7:00 –

• David Manheim (scholar)
  • I work on existential risk mitigation, computational modelling, and epidemiology. I spend time talking about Goodhart’s Law, and have been a #Superforecaster with the Good Judgement Project since 2012.
• Goodhart’s law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”^[1] One way in which this can occur is individuals trying to anticipate the effect of a policy and then taking actions that alter its outcome
• Dissertation
• Continuing TF 2.0 Keras tutorial
  • Had a weird problem where

    from tensorflow import keras

    made IntelliJ complain, but the python interpreter ran fine. I then installed keras, and IJ stopped complaining. Checking the version(s) seems to be identical, even though I can see that there is a new keras directory in D:\Program Files\Python37\Lib\site-packages. And we know that the interpreter and IDE are pointing to the same place:

    "D:\Program Files\Python37\python.exe" D:/Development/Sandboxes/PyBullet/src/TensorFlow/HelloKeras.py
    2019-09-05 11:30:04.694327: I tensorflow/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:44] Successfully opened dynamic library cudart64_100.dll
    tf.keras version = 2.2.4-tf
    keras version = 2.2.4-tf

• • This has the implication that instead of :

    from tensorflow.keras import layers

    I need to have:

    from keras import layers

    I mean, it works, but it’s weird and makes me think that something subtle may be busted…