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Mehmet Serkan Apaydın

Assistant professor, Computer Science, Acıbadem University Istanbul

deep learning, natural language processing, bioinformatics, computer vision applications in health

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I also like "the guardian", it is also less US centered, and has some great coverage of movies and technology ethics). The only catch is that the android subscription is not valid on the computer or any other device than android.

I think Salesforce has such a model. It is called CTRL. Have never tried using it though. It accepts metadata to generate text conditionally on that metadata such as domain of text.

Extremely well written article for someone who would like to dig deeper into forecasting, actually giving someone ne valuable links about the prophet tool that i used and recommended. I agree with the author that it is strange that the job posting only mentions the prophet tool, which is rather like a very basic and one particular library that i usually recommend to undergrads for their senior project.

Alias-Free GAN 5 years ago

I agree, most top conferences nowadays publish reviews openly, and address this issue I think. Also it is easier said than done, this is so endemic in so many different academic settings, not just in the US, but also in Europe.

Alias-Free GAN 5 years ago

I think that not being able to reproduce the results claimed in a paper is not specific to ML research. While working as a post-doc at a top university research lab, i spent years trying to understand how it can be that some software that was supposed to corresponds to the well cited paper did not even come close to reproducing the results of the said paper, and that the primary author went on to become a prof at a top university in the US. In short, scientific fraud is also quite common, in most academic papers.

I taught an OS class (for the first time) in my career with this book (I taught many other classes before). It was a breeze, compared to the books used by faculty who taught earlier versions of the class. Students much enjoyed this book as well. The fact that it is freely available was a great plus.

I am using a pomodoro app (productivity challenge timer) and as a result track my time. The smartphone also tracks walking and running and I have recently started tracking sleep as well. It does 80% of the tracking automatically I guess. I also use habitica as a complementary tracking tool.

I guess my point is that the parent comments referred to Maradona rather than to Diego. The documentary made me realize that it is actually not him but all those Napoli fans that grasped him that caused his demise. If he were able to leave Napoli for a calmer retirement perhaps he would not become what he eventually became. It was the greed of Ferraino (Napoli FC President) which kept him in Napoli and caused him to become infamous, according to the documentary.

I don't agree with you. I recommend you watch Maradona documentary by Kapadia to better understand his career.

I guess there are things that are inevitable, the trick is not to try to completely eliminate them as that is impossible. However the optional ones could be eliminated if one has some practice of doing the trade-off analysis and perhaps deliberate poverty practice, and with some luck could become wealthy enough to be able to delegate even the most difficult to eliminate tasks to one's assistant.

Another attempt to gpt-3 filtering the intro section of the paper: This book is about how we can guess what will happen in the future. The first chapter is about how we can guess the next number in a sequence. The second chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a sentence. The third chapter is about how we can guess the next word in a book. The fourth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written. The fifth chapter is about how we can guess the next word in all the books ever written

This is also gpt-3 output based on the abstract as if explaining to an eight grader: The theory of everything (TOE) is a mathematical formula that can predict everything that will happen in the future. It is a theory of everything, so it can predict what will happen to the universe, and to us. We assume that the TOE is simple enough for us to understand, but we don't know for sure.

Here is what comes out: "The history of our universe is a sequence of random events. Each event is the result of a very small probability, and the events are independent of each other. The probability that any particular event will happen is very small. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen twice in a row is even smaller. So the probability that any particular event will happen three times in a row is even smaller. And so on."

Many reward systems around the world reward the number of papers and not the number of readers of a paper. Many biographies simply include the number of papers by such and such author. This further contributes to the crappy situation.

essentially a classification problem, with extra steps.

I think it is a question answering problem, with the extra of being able to say "I don't know", rather than a classification problem. The current transformers models for question answering such as huggingface pipeline implementations do not handle the "I don't know" case and this is an attempt to see whether gpt-3 can be trained to have this extra functionality easily.

results are not universally consistent.

I think the relative probabilities are what matters and those may be more consistent than the absolute probabilities.

I am just hoping that those currently uncovered cases will be "milder or more nuanced" cases that will be less damaging to the psyche of human moderators and will, once labeled correctly, improve the coverage rate of automated moderators.

Certainly there is more complexity than spam filters, and cultural differences, subtle nuances which are hard to train a system to auto-classify; things that need to be generalized to new cases that arises- that may be wrongly classified in the beginning, etc. Nevertheless such systems can be built from simple cases to more difficult ones step by step and gradually reduce the demand on humans to perform these tasks. Based on some other comments on this thread, I realize FB is already using these methods mostly in languages with plenty of data, and someone also in this thread has made an interesting comment about using machine translation to apply these systems to other languages. I think this will be less of a problem in the near future. (edited)