Donations for 2019/2020
Each year I aim to donate around 10% of my income. In 2019, I fell behind on
this, probably due to the chaos of COVID-19 (but really this was just an
embarassing logistical
Measurement, Optimization, and Take-off Speed
In machine learning, we are obsessed with datasets and metrics: progress in
areas as diverse as natural language understanding, object recognition, and
reinforcement learning is tracked by numerical scores on agreed-upon benchmarks.
Despite
Sets with Small Intersection
Suppose that we want to construct subsets $S_1, \ldots, S_m \subseteq
\{1,\ldots,n\}$ with the following properties:
1. $|S_i| \geq k$ for all $i$
2. $|S_i \cap S_
Advice for Authors
I've spent much of the last few days reading various ICML papers and I find
there's a few pieces of feedback that I give consistently across several papers.
I&
Model Mis-specification and Inverse Reinforcement Learning
In my previous post, “Latent Variables and Model Mis-specification
[https://jsteinhardt.wordpress.com/2017/01/10/latent-variables-and-model-mis-specification/]
”, I argued that while machine learning is good at optimizing accuracy on
observed signals, it has