Matthew Barnett

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Someone who is interested in learning and doing good.

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Walkthrough: The Transformer Architecture [Part 1/2]

Matthew Barnett30 Jul 2019 13:54 UTC

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Walkthrough: The Transformer Architecture [Part 2/2]

Matthew Barnett31 Jul 2019 13:54 UTC

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Understanding Batch Normalization

Matthew Barnett1 Aug 2019 17:56 UTC

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Rethinking Batch Normalization

Matthew Barnett2 Aug 2019 20:21 UTC

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A Survey of Early Impact Measures

Matthew Barnett6 Aug 2019 1:22 UTC

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[Question] What are the best resources for examining the evidence for anthropogenic climate change?

Matthew Barnett6 Aug 2019 2:53 UTC

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Understanding Recent Impact Measures

Matthew Barnett7 Aug 2019 4:57 UTC

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Four Ways An Impact Measure Could Help Alignment

Matthew Barnett8 Aug 2019 0:10 UTC

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Why Gradients Vanish and Explode

Matthew Barnett9 Aug 2019 2:54 UTC

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A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 1: Basic review

Matthew Barnett12 Aug 2019 23:44 UTC

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A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 2: Jacobians and other fun

Matthew Barnett15 Aug 2019 1:13 UTC

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A Primer on Matrix Calculus, Part 3: The Chain Rule

Matthew Barnett17 Aug 2019 1:50 UTC

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[Question] How can you use music to boost learning?

Matthew Barnett17 Aug 2019 6:59 UTC

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[Question] Has Moore’s Law actually slowed down?

Matthew Barnett20 Aug 2019 19:18 UTC

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One Way to Think About ML Transparency

Matthew Barnett2 Sep 2019 23:27 UTC

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A simple environment for showing mesa misalignment

Matthew Barnett26 Sep 2019 4:44 UTC

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Misconceptions about continuous takeoff

Matthew Barnett8 Oct 2019 21:31 UTC

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Two explanations for variation in human abilities

Matthew Barnett25 Oct 2019 22:06 UTC

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Will transparency help catch deception? Perhaps not

Matthew Barnett4 Nov 2019 20:52 UTC

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Explaining why false ideas spread is more fun than why true ones do

Matthew Barnett24 Nov 2019 20:21 UTC

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