tatzelbrumm @tatzelbrumm@qoto.org
Joined Jun 2019
Drawing the connection
1942—1995—2024
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#GeniusLoci
Geoff Hinton Facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIVl5eBPh8
brought to you by Yann LeCun
https://yann.lecun.com/ex/fun/index.html#geh
In Jan 2012, I made a post on Google+ reproducing a dialog that occured between Geoff Hinton and Radford Neal, while Radford was giving a talk at a CIfAR workshop in 2004:
- Radford Neal: I don't necessarily think that the Bayesian method is the best thing to do in all cases...
- Geoff Hinton: Sorry Radford, my prior probability for you saying this is zero, so I couldn't hear what you said.
Vincent Vanhoucke sensed that this could be the start of a Geoff Hinton Facts meme. So, here we go:
Geoff Hinton doesn't need to make hidden units. They hide by themselves when he approaches.
Geoff Hinton doesn't disagree with you, he contrastively diverges (from Vincent Vanhoucke)
Deep Belief Nets actually believe deeply in Geoff Hinton.
Geoff Hinton discovered how the brain really works. Once a year for the last 25 years.
Markov random fields think Geoff Hinton is intractable.
If you defy Geoff Hinton, he will maximize your entropy in no time. Your free energy will be gone even before you reach equilibrium.
Geoff Hinton can make you regret without bounds.
Geoff Hinton can make your weight decay (your weight, but unfortunately not mine).
Geoff Hinton doesn't need support vectors. He can support high-dimensional hyperplanes with his pinky finger.
A little-known fact about Geoff Hinton: he frequents Bayesians with prior convictions (with thanks to David Schwab).
All kernels that ever dared approaching Geoff Hinton woke up convolved.
Most farmhouses are surrounded by nice fields. Geoff Hinton's farmhouse lies in a hyper-plain, surrounded by a mean field, and has kernels in la grange.
The only kernel Geoff Hinton has ever used is a kernel of truth.
After an encounter with Geoff Hinton, support vectors become unhinged and suffer optimal hyper-pain (with thanks to Andrew Jamieson).
Geoff Hinton's generalizations are boundless.
Geoff Hinton goes directly to third Bayes.
Never interrupt one of Geoff Hinton's talks: you will suffer his wrath if you maximize the bargin'.
That Sinking Feeling in Bebenhausen
https://www.flickr.com/photos/89067995@N00/54176686601/in/album-72157718960098825
Клептократы всех стран, соединяйтесь!
Making the connection
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Not My Department,
Says Terry Sejnowski?
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as befits today's occasion.
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It's talk like a pirate day! Here I go:
"I just want to access the media I already own in a portable format that I can watch or listen to in high quality on all my devices without DRM or adverts."
Did I do it right?
Everything you always wanted to ask about entropy but didn't know whom
by John Baez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232
[h/t Sabine Hossenfelder]
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The small things manifesto.
I haven't shared this in a while, and it is still good. Frankly, it's due for an update.
https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/ if you've ever wondered what the heck I'm doing, or why I'm doing it, or how you can get involved, this is as good place as any to start.
It is a statement of intention, an explanation, and a call to action.
Small is good. Community is good. Respecting your neighbors is good.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
If—
By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
What the *&^%$#@ was Lex Fridman thinking when he added a long AMA section and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" to his interview with Donald Trump?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCbfTN-caFI&t=3725s
Joined Jun 2019
