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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 01/04/2025

"You are in Paris, enjoy the city, stop obsessing with AI" Paris:

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 19/12/2024

Oh boy, GTA 6 has to be good. And Half Life 3.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 17/12/2024

"We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival."

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 14/12/2024

My political weight is obviously immense since there is coffee available all the time at @neuripsconf.bsky.social this year. For next year: can we have at e.g. 10 places in the center some huge colorful discs with numbers 1...10 in them to serve as convenient meeting points?

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 12/12/2024

The topologists seem to be taking over. Large pictures + a README about this experiment at fleuret.org/public/culture

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 08/12/2024

BTW there was a bug, my version should be (with slight var name changes)

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 06/12/2024

The 4b clearly gets below the 8b after ~300M tokens and never comes back.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 05/12/2024

Just grow light blue vertically, but be careful with the occlusions (how do they decide for the ambiguity? No idea...)

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 05/12/2024

Easy: light blue shrinks vertically, moves left and turns brown.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 05/12/2024

Those four yellow corners. Is that just a coincidence, or something to come?

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 05/12/2024

Easy one. Gray turns green and hollow, pink becomes brown, and of course you switch red and blue. Who would fail that one?

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 05/12/2024

Yes, red goes to the right. Isn't it clear?

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 05/12/2024

This I love, but I do not understand why/how "they" prefer the fusion of the two rectangles instead of keeping a separate-rectangle model of the world.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 04/12/2024

Those are samples of the hand designed ones, there four types, two rows of each: "change color", "frame", "shrink/expand", "translate".

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 04/12/2024

Solving one quiz means that the model can predict *any of the four* given the three others. Which can be subtle in the ones they create.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 04/12/2024

Ah, Whova, my old, clunky, annoying, I-wish-I-was LinkedIn friend. I can't hate you because when I reinstall you, it means I gonna have one week of full-time nerdiness.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 02/12/2024

Most recent version: I keep a generated quiz only if 3+ models solve it, 2+ fail badly, and (this is new) there is no agreement of 2+ models on a different solution. This rejects quizzes inherently ambiguous for instance because of occlusion. The ones attached are not ambiguous.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 01/12/2024

And they generalized "translate" to complicated shapes. I do not get how 6 out of 12 models could agree on the spurious pixel in the corner though.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 01/12/2024

They combined "translate" with "shrink" that became "shrink in one direction".

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 01/12/2024

They combined "frame" with "change color" that became "flip color"...

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 30/11/2024

I then re-train models from scratch on a training set composed for half of those "culture quizzes". And I repeat this sequence. Here are some of the stuff they invented. 4/4

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 30/11/2024

So, refresher about my culture stuff. Here are examples of the four types of hand-designed "quizzes" I created. "Solving" it means to predict any of the four grids given the three others. 1/4

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 30/11/2024

TIL about multi-file tail -f, and looking at the man page I also learned about -F.

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François Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 29/11/2024

I have my own handle-domain, that's so nerdy.

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