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Read this korrent: Unsupervised learning trained on unfiltered, internet-scale image data now genuinely works.
Unsupervised learning trained on unfiltered, internet-scale image data now genuinely works.
Last stated 6 years ago
6 Apr 2021
GW
Gwern — holds since 2021-04-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and more accurate than existing image datasets. — tap to centre the map on it
ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and more accurate than existing image datasets.
Last stated 17 years ago
1 Jun 2009
FL
Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2009-06-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Supervised pretraining on ImageNet is now obsolete for transfer learning, and ImageNet itself is just a contaminated validation set. — tap to centre the map on it
Supervised pretraining on ImageNet is now obsolete for transfer learning, and ImageNet itself is just a contaminated validation set.
Last stated 6 years ago
6 Apr 2021
GW
Gwern — holds since 2021-04-06 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder. — tap to centre the map on it
The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.
Last stated 5 months ago
13 May 2026
AH
Anders Hejlsberg — holds since 2026-05-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Growing evidence suggests the brain performs a form of backpropagation-like learning. — tap to centre the map on it
Growing evidence suggests the brain performs a form of backpropagation-like learning.
Last stated 6 years ago
13 Mar 2021
GW
Gwern — holds since 2021-03-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Letting a robot imagine the next image helps, but it is not essential — the model was surprisingly good without it. — tap to centre the map on it
Letting a robot imagine the next image helps, but it is not essential — the model was surprisingly good without it.
Last stated 2 months ago
12 Aug 2026
CF
Chelsea Finn — holds since 2026-08-12 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The internet is not a random pile of content but the largest capture of human behaviour ever made, which is the whole reason AI trained on it works. — tap to centre the map on it
The internet is not a random pile of content but the largest capture of human behaviour ever made, which is the whole reason AI trained on it works.
Last stated 2 months ago
10 Aug 2026
FL
Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Models are enormous only because the internet is bad: most of that capacity does memory work, and a better dataset would need far less of it. — tap to centre the map on it
Models are enormous only because the internet is bad: most of that capacity does memory work, and a better dataset would need far less of it.
Last stated a year ago
17 Oct 2025
AK
Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Current AI struggles even to rediscover old laws of physics from data, and when it does, contamination from training is the first suspect. — tap to centre the map on it
Current AI struggles even to rediscover old laws of physics from data, and when it does, contamination from training is the first suspect.
Last stated a year ago
14 Jun 2025
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Terence Tao — holds since 2025-06-14 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AlexNet's real breakthrough was not computer vision but the discovery of a universal function approximator that can learn any function. — tap to centre the map on it
AlexNet's real breakthrough was not computer vision but the discovery of a universal function approximator that can learn any function.
Last stated 3 months ago
26 Jul 2026
JH
Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-07-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Atlas is the first model to unify pixel generation and pixel reconstruction, two tracks computer vision has kept apart for over half a century. — tap to centre the map on it
Atlas is the first model to unify pixel generation and pixel reconstruction, two tracks computer vision has kept apart for over half a century.
Last stated 2 months ago
4 Sept 2026
FL
Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-09-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Growth of internet image data can enable more sophisticated models for indexing and interacting with multimedia. — tap to centre the map on it
Growth of internet image data can enable more sophisticated models for indexing and interacting with multimedia.
Last stated 17 years ago
1 Jun 2009
FL
Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2009-06-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow. — tap to centre the map on it
Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.
Last stated 10 months ago
8 Dec 2025
CH
Casey Handmer — holds since 2023-10-11 — tap for who they are
CH
Casey Handmer — holds since 2025-12-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Most agent harnesses need some pruning during context compaction anyway for cost reasons, which Jev might help with. — tap to centre the map on it
Most agent harnesses need some pruning during context compaction anyway for cost reasons, which Jev might help with.
Last stated a month ago
18 Sept 2026
AR
Armin Ronacher — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Neuroplasticity is as much the removal of connections as the growth of new ones, so pruning is a form of learning rather than a form of decay. — tap to centre the map on it
Neuroplasticity is as much the removal of connections as the growth of new ones, so pruning is a form of learning rather than a form of decay.
Last stated 3 months ago
20 Jul 2026
TW
Tommy Wood — holds since 2026-07-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions. — tap to centre the map on it
Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.
Last stated 9 years ago
12 Jun 2017
IP
Illia Polosukhin — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
JU
Jakob Uszkoreit — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
NP
Niki Parmar — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
AV
Ashish Vaswani — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
NS
Noam Shazeer — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
AG
Aidan N. Gomez — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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Same subject: A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution. — tap to centre the map on it
A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
Last stated 9 years ago
12 Jun 2017
IP
Illia Polosukhin — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
JU
Jakob Uszkoreit — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
NP
Niki Parmar — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
AV
Ashish Vaswani — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
NS
Noam Shazeer — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
AG
Aidan N. Gomez — holds since 2017-06-12 — tap for who they are
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2 more
Same subject: Looped/recurrent-depth transformer architectures can improve model quality at a fixed compute budget when the model is large enough. — tap to centre the map on it
Looped/recurrent-depth transformer architectures can improve model quality at a fixed compute budget when the model is large enough.
Last stated a month ago
9 Sept 2026
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Sebastian Raschka — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
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Unsupervised learning trained on unfiltered, internet-scale image data now genuinely works.
Last stated 6 Apr 2021 · 6 years ago
Holds Gwern
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ImageNet is much larger in scale and diversity and more accurate than existing image datasets.
Last stated 1 Jun 2009 · 17 years ago
Holds Fei-Fei Li
Similar wording
Supervised pretraining on ImageNet is now obsolete for transfer learning, and ImageNet itself is just a contaminated validation set.
Last stated 6 Apr 2021 · 6 years ago
Holds Gwern
Similar wording
The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.
Last stated 13 May 2026 · 5 months ago
Holds Anders Hejlsberg
Similar wording
Growing evidence suggests the brain performs a form of backpropagation-like learning.
Last stated 13 Mar 2021 · 6 years ago
Holds Gwern
Similar wording
Letting a robot imagine the next image helps, but it is not essential — the model was surprisingly good without it.
Last stated 12 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Chelsea Finn
Similar wording
The internet is not a random pile of content but the largest capture of human behaviour ever made, which is the whole reason AI trained on it works.
Last stated 10 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Fei-Fei Li
Similar wording
Models are enormous only because the internet is bad: most of that capacity does memory work, and a better dataset would need far less of it.
Last stated 17 Oct 2025 · a year ago
Holds Andrej Karpathy
Similar wording
Current AI struggles even to rediscover old laws of physics from data, and when it does, contamination from training is the first suspect.
Last stated 14 Jun 2025 · a year ago
Holds Terence Tao
Same subject: computer vision
AlexNet's real breakthrough was not computer vision but the discovery of a universal function approximator that can learn any function.
Last stated 26 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Jensen Huang
Same subject: computer vision
Atlas is the first model to unify pixel generation and pixel reconstruction, two tracks computer vision has kept apart for over half a century.
Last stated 4 Sept 2026 · 2 months ago
Holds Fei-Fei Li
Same subject: computer vision
Growth of internet image data can enable more sophisticated models for indexing and interacting with multimedia.
Last stated 1 Jun 2009 · 17 years ago
Holds Fei-Fei Li
Same subject: pruning
Batteries will replace transmission as the cheapest way to keep the lights on, and the grid will shrink rather than grow.
Last stated 8 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago
Holds Casey Handmer
Same subject: pruning
Most agent harnesses need some pruning during context compaction anyway for cost reasons, which Jev might help with.
Last stated 18 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds Armin Ronacher
Same subject: pruning
Neuroplasticity is as much the removal of connections as the growth of new ones, so pruning is a form of learning rather than a form of decay.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
Holds Tommy Wood
Same subject: transformers
Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.
Last stated 12 Jun 2017 · 9 years ago
Holds Illia Polosukhin Jakob Uszkoreit Niki Parmar Ashish Vaswani Noam Shazeer Aidan N. Gomez Llion Jones Łukasz Kaiser
Same subject: transformers
A transduction model can rely entirely on self-attention for input and output representations without sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
Last stated 12 Jun 2017 · 9 years ago
Holds Illia Polosukhin Jakob Uszkoreit Niki Parmar Ashish Vaswani Noam Shazeer Aidan N. Gomez Llion Jones Łukasz Kaiser
Same subject: transformers
Looped/recurrent-depth transformer architectures can improve model quality at a fixed compute budget when the model is large enough.
Last stated 9 Sept 2026 · a month ago
Holds Sebastian Raschka