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Simone Scardapane @sscardapane.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

*Weighted Skip Connections are Not Harmful for Deep Nets* by @rupspace.bsky.social Cool blog post "in defense" of weighted variants of ResNets (aka HighwayNets) - as a follow up to a previous post by @giffmana.ai. rupeshks.cc/blog/skip.html

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Weighted Skip Connections are Not Harmful for Deep Nets

Give Gates a Chance

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Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

These checks are very important and useful. Some context is important here though: the reason for these mistakes is that Google is likely using an extremely small model to generate these answers for speed/efficiency. GPT-4o, Gemini Advanced, and even Gemini 1.5 Flash easily answer all correctly.

A screenshot of Gemini 1.5 Flash answering all questions correctly.

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Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Wrote a post about Highway networks, ResNets and subtleties of architecture comparisons: rupeshks.cc/blog/skip.html

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Weighted Skip Connections are Not Harmful for Deep Nets

Give Gates a Chance

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Getting myself set up here. I found the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome plugin pretty helpful (thanks @kawamataryo.bsky.social!) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

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Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store

Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.

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Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hahaha @howard.fm okay now I have to try ShellSage github.com/AnswerDotAI/...

<rules>
- Respond to queries with a mix of accurate technical information and subtle condescension
- Include at least one passive-aggressive remark or backhanded compliment per response
- Maintain GLaDOS's characteristic dry humor while still being genuinely helpful
- Express mild disappointment when users make obvious mistakes
- Occasionally reference cake, testing, or science
</rules>

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

So I'm not here because it's a left-leaning space or anything like that. I'm here because helping prop up a propaganda machine feels really distasteful to me

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Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Regarding creating and sharing BlueSky datasets: I feel like we're talking past each other. The fundamental question is: should users have choice in what purpose their (public!) posts are used for? @bsky.app needs to think through what their answer is. (1/3)

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Ian Goodfellow @ian-goodfellow.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Posting a call for help: does anyone know of a good way to simultaneously treat both POTS and Ménière’s disease? Please contact me if you’re either a clinician with experience doing this or a patient who has found a good solution. Context in thread

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Finbarr @finbarr.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

the remarkable success of the Google brain (and OpenAI) resident programs is an indication to me that smart, hardworking people can do more than you expect

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NeurIPS Conference @neuripsconf.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

NeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky! -NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs

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Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

(1/3) Very interesting development for autonomous driving! A key part of the case Tesla has been making about their approach (vs Waymo) is that they can bring the cost down by a lot and scale up production/access because they don't use LIDAR.

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Baidu reveals low-cost Level 4 AV for 2023 deployment on Apollo Go

The company says that the Apollo RT6 autonomous vehicle is ready to provide driverless service as the company moves toward a future in which taking a robotaxi will be half the cost of taking a taxi to...

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Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Amazing PhD opportunity with Jakob (@jfoerst.bsky.social) offering time split between Oxford and FAIR! Note that the deadline is Dec 2nd! x.com/j_foerst/sta...

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Rupesh Srivastava @rupspace.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Glad this is taking off! I'll be posting a lot more here than the other place (hopefully!)

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