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Interested in the application of deep learning within actuarial work.
Connecting mastodon users in #SouthAfrica. Comment or boost if you're one of us.
Let's see what happens on this site.
1: #Tokyo metro map in 2D.
2: The same map in 3D.
If there is one thing the deep learning revolution has taught us, it's that neural nets will outperform hand-designed heuristics, given enough compute and data.

But we still use hand-designed heuristics to train our models. Let's replace our optimizers with trained neural nets!
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@RonRichman it benefits from larger datasets so in that sense I would say not too much. It is clear that similar starting point is crucial (although some works claim aligning the right neurons is enough to allow reasonable fusing even without it).

I have seen people reflecting on the parallels between USENET and Mastodon.

A million (25) years ago I wrote a book about community on USENET. If you’re not familiar and want a primer, this might be a fun time to read it.

The parallel is good, if imperfect. Understanding the old internet can only make you wiser about understanding today’s.

https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/tune-in-log-on/book9365

Recycling Finetuned models, it works!

Finetuned models lie everywhere,
there must be a way to use the data and compute invested in them.

Apparently averaging their weights is such a method.

3 papers & A🧡

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.03044.pdf