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Christopher Nguyen ⽗
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CEO—Builder, Leader, Professor—ex Panasonic/Google/HKUST/Refugee, Vietnamese in Unicode—bit.ly/scholar-ctn. Follow for tweets on Industrial AI
Science & TechnologyLos Altos, CAlinkedin.com/in/ctnguyenJoined December 2007

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“At this point, only one thing remains to be done. curl -header "Content-Type: application/json" - -request POST - - data '{" message": "I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show ..”
Cognition is necessarily embodied. “It is hard .. for people to imagine what it would be like to be such an agent, so our intuitions are .. untrustworthy .. we just don’t know at present what systems with these properties are capable of learning.”
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👇🏼 a most reasonable view on the question of “Understanding”.
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As the abilities of large pre-trained language models continue to rapidly improve, as seen in this week’s ChatGPT, I find it a rather implausible position to think that these models have no understanding of the meaning of texts. At any rate it seems an unresolved question. 7/ twitter.com/sytelus/status…
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The Day The Earth Slowed Down.
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The time has come — or will come, in 2035 — to abandon the leap second. Member states of the international treaty governing science and measurement standards voted to ditch the technical fudge that has caused headaches since its inception 50 years ago. nyti.ms/3ELWT9z
“Every new discovery in machine learning demystifies a bit more of what may be going on in our brains. We’re increasingly able to borrow from the vocabulary of machine learning to talk about our minds.” 👇🏼
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We first built a tracking microscope and cutting-edge SW to record and extract high quality neural (Ca2+) and behavior data of freely moving C. elegans. Required lots of new tools—custom GPU kernels, cluster computing, new algorithms/stats, deep learning (e.g. @DeepLabCut) & more
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