Topic
machine learning
- Lexica.art
The community around Stable Diffusion, the open source AI project for text-to-image generation, has been buzzing. From nonexistent a year ago to thousands of contributors and forks and spinoffs. There's even a GUI mac…
- Weekend Reading: Intellectual Humility, Scoping, and Gboard
🛤 Missing the Light at the End of the Tunnel Honest postmortems are insightful to get the inside backstory on what happened behind the scenes with a company. In this one, Jason Crawford goes into what went wrong with…
- Weekend Reading: Universal Laws, Tandem, and Computers That Can See
📚 Universal Laws of the World A list of broad laws that apply to all fields. Thoughtful stuff as always from Morgan Housel: Parkinson’s Law: Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. In 1955 histori…
- Assisted Tasks for OpenStreetMap
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has been working on an experimental version of the Tasking Manager tool that incorporates deep learning-assisted mapping projects. The OSM community has long been (and still largely…
- Weekend Reading: Data Moats, China, and Distributed Work
🏰 The Empty Promise of Data Moats In the era of every company trying to play in machine learning and AI technology, I thought this was a refreshing perspective on data as a defensible element of a competitive moat. T…
- Weekend Reading: LiDAR, Auto Generated Textbooks, and Paleo Plate Tectonics
🛣 Creating Low-Cost LiDAR This is a great breakdown of the different elements of LiDAR technology, looking at three broad areas: beam direction, distance measurement, and frequencies. They compare the tech of 10 diff…
- A New Approach to Understanding How Machines Think
This is an interesting interview with Been Kim from Google Brain on developing systems for seeing how trained machines make decisions. One of the major challenges with neural network-based based deep learning systems…
- The Incredible Inventions of Intuitive AI
This talk on "generative AI" was interesting. One bit stuck out to me as really thought-provoking: Dutch designers have created a system to 3D print functional things in-place, like this bridge concept. Imagine that y…
- Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth
This week was Amazon's annual re:Invent conference, where they release n + 10 new products for AWS (where n is the number of products launched at last year's event). It's mind-boggling how many new things they can shi…
- Weekly Links: Tensor Processing, Amazon, and Preventing Traffic Jams
Google's "Tensor Processing Unit" 💻 Google has built their own custom silicon dedicated to AI processing. The power efficiency gains with these dedicated chips is estimated to have saved them from building a dozen ne…