Jeffrey Emanuel (@doodlestein)

I sometimes find myself preferring to read the thinking traces that lead to a response from an LLM over the final, polished response....

The beauty and utility of linear algebra, courtesy of the new ChatGPT image model (or: how the same few ideas and methods apply to just about any field in endlessly fascinating ways, including AI!). No other subject in math has more practical explanatory bang for the buck. ...

A “camera lucida” is a device that uses a prism held by a metal armature to project an image of the scene in front of it onto a piece of paper below it, sort of like a modern-day projector hooked up to a live camera stream. These were probably invented in the early 1400s, although published account...

I heard today that second order optimization algorithms are now making a comeback in deep learning, with the Shampoo optimizer outperforming Adam in some evaluation. It brought back a flood of memories for me from 2012 when I became extremely excited about “Hessian Free” methods....