ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 15Remarkable: a π΄πͺπ―π¨ππ¦ minivan contains more concentrated speed than a medieval peasant would see in their entire lifetime!
(AFAICT, nonfatal human velocity for medievals tops out at ~75mph: that's the final velocity of Laso Schaller's 2015 cliff dive record from 192ft.)
ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernAug 31Speaking of problems, ran out of space while working on Danbooru2021, and I'd also like to host @arfafax & @Kettukaa's scrapes of e621 & Derpibooru for anime DALL-E purposes...
So, just pulled the trigger on a 4Γ6TB=24TB (for 53EUR) dedicated server. That should do for a while!
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 13(7 years later, I realize that when yorick mentioned in IRC that `a:visited` no longer worked on the new underlined links, I probably should have made a note of that somewhere to fix. Whups. Well, it works now.) pic.twitter.com/5WUzaML2XJ
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 10Housekeeping notice: 78.46.86.149 β 176.9.41.242
The server IP 78.46.86.149 is moving to 176.9.41.242. All rsync paths should be the same. Please update any scripts/notebooks/etc and let me know if the new rsync mirror isn't working. (I'll be taking old IP down in a month.)
ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 11Using something as public, copyable, inferrable, and synthesizable as DNA as a private key is a terrible idea. And why would truncation selection decrease variance rather than decrease trait mean?
(Also, lots of typos, like 'doomed for' instead of 'doomed to'.)
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 15(Thoroughbred horses top out at 44mph; humans 26mph (briefly); sailing ships like clippers at 20mph; earliest skiing speed records from ~1930 are ~87mph (!) but I think I can safely assume medieval skis & wild slopes were at least 12mph slower; gliders, planes, unavailable.)
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 5@jackclarkSF One way to deal with the synthetic data pollution issue would be for default sampling code / APIs to insert watermark at the beginning (upper-left of images, prefix of text). Then later models learn DT-style the conditioning as simply a 'genre' or 'style'.
ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 1That all cats love to sit in cardboard boxes & even fall for square optical illusions suggests an innate evolved preference, implying that in their historical rangeβthough they would not fossilizeβthere are cryptid wild species of cardboard boxes we domesticated as Amazon boxes.
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 5For images, NNs are so good at high-frequency 'non-robust' noise that the watermark could be quasi-steganographic so humans aren't bothered by it. It'll still function as useful conditioning for later models to avoid taking cruder models' quirks as representing reality.
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 18"Computing is a pop culture." as Alan Kay puts it. Vertical is superior for most serious work, but landscape is better for watching video and passive consumption, and became default, so every generation has to rediscover that those mounting brackets & non-defaults are worth it...
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 4Odd. Schmidhuber assured us just the other day that that KAUST is one of the best places in the world to do exciting freethinking cutting-edge academic research (and that it's definitely not just about the money): twitter.com/SchmidhuberAI/β¦
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 3Every once in a while I stare into space thinking how tens of millions of dollars of TPU quota is wasted every year because TRC isn't allowed to give GCP credits to researchers/hobbyists, so they can't afford full pod use.
The sheer self-sabotage offends me on an esthetic level.
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 11Just enabled Danbooru2021 scraping on the new server, and moved over gwern.net too... (Messing with DNS is always frightening but the propitiatory sacrifices appear to've worked.)
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ππ΄π’π―π«@gwernSep 13The much more interesting part is the turn towards artificial wombs.
I didn't have "artificial wombs revolutionize the First World's demographics as a byproduct of some nerds wanting cool Ice Age critters" in my 21st century roadmaps, but I'll laugh my arse off if that happens.
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