entheoi

[ashstfu]

i feel totally normal about this and the scope of my desire is completely average

[suhaylah]

landscape studies (2020)

shop: suhaylah.bigcartel.com instagram: @suhaylah.h

[lucelinguist]

missing this desk back when I was in my final year of university

[preciselywibble]

Quantum-Enhanced LLM Efficient Fine Tuning

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enables efficient fine-tuning of pre-trained language models via low-rank matrix approximation, which is effectiv

LoRAs (and similar techniques) let you represent a large number of numbers in a way similar to Singular Value Decomposition; you represent a big matrix by approximating it as an outer product of two smaller matrices, losing some information as you do. You want this for fine-tuning neural networks because you want to be able to impact all of the weights of the system with as few parameters as you can get away with.

This leads to a "rank bottleneck". Think of it as the bandwidth of a channel being limited by the narrowest point. One way to improve accuracy is to just use bigger matrices, which is expensive. This paper instead enhances the narrowest point of the classical channel with a quantum channel.

And then they actually went and did it. Actual usage of quantum computers. Demonstrating usefulness. Or at least demonstrating a kind of behaviour that some more engineering might make practical - the paper makes some claims about step reduction and parameter count but not about literal time and money.

[wildcat2030]

“Imagine being a cloud of interstellar gas; imagine your widespread-ness, your enormousness, how thin your tendrils, how intimate your radiation, how cataclysmic the nearby supernova, how dark the moving black holes, how minuscule those little points of light they call stars… Imagine your immensity. You feel vast, yet on the grand cosmic scale, you realize how infinitesimal you are. Imagine a human, a mind just like you, looking at the stars, imagining being an interstellar gas cloud, imagining its own vastness.”

— Minds! Vast Minds! (we need). Imagine being a cloud of interstellar… | by Tyger A.C | Oct, 2024 | Medium

[yesterdaysprint]

The San Francisco Examiner, California, August 23, 1932

[yekkes]

The only thing that has ever improved my mental health in any measurable capacity is making more friends. That's literally it

[thejhambs]

The way isolation plays on your psyche, and the way that a solid support system can improve your life is insane. One of the worst things that we did as a society is removing most avenues to find this kind of thing, and the over reliance on the idea of getting better on your own

[yekkes]

!!!

[yekkes]

[theambitiouswoman]

If you lack discipline, you also lack:

Consistency Focus Progress Self control Confidence Time management Achievement Accountability Motivation Reliability Resilience Healthy habits Financial stability Structure Emotional regulation Work ethic Clarity Purpose

Discipline isn’t just about goals or career. It’s about you & the relationship you have with yourself.

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[henk-heijmans]

Untitled, from the series "Nudes of the Sea", 1962 - by Lucien Clergue (1934 - 2014), French

[kristiineozola]

[writhe]

Astronauts talking about viewing the earth from the moon, from The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-Transcendent Experience in Space Flight

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[laetitia-casta]

Laetitia Casta by Cedric Buchet - 2010

[expressions-of-nature]

by Alexander Pashenichev

[aoca]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NNPLlgTmt/

[aoca]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWWkxTNg0Rw/