Created: February 10, 2022
Modified: February 10, 2022

deep learning

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large effects

Much of statistical practice is concerned with distinguishing signal from noise. For example, significance tests quantify the likelihood…

about

Who are you? Hi, I'm Dave. I'm interested in the secrets of intelligence, consciousness, the good life, and other easy questions. I have a…

explicit models of uncertainty

(note: this is dancing around the issues around why I think [ probabilistic programming is not AI research ], even if it will be a…

blog posts to write

[ writing inbox ] the privilege of having correct advice work out for you ([ the privilege of advice working out ]) Let's stipulate that any…

computation is important

Arguably the core insight of deep learning / [ differentiable program ]ming is that the shape and structure of the computations we do are so…

meta-level shape of machine learning

Unlike most modern [ deep learning ] systems, humans: don't have separate training/test phases (though we may have wake/[ sleep ]) don't…

AI for math

Doing [ math ] seems like a really promising area for AI. And by 'math' I mean math research (not arithmetic, which computers are already…

the discourse is wrong

In order for a group of people, like an academic field, or a political elite, to meaningfully converse about a complex topic, they have to…

to those whom much is given, much is expected

I feel an obligation to try to do big things with my life, because I've had access to rare opportunities. If ten thousand randomly selected…