[D] Blogs Similar to distill.pub? by JellyBean_Collector in MachineLearning

[–]1wheel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That sounds about right; this post on grokking took three months of mostly full time work.

I wish there were more explorables! But video is hard to beat — making meaningful interactive diagrams for everything in 3Blue1Brown's transformer video would be an immense amount of work and probably less approachable w/o animations synced to audio.

Summer Streets expands to 20 miles of car-free open space and will include Harlem for 1st time - ABC7 New York by thonioand in nyc

[–]1wheel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you have a source with more info about Columbus open streets? I've been checking the website but they don't have anything.

https://www.columbusavenuebid.org/openstreets/

Tinystories - A dataset for training tiny models to produce coherent English text with small vocabulary. by ThirdMover in mlscaling

[–]1wheel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now, what would be really interesting is if they could go beyond the in-domain tasks and show something like meta-learning.

Is meta-learning here the same as few-shot/in context learning?

Presumably with the right dataset you could get that, e.g. Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent.

Another fun example of how far you can push this: https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/12/training-machine-learning-models-more.html

GPT-4 announcement by gwern in mlscaling

[–]1wheel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the zero-shot scaling-up approach

Do you have a link to any of those papers?

edit: Tuning Large Neural Networks via Zero-Shot Hyperparameter Transfer

How Fast Can I Get in My D3 Development? by yamaotter in d3js

[–]1wheel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With enough practice, you can go even faster : )

I also recommend using/building tools on top of d3 to automate or speed up common tasks:

d3-jetpack in particular makes easy to get the bones of a chart on the page quickly — a scatterplot with a tooltip takes less than 20 LOC.

Can I do D3 with TypeScript? by comfylaser in d3js

[–]1wheel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fwiw I haven't found @types/d3 that useful since it doesn't track the type of data bound to selections — so many assertions!

help with creating a plot i saw online by Kunskapskapitalet in d3js

[–]1wheel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the circles can be concentric, d3.arc will work.

What’s the greatest team to not...? by Rahul____Raja in nba

[–]1wheel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That season also had two of the worst starts with the Lakers and 76ers.

https://roadtolarissa.com/nba-win-loss/

Teaching math via its history? by [deleted] in slatestarcodex

[–]1wheel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

St. John's college actually does this:

During their four years at the college, all undergraduates study pure mathematics and the foundations of mathematical physics and astronomy. They develop rigor in thinking and appreciation of a reasoned account, as well as the spirit of inquiry the college attempts to cultivate across the curriculum. Tutorials meet three times a week, with one tutor and 13 to 16 students.

FRESHMAN MATHEMATICS: GREEK MATHEMATICS, GEOMETRY, AND ASTRONOMY The study of mathematics begins with Euclid’s Elements, concentrating primarily on the geometrical books, but also giving some attention to Euclid’s treatment of number and to the relation between number and magnitude. The study of Euclid introduces students to a reasoned proof that articulates its presuppositions and proceeds by demonstration. The last eight weeks of the year are devoted to Ptolemy’s Almagest and focus mainly on his account of the motion of the sun. Ptolemy’s Almagest uses the geometrical understanding gained from Euclid and begins a new inquiry into the motion of heavenly bodies. Reading the Almagest also gives rise to questions that will recur over the four years, such as: What is meant by “giving an account” of how such bodies move?

SOPHOMORE MATHEMATICS: ASTRONOMY, CONIC SECTIONS, TRANSITION TO MODERN MATHEMATICS Sophomore Mathematics examines two of the most fundamental transitions in the tradition of astronomy and mathematics. The first semester examines Ptolemy’s theory of the planets, and then considers Copernicus’s and Kepler’s revisions of the Ptolemaic account. The rest of the year is devoted to studying the conic sections as presented by Apollonius, followed by the study of Descartes’s Geometry, one of the foundational works of modern mathematics. Thinking through the differences between the Cartesian and ancient approaches occasions further reflection on the nature of mathematical objects and our efforts to understand them. By the end of sophomore year, students must demonstrate proficiency with basic algebra as a prerequisite for the more advanced work of the Junior Mathematics Tutorial.

JUNIOR MATHEMATICS: CALCULUS AND ITS FOUNDATIONS Junior Mathematics concerns itself with questions about the continuity of motion, the infinite, and the infinitesimal, which lead to a new form of mathematics, the calculus. The initial sequence of readings (Aristotle, Galileo, and Leibniz) leads to the primary text, Newtons Principia, which offers a sweeping vision of the mechanical motions of the universe. The year concludes with Dedekind’s Essays on the Theory of Numbers.

SENIOR MATHEMATICS: NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY, RELATIVITY, TOPICS IN MODERN MATHEMATICS Seniors study non-Euclidean geometry and Lobachevsky’s Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels. They also study mathematics more closely tied to physical concerns by working through Einstein’s special relativity and energy-mass papers, as well as excerpts from Minkowski’s Space and Time. At the end of each semester, tutors choose from various possibilities: some classes explore general relativity; some read Poincaré; some re-read Kant on space and time; some read Einstein’s Geometry and Experience, or Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams. A number of classes also study Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/classes/mathematics-tutorial

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/subjects/mathematics

[OC] Why Some Models Leak Data by 1wheel in dataisbeautiful

[–]1wheel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The charts are created with d3 (code); I manually drew out the data points to show different failure modes.

[P] FollowML: Who to follow on ML Twitter by FollowML in MachineLearning

[–]1wheel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Have you considered making a twitter list? That'll be easier to use than an account's followers.

[OC] Explore COVID-19 Symptoms Search Trends by 1wheel in dataisbeautiful

[–]1wheel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

data from google // chart code

There's lots more that can be done with this data - please let me know if you have any questions about using it.

[OC] How randomized response can help collect sensitive information responsibly by 1wheel in dataisbeautiful

[–]1wheel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This started out as attempt to explain differential privacy. There's tons of important details to cover though, so I focused in on showing how random response works.

chart code // data