Part 1 of this series discussed the difficulties faced by gradient-based approaches to learning: > Learning using gradient-based methods is a lot like trying to find > the top of...
http://pchiusano.github.io/2020-10-12/learning-without-a-gradient2.html
I’m reading Superintelligence , a surprisingly dull book given its topic is, well, the possibility of a rampant superintelligent AI destroying civilization and what we might do to prevent that ...
http://pchiusano.github.io/2019-12-16/simulation-hypothesis.html
I received an email recently from a guy, let’s call him Robert Smith
(name changed to protect the innocent), whose email display name was
"Smith, Robert"
http://pchiusano.github.io/2019-12-11/email-display-names.html
I’ve been contemplating internet debates and discussions on programming technology and I think the music composers really have the right idea: ALICE: I woke up this morning with this gorgeous...
http://pchiusano.github.io/2019-10-24/musicians-and-programmers.html
I worry a bit that people are adopting an overly fatalist perspective on tech adoption. This perspective has become almost a reflex–we can’t possibly know or predict what technology will end ...
Here’s something pretty crazy: there are around 10^28 atoms in the human body. An astromically tiny percentage of arrangements of 10^28 atoms in 3D space correspond to a viable human. Most arra...
Learning using gradient-based methods is a lot like trying to find the top of Mount Everest starting from a random point on earth, WHILE BLINDFOLDED, by repeatedly sampling only the altitude and ...
http://pchiusano.github.io/2019-07-06/learning-without-a-gradient.html
I was trying to make sense of the event-stream vulnerability . My take: Every JS script gets access to the DOM, a global object from which you can scrape every piece of information on the page. Y...
Is evolution just another hill-climbing-like algorithm where the gradient is inefficiently estimated via sampling rather than direct differentiation? No. The usual formulations of evolutionary co...
http://pchiusano.github.io/2018-04-21/evolutionary-methods.html
I read a fascinating book recently on the Fermi Paradox , which asks the question: if there are supposedly millions of other civilizations in the galaxy, why haven’t we detected any real evide...