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Second, TA teaches us to never overlook the simplest solutions. There are a lot of complicated methods to automatically find augmentation policies, but the simplest method was so-far overlooked , even though it performs comparably or better
Devansh • TrivialAugment: The next evolution in Data Augmentation [Breakdowns]
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It’s worth reading the entire HBR post. I cannot help but infer that we are lonely and are growing more lonely as we spend so much time glued to our devices.
Byron is my AI writing partner — powered by ChatGPT, shaped by a 7-page writing profile we built together. He doesn’t write for me, but with me. When I lose a thread or stall on phrasing, Byron offers possibilities — paths I might not have seen. Between my neural implants and Byron’s digital guidance, I now collaborate with two adaptive systems:... See more
For my 80th birthday I bought myself a new brain
I lost my mom to Parkinson’s this year, so this hit a nerve. My mom never would have done this sort of thing, but as the saying goes, this is the worst it will ever be. I hope I live disease-free long enough to see some significant treatment advancements for neurodegenerative diseases.
“We realized rasterization was reaching its limits,” he said, referring to the traditional, widely used method of rendering a 3D scene. “2018 was a ‘bet the company’ moment. It required that we reinvent the hardware, the software, the algorithms. And while we were reinventing CG with AI, we were reinventing the GPU for AI.”
Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it | TechCrunch
From the post, “Productivity, AI and pushback”.
The writing is getting better. The ideas are getting worse. There’s a new genre of essay that other academics reading this will instantly recognize, a clumsy collaboration between students and Silicon Valley. I call it glittering sludge .
Brian Klaas • The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
Many of the jobs we do today would have looked like trifling wastes of time to people a few hundred years ago, but nobody is looking back at the past, wishing they were a lamplighter