Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

https://t.co/zfA2V8cQPo Data scientist/software engineer/roboticist teaching machines to learn responsibly for the benefit of humankind. DiscoverMatt.com San Francisco Bay Area, CA Joined February 2014

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

8 months ago

New research on grokking suggests that Softmax Collapse (SC) from numerical instability & Naive Loss Minimization (NLM) are key hurdles to generalization. Proposed StableMax & ⊥Grad show promise in addressing these. openreview.net/forum?id=TvfkS… github.com/LucasPrietoAl/…

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

a year ago

"Action precedes motivation". - @3blue1brown You don't have to be a 2024 graduate to appreciate this. If you reframe the advice as being directed at startups finding their way it might be just as relevant. youtube.com/watch?v=W3I3kA…

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

a year ago

"LLMs are not genies that grant wishes. They are idiot savants that you can make on your computer." bit.ly/LocalLLaMA-com…

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Sebastian Raschka @rasbt

2 years ago

Losing track of all the recent large language model (LLM) developments? Here's is another comprehensive LLM model zoo, available as table and dependency graph: crfm.stanford.edu/ecosystem-grap…

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

3 years ago

Visualizing S&P 500 Performance in 2022, by Sector ift.tt/21Pjo6t

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

3 years ago

"One of the messages here is that all of these components: compliance, closed loop operation and accurate enough perception are needed to make such an end-to-end manipulation system work" youtu.be/HL7G08rzHsI

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

3 years ago

No matter how good an artist you are, who hasn't dreamed of doing this?

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3 years ago

No matter how good an artist you are, who hasn't dreamed of doing this?

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

3 years ago

Full of insights for people searching for jobs -- but also companies looking to hire.

Nathan Lambert @natolambert

3 years ago

Full of insights for people searching for jobs -- but also companies looking to hire.

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Tim Pearce @Tea_Pearce

4 years ago

Wondered how that table tennis playing robot actually works? As a table tennis player as well as AI researcher, I had to understand more! I made a short video explaining the system, w/ focus on the reinforcement learning aspect: youtu.be/ktkbxWcYiF8

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Matt Shaffer @_w_x_b_

4 years ago

Counterintuitively, this research suggests the educated may need to be even more careful when interpreting data. "Critically, we showed that this association was causal: visualizing the same data in a more beautiful way caused people to trust it more" psyarxiv.com/dnr9s