I’m making an effort to mindfully consume content and play around with ideas rather than mindlessly consume. This is a place to record my summaries and reflections on the books, lectures, movies, papers, blog posts, and general content that I am consuming. I make no promises that these will be useful to anyone.
I read a paper using LLMs to generate distinct lasso penalties for each covariate.
Are there spaces for DSL anymore? With AI you can do the grunt work and also if you just wrote your own it’s probably not in the training data. I’ll take the example of my intern project at Google: Meterstick. Way back in 2016 we had the problem of having write a lot of analysis code in pandas which sucked. In particular adding slicing, comparisons, and confidence intervals to analyses were terrible. ...
I listened to Derek Thompson’s podcast with Atlantic editor Yoni Appelbaum on his upcoming book Stuck: How the Priviledged and Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
I watched a Long Now talk on Neural Media