Turing’s Dream first batch - who is in it and what they’re upto.
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1/ Praveen Chavali - @praveen_chavali is exploring the math of neural networks, and is trying to build a black box optimization method for compressing large models into smaller models.
At yesterday’s tech deep dive, he showed why GANs never converge.
@praveen_chavali 2/ Mehul Goyal - @observerforever is a former hedge fund guy who is now exploring how to model time series data using deep networks.
Yesterday, he explained the problem formulation of predicting sharpe ratio via a reinforcement learning kind of a setup.
1/ I love thinking about thinking. Give me a research paper on rationality, cognitive biases or mental models, and I’ll gobble it up.
Given the amount of knowledge I’ve ingested on these topics, I had always assumed that I’m a clear thinker.
2/ Recently, though, it hit me like a lightning strike that this belief is counter-productive.
That’s because is you “know” that you’re a clear thinker, you’re less likely to suspect that you might be missing something big in your thought process.
Effective technique for not getting involved with thoughts and emotions.
Correction: it’s acceptance commitment therapy.
By the way, not fusing with thoughts and emotions is the core of mindfulness and is pretty powerful.
Thoughts and emotions that bubble up to your consciousness is mostly clickbait - they got selected precisely because they’re exaggeration’s fabricated to make you pay attention.