Gwern Branwen
Gwern Branwen
So I and another were trying out dcgan.torch to see how well it would work on image sets more complicated than faces (kudos on writing an implementation _much_ easier to...
Not all file corpuses are flawless; sometimes files are empty or the suffix doesn't match the format or they get deleted during the run etc. Since dcgan.torch assumes file reads...
(This is related to but not identical to issue #2 .) Cropping is particularly undesirable on very small images like 64x64 where it may delete a lot of the image...
On my system (Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS / Emacs 25.2.2 / elpa-markdown-mode 2.3+154-1), something has been annoying me for a long time: using `M-x ispell` frequently attempts to spellcheck hyperlinks (particularly...
I've been trying out ABC with GPT-2 along the lines of [my poetry generation](https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2) (max-likelihood training and then I'll use OA's RL preference-learning for finetuning), and I've found that some...
(This is a followup to my earlier comment on ["The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks"](https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/).) Once a `char-rnn` is trained, the user wants to use the RNN to generate...
Some URL garbage I have noticed in my daily browsing that Neat-URL appears to miss on major websites: - Google: '&hl=en'/'?hl=en&' (all?), '?usp=sharing', eg `https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Y4_pp5miLXCeGHkzg7wptTRviHiyViWB?usp=sharing` - Substack '?s=r' (all) -...
While using the SingleFile-CLI to archive gwern.net external links, I review them manually and note when they don't seem to work either in Chrome SingleFile-CLI or FF SingleFile manually, and...
There is a newly-standardized HTML5 feature, image lazy loading, which allows images in a web page to be loaded only shortly before they would come on screen, potentially greatly reducing...
Related to [a suggestion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10671174) for better [cryptographic timestamping](http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs#cryptographic-timestamping) of Git repos & other things, `git-evtag` was proposed as a solution to the weak SHA-1 hashes Git uses. I wanted to...