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Hamidah Oderinwale

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  • In addition to doing the work of developing a novel evaluation framework and challenging dataset to test world knowledge, we lay out best practices for evaluation data use: our framework and dataset are licensed CC-BY 4.0 with Terms of Use (1) requiring attribution if used to train models, and (2) prohibiting plain-text release of EWoK-generated data on the internet to prevent accidental inclusion in large training corpora. We would like to encourage a community standard of clearly reporting what models are trained on, and appropriately providing attribution where it is due---both, for careful…
    EWoK: Elements of World Knowledge
  • Searchable columns# Let's create a new column fts inside the books table to store the searchable index of the title and description columns. We can use a special feature of Postgres called Generated Columns to ensure that the index is updated any time the values in the title and description columns change.
    Full Text Search | Supabase Docs
  • All rights reserved ©, but not for long: We are retaining the rights while we develop a license that fits our mission. Stay tuned.
    About Us
  • non-textual file formats remain second-class in Git.
    Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
  • non-textual file formats remain second-class in Git.
    Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
  • Follow the guide to implement FTS with GIN-indexes and semantic search with pgvector (also known as bi-encoder dense retrieval).
    Postgres as a search engine — any blockers?
  • Making it easier for foreign researchers and AI professionals to work in the United States would likely both lower post-grad outflow, by allowing them to stay in the United States after completing their degrees, and increase post-grad inflow, by making it more attractive for researchers who are educated outside the United States to come to the United States for work. Targeted immigration reform measures could help increase the supply of top talent in the United States.
    AI Talent Report | CEA | The White House
  • Making it easier for foreign researchers and AI professionals to work in the United States would likely both lower post-grad outflow, by allowing them to stay in the United States after completing their degrees, and increase post-grad inflow, by making it more attractive for researchers who are educated outside the United States to come to the United States for work. Targeted immigration reform measures could help increase the supply of top talent in the United States.
    AI Talent Report | CEA | The White House
  • In July 2020, GitHub stored a February archive of the site[60] in an abandoned mountain mine in Svalbard, Norway, part of the Arctic World Archive and not far from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The archive contained the code of all active public repositories, as well as that of dormant but significant public repositories. The 21TB of data was stored on piqlFilm archival film reels as matrix (2D) barcode (Boxing barcode), and is expected to last 500–1,000 years.[109][110][111][112] The GitHub Archive Program is also working with partners on Project Silica, in an attempt to store all public re…
    GitHub
  • I can't reproduce unfortunately, even when running with the same versions of Node and NPM as you. :(
    `dev` cells throws module import error · Issue #21 · ekzhang/percival
  • If we publish runtime.build to NPM, we can import Percival and run datalog within ObservableHQ notebooks. But, we won't have syntax highlighting :(
    JS in Percival / Percival in JS · Issue #18 · ekzhang/percival
  • At the regional level, maintain an up-to-date database of cables traversing Southeast Asia including details on ownership as well as countries’ policies and regulations on cables. The academic community has created a basis for regulation summaries that could be built upon with the necessary support.81 Adding information on ownership and cable ship bases in the region would aggregate regional data in a single location and provide transparency for researchers and policymakers on the future of cables in Southeast Asia.
    Subsea Communication Cables in Southeast Asia: A Comprehensive Approach Is Needed | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • STGs have been interfaced with various HDLs, see for example links with VHDL[35] (1996) and Verilog[36] (2000) with the aim to support asynchronous design. Placed into the synthesis flow from VHDL, STGs and Petri nets have been shown instrumental,[37] and likewise with Verilog,[38] where a tool VERISYN was developed.[39] More recently STGs have been connected with notations that are believed to be easier for practical hardware designers, hence the emergence of the model of waveform-transition graphs (WTG).[40] Likewise, realising that the model of finite state machine (FSM) can be easier for d…
    Signal transition graphs
  • But once you’re an expert, it’s 6 years later, you sit at the frontiers of human knowledge — and nothing you write can be understood by 99% of people. Your work is alien scribbles. The world has no empathy for experts, and that’s hard to take.
    Rekindling Is Refining
  • In the early 2000s, Stassun co-founded the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master's-to-PhD Bridge Program (FVBP). The program increases the diversity of students receiving advanced degrees in STEM fields by serving as a stepping stone for promising students at Fisk University to gain the experience and skills needed to go directly into a doctorate program. Since it began 18 years ago, 172 students have enrolled in the FVBP, 137 master's degrees have been awarded, 120 students have bridged to doctoral programs and 52 students have earned their doctorate. Today, Fisk University is the number one producer of Afr…
    Four NSF-supported researchers awarded MacArthur Genius Grants | NSF - National Science Foundation
  • I hope the 2013 version is otherwise error-free. But (sigh) it probably isn't. Therefore I will gratefully deposit 0x$1.00 ($2.56) to the account of the first person who finds and reports anything that remains technically, historically, typographically, or politically incorrect. Please send suggested corrections to knuth-bug@cs.stanford.edu, or send snail mail to Prof. D. Knuth, Computer Science Department, Gates Building 1B, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9015 USA. In either case please include your postal address, so that I can mail an official certificate of deposit as a token of t…
    Knuth: Literate Programming
  • "I take responsibility for my crimes, for my charges," he said. "I want to say sorry to my family, my mom, my mom's got 11 kids, I can't say all their names, my managers, my kids."
    Is Young Thug Getting Released From Jail Today? Here's All We Know - Newsweek
  • There are more features available in KGL, such as filtering and a depth-first search-powered network analyzer to find how two nodes in a graph connect. These are documented in the project language reference.
    Designing a knowledge graph query language | James' Coffee Blog
  • ggest neural representations and computational components are reused across tasks. Shared representational subspaces could speed learning by allowing knowledge to generalize across tasks
    Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - PMC
  • neural representations and computational components are reused across tasks. Shared representational subspaces could speed learning by allowing knowledge to generalize across tasks
    Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - PMC
  • understand open continuous-time Markov chains
    A Compositional Framework for Markov Processes | Azimuth
  • Both categorical and category-free representations can be low or high-dimensional (Figure 2, right). Interestingly, it is also possible to determine the dimensionality of the representations in the condition space: linear algebra dictates that the row rank of the matrix is the same as the column rank. However, in the categorical case, the number of clusters can limit the maximal dimensionality in the same way that the total number of points can. Note that the study of the distribution of points in the condition space depends less on experimenter choices than it does in many types of analysis. …
    The implications of categorical and category-free mixed selectivity on representational geometries - ScienceDirect
  • This may or may not have positive values for all the 𝑥 𝑖 ; if it does not, then there is no stable attractor for which the populations of all species are positive. If there is a fixed point with all positive populations the Jacobian matrix in a neighbourhood of the fixed point 𝑥 is given by diag ⁡ ( 𝑥 ) 𝐴 .
    Generalized Lotka–Volterra equation - Wikipedia
  • One solution to a fast-growing monorepo is to consider it as if it was a time-series database: the changes over time are important, so what if it shards based on time instead of based on the worktree? When performing a time-based shard, first determine a point in time where the existing monorepo can be paused and all movement on the trunk branch can be blocked. Pausing work on a monorepo is very unusual, so should be done with extreme care and preparation. After pausing the changes to the monorepo’s trunk, create a new repository with the same root tree as the current trunk of the old monorepo…
    Git's database internals V: scalability - The GitHub Blog
  • James Bernat, a neurologist at Dartmouth, proposed a rationale for why brain death and biological death could actually be one and the same. He claimed that when patients have the devastating brain injury that represents brain death, it turns out that they always have a cardiac arrest within a very short period of time, no more than a few days.
    Harvard ethicist Robert Truog on ambiguities of brain death — Harvard Gazette
  • 7: Anyone with access to the internet can publish their thoughts online on a pretentious minimalist website. It’s just that most people don’t, which leads to a kind of fallacy where it can seem like the words I publish here are inherently more special than some random comment your Uber driver made yesterday, or the weird plotline of last night’s dream. They are not (necessarily).
    Disclaimer - Quarter Mile
  • 7: Anyone with access to the internet can publish their thoughts online on a pretentious minimalist website. It’s just that most people don’t, which leads to a kind of fallacy where it can seem like the words I publish here are inherently more special than some random comment your Uber driver made yesterday, or the weird plotline of last night’s dream. They are not (necessarily).
    Disclaimer - Quarter Mile
  • Second: As much as I like to see myself as independent, so much of me is the people around me. So much of me is the culture we live in. And while this isn’t necessarily bad, I could use some space to reflect; unstructured time to live and learn apart from the world I’m embedded in. Ava, a writer whose words I love: If your judgement is always derivative, ripped from your community or your friends, how can you ever trust yourself? How can you ever sit in a dark room and know what you want when all sources of validation are stripped away?
    O n Taking a Gap Year
  • In contrast, deterministic database systems can exploit the application-specific fact that the order of non-conflicting transactions does not need to be constrained, even if they acquire the same mutex(es) internally, because reordering them does not affect externally visible state.
    An Overview of Deterministic Database Systems – Communications of the ACM
  • Recovery from the input log. Database state recovery is typically much simpler in deterministic database systems relative to traditional nondeterministic database systems. Deterministic database systems can simply load a checkpoint23 and play the input log forward from there in order to recover state at the time of the failure (and continue from there).19,26,31 In contrast, the input request log is not sufficient to recover state in non-deterministic systems. Instead, they have to replay history, which typically involves physically reloading every page that was modified from a “redo log.”20
    An Overview of Deterministic Database Systems – Communications of the ACM
  • open continuous-time Markov chains
    A Compositional Framework for Markov Processes | The n-Category Café
  • For instance, if a 20-something got in a fight with another 20-something and the cops got involved, the police would most likely contact the families and let the parents and brothers sort that shit out with a warning not to cause trouble again.
    Notes on Tajikistan – Matt Lakeman
  • Then he said a few broken words to me in English for five minutes which concluded with asking me how much a visa to the US costs.
    Notes on Tajikistan – Matt Lakeman
  • The countryside is dotted with half-finished concrete homes which I was told were the long-term retirement plans of Tajiks working abroad; they build their structures for a few months each year over many years or decades using trickles of funds earned from abroad. When the structures are finished, they prepare them to be their permanent homes once they retire from migrant work.
    Notes on Tajikistan – Matt Lakeman
  • In 2014, Tajikistan was the most-remittance based economy on earth, amounting to almost half of its GDP.
    Notes on Tajikistan – Matt Lakeman
  • The work was strengthened in [28] to study the 2000 and 2008 based on persistence landscapes, which was introduced in [29] to quantify the persistence homology of complexes.
    Empirical study of financial crises based on topological data analysis - ScienceDirect
  • In January 2016, he published a topological data analysis on the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 and was able to outline the reach potential of Trump's messages in the mind of skeptical voters.[10]
    Gunnar Carlsson - Wikipedia
  • Situations with systematic feedback (e.g., users tag their friends in photos or mark emails as spam) or self-supervision approaches like BERT [D19], SimCLR [CK20], and DINO [C21] can generate an unbounded amount of data.
    Growing or Compressing Datasets · Introduction to Data-Centric AI
  • The COVID-19 pandemic showed weaknesses in the IHR, including that it did not mention “pandemic”. Member states submitted over 300 proposed amendments to the Working Group on Amendments to the IHR (WGIHR), chaired by New Zealand’s Dr Ashley Bloomfield and Dr Abdullah Asiri of Saudi Arabia.
    'The World Has Won': New International Regulations To Protect Against Pandemics Finally Approved - Health Policy Watch
  • Charles Gore, executive director of the Medicines Patent Pool, is confident that the vaccine will be successful and that the South African government will order it. “What I'm less confident about is whether other countries in the region will support this and that's what we need. We need all 54 African countries buying the vaccine, not just the six where the spokes are ideally to be supporting this project,” he adds. The vaccine must be priced well compared with alternatives for it to be an attractive option.
    First African-made mRNA vaccine, a test platform for the future
  • Many Chinese nationals with AI expertise have chosen to work at Kaust because they have been prevented from studying and working in the US after graduating from Chinese universities on the US entity list, according to two Kaust sources.
    Saudi Arabia and UAE race to buy Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions
  • Large Language Models as Simulated Economic Agents: What can we learn from Homo Silicus?
    Research | John J. Horton
  • If you know you need a specific precision after the decimal/binary point, then fixed point allows you to maintain accuracy of those digits without truncation even as the value grows, up to the limits of the range. If you need more range, you have to add more bits. Hence decimal128 becomes important for some users.
    Implementing High-Precision Decimal Arithmetic with CUDA int128 | NVIDIA Technical Blog
  • However, rounding high precision results to a lower precision is not equivalent to performing the entire computation in lower precision.
    Floating Point and IEEE 754
  • Because of these issues, guaranteeing a specific precision level on the CPU can sometimes be tricky
    Floating Point and IEEE 754
  • On 32-bit x86 targets without SSE it can be helpful to declare variables using volatile and force floating point values to be stored to memory (/Op in Visual Studio and -ffloat-store in gcc). This moves results from extended precision registers into memory, where the precision is precisely single or double precision. Alternately, the x87 control word can be updated to set the precision to 24 or 53 bits using the assembly instruction fldcw or a compiler option such as -mpc32 or-mpc64 in gcc.
    Floating Point and IEEE 754
  • Current generations of the NVIDIA architecture such as Tesla Kxx, GTX 8xx, and GTX 9xx, support both single and double precision with IEEE 754 precision and include hardware support for fused multiply-add in both single and double precision. In CUDA, the features supported by the GPU are encoded in the compute capability number. The runtime library supports a function call to determine the compute capability of a GPU at runtime; the CUDA C++ Programming Guide also includes a table of compute capabilities for many different devices
    Floating Point and IEEE 754
  • Microdosing Lucidity
    ykumar.org
  • Nietzsche contra Wagner
    ykumar.org
  • The default hash algorithm used by RDFC-1.0, namely, SHA-256 [FIPS-180-4]. Implementations MUST support a parameter to define the hash algorithm, MUST support SHA-256 and SHA-384 [FIPS-180-4], and SHOULD support the ability to specify other hash algorithms. Using a different hash algorithm will generally result in different output than using the default.
    RDF Dataset Canonicalization