7/5/24: Readings/Viewings

Machine Learning Study Group

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 Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu

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Agenda & Minutes

119th meeting, July 5, 2024

 

• Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
• Current activity: Here are the latest readings and viewings. We will start on these.
• Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M. We viewed up to time 15:00 and can start there next time (or maybe restart from a little earlier but not from the beginning, probably. 6/7/24, vote was 4 6.75/8.

The meeting ended here.

 

• LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract.
• KO presentation on 7/19/24.