PhD student at Northeastern University. Machine Learning and Computer Vision. he/him
Boston, MA
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mathematicians love to be like "Recall:" and then tell you the thing for the first time.
Playing around with stable diffusion today. Interestingly, it made comic-book speech bubbles without any comic-related information in my text prompt. Now if only they contained real text...
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This sentence is "this sentence is" twice, first without quotes then with quotes, followed by (twice, first without quotes, then with quotes) "twice, first without quotes then with quotes, followed by (twice, first without quotes, then with quotes)"
It seems like every other day, a professor shows their privilege by referring to calc+ level math as “high school math.”
Last week I had a professor tell me that Lagrange multipliers are taught in high school. Most people at my high school didn’t learn any calculus at all.
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Thread: A slow weekend turned interesting when a student at Columbia, in response to a tweet suggesting the SAT and ACT were "good, actually" posted this chart.
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In case it's helpful: Resources on learning causality "from scratch", assuming prior math background. (we used this for a reading-group last year; I highly recommend):
First, start with this short lecture for the philosophical motivations: bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/ca…
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“So there’s hope?”
“I hope so, yes.”
Just heard a great talk by @emilymbender about her recent work: “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” If you haven’t read it yet, please check it out.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34421…
