Attended a bunch of ML Discussion talks and continued on Arena. Also continued formulating a plan for semantic search.

  • First talk of the day was about alphazero, which was really cool. There’s a lot I need to still learn, but the high level understanding makes sense. Abstraction is “great” — I can just refer to things as black boxes and assume I understand stuff. Need to get better at digging into the abstraction.
  • Had a coffee chat and it’s cool hearing all the various backgrounds that people come from
  • Went to a stanford cs336 lecture review and it made no sense to me really but I kinda understood some stuff when people were talking about CNNs because that’s what I worked on for arena today
  • Found a pairing partner for semantic search. Still need to think about how to model it. Do I keep the whole “interests” string, do I split it up? Do I anonymize it for privacy?
  • Need to watch the karpathy lectures. I’ll probably try to do that sometime tomorrow.

Side note:

  • The world is going crazy today. So much stuff happening, not just in the US, but abroad as well.