Lucas Beyer (bl16)

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Researcher (now: Meta. ex: OpenAI, DeepMind, Brain, RWTH Aachen), Gamer, Hacker, Belgian. Anon feedback: admonymous.co/giffmana
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Zürich, Suisse lucasb.eyer.be Joined December 2013

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Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana Sep 14, 2022

My Transformer tutorial slides are now available at lucasb.eyer.be/transformer

I'll append recordings to this thread as I get them.

If you want to use some of the slides for your lecture, you may, as long as you credit me.

If you'd like me to give the lecture: maybe; e-mail me.

Lucas Beyer (bl16) Verified account @giffmana Sep 11, 2022

Giving a lecture introducing the Transformer architecture in all gory details at @M2lSchool tomorrow. Also got permission to publish slides and will share recording if/when I get one.

It's a pretty cool set of slides, largely thanks to @_basilM for inspiration!
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Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 15h

Well damnit, this is an extremely cool use of all the tech that also has horrible use 😬

I wrote down my thoughts on the topic a while ago here, in case you're curious and hadn't seen it then: lucasb.eyer.be/snips/cv-ethic…

But this is a nice positive application. What a pickle!

Ole Lehmann Verified account @itsolelehmann 2d

Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon

they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7

the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them

as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon

the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off

but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon

so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:

> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past

> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse

> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away

> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead

we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao

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Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 2d

That being said,

Lucas Beyer (bl16) Verified account @giffmana 4d

Not bitter lesson pilled enough. He's ngmi.
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Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 3d

Pre-announcing the pre-announcement

Pushmeet Kohli Verified account @pushmeet 3d

Across our projects @GoogleDeepMind, we are witnessing a genuine phase transition in the pace of scientific discovery. You will see a glimpse of this in our releases in the next few weeks.
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Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 3d

This is also my opinion on 95% of what people currently call RSI:

Robin Hanson Verified account @robinhanson 4d

Looks to me more like a one-time speedup than continuous acceleration.
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