by Sean Robinson | Jun 28, 2022 | Sean Robinson
As someone involved heavily in machine learning and AI, I often get called in to answer questions related to AI in pop culture- but the recent LaMDA interview has sparked more conversation on the topic than usual. In case you haven’t heard the news, a Google...
by Sean Robinson | Oct 10, 2019 | Sean Robinson
I grew up fat. “Plump” might be a better term for a youngster who was athletic but also ate vast quantities of junk food. Somehow I managed to compete in gymnastics with a frame that, inflated to adult size, had around 70 extra pounds that had to be...
by Sean Robinson | Jan 9, 2018 | Sean Robinson
The replacement of “raw” manual labor or repetitive mental tasks with robots is definitely upon us. This has to be the single most talked-about facet of the AI revolution, and I’d definitely agree that this level of job displacement (at least) is in...
by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Come closer. What I’m about to tell you is privileged information. No seriously. Closer still. *conspiratorial whisper* The government controls the science you get to know about. Is this a surprise to anyone? It could be. Right now my country (that’s the USA) is...
by Sean Robinson | Sep 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
“If all you have is a hammer…” so the old adage goes. As it turns out, I have a nice big one, and a corresponding anvil. One is called Monte-Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC), and the other is called the method of Maximum Likelihood. I’m going to talk about the first one...
