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Flerovium more like flavorvium amiright

Related thoughts while I try and find a good way to formulate this: johnowhitaker.dev/essays/junk_...
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AI & Junk Food

When you optimize food for short-term preference, you get sugary, salty brain hacks. Yum, unhealthy in excess.

When you optimize models for short-term preference, you get flattering, verbose, sloppy brain hacks. Cool, unhealthy in excess.

Do you agree? What's 'healthy food' for AI?

First example that sprung to mind was reading base64 text

Examples of fractals resulting from neural network training in a variety of experimental configurations

Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish to those for which training diverges.

Even better, a video: vimeo.com/903855670

Hello bsky, I'm not sure what I'll post where - Twitter/X is still my default. But I do also put most of the interesting stuff on my site's "Everything" page, which has an RSS feed, if you want to see that stuff without X :)
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