DARPA Research on Cryptocurrency and National Security Risks https://
oodaloop.com/archive/2022/1
1/08/darpa-research-on-cryptocurrency-and-national-security-risks/
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DARPA Research on Cryptocurrency National Security Risks
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Understanding Opportunity Cost: Swedish Economists’ Key Insight
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A survey of every Swedish economist found the economics concept that would benefit the most people to understand is "opportunity cost." It is what you give up when you make a choice. Not just what you don’t buy, but also what you could have done by saving for later. Relevant!
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China’s AI Workforce: Global Demand for AI Talent Event
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A Virtual CSET Event: China’s AI Workforce – Demand for AI Talent in a Global Marketplace (Thursday, November 10th at 4 pm EST) https://
oodaloop.com/archive/2022/1
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ML Insights on Overfitting Apply Beyond Machine Learning Systems
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Excellent post about applying insights from ML (overfitting control) to a much broader class of systems that optimize against an objective: politics, science, orgs, daily life. Underfitting is underrated.
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AI Dominates TIME’s Best Inventions List for 2022
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0% surprised that @OpenAI Dall-E 2 and @NVIDIA Instant NeRF made it onto the Best Inventions of 2022 list from @TIME
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MLPerf benchmark requires implementation of mitigations
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MLPerf benchmark needs some of these mitigations https://
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Model Capabilities Emerge with Scale: Sentiment Classification Study
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This is a wonderful study on the emergence of model capabilities with scale. It is remarkable to see sentiment classification working with 1 data point, and fascinating to see the effectiveness of chain of thought prompting growing with scale.
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VIOLA: UT Austin & Sony AI Advance Robot Manipulation Learning
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UT Austin & Sony AI’s VIOLA Object-Centric Imitation Learning Method for Robot Manipulation Outperforms the SOTA by 45.8%
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ZerO Initialization with Hadamard Transforms for Rectangular Matrices
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And an overview of how ZerO initialization can overcome degeneracy by using Hadamard transforms for rectangular weight matrices
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Training Degeneracy in Rectangular Weight Matrices Without Hadamard
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This is the training degeneracy that @jiawzhao is talking about if you only do identity initialization and not Hadamard for rectangular weight matrices