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Top of the cake: a neural net for Titanic predictions in under 1 hour

Let’s try something simple and quick… how about a neural network? – said no one ever. Neural networks are the arcane magic black box of Artificial…

Apr 14 •

Come edit my map: why projects should welcome external contributions

🗺️ Space Invaders in Berlin come to my email inbox; the simplest process for external contributions; leave the window for serendipitous collaborations…

Apr 7 •

March 2024

ChangeNOW: an LLM, a blockchain and many perlite bricks

🌱 Trip report from ChangeNOW 2024 at the Grand Palais Éphémère

Mar 31 •

🍀 The science and the comedy of luck

Mar 24 •

Gatsby in the haystack: LLM Inception

🍸 A language model doesn't want to read The Great Gatsby all at once; we end up going Inception

Mar 17 •

Tuned for safety: climbing Mt Fuji in winter

🗻 Off-season climb of Mt Fuji; A look at how language models are tuned for safety

Mar 10 •

Lost in tokenization: Tokyo in context windows

🇯🇵 Breakfast beans surprise; Context windows and why we want them big; Tokyo looking great in the evening sun

Mar 3 •

February 2024

Future, tense: the inner scam of a dopaminergic mind

💥 AITA for breaking up with dopamine after it smashed my phone at rue de Turbigo?

Feb 25 •

The simplest ML model: reading my own handwriting

✍️ Recognizing handwritten digits; Extracting wisdom from the MNIST data set; Machine Learning is a pretty fancy term for what we're going to do

Feb 18 •

Basic ideas are forever, everything else is tweaks

🚀 Catching up with Deep Learning; putting in the hours, life choices and self-sabotage

Feb 11 •

Seeing like a neural network: chihuahua or blueberry muffin

Blueberries and eyes, 300 million neurons, 3x3 masks are all you need

Feb 4 •

January 2024

Seeing like a machine: finding the edge of Space Invader

👀 What's happening inside a digital mind when it's looking at pictures?

Jan 28 •

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