Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

Today we are launching a server dedicated to Tokenization research! Come join us!

discord.gg/CDJhnSvU

#nlproc #machinelearning #tokenization

my sense is that rust never became an AI/ML language like i’d hoped, and that the reasons were more political than technical

@jk in a similar vein to the discussions about aphantasia and such, perhaps, “muscle memory” is a thing which varies a lot in people in terms of the prevalence of it being strong or not and thus useful or not for learning. 🤔

We have mastodon at #epfl now! If you have an @epfl.ch mail address (doesn't work for the alumni (yet), but make some noise, and you might be added :), you can join here:

https://social.epfl.ch

i'm jealous of people who are able to remember things that don't make sense. i don't think i can tell the difference between "learning something" and "making sense of something". like today i'm trying to proactively learn some keyboard shortcuts for some software i'm trying out, and there's no rhyme or reason to any of them. no sense can be made, no pattern matching is possible, not even "shift does the opposite" or "the first letter of the thing you want to do"

For those of you who have a high-volume input channel and, recently, software offering to summarize it with AI… Do you summarize much/at all?

[Maybe boost for reach, really interested in the result here.]

#genai

Many years ago, I met with Grant Sanderson (best known for his Youtube channel 3Blue1Brown) to discuss a possible topic suitable for his channel. I proposed the #CosmicDistanceLadder, and presented a version of my public #astronomy lecture on this subject for him, but for various technical reasons (and the fact that I was basically just reciting my slides), the footage was not suitable for a presentation. But a few months ago, we met up again, and this time we did manage to record enough content that he could apply his signature editing, graphics illustration, and narration to bring the story of the cosmic distance ladder to life, well beyond what I was able to do with my much cruder graphical skills. Part one of the final video can now be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdOXS_9_P4U , and a "deleted scene" is available at https://x.com/3blue1brown/status/1888222450841722954 .

I am also working on a book project on the same topic with Tanya Klowden, who also helped Grant with the historical background for the ladder; Grant mentions some of his discussisions with Tanya in a "secret vlog" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq83hprtpGE . (See also our instagram https://www.instagram.com/cosmic_distance_ladder/ for this project.)

me stranded on a desert island scraping big letters out of the sand:

OVER TIME SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTIVITY BECOMES THE ONLY PATH AVAILABLE TO SHARED INNOVATION

OUR CHOICE IS NOT WHETHER TO DO THIS IT IS HOW QUICKLY WE ADAPT TO THIS BEFORE WE ARE FORCED TO

Many people in tech practice brutal honesty.

The problem with “brutal honesty” is that people will focus on the brutal part of your feedback not the honesty. So regardless of how valid your comments, you end up antagonizing them.

I recommend to people to practice being “direct yet kind” instead. Start from a place of curiosity and wanting to help before sharing criticism. It lands better when people see you as empathetic and genuinely trying to help.

Recording a podcast from bed like a professional. Hint: femininity, rage, community and regeneration...stay tuned. #podcast #femininity #womanhood #queer #trans #brown #muslim #ecology

Two particularly strange rocks encountered on the Redwash hike a few weeks ago.

#hiking #NewMexico

Neurosymbolic Methods for Trustworthy and Interpretable AI – special track— https://medium.com/@vaishakbelle/neurosymbolic-methods-for-trustworthy-and-interpretable-ai-special-track-45d6114ab69c?source=rss-fd5179ee73b5------2