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Qualified to give opinions on ML (ignore my hands while I say this ๐Ÿซฃ)

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Courtney Paquette | Scaling Stochastic Momentum from Theory to LLMs
Courtney Paquette | Scaling Stochastic Momentum from Theory to LLMs YouTube video by Harvard CMSA

Timestamped because the first half is completely review. She breaks the loss trajectory into different components, which isn't something I'd considered. Conclusion that momentum should decay at the rate that keeps the Volterra kernal less than 1. Good theory talk.
youtu.be/5TT0CJ3Tz78?...

25.02.2026 23:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The quote at the beginning of Sean Carrol's newest Mindscape AMA made me cry; it was really good to hear โ™ฅ๏ธ

04.02.2026 03:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
How We Built Stockfish 18
How We Built Stockfish 18 YouTube video by Daniel Monroe

Not to make it sound like I made anything near this, these notes on state vector changes are all the same lessons as I discovered when making a human-level Splendor AI. Glad to see this guy continue to post!
youtu.be/lBpQvu20nj0?...

04.02.2026 03:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"I think I'm gonna die in this house" meme but it's writing curly braces and Greek letters. I do not have the effort to make this but it would destroy #mathtok.

11.01.2026 19:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Making 2026 the year I finally start spelling field and other ie words correctly. Somehow I've grown to spell literally all of them backwards

31.12.2025 23:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

> My problem is everyone else is too lazy to do it
Doesn't seem a strong point to make in here given that we're all summarizing code with AI just fine.

I'm not sure your exact take on why AI sucks - but doesn't it being "just a parrot" actually suggest it might be good at summarization?

17.12.2025 01:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Academia but every time you publish non-preregistered results you have to watch Stranger Things season 5 again

14.12.2025 09:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If it's only 53 and it's already the 8th Sophie Germain prime then you have too many Sophie Germain primes.

19.11.2025 20:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Jesus Christ ๐Ÿคฃ

02.11.2025 01:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excited for both continual learning and ???

31.10.2025 15:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Dwarkesh: What's your opinion on negentropy?
Karpathy: so I was actually running some experiments maybe three years ago,

30.10.2025 22:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It cannot be shamed.
It cannot be legally threatened.
It cannot be socially pressured.
It cannot be baited into fear or defiance.
It will not acknowledge liability.
And it will never stop doing what it was built to do, ever, until you are gone.

22.10.2025 22:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When's the tech coming to upregulate *my* CDKN1B gene

23.10.2025 01:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The silhouette in the doorway โ€ผ๏ธ

22.10.2025 18:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Did you skip posting this graph on purpose ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

22.10.2025 16:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"I don't want to overindex on this butโ€”" Yeah buddy you overindexed. Now you look like you don't have a wide enough pool of prior information on this subject and we're laughing at you.

22.10.2025 15:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not the torus lol

22.10.2025 02:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, and of course happy to align with Fei Fei.

22.10.2025 01:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll reconsider it in a couple months after I can be sure it's not an impulse buy.

22.10.2025 00:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

you can tell that's a good game to cite because its humanoid form in the thumbnail is literally exploding with intelligence

21.10.2025 23:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@timkell.gg maybe ๐Ÿ˜…

21.10.2025 23:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Says the heartless germ, psh

21.10.2025 20:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You vs the candidate with 8+ YOE in ML willing to take $130-170k she told you not to worry about

20.10.2025 21:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Came here to say this

19.10.2025 22:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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When TensorBoard first loads up, it selects every run, which makes some pretty artful graphs.

19.10.2025 21:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Grace doesn't know Scholar's Bankruptcy, point and laugh

19.10.2025 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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19.10.2025 06:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I will not make a million dollars tomorrow
(me if ratioing means you're right)

17.10.2025 19:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In terms of surprisal, most numbers he could say are equally likely to get quote-tweeted, just from different audiences. The prediction market for AGI sucks because of this - any claim can make it into news which makes *your* news an incredibly autocorrelated source.

js be careful out there

17.10.2025 19:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Invertible's reply โ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธโ˜ ๏ธ

17.10.2025 16:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0