On the other hand, a DL model is excellent at reproducing local visual likeness (what it's fitted on), yet it has no understanding of the parts & their organization.
— François Chollet (@fchollet) September 25, 2022
A 5-year old that draws disproportionate stick figures will still draw horses with 4 legs and 1 head and 2 eyes. pic.twitter.com/39a9eaKD7H
no, it’s the difference between having an explicit functional model and working purely in an image space that is correlated with labels.
— Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus) September 25, 2022
Indeed.
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) September 25, 2022
If I have a functional model that explains how multiplication works, then I can multiply any two arbitrarily large numbers.
If all I have is a latent space shaped from labeled data, any answers will be at best statistical-significant guesses.
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) September 27, 2022
Exceptional bit of propaganda from Ukraine (better with the sound up).
One of the most modern tanks on the Russian Army, abandoned in perfect condition. A sign of an army in crisis https://t.co/ZdpJ022Wnu
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) September 18, 2022
Combining history with a wicked sense of humor...im just a little jealous https://t.co/9lvVbXmhjB
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) September 22, 2022
Impressed that people need to keep saying that Russia is banning males 18 to 65 from leaving the country. The average male life expectancy in Russia is just over 66 years. We are talking about almost all living Russian males here. https://t.co/aAdMdkU9Lg
— Phillips P. OBrien (@PhillipsPOBrien) September 21, 2022
It's hard to mobilize into a war of choice you're losing.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 21, 2022
And he's not even one of Thiel's candidates.
GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women's suffrage and praised organization trying to repeal 19th Amendment https://t.co/jmlCcKqhkS
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) September 21, 2022
Katie Porter (who is good at this) already has an ad about the national abortion ban running in the LA-Orange TV market.
“Sen. Lindsey Graham's national 15-week abortion ban would likely force many women to undergo invasive transvaginal ultrasounds before terminating pregnancies, according to doctors” - per @jonallendc. https://t.co/8Ogi7zQISg
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 20, 2022
All four of these states (particularly Arizona and Florida) were net pro-choice before Dobbs, and the data we've seen since have suggested that Roe has grown more popular.
"Graham's abortion ban has won the support of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who is running for re-election; Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., who is seeking a Senate seat in his state; and GOP Senate nominees Herschel Walker in Georgia and Blake Masters in Arizona." https://t.co/DAPSvN1V5v
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) September 20, 2022
| State | Mostly Legal | Mostly Illegal | Net support |
| Louisiana | 36.00% | 59.00% | -23 |
| Arkansas | 38.00% | 57.00% | -19 |
| Mississippi | 39.00% | 55.00% | -16 |
| West Virginia | 40.00% | 55.00% | -15 |
| Alabama | 40.00% | 55.00% | -15 |
| Tennessee | 40.00% | 53.00% | -13 |
| Kentucky | 41.00% | 53.00% | -12 |
| Utah | 43.00% | 53.00% | -10 |
| Idaho | 43.00% | 50.00% | -6 |
| South Dakota | 47.00% | 50.00% | -4 |
| North Dakota | 47.00% | 50.00% | -3 |
| Texas | 46.00% | 48.00% | -2 |
| South Carolina | 45.00% | 47.00% | -2 |
| Indiana | 46.00% | 48.00% | -2 |
| Nebraska | 46.00% | 47.00% | -2 |
| Wyoming | 48.00% | 49.00% | -1 |
| Missouri | 47.00% | 47.00% | <+1 |
| Kansas | 48.00% | 47.00% | 1 |
| Georgia | 49.00% | 46.00% | 2 |
| North Carolina | 49.00% | 44.00% | 5 |
| Oklahoma | 49.00% | 45.00% | 5 |
| Iowa | 52.00% | 45.00% | 7 |
| Ohio | 52.00% | 43.00% | 10 |
| New Mexico | 52.00% | 42.00% | 10 |
| Montana | 52.00% | 42.00% | 10 |
| Virginia | 53.00% | 42.00% | 11 |
| Wisconsin | 54.00% | 41.00% | 13 |
| Pennsylvania | 53.00% | 41.00% | 13 |
| Arizona | 54.00% | 41.00% | 13 |
| Minnesota | 54.00% | 40.00% | 14 |
| Illinois | 56.00% | 40.00% | 15 |
| Michigan | 55.00% | 39.00% | 16 |
| Florida | 56.00% | 38.00% | 18 |
| California | 57.00% | 38.00% | 20 |
| Colorado | 57.00% | 37.00% | 20 |
| Delaware | 58.00% | 37.00% | 21 |
| Alaska | 60.00% | 35.00% | 25 |
| Washington | 61.00% | 34.00% | 26 |
| Oregon | 62.00% | 35.00% | 27 |
| Maine | 62.00% | 34.00% | 28 |
| New Jersey | 62.00% | 33.00% | 29 |
| Maryland | 63.00% | 32.00% | 31 |
| New York | 63.00% | 32.00% | 31 |
| Nevada | 63.00% | 32.00% | 32 |
| Rhode Island | 64.00% | 30.00% | 33 |
| New Hampshire | 65.00% | 30.00% | 35 |
| Connecticut | 65.00% | 29.00% | 36 |
| Hawaii | 66.00% | 29.00% | 37 |
| D.C. | 70.00% | 26.00% | 44 |
| Massachusetts | 70.00% | 25.00% | 45 |
| Vermont | 70.00% | 24.00% | 46 |
In black swan season, you should try to have viable candidates in even long shot elections. Case in point.
Have you heard about Chris Jones?https://t.co/LWQBoSkbGC https://t.co/jbegaVo7vo pic.twitter.com/pVO3lgmNJc
— Piper Perabo (@PiperPerabo) September 26, 2022
Our last comment on the royal family.
— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) September 20, 2022
Thinking fondly of my city commissioners, who are currently exploring a $60-90 million deal with Elon to drill miles of underground car tunnels into Fort Lauderdale's limestone and landfill pic.twitter.com/Fzc8AQPOVI
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) September 27, 2022
In 1612 Galileo Galilei was the first to propose that the Sun rotated on its axis.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) September 26, 2022
He observed the Sun through his Helioscope at the same time each day and drew sunspots onto a white paper. He observed the motion of the spots across the Sun. See his observations below. pic.twitter.com/1DHtnBlhYk
My wife floored me last night by pointing out that, due to recent world events, James Bond no longer works for her majesty's secret service.
— Paul Tobin (@PaulTobin) September 18, 2022
Your very first item above (the twitter post about the bicycles) seems pretty clueless. The writer of the tweet writes, "Humans are largely unable to reproduce the visual likeness of something. But they know what the parts are (2 wheels + 2 pedals + handbar + saddle)."
ReplyDeleteActually, though, in the (famous) example that he shares, 2 wheels and handlebar and saddle, along with part of the frame, were already drawn in, and the participants in the experiment were asked to draw the 2 pedals and chain. So, no, this is not evidence that people know or remember or can draw what the parts are!
It's cool that this guy gets to work at Google and that he created Keras and wrote a book. But what's the point of using an example to make a point and then getting the details all wrong?
I guess that's why I'm a statistician and not a computer scientist: I'm picky about the data.
Andrew
It is an odd choice for an example, particularly since it would have been easyenough for the Google guy to google children's drawings of animals.
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