Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly On File Bytes – Apple Machine Learning Research

our model requires absolutely no modality-specific processing at inference time, and uses an order of magnitude fewer parameters at equivalent accuracy on ImageNet. We demonstrate that the same ByteFormer architecture can perform audio classification without modifications or modality-specific preprocessing Source: Bytes Are All You Need: Transformers Operating Directly On File Bytes – Apple Machine Learning […]

Carpentopod: A walking table project

some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod. Source: Carpentopod: A walking table project 木   牛流马

How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine – blag

direnv is one nifty tool which lets you have different environment variables based on directories/path. The best part is, as soon as you enter into a directory, direnv does it’s magic, so you don’t have to remember that you have to run direnv Source: How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same […]

Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk | Jascha’s blog

My top fears include targeted manipulation of humans, autonomous weapons, massive job loss, AI-enabled surveillance and subjugation, widespread failure of societal mechanisms, extreme concentration of power, and loss of human control. Source: Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk | Jascha’s blog

Mental health in software engineering | Hacker News

In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn’t going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably not the fault of engineering unless its so dysfunctional as to repeatably blow […]