Agenda & minutes:
- Welcome to the 2nd meeting!
- Organizational issues
- This agenda and minutes is on a blog, https://AIntwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com. You can add comments if you like, just like for many other blogs.
- This meeting will be automatically ended by Zoom after 40 min.
- Continuing the discussion in another meeting afterward has been suggested. This is something to consider in the future.
- Future meetings: The consensus is that each meeting focus on a presentation by someone about something. (This is instead of trying to cover a bunch of smaller things in each meeting.)
- Next meeting, Jan. 28: VK will present his current work.
- Feb. 4 meeting: One of MM's students will present.
- Feb. 11 meeting: We will focus on "Attention is All You Need" and read and discuss it together.
- Feb. 18 meeting: Any ideas/requests?
- Readings that have been suggested
- "Deep learning—a first meta-survey of selected reviews across scientific disciplines, their commonalities, challenges and research impact," https://peerj.com/articles/cs-773.
- We read the abstract last time and scanned more this time. It is not clear whether we should continue reading material from it. Any opinions/thoughts/comments?
- "Attention is all you need," https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf
- We read the first sentence of the abstract and discussed it quite a bit. This is a classic and important paper. We will devote a future meeting to reading through more of it, bit by bit.
- VW has "a Python Quick Reference that runs in Google collab that I can go over for real time ML demonstrations." He presented but did not finish last time, and we didn't get to it this time, so we could devote a future meeting to it.
- Any other updates/news/inputs/comments?
The quantum computing paper you linked to starts out, "High-fidelity control of...". Unless one is already familiar with quantum computing, it would be necessary to stop in confusion here, at the first word, "high-fidelity." What is that? It seems the paper is advanced enough to stop most readers in confusion, and on the very first word. We could put this paper on the agenda to read some of together, and figure these concepts out, if there is any desire to do so.
ReplyDeleteIf I stopped on the first term I didn't understand I wouldn't get anywhere so I read like a baby listens to English, waiting for the dangling references to be resolved. But I get your point.
ReplyDeleteQuantum computing papers are notoriously difficult because they depend on a lexicon developed in quantum mechanics, like Bell's theorem, definition of a qubit on the Bloch sphere, complex numbers, Dirac bra-ket notation, quantum entanglement, Hadamard transformations, Shor's algorithm, the double-slit experiment, and general culture. So before we read that paper we should at least have these concepts under our belt.