What drives JD Vance? impassioned podcast by Know Your Enemy dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your…

A thread that shows you Rich vs Poor neighborhoods reveals inequality in cities... 📷 JOHNNY MILLER

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New account: bsky.app/profile/maxkas…

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Great interview with Meredith Whittaker on Signal, #privacy, #ai, and the #surveillance business model: wired.com/story/meredith…

Starting Monday: Department of Economics, Oxford summer school, incl foundations of #ML for #economics: maxkasy.github.io/home/ML_Oxford… New this year: 1) Intro to supervised learning using #python: maxkasy.github.io/home/files/tea… 2) Transformers for language processing maxkasy.github.io/home/files/tea…

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What are the returns to data size D, compute C, model size N in AI? This paper estimates "production functions" - dependence of predictive loss on these params (ht Friedrich Geiecke): arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 Lots of interesting ramifications: 1) For learning theory: 1/n

What are the returns to data size D, compute C, model size N in AI? This paper estimates "production functions" - dependence of predictive loss on these params (ht Friedrich Geiecke): arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 Lots of interesting ramifications: 1) For learning theory: 1/n

Reading rec: "Ideology: An Introduction" by Terry Eagleton versobooks.com/en-gb/products… A tour the force through 200 years of theorizing about ideology, and the relation between ideas, power, truth, and social change.

Just found out about Altair, a #dataviz library for #python with a very clean syntax based on the "grammar of graphics:" altair-viz.github.io Intuitive for ggplot users! Just substitute: geom -> mark aesthetic -> encode