nicklovescode

I find the watt thing cool too, and I'm glad you pointed it out

that's my quote, just want to add a few notes because I originally typed that out quickly in a comment on twitter and didn't expect it to get traction

1. At the time iirc maybe 60% of people meant something like "that's a reasonable symptom to run into from EA thinking, I've had something like it too, it's hard to fix even if you know it's not ideal". Although maybe 20% of people did think it actually just made sense as a way to operate and didn't see it as a big problem

2. I agree it's much less common now. I think it's possibly because EA has shifted more towards longtermism. Although around 2016 I switched to working on AGI safety which is very longtermist, so it's possible that's my local bias

3. Luckily the symptom was short lived, maybe ~4-6 weeks in total while I was also experiencing startup founder anxiety separate of EA. I consider myself maybe a little hurt by EA, but not that traumatized, and I still think it has lots of merits even if I don't identify as an "EA person" anymore

no those full results screenshots were the first things i typed in

I’d often send like six images to the person who’s bio I was making and ask them to choose two :)

Yeah that’s right. There were very few strictly-bad ones across the entire thread of generations

The rejections were most commonly

1. Kind of just slightly boring or literally drawing the thing rather than being cool and artistic

2. Cool but similar to the artistic style of bios near it in the thread, whereas I wanted to keep it diverse (surreal followed by literal, oil followed by sharp lines etc) so it's more fun to scroll through

Whereas a few years ago generative models (GANs etc) would often render like static noise sometimes or completely wrong things. I've only seen that problem once with DALL-E across hundreds or thousands of images now (it generated a fully white image)

for that one IIRC I asked for a Robert Moses and one of the cooler ones had giant hands so I put that in the prompt then took two of my favorite from the next batch

Hey everyone, Nick here creator of the linked thread. I just wanted to link to another tweet I have with some details of how I made it.

TLDR it’s not just the bio pasted directly into dall-e and the images are cherry-picked but dall-e is basically doing 95% of the work here. I have no ability to make art myself, and I found I could illustrate basically any bio I wanted in a couple minutes of playing around. My goal was to create illustrations for my friends not create a dall-e gallery but I’m glad it ended up being a good example of what dall-e can do

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1512119623315075081

just want to say it's super cool and thanks for adding it to our world!

If so I applaud them, it’s non-obvious and perfect. Taking del.icio.us back to the very beginning

A few days ago a weekly letter I wrote myself called Dear Nick that I BCC a few close friends. I love doing it now

Please steal the idea if you like!

http://nickcammarata.com/writing/two-experiments-2019

You can mock anyone. Nobody's sacred.

Don't mock people for the good they do, or they will stop doing good. Nobody's immune.

[https://twitter.com/dakami/status/1151391104698179584]

It's unclear to me that we navigated the state space so discretely. My guess would be that we used a combination of rock throwing + stock hitting before eventually deciding that combining the two might be fruitful.

After the idea is polished it looks clever, but it may have been invented through a series of mostly random steps

Great work Yuge!

This post from Distill may also be worth checking out for those interested in Gaussian Processes:

https://distill.pub/2019/visual-exploration-gaussian-process...

Hi! I'm super curious about how you structured the input and output to the neural network, and which architecture you chose, if you're willing to share (I work at OpenAI)

If you do share I'm happy to give you feedback here if I have any!

You might enjoy https://distill.pub/2018/building-blocks/. I’m on the ml interpretability team at OpenAI. Happy to answer any questions you have!

How do you use the 1500sqft and how would you use the 1000sqft?

I read this as “GDPR non-linear function detector” for neural network regulation

It's under review for Distill (there's a mention of it on the page as well). It's using the Distill template - https://github.com/distillpub/template

Actually Einstein was great at reaching out to others in the field and discussing ideas with them. He also voraciously applied to various programs to find great places to work.

He’s no Edison in terms of networking, but it is interesting that even a cononical super-nerd creating theories in their basement (or patent-office) still gets value out of it.

It depends what you mean by cheap but you can live in Somerville next to Cambridge MA for a fraction of SF rent and be in perhaps the best intellectual environment in the world.

https://boston.craigslist.org/search/aap?bedrooms=1&maxAsk=1...

Looks like it’s pretty easy to find a sub-$1000/mo bedroom

Most people I know that have read or written on this subject agree it can often be cured in minutes (even after a decade of pain). David Burns has a weekend program that often solves these situations quite quickly.

However, I'm not so sure about The Emotion Code's pushing of "organ energy fields" or Dr Bradley Nelson's "message from above" to go write a book pushing this

thanks ridewinter :)

Any good links to share?

Do you have research to support this? Propranolol for instance is psychoactive in addition to hitting plasma norepinephrine / blood pressure etc

Have you tried propranolol? The research shows it’s quite effective for this kind of thing

I found it funny that immediately following the article (at least on mobile) were the worst clickbait ads “10 questions to figure out your mental wealth!”

I'm a founder that has struggled with this (but it's basically been solved for a while). When Panic Attacks (https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Panic-Attacks-drug-free-therap...) is a great book. Just being able to identify it and know it's not dangerous helped me the most.

I loved his anecdote of doing jumping jacks while having a panic attack. The lightheartedness of the way he approaches the disorder is kind of nice.

One weird thing that helped me was reading everything I could possibly find on panic attacks over some short period of time. Every paper, book, medication, etc. Unlike some disorders, the truth seems to mostly be positive (non-dangerous, relatively straight-forward ways to beat it), and so the more you know the better you'll be at approaching it.

Hey everyone - I'm working on a book reader that allows you to read text while it annotates using Wavenet.

I have dyslexia and I've found that I can read so quickly with high retention using this method, and having specialized software for it is nicer.

It might help anyone here who suffers from the same thing that I do.

Email me at [email protected] if you want to be an early user!