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Ivy Zhang

@iyzg

purveyor of technical toomfoolery and silly shenanigans

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Sounds of New Orleans Sound (singular) (the title is misleading)

1/52 blog posts for the year: sounds of new orleans! it's really short, so anything I'd put here is a spoiler :p

substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/ope...

06.01.2025 02:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

woah, this is really cool! will be checking this out :)

09.12.2024 13:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

10 week streak of missing my take out trash reminder

07.12.2024 18:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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my anki time has somehow increased after finals

06.12.2024 23:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would be happy to read an unpacking!

06.12.2024 21:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i somehow know what all these words mean in isolation yet nothing about the final theorem haha

06.12.2024 20:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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spot the bug in the code! kind of sneaky one :)

06.12.2024 17:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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LETS GO

05.12.2024 22:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

joke in the above post left as an exercise for the reader

05.12.2024 20:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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my biggest red flag is checking loss curves on dates

05.12.2024 20:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the lines are bending

05.12.2024 20:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh my goodness the VAE isn't just collapsing... im so happy rn

05.12.2024 20:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GitHub - iyzg/world_models: Personal implementation of David Ha's world model Personal implementation of David Ha's world model. Contribute to iyzg/world_models development by creating an account on GitHub.

but if anyone wants to point out what I'm doing wrong, the code is github.com/iyzg/world_m...! (I'll happily take PRs and links to things to learn :)

05.12.2024 14:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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working on reimplementing @hardmaru's World Model arch and woke up to this... pretty sure the KL loss is too large

05.12.2024 14:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

did I spend 3 hours debugging an int-> float conversion that was causing everything to go black? maybe.

05.12.2024 01:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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took me way too long, but I think I've finally got the VAE from hardmaru's world models kind of training now :))

05.12.2024 01:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

if anything catches your eye, hmu!

04.12.2024 02:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ivyzhang.me/philosophy-o...
ivyzhang.me/ethics
ivyzhang.me/what-is-life

in the spirit of fiddly scribbles, I've decided to start writing half-baked notebooks again on topics :)

04.12.2024 02:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

uh oh, watched a @todepond.com talk and am now inspired to share scrappy fiddles

04.12.2024 02:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

pushing the personal website boundaries, love this!

03.12.2024 00:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Doing Advent of Code this year if anyone else wants to make a private leaderboard :)

02.12.2024 00:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh man, now I'm missing NTMs :p

30.11.2024 16:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does anyone have cool papers on how creativity scales with # of humans/AI on a task or the social hierarchy they're organized in?

Also interested in finding labs that work on this!

30.11.2024 16:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

one of these days I'll finish rustlings and the book...

or so I've been saying for the past four years

25.11.2024 15:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What's the disruptive new entrant in this scenario?

25.11.2024 15:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that's very true! maybe I'll give it a shot this year then :)

24.11.2024 14:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

that's what I keep telling myself! thanks for the resources :)

24.11.2024 14:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

hahaha that's awesome! I'll check it out :)

24.11.2024 14:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the dark arts are well and alive

24.11.2024 04:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

do you think AI will deepen the divide between socioeconomic classes and how much they interact (if at all?)

24.11.2024 04:25 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0