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Will Jack

@willwjack

happy sisyphus, ceo @ @AdittoCo

Joined January 2012
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Fascinating that Andrew Carnegie wrote this early retirement memo to himself aged 33 ("I will resign business at thirty-five") and then proceeded to ignore it and spend the next three decades brutally dominating the steel industry instead

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3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2308.04… Radiance Field methods have recently revolutionized novel-view synthesis of scenes captured with multiple photos or videos. However, achieving high visual quality still requires…


This needs more attention. Many EA groups reward poor epistemics, undermining one of the best things about the movement as a whole.

Have been worried about this kind of thing for a while after seeing all the undergrad AI safety groups pop up. There's a huge degree of expert disagreement re: both moral philosophy & AI, and EA groups typically expose undergrads to neither. forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/euzDpFvb…

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pretty crazy: - container ships burn fuels that emit a lot of sulfur - the sulfur seeds clouds, increasing the reflectivity of earth, cooling it - new climate rules in 2020 limit sulfur emissions by cargo ships - a lack of ship-clouds may explain anomalous heating this year

Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike. Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped:

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Introducing @tryKino for Desktop! Automatically index your footage and search your library with natural language. No cloud required. Check out the beta if you wanna try it yourself!


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GPT4 launched yesterday. Today, HF0 launches: HF0.com (1/n)


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My unwavering opinion on current (auto-regressive) LLMs 1. They are useful as writing aids. 2. They are "reactive" & don't plan nor reason. 3. They make stuff up or retrieve stuff approximately. 4. That can be mitigated but not fixed by human feedback. 5. Better systems will come


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Inspired by @NaderLikeLadder's post on using #ChatGPT to write bash scripts for him, I made `do`. Your days of remembering obscure terminal incantations are over! My favorite use so far has been `do kill the orphaned process that is locking up my GPU`. musings.yasyf.com/never-write-a-…


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🎥 After 2 years of work, MIT: REGRESSIONS is now available to watch online. It's a feature-length documentary that spans 80 years of MIT's/America's history via AI-enhanced archival footage. Check it out for yourself, head to @mitregressions, read more for some fun details


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So much of machine learning feels like the early days of steam engines, with lots of inventors coming up with random clever ideas that move efficiency up from 0.5% to 1.5%. At some point we will get the equivalent of the laws of thermodynamics and start making gas turbines.

By carefully transforming neural networks they can be trained much more easily. When combined with K-FAC, this method allows vanilla convnets (w/o shortcut connections or normalization layers) to be trained as fast as standard ResNets of the same depth! dpmd.ai/DKS-Paper 1/

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Made a movie with a friend. Pull thru if you’re in Boston!

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.@willwjack happy sisyphus

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Calling all Boston-based bio x tech folks: Join me this Thursday for the first of many Jovial Pub Meetups in 2022 (#JPM22)! DM for details. (h/t to @MichaelRetchin and @Jack_O_Meara for starting the acronym trend. gotta IPO before JPM!)


AMR is as inevitable as climate change and the death tool is climbing fast. Companies commercializing research in this space and legislation like the PASTEUR act being introduced to incentivize the development of solutions gives some cause for optimism.

A global survey shows that in 2019, antimicrobial resistance killed more people than HIV/AIDS or malaria. One expert says the findings should be a “wake-up call” go.nature.com/336ew3Y

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