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Staying Sane in ML: Fixing Your Terrible Data Science Tools to Improve the Research Experience
While machine learning research has made incredible theoretical advances, the day-to-day tools most researchers use are... poorly optimized, to say the least. And much knowledge is locked up in people's private .bashrc files or wikis. This post aims to shed light on some very useful tools for beginning researchers.
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Scenarios and Warning Signs for Ajeya's Aggressive, Conservative, and Best Guess AI Timelines
A summary and rephrasal of three plausible scenarios for AI timelines. Most of this post is unoriginal. Cross-posted to LessWrong, and may contain more jargon than usual.
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My experience in a covid vaccine trial, and why you should join one
Covid is probably going to get much worse before it gets better. How do we protect ourselves and those around us? I propose a novel approach.
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What needs to work for your Zoom call to work?
It's amazing how tall the tower of computer abstraction is. Let's explore a few of those layers here.
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Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
Yubikeys are great for security, but their benefits decrease somewhat when you leave them in your computer unattended. I also have login passwords that are way too long. How to solve these problems? Use a Yubikey to unlock your computer!