Ivy Zhang
@iyzg.bsky.social
purveyor of technical toomfoolery and silly shenanigans
1/52 blog posts for the year: sounds of new orleans! it's really short, so anything I'd put here is a spoiler :p
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Sounds of New Orleans
Sound (singular) (the title is misleading)
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January 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
1/52 blog posts for the year: sounds of new orleans! it's really short, so anything I'd put here is a spoiler :p
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/ope...
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/ope...
woah, this is really cool! will be checking this out :)
December 9, 2024 at 1:25 PM
woah, this is really cool! will be checking this out :)
10 week streak of missing my take out trash reminder
December 7, 2024 at 6:49 PM
10 week streak of missing my take out trash reminder
my anki time has somehow increased after finals
December 6, 2024 at 11:11 PM
my anki time has somehow increased after finals
Would be happy to read an unpacking!
December 6, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Would be happy to read an unpacking!
i somehow know what all these words mean in isolation yet nothing about the final theorem haha
December 6, 2024 at 8:20 PM
i somehow know what all these words mean in isolation yet nothing about the final theorem haha
spot the bug in the code! kind of sneaky one :)
December 6, 2024 at 5:28 PM
spot the bug in the code! kind of sneaky one :)
joke in the above post left as an exercise for the reader
December 5, 2024 at 8:34 PM
joke in the above post left as an exercise for the reader
my biggest red flag is checking loss curves on dates
December 5, 2024 at 8:34 PM
my biggest red flag is checking loss curves on dates
oh my goodness the VAE isn't just collapsing... im so happy rn
December 5, 2024 at 8:10 PM
oh my goodness the VAE isn't just collapsing... im so happy rn
but if anyone wants to point out what I'm doing wrong, the code is github.com/iyzg/world_m...! (I'll happily take PRs and links to things to learn :)
GitHub - iyzg/world_models: Personal implementation of David Ha's world model
Personal implementation of David Ha's world model. Contribute to iyzg/world_models development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:10 PM
but if anyone wants to point out what I'm doing wrong, the code is github.com/iyzg/world_m...! (I'll happily take PRs and links to things to learn :)
working on reimplementing @hardmaru's World Model arch and woke up to this... pretty sure the KL loss is too large
December 5, 2024 at 2:10 PM
working on reimplementing @hardmaru's World Model arch and woke up to this... pretty sure the KL loss is too large
did I spend 3 hours debugging an int-> float conversion that was causing everything to go black? maybe.
December 5, 2024 at 1:53 AM
did I spend 3 hours debugging an int-> float conversion that was causing everything to go black? maybe.
took me way too long, but I think I've finally got the VAE from hardmaru's world models kind of training now :))
December 5, 2024 at 1:53 AM
took me way too long, but I think I've finally got the VAE from hardmaru's world models kind of training now :))
if anything catches your eye, hmu!
December 4, 2024 at 2:56 AM
if anything catches your eye, hmu!
ivyzhang.me/philosophy-o...
ivyzhang.me/ethics
ivyzhang.me/what-is-life
in the spirit of fiddly scribbles, I've decided to start writing half-baked notebooks again on topics :)
ivyzhang.me/ethics
ivyzhang.me/what-is-life
in the spirit of fiddly scribbles, I've decided to start writing half-baked notebooks again on topics :)
December 4, 2024 at 2:45 AM
ivyzhang.me/philosophy-o...
ivyzhang.me/ethics
ivyzhang.me/what-is-life
in the spirit of fiddly scribbles, I've decided to start writing half-baked notebooks again on topics :)
ivyzhang.me/ethics
ivyzhang.me/what-is-life
in the spirit of fiddly scribbles, I've decided to start writing half-baked notebooks again on topics :)
uh oh, watched a @todepond.com talk and am now inspired to share scrappy fiddles
December 4, 2024 at 2:32 AM
uh oh, watched a @todepond.com talk and am now inspired to share scrappy fiddles
pushing the personal website boundaries, love this!
December 3, 2024 at 12:27 AM
pushing the personal website boundaries, love this!
Doing Advent of Code this year if anyone else wants to make a private leaderboard :)
December 2, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Doing Advent of Code this year if anyone else wants to make a private leaderboard :)
oh man, now I'm missing NTMs :p
November 30, 2024 at 4:20 PM
oh man, now I'm missing NTMs :p
Does anyone have cool papers on how creativity scales with # of humans/AI on a task or the social hierarchy they're organized in?
Also interested in finding labs that work on this!
Also interested in finding labs that work on this!
November 30, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Does anyone have cool papers on how creativity scales with # of humans/AI on a task or the social hierarchy they're organized in?
Also interested in finding labs that work on this!
Also interested in finding labs that work on this!
one of these days I'll finish rustlings and the book...
or so I've been saying for the past four years
or so I've been saying for the past four years
November 25, 2024 at 3:10 PM
one of these days I'll finish rustlings and the book...
or so I've been saying for the past four years
or so I've been saying for the past four years
What's the disruptive new entrant in this scenario?
November 25, 2024 at 3:08 PM
What's the disruptive new entrant in this scenario?