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ofouon Diving into deep learning: Understanding Deep Learning book review [pdf]

The 'delves' style, and word usage confirmed me that the review was written using ChatGPT.

ofouon HybridNeRF: Efficient Neural Rendering

I'd spent hours navigating Street Views with this

What do you mean? There's a bunch of proof-of-concepts such as Hydra, peer-nnet, Learnae, and so on.

There is a way to achieve load balancing, safety, and distribution effectively. The models used by Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify have proven to be generally successful. Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology is the future; even in China, people are streaming videos using this technology, and it works seamlessly. I envision a future where everyone joins the AI revolution with an iPhone, with both training and inference distributed in a P2P manner. I wonder why no one has done this yet.

ofouon Safe Superintelligence Inc.

At this point, all the computing power is concentrated among various companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla, etc.

It seems to me it would be much safer and more intelligent to create a massive model and distribute the benefits among everyone. Why not use a P2P approach?

ofouon Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

Quite interesting this was released right after multiple rants from Elon sparked debates on X.

"If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation."

Replying to Tim Cook: "Don’t want it. Either stop this creepy spyware or all Apple devices will be banned from the premises of my companies."

"It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy!

Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river."

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800269249912381773 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800266437677768765 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1800265431078551973

ofouon σ-GPTs: A new approach to autoregressive models

I use Emergent Mind[1] to keep track of new research published on ArXiv. You can bookmark articles once logged in. It's very useful for keeping track of articles, reading quick summaries, and following conversations on various social media.

[1]: https://www.emergentmind.com/papers/2404.09562

ofouon Diffusion on syntax trees for program synthesis

Here's a GPTo summary of the paper

https://www.emergentmind.com/papers/2405.20519

ofouon Tinygrad 0.9.0

To stay Tiny

ofouon Show HN: Community-written abstracts for research papers

“The Net’s interactivity gives us powerful new tools for finding information, expressing ourselves, and conversing with others. It also turns us into lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment.”

― Nicholas G. Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

ofouon Show HN: Community-written abstracts for research papers

The problem with this kind of tool is the shallowness of knowledge distillation. Content on the internet should enlighten us, not feed us with 140-character TL;DR abstracts, either from humans or AI-generated. This is a tool for exacerbating FOMO, not an actual tool for learning. What I want to see is a tool that teaches me something like GeoHot's 8-hour streams or Karpathy's tinygrad video.

ofouon Francisco Varela

A real contender to the connectionist approach.

I always suspect Varela gave us some true keys to unlock the mysteries unsolved about AGI.

ofouon The scarcity of the long term

You just secure the money, and the mission will prevail.

ofouon Pandoc

I use it for writing my thesis, obviously it should be done in LATEX but I ended up using markdown + a yaml config file for some templates

ofouon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)

  Location: Puerto Varas, Chile
  Remote: YES, please
  Willing to relocate: Yes, but with my fiancé
  Technologies: Full-stack Python + Machine Learning/LLMs. Actually, I completed my Engineer's degree thesis on optimizing math reasoning for the Chilean University entrance exam. And, I'm pretty interested on developing tools, methods or research on this topic.
  Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/ofou/
  Email: ofjolivares@gmail.com

ofouon TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model

how does it compare it to phi-1?

ofouon Fastest autograd in the West

I think tinygrad is faster.

https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad

ofouon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2024)

  Location: Chile
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Python fullstack/ML: from C to Pytorch
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofou/
  Email: ofjolivares@gmail.com

ofouon ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

I wonder how better is this compared to Pandoc's

ofouon Phi-2: The surprising power of small language models

What is the context window?

ofouon Simplifying Transformer Blocks

Are anyone aware of similar simplifications?

ofouon Keras 3.0

How does it compare to Mojo?

ofouon AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms

I mean 3D aware parameters.

ofouon AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms

My rationale comes back to the fact that biomolecule's function is dictated by its structure, so, it seems critical to have spatiality of some sort to achieve qualities of living systems.

ofouon AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms

I had a deep intuition that not just data, computation and algorithms, plus time, but spatiality is also critical to achieve a AGI-level intelligence.

ofouon OpenAI offers $10M pay packages to poach Google researchers

archive.ph?

ofouon Google DeepMind Chief Calls Meta's AI Criticisms 'Preposterous'

https://archive.ph/AhpVi

ofouon Ask HN: Which non-fiction books had the biggest impact on you?

The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Charles Eisenstein

ofouon A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm

Plus Codes are way better because they are open source. S2 is kind of analogous (also from Google), but 64-bit integers. I wonder if someone will ever come up with an Emoji encoding for GPS, regional flags might facilitate everything. It's just a random idea.

ofouon How to Design Programs (2023)

8 hours free assumming you work 1/3 and sleep the other.