosen (and it's an amazing field)!
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Meta AI MCC Project: Paper and Project Page
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Great examples in the project page: Meta AI MCC Project Authors: Chao-Yuan Wu, Justin Johnson, Jitendra Malik, Christoph Feichntenhofer, Georgia Gkioxari Paper: https://
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Meta AI creates 3D models from a single image
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Meta AI is working on creating 3D models from a single image, whether it's real or AI generated: pic.twitter.com/CJ0UjQvkgu
— AI Breakfast (@AiBreakfast) 29 janvier 2023Meta AI is working on creating 3D models from a single image, whether it's real or AI generated:
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MCC recognizes 3D objects from single image using RGB-D video library
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With Multiview Compressive Coding (MCC), the model tries to recognize 3D objects from a single image by pulling from large amounts of data from a library of RGB-D videos (recordings that capture depth information) to compare it to. pic.twitter.com/2Jte4QLp04
— AI Breakfast (@AiBreakfast) 29 janvier 2023With Multiview Compressive Coding (MCC), the model tries to recognize 3D objects from a single image by pulling from large amounts of data from a library of RGB-D videos (recordings that capture depth information) to compare it to.
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Diaspora: Visionary 1997 Sci-Fi Exploring Future Technology Implications
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Diaspora (1997) is excellent zoom-out sci fi. Impressive that it was written 26 years ago — feels particularly worth reading now.