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Christopher Byrd retweeted
18 Sep 2020
Thank you for all the feedback!
This came together very slowly over the last year, during odd moments I could find in the day to slowly build it out. Most of all, it gave me joy to think deeply about this topic.
Website: hardwarelottery.github.io/
Paper: bit.ly/3ku2OmB
17 Sep 2020
Really great history position paper by @sarahookr:
The Hardware Lottery (arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489)
"This essay introduces the term HW lottery to describe when a research idea wins b/c it suits the available SW/HW, not because the idea is superior to alt. research directions."
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
12 Aug 2019
It's 2043, and the A.I. Revolution should be an age of plenty for all, not a Gilded Age with no end in sight, writes Baobao Zhang in the latest Op-Ed From the Future nyti.ms/2yWvTBz
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
30 Jan 2019
For my inaugural Science&China column @supchinanews, I wrote about three physicists who saw their lives & career diverge in the whirlwinds of war & geopolitics, the Nobel laureate Chen-Ning Yang, his lifelong friend Deng Jiaxian, & their teacher Wu Ta-You.
supchina.com/2019/01/30/for-…
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17 Jan 2019
Had a fantastic visit to @instadeepai , capping off a great week in Nairobi. Thanks @_tabbz for hosting!
15 Jan 2019
It was great to welcome researchers from prestigious @SAISHopkins and @Tsinghua_Uni to our Nairobi office to talk with @_tabbz and our team about our research and vision. What an exciting visit filled with knowledge-sharing! Thanks for coming! #AI #ML #Kenya #Africa
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
17 Dec 2018
My favorite graphic from an excellent @OpenAI blog post about the relationship between hardware used and training time, and how that relationship varies across different models/problems. The post is also a great demonstration of... (2/2)
blog.openai.com/science-of-a…
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
11 Dec 2018
So proud to debut the #ChinAI project at @MacroPoloChina. We get past the hype on Chinese AI, using new data & digital interactives to break down key building blocks & stumbling blocks for Chinese AI ambitions: data, talent, firms, gov plan. Check it out: macropolo.org/chinai/
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
26 Nov 2018
Montezuma’s Revenge solved! 2 million points & level 159! Go-Explore is a new algorithm for hard-exploration problems. Shatters Pitfall records too 21,000 vs 0 Blog:eng.uber.com/go-explore Vid youtu.be/L_E3w_gHBOY By @AdrienLE @Joost_Huizinga @joelbot3000 @kenneth0stanley & me
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
11 Nov 2018
25 years ago today the first major web browser was released: Mosaic 1.0. bit.ly/2Hr9Khu #otd #todayintech (via @NCSAatIllinois)
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2 Nov 2018
Curious #AI is a really interesting design strategy, and it's already getting great results, including above average-human performance on Montezuma's Revenge!
blog.openai.com/reinforcemen…
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
24 Oct 2018
"Superhuman Starcraft Play with Deep Reinforcement Learning": bit.ly/2de38pb
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9 Oct 2018
Not surprised given how Maven turned out, but this is still a significant development.
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
10 Aug 2018
An important article on the Pentagon’s new Joint AI Center by @JadeFLeung & @SophieCFischer @BulletinAtomic thebulletin.org/2018/08/jaic…
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5 Aug 2018
If this was really an attempted assassination by drone, it's a pretty important milestone.
If it turns out to be a false flag and the Maduro gov't chose to use a drone attack as their cover story... that's also an important milestone.
washingtonpost.com/world/mad…
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
3 Aug 2018
A bipartisan group of six US Senators has just sent out a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding information about the company's proposed China censored search app, which they say risks complicity in human rights abuses: rubio.senate.gov/public/inde…
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
1 Aug 2018
We have posted our first Working Group Charters. These are guiding documents which define key questions and considerations in themes across AI and society—each has been crafted by a group of experts representing our wide-ranging community: partnershiponai.org/working-…
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
11 Jul 2018
Breaking: China's Shandong Province cracks major case on privacy violations by tech companies: 57 individuals arrested, 11 companies involved - big fish is the well-known company Datatang (数据党)...finance.sina.com.cn/spread/t…
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
7 Jul 2018
Mind-boggling fact of the day: The @DeptofDefense is the largest employer in the world, with 3.2 million employees as of 2010. The PLA and Walmart, the world's tied-for-second-largest employers, come in a 2.3 million employees each.
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Christopher Byrd retweeted
2 Jul 2018
A leaked Chinese propaganda guidance obtained by @CDT provides some very unique insights about PRC preferences, strategy, and public opinion management for the US-China trade war. Everyone should read it. Here are 6 quick takeaways:
chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/0…
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