𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 16Tonight's idle writing, in lieu of the opera I was going to watch but was too distracted to ever sit down & start:
Everyone hates Mark Zuckerberg so much they underestimate his future career prospects in politics & philanthropy: pastebin.com/23AAF81A
Me, I'd buy ZUCK futures.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 7My grandmother casually horrified us a few years ago by going through her dead siblings: 2 died on the farm of 'summer diarrhea' (bovine tuberculosis from unpasteurized milk) as infants, and then 3 died in their teens or 20s after moving to the city to work in textile factories.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 10Startup idea: "CO₂ Coin"—mineralization for carbon capture tokenized on a blockchain; actually decentralizable due to auditability of mineralization deposits. gwern.net/CO2-Coin
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 11Obscurely pleased that, a decade after my first attempt of several, I finally carelessly found that line of Julius Caesar's (loebclassics.com/view/marcus_tu…) that Borges quotes ("Personality and the Buddha").
How silly—all this time, I needed but to check Wikiquote! pic.twitter.com/NaCIsNE8T4
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 3In tech, female programmers oft underpaid by huge amounts like $50k/year. No one is 'discriminating' against them. They just aren't changing jobs, or asking for raises.
Annual reminder for programmers: kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/sal… Ask for more money.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 11Shooting is kinda meh for me, but have you tried riding? I did some horseback riding in highschool mostly to break out of my nerdy rut (but also because the club was 100% cute horse girls), and it was quite a rush the first time I could ride at a gallop!
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 29The biggest improvement in my life in the past week is that Firefox/pdf.js no longer strips whitespace from line-endings during PDF copy-pasting, forcing me to fix all my excerpts by hand. You laugh, but I do a 𝘭𝘰𝘵 of copy-paste & was seriously considering switching to Chrome.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 22Idea: NN text embedding as sparkline/gravatar to summarize link/page content. Small colorful graphics can be learned implicitly & understood instantly.
For perceptual hash, take text embed, plug into raw NN module, & do contrastive learning with CNN/ViT/MLP to make look similar.
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 1Surveying students about nootropics, stimulants, and recreational drugs is pretty common (because surveys are so easy to run, and 'when making an ax with an ax, the model is indeed close at hand'). There's a big literature on it. eg google.com/search?q=surve…scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&…
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 11I've mirrored the VQGAN models (Esser et al 2020 arxiv.org/abs/2012.09841) at
`rsync://78.46.86.149:873/biggan/{2020-12-esser-vqgan-f16-imagenet_f16_16384.tar 2020-12-esser-vqgan-f16-imagenet_f16_1024.tar 2020-12-esser-vqgan-f8-gumbel_f8_8192.tar} ./`
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 17Eh, the other version had more interesting options: slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/02/and…
I suppose you could make #4 the villain as they are breaking thermodynamics & destroying the universe; maybe #2 is the leader for coordinating the others (#3 would be the ex of another #, strategically).
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 16It ain't fancy like algotrading speculators or theory-stonk pumpers, but data farming is good honest work and a solid investment. Latest ROI:
- DNM Archives: 76 uses (65 papers / 11 other)
- Danbooru20xx: 82 uses (51 papers / 31 other)
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernJul 17For comedy and tragedy come to be out of the same letters:
"'Bazaar': my opinion, how to get spicy herbs for dinners; 'bizarre': how too spicy Herb's opinions get for my dinner."
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