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undergrad @ princeton doing computer vision stuff https://david-yan1.github.io

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undergrad RL at princeton - prereqs are introML, probability, linalg.
ben-eysenbach.github.io/intro-rl

29.12.2025 02:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Don't think Safari handles PDF figures well - usually is fixed by switching to .png ime.

01.12.2025 16:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anything by qntm! He has several full-length novels and some free short stories to read on website:

qntm.org/vhitaos

19.10.2025 23:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another good example from mono depth: DepthAnythingV2 uses a teacher supervised only on synthetic data (600k) and students are distilled from its predictions on web images (62M).
Real-world GT is noisy, so fitting to limited, but perfect synthetic data is better for teacher accuracy.

16.07.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Threw it at o3 and after thinking for 12 min (!!) it gave β€œO Canada” and A major. You can take a look at the full chain of thought here (chatgpt.com/share/6871b3...). Some highlights:

12.07.2025 01:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe I'm not familiar enough with tokenizers, but is this different than just using a very small bottleneck dimensionality in SiamMAE? There seems to be something special about using precisely one token (specifically the [CLS] token?), but it's not immediately obvious why.

10.07.2025 18:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0