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I've been writing a toy neural network library as a hobby project, and I've got to the point where it can recognise handwritten digits pretty accurately. Because this is a learning exercise, I'm visualising the training process and network weights, and it's really cool to watch it work.
Here is a cool bug where I messed up the math so the network tried to basically memorise all the example images,

2 views I've been writing a toy neural network library as a hobby project, and I've got to the point where it can recognise handwritten digits pretty accurately. Because this is a learning exercise, I'm visualising the training process and network weights, and it's really cool to watch it work. Here is a cool bug where I messed up the math so the network tried to basically memorise all the example images,

It's also helping build intuition for how modern LLMs work. Although they're a lot more sophisticated in every way, they still have a lot in common with my toy implementation.
For example, there's evidence that they can regurgitate large parts of their training data. But there's not enough space in the weights to literally memorise all of the internet (and every book ever written, etc). So instead

1 views It's also helping build intuition for how modern LLMs work. Although they're a lot more sophisticated in every way, they still have a lot in common with my toy implementation. For example, there's evidence that they can regurgitate large parts of their training data. But there's not enough space in the weights to literally memorise all of the internet (and every book ever written, etc). So instead

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🔥 Top post I thought this long post was a good example of what real "employee ethical resistance" could actually look like, and reads differently from the usual "Why I quit (besides being fully vested)" post. This guy wasn't content with signing a petition, he conducted a pressure campaign… ★ 16

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@phranck/117015452076584540 This is like watching a very high-concept science fiction movie ★ 2 This is a great, sober analysis of the actual practical effect of coding agents on software delivery. "The slowest part of verification was never the checking but accountability. [Agents don't speed this up because] it is not information p… You know you're #adulting when you're impatiently waiting for the dishwasher installers like they're fucking Santa Claus ★ 3

Successfully made the world's worst rhythm game #til https://bubbles.town/ it's a Fediverse-flavoured link aggregator (like Hacker News or Lobsters) focusing on non-tech independent blogs. Nice idea for #SmallWeb discovery. ★ 13 This was a good reminder that sometimes reason and empathy can win against the stupid, cruel and expedient: > I see the cynicism. I understand it too. If we can move beyond cynicism and talk about the merit of open source, we can make a d… ★ 2 What's meta-interesting is both how spooky and unfamiliar that is - I don't actually know *how* it recognises digits, which is not how I'm used to thinking about software I wrote - but also how mundane it is. It's just pushing numbers arou… ★ 1

It's also helping build intuition for how modern LLMs work. Although they're a lot more sophisticated in every way, they still have a lot in common with my toy implementation. For example, there's evidence that they can regurgitate large p… ★ 1 Partly I wanted to do this to understand backpropagation. It's fairly magical in practice - you write a program that's wrong, and if you don't like the output it gives you, backprop tells you how to adjust the program to get a better outpu…

I've been writing a toy neural network library as a hobby project, and I've got to the point where it can recognise handwritten digits pretty accurately. Because this is a learning exercise, I'm visualising the training process and network… ★ 2 Does anyone have background on the shift from tech companies having "values" to instead having "operating principles"? I assume it came from some VC group text. Today's GitLab announcement follows that playbook - retiring a written list of… ★ 10

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Immigrant, mixologist, engineer. Interested in feedback loops, abstractions, nuance. I move JSON around | ex LaunchDarkly, Honeycomb, LinkedIn, Rapportive

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