How rationalists can win
The belief that “rationalists should win” is widely held in the rationalist community. So: does being a good rationalist actually help you win? Certainly in some domains, like engineering …
Balancing technological pessimism
Pessimists archive is a podcast that chronicles pessimistic reactions to emerging technology as it was becoming mainstream. Technology here is defined broadly, covering a broad range of topics: bikes, …
Web-based voice command recognition
Last time we converted audio buffers into images. This time we’ll take these images and train a neural network using deeplearn.js. The result is a browser-based demo that lets …
Audio features for web-based ML
One of the first problems presented to students of deep learning is to classify handwritten digits in the MNIST dataset. This was recently ported to the web thanks to …
UIST 2017 highlights
Picking up where I left off 3 years ago with this year’s UIST highlight reel. As expected, the research creatively applied interesting principles, but many applications were adorably contrived. …