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In software we have a nice compilation process that transforms code into machine code. However, to "compile" an ASIC you go from a hardware description language like verilog (which basically describes the design) and pass it through a complicated pipeline that composes a number of different tools. Right now, engineers use ad-hoc flows that use bash/TCL to glue together all the parts --- the project posted above is an attempt to cleanly specify + control the "compilation" process.

Comment · 5 years ago

Not sure if I follow your JFT argument, but there's a large body of work on both (a) studying whether chasing ImageNet accuracy yields models that generalize well to out of distribution data [1, 2, 3] and (b) contextualizing progress on ImageNet (i.e., what does high accuracy on ImageNet really mean?) [4, 5, 6].

For (a), maybe surprisingly the answer is mostly yes! Better ImageNet accuracy generally corresponds to better out of distribution accuracy. For (b), it turns out that the ImageNet dataset is full of contradictions---many images have multiple ImageNet-relevant objects, and often are ambiguously or mis-labeled, etc---so it's hard to disentangle progress in identifying objects vs. models overfitting to the quirks of the benchmark.

[1] ObjectNet: https://objectnet.dev / associated paper

[2] ImageNet-v2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10811

[3] An Unbiased Lookat Dataset Bias: https://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/publications/datasets_... (pre-AlexNet!)

[4] From ImageNet to Image Classification: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11295

[5] Are we done with ImageNet? https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07159

[6] Evaluating Machine Accuracy on ImageNet: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/shankar20c.html

Comment · 6 years ago

You can use the same trick to make a touch screen for any laptop with a webcam! https://github.com/bijection/sistine

The mirror system isn't quite as macgyvered though :)

Comment · 6 years ago

> I've seen TikTok videos go viral being really critical of the US government including its foreign policy. The kind of video that would just be invisible or outright banned from Youtube or Facebook video.

Do you have any evidence of this happening? I've never heard of pro-US censorship before on any of these platforms (or any social media platform..)

Comment · 6 years ago

Sussman means free as in freedom, not free as in beer :) (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software)

Identifying Statistical Bias in Dataset Replication gradientscience.org

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