Hearing chatter that the US will ban TikTok today.

“There is a myth that non-disabled people are independent and disabled people are dependent. We are all interdependent. Many of you like drinking coffee, very few of you grow your own beans” … from a great opening keynote at #assets2022 by Haben Girma👩🏿‍🦯

don’t want to go to bed because something interesting is happening in the loss curve. it’s not like I will do anything with it right away, but I just want to be there like the parent who wants to be there for their toddler’s first steps.

Just how striking are the recent language model results with Flan-PaLM?

Here's a plot.

Across 57 tasks on mathematics, US history, computer science etc., Flan-PaLM surpasses **both** the June 2023 and June 2024 SotA forecasts from this summer by competitive forecasters.

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Using a language model to generate prompts for another language model is not that crazy after all. Humans go through analogous experiences.

I spent some time last spring contemplating the utopian fantasy of how to build a quiet electric leaf blower.

After making a few prototypes, I now believe that another world is possible.

A world where the leaf blower's shrill whine has been transformed into a gentle whoosh.

Surprised partner by baking this for our weekend GBBO watching date and to celebrate Diwali. The flourless (oatmeal) cake turned out pretty good except for mini demoulding disaster. It tastes better than it looks. Sad part is I winged it and I cannot reproduce this bake.

do people really believe associational thinking is not a kind of thinking? pick up some cogsci books for god’s sake.

Using drones to represent the destroyed architecture of ancient monuments

Today I had “Omakase strawberries” for the first time. The picture is not enlarged or anything; they were big (about 3x the size of regular berries). Apart from the size wow-factor, which vanishes rapidly, they were mediocre in taste. I’ve had smaller berries that were intense.

why is there an urge for some folks to control others to speak in a very narrow band they habit in? Beats me!

Paul Hollywood’s idea of a S’more is the culinary equivalent of a medieval illustrator trying to draw an elephant based on rumors alone #gbbo

Thomas G. Dietterich Delip Rao Christos Papadimitriou, prelude to Section IV 'Inside P' (polynomial time) of his book 'Computational Complexity', before proceeding to discuss parallel computation and logspace-bounded computations.

Delip Rao This is an opportunity to get in touch with the early years of computing. In every generation, our ambitions outstrip the hardware and we must wait for computations to finish.

there’s something pathological about the guiltless breaks offered by busy GPUs, but can’t put my finger on it

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