Pranav Mahajan
@iam_mahajan
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DPhil student at University of Oxford. Engineer and a computational neuroscientist thinking about pain and safe AI. Views are my own @pranav-mahajan.bsky.social
Oxford, England
Joined June 2018
Ben Graham's words from 70s oddly relevant today (refering to post-covid inflation)
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RT @thegautamkamath: Nice post from Cho. A more general takeaway: in any field, hiring trends are highly temporal. If you mimic exactly wha…
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RT @fchollet: For those who didn't get it -- AlphaGo was a MCTS search process that made thousands of calls to two separate convnets in ord…
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RT @ylecun: Career opportunities for young scientists, i.e. local industry research labs and top research universities, lift the regional t…
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RT @natolambert: 1. OpenAI are trying to be a consumer company 2. Anthropic are trying to be a enterprise company (being forced in the othe…
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Check out the paper for more details! Huge thanks to my tirelessly supportive and encouraging supervisor @benosaka and very helpful co-authors @tongshuangyi and Sang Wan Lee. 4/4
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@gershbrain Episodic control (lengyel and dayan, 2007) -> Neural episodic control (pritzel et al, 2017) is one example. Perhaps also CNNs. But indeed, difficult to find more such examples.
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfiel…
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RT @dileeplearning: Successor representations (SR) is often cited as a model of hippocampus. I often get qns about SR, often attributing it…
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@OpenAI o1 is trained with RL to “think” before responding via a private chain of thought. The longer it thinks, the better it does on reasoning tasks. This opens up a new dimension for scaling. We’re no longer bottlenecked by pretraining. We can now scale inference compute too.
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RT @NC_Renic: PhDs would be cooler if instead of "Dr", you earned a more personalized title - Janet the Broke, Toby the Anxious, John the C…
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RT @criticalneuro: A thread on the history of RL/ML based on Andy Barto's talk #RLC2024: the Reinforcement Learning Conference. Beyond seei…
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RT @TrendsCognSci: Minds and markets as complex systems: an emerging approach to cognitive economics Review by Samuel G.B. Johnson, Patric…
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