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dreaming_geometry t1_je7wweh wrote

I've thinking about trying something like this. Everything is moving so fast now in ml, I feel like nearly every new idea I have gets published before I even find the time to get started.

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9182763498761234 t1_je8wfs4 wrote

Work in a niche field instead! There are hundreds of smaller topics in ML that are yet unexplored and only a couple people working on it. I’m working on one of those and it is awesome. The field is slowly progressing but slowly enough that I can make a valuable contribution without getting scooped all the time.

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silva_p t1_je9aw63 wrote

Can you share your niche?

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saintshing t1_je9e5q1 wrote

Natural language processing for cats and dogs

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currentscurrents t1_jean0il wrote

Other researchers are working on an LLM for whales.

Looks feasible to me, whale calls are no more alien to the computer than English is. The hard part is collecting enough data.

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DigThatData t1_jeb49b8 wrote

this is probably not a concern for whale vocalizations, but an issue for attempting to decode animal communications generally via LLMs is that they're probably communicating as much information (if not more) non-vocally. for example, if we wanted to train an LLM to "understand" dog communication, it'd probably be more important to provide it with signals corresponding to changes in body and face pose than vocalizations. interesting stuff in any event.

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currentscurrents t1_jeb4shv wrote

Yeah, I think that's why they're starting with whales - they're an easy subject since their vocalizations can be heard through the water from miles away. They also seem to have a fairly complex vocal language, unlike for example songbirds with memorized mating calls.

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Koda_20 t1_jecddbs wrote

I feel like they are starting with whales because it generates more publicity because Nemo lol

They are probably not but I thought it was funny

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DigThatData t1_je8pm87 wrote

I've decided to just lean into it and am literally just giving my ideas away. https://github.com/dmarx/bench-warmers

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TheAdvisorZabeth t1_je90pzt wrote

Hi!~ <3

umm... I am just an uneducated idiot, but I've been having a lot of ideas lately and I think some of them might be real Science too.

But I have no credentials or anyone to discuss ideas with or to help fact-check me about stuff I don't have nearly the Time to Learn.

You seem like a kind person, (and like you might have more Time than Puzzles with which to fruitfully spend that Time on.), do you think you might care to to chat about my ideas? Or possibly offer any sincere advice that is a bit more useful to an autistic puppy than: "That is not a real Theory."?

I never used Tumblr before, but Neil Gaiman made a point to explicitly state that he hangs out there a lot; and since there's no living Author who I have more respect for, I recently began posting my ideas there.

From my perspective I am writing 100% Non-Fiction.

From my perspective I am just a very strange Harmless-Holistic-Aberrant; who managed to dumb-luck their way into figuring out how to gain "Coherent-Root-Access-To-My-Own-Brain".

I am being fully sincere.

I would just ask that if you (or anyone else) thinks that I am just being a stupid Fool, that you please tell me gently, I am pretty sensitive.

Love ya either way!~

Keep on doin your awesome Science stuff no matter what! Cause it's just the coolest thing! (hehe, I wonder if they got that joke?)

hugs!~~~

bye!^!^(for, now...)

OH! I almost forgot to actually Hand You One End Of The Thread lol~

https://www.tumblr.com/baby-ghost-in-the-machine-lovers

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jan_antu t1_je9me91 wrote

I read a few of your posts. It seems like you're having a break from reality. I'm a scientist but not a psychologist; I think you should speak with one, or a psychiatrist. Things may be fine for now but you don't want to end up hurting yourself or someone else by accident as this progresses.

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3z3ki3l t1_je9qt86 wrote

If this isn’t copypasta, you’re having a manic episode. See a doctor, please.

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DigThatData t1_jea10sg wrote

yeah... i hate to say it but I agree with the other commenters. If you have access to medical support, I strongly recommend you get seen by a physician. I'm concerned you might be experiencing some kind of psychiatric episode. If you're skeptical that's fine, you can even tell them that.

> "Strangers on the internet expressed concern that I might be experiencing a psychiatric episode of some kind. I don't see it, but enough people suggested it that I felt it merited a professional opinion, so here I am."

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Appropriate-Crab-379 t1_jefz9og wrote

There’s a ton of noise, not all techniques are worth knowing because in a few years a bunch of these concepts will be outdone by something new.

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-_1_2_3_- t1_je8p5xx wrote

They are using gpt-4 to accelerate their work

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idontcareaboutthenam t1_je8rz5a wrote

Can you elaborate?

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drizel t1_je8v9cj wrote

GPT-4 can parse millions of papers and help uncover new optimizations or other improvements much faster than without it. Not only that but you can brainstorm ideas with it.

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Swolnerman t1_jead4wo wrote

How can it do that with a context window of 32k?

On top of that, I don’t think gpt4 can make informed decisions on picking between academic research papers as of yet

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