“you can’t put a Latin ending—i—on a word derived from Greek, such as octopus” Excerpt From: Montgomery, Sy. “The Soul of an Octopus.” Simon & Schuster UK. Apple Books. This material may be protected by copyright.

We’ve gone from training small convolutional nets on face images to training giant language models on pay-walled, copyrighted, toxic, dangerous, and otherwise harmful content, all of which we may want to “erase” from the ML models—sometimes with access to only a handful of examples.

It’s so peaceful at 5 AM.

You never realize how much data you create until you try to consolidate.

If Veterans Day (11/11) is a Federal Holiday in the United States, and banks are closed, and government offices are closed, shouldn’t this be a holiday for everyone?