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The Transformer Family

[Updated on 2023-01-27: After almost three years, I did a big refactoring update of this post to incorporate a bunch of new Transformer models since 2020. The enhanced version of this post is here: The Transformer Family Version 2.0. Please refer to t…

ai, deep-learning, physics

Three Questions that Keep Me Up at Night

A Google interview candidate recently asked me: “What are three big science questions that keep you up at night?” This was a great question because one’s answer reveals so much about one’s intellectual interests – here are mine:

Q1: Can we imitate “th…

Coronavirus

What is the most effective policy response to the new coronavirus pandemic?

Disclaimer: I am not an epidemiologist, but there is an interesting potentially important pattern in the data that seems worth understanding. World healthcare authorities appear to be primarily shifting towards Social Distancing. However, there is potential to pursue a different strategy in the medium term that exploits a vulnerability of this disease: the 5 day …

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Thread: Circuits

What can we learn if we invest heavily in reverse engineering a single neural network?

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