Someone (Dreamertist on reddit) got tired of depending on Huggingface for downloading models and proposes a torrent tracker to share more efficiently these huge blobs.

It just started, only a few models uploaded yet, but I think it is worth that we all put our local stash online there. Making a new torrent is super easy (one missing step though: when "re-downloading" the model you need to save it in the directory where it already exists. This way it will "resume" at 100% completion and switch to seeding mode)

Imagine AI giving offsprings...

Hey guys,

I have been experimenting with self-supervised visual learning a bit. Until now I have only ever used U-Nets and related architectures.

No matter what specific task, images or other parameters I changed I always encountered these stains on my output-images (here marked with green), although sometimes more, sometimes less.

Now I wondered if anybody could tell me where they came from and how I could prevent them?

In the attached picture the input (left) and target (right) are the same, so that I can be sure these stains do not come from a badly designed learning task, yet they still appear (output is the middle image).

Thanks in advance and all the best :D

Edit: added line breaks

Copilot sounds amazing on paper. The free (to 365 subs) version on the web is just Chat GPT4, so that's familiar enough. The integration with 365 applications is really what grabs me. Stuff like tossing it 10 spreadsheets and asking it to analyze and compare the data, having a virtual assistant to remind me of upcoming actionables, and summarizing a meeting when I zone out - it all sounds really handy.

I met with Microsoft last week and they're down for giving me a 90 day trial if I want to take it for a spin. Any thoughts or suggestions? I ideally want to determine if this will improve productivity for my end users enough to be worth the insane cost of $30/user/mo.

Hi all,

I think around 1 or 2 years ago, I stumbled upon a personal blog of an asian woman (I think) working at OpenAI. She had numerous extensive fascinating blog posts on a black themed blog, going into the technical details of embeddings of language models and such.

I can no longer find that blog and have no other information to go by. Would anyone possibly know which blog I'm referring to? It would be very much appreciated.

2024-02-29 | Christopher Gadzinski writes:

Physics likes optimization! Subject to its boundary conditions, the time evolution of a physical system is a critical point for a quantity called an action. This point of view sets the stage for Noether's principle, a remarkable correspondence between continuous invariances of the action and conservation laws of the system.

In machine learning, we often deal with discrete "processes" whose control parameters are chosen to minimize some quantity. For example, we can see a deep residual network as a process where the role of "time" is played by depth. We may ask:

1. Does Noether's theorem apply to these processes?
2. Can we find meaningful conserved quantities?

Our answers: "yes," and "not sure!"

Anybody got to try it?