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New comment by vedant in "Has LLM killed traditional NLP?"

vedant — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 17:59:08 +0000

The title of this article feels like "has electricity killed oil lamps"?

New comment by vedant in "Behind OpenAI's plan to make A.I. flow like electricity"

vedant — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 20:34:18 +0000

There is absolutely no way to achieve the impact of Henry Ford without actively trying extremely hard to be the next Henry Ford.

New comment by vedant in "OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues"

vedant — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:05:24 +0000

From the paper:

"All models still underfit WebText and held-out perplexity has as of yet improved given more training time."

New comment by vedant in "Ask HN: What are you thankful for?"

vedant — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 04:10:21 +0000

I'm thankful for all the extremely improbable things that had to happen for me to have the experience I'm having.

I am thankful

- To have been born to loving, educated parents

-To live in a time and place with economic and social liberty

- To have a loving and growing group of friends and family around the world who live interesting and inspiring lives

-To live in a time where so many of us can travel at the speed of sound and communicate at the speed of light

-To be able to ask any question, purchase any common object, or want to see any loved one face-to-face, and have my wish fulfilled by a vast global network of machines that do our bidding

-For the millions of seekers, of wise men and women, who created wonders from the energy of the sun and the materials of the Earth, and showed us the way through the darkness

-That after 1000 trillion creatures and eons of failed attempts, one particular hairless ape on one particular wet rock evolved a 3 pound mass of flesh into the most sophisticated computational apparatus in the universe

- That it feels like anything at all to be thinking meat.

New comment by vedant in "Is Democracy Dying?"

vedant — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:59:20 +0000

Will people never take Betteridge's law of headlines seriously?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by vedant in "Apple Buys Shazam to Boost Apple Music"

vedant — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:24:09 +0000

This is a heap of nonsense. Not only does this summarily dismiss the enormous challenges in digital signal processing required for removing arbitrary background audio, it exposes some confusion associated with the ideas of correlated random variables, inner products, and affine transformations.

New comment by vedant in "Apple Buys Shazam to Boost Apple Music"

vedant — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:15:16 +0000

This has the smell of a comment written by someone with limited real-world experience. Simply writing down the list of problems you would have to solve to build Shazam would take an entire afternoon.

Yes, deep neural networks have proven remarkably useful for machine perception, but you would still need to collect a colossal amount of audio data, fingerprint all of it, build a low-latency processing infrastructure for making inferences, and convince a hundred million people to install your software to feed you copious real-world training data that you can use to improve model performance.

New comment by vedant in "Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses"

vedant — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:55:56 +0000

Alternatively, it helps illustrate the complexity of the problems solved by natural selection over long periods of iteration.

New comment by vedant in "A computational linguistic farce in three acts"

vedant — Sun, 11 Jun 2017 19:16:25 +0000

One reason is that the amount of training data is many many orders of magnitude smaller.

FWIW it seems the structure you're talking about exploiting is at a morphological and syntactic level, which modern language models tend to effectively handle. Semantics are a much harder problem.

New comment by vedant in "Every neuron potentially has a different genome than those it's connected to"

vedant — Fri, 12 May 2017 04:48:10 +0000

Theravada Buddhism.

New comment by vedant in "Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say"

vedant — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 01:39:23 +0000

High modularity refers to when a system's components can be cleanly separated and recombined.

If I were to guess, I'd say that amelius is saying that it becomes increasingly common as companies grow for them to expand into functions that were originally outside their core function. Framed this way, "selling stuff online" may have once set an effective upper bound on what Amazon does, but now they appear to be expanding into "moving stuff from place to place."

This concept is related to vertical integration.

What technology should you learn today?

vedant — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:59:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kemvi.com/blog/what-technology-should-you-learn-today/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10426728

Points: 2

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Predicting market crashes like Tuesday's

vedant — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:43:14 +0000

Article URL: https://kemvi.com/blog/predicting-market-crashes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10131226

Points: 5

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Predicting financial crashes

vedant — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:24:12 +0000

Article URL: https://kemvi.com/blog/predicting-financial-crashes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10130354

Points: 3

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New comment by vedant in "The Death of the Von Neumann Architecture"

vedant — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:15:11 +0000

You may have meant s/tenant/tenet. I'm only pointing it out because the typo is an extant word that may be interpreted to mean something proximate (but not identical) to what I think you actually meant.

New comment by vedant in "[dead]"

vedant — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:29:02 +0000

The point of this post is to call attention to the fact that while Objective C is actually a 30-year-old language that is the foundation of the entire Apple development ecosystem, some journalist misunderstood Objective C to be something that Microsoft had produced, and his or her mistake propagated wildly across the internet.

New comment by vedant in "PepsiCo to Drop Aspartame from Diet Pepsi"

vedant — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 03:27:42 +0000

The main breakdown products of aspartame are aspartic acid and phenylalanine. You may have been born with a genetic mutation that makes it possible for you to taste phenylalanine, which tastes bad.

New comment by vedant in "Small Introduction to Markov Chains"

vedant — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:03:59 +0000

Small Introduction to Markov Chains, after all

New comment by vedant in "A Tiny Minority of Elite Grad Schools Produce Most Tenured Academics"

vedant — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 04:43:22 +0000

The main correlate is the impact of faculty output. This also is not necessarily correlated with the quality of the education students receive. But then, department rankings shouldn't necessarily reflect the quality of the education either.

New comment by vedant in "A Tiny Minority of Elite Grad Schools Produce Most Tenured Academics"

vedant — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:37:55 +0000

If what surprised you was Figure 1 in the paper [1], note that it depicts only CS departments. The CS department at UW is widely considered among the best in the United States. Not that this is definitive, but it's ranked 6 in the US News and World report [2].

[1] http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/1/e1400005 [2] http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...