Cool bike accident map: rjfische.carto.com/viz/6ba7f7e8-3905-4d28-9596-2cc2d4d40b8b/embed_map
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Keeping all the cats aligned for the reading and defense
Phil 2.25.20
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Phil 1.24.20
7:00 – 5:00 ASRC GOES
- SUBMITTED MY DISSERTATION!
- GOES
- Need to put together a matrix on sim elements -started, and pinged Isaac and Vadim
- Nice GOES-R, S, T, U Spacecraft Overview
- GSAW
- Finish slide deck. Due Feb 3
- 4:00 white paper meeting
- Sent some abstracts out to the group
- Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) March 31 – April 2, 2020 Building 6000, Myer Auditorium
Phil 1.23.2020
7:00 – 6:00 ASRC GOES
Check Copenhagen Wheel serial number for this recall
- Get comments back to Antonio tonight! – done
- Dissertation
- Writing chapter summaries
- Research design – done
- Simulation – done
- Adversarial herding – done
- Belief space cartography – done
- Human study – done
- Discussion – done
- Conclusions – done!
- Sent pdfs to common vision. Need to set the pdfs out with a note tomorrow morning
- Caught up with Wayne a bit and commented out the “Why this is HCC section” Keep it for a backup slide though
- Writing chapter summaries
- Very interesting Invisibilia on AI
- GSAW prep
- Registration
- Told Aaron about OpML 20. It’s only two pages and due on Feb 25. Maybe a quick writeup of Optevolver?
Phil 1.22.20
7:00 – 6:00 ASRC GOES
Check Copenhagen Wheel serial number for this recall
Contact Dreamhost about missing folders – done Fixed!
- Dissertation
- Writing chapter summaries
- Intro – done
- Background – done
- Lit review – done
- Theory – done
- Very interesting Radiolab on migration
- Writing chapter summaries
- GSAW prep
- Tix and hotel – done
- Registration?
- TF Dev Conf
- Tix, car, and hotel – done
- GOES
- Met with Vadim
- Need to write up a monthly plan for Erik for the sim
- GPT-2 Agents
- Torch generator: github.com/graykode/gpt-2-Pytorch
- Chess: colab.research.google.com/drive/12hlppt1f2N0L9Orp8YCLgon6EF5V3vuR
Phil 1.21.20
7:00 – 6:00 ASRC GOES
- Dissertation
- Chasing TODOs
- TODO: Add transition paragraph (ch_background.tex) – done
- TODO: stiff, moving platform (ch_background.tex) – done
- TODO: clarify multicellular vs individuals vs dangerous stampedes Connect the lists. (sec_biological_basis.tex) – done
- GSAW prep
- Tix and hotel
- TF Dev Conf
- Tix and hotel
Phil 1.20.20
- Transformers are a very exciting family of machine learning architectures. Many good tutorials exist, but in the last few years transformers have mostly become simpler, so that it is now much more straightforward to explain how modern architectures work. This post is an attempt to explain directly how modern transformers work, and why, without some of the historical baggage.
Dissertation
- Folding in Wayne’s edits
- Made the Arendt paragraph of velocity less reflective and more objective.
- TODO: Defend facts to opinion with examples of language, framing, what is interesting, etc.-done
- TODO: Heavy thoughts, light and frivolous, etc. We ascribe these, but they are not there – done
- TODO: We have a MASSIVE physical bias. Computers don’t. Done
- TODO: COmputers and people must work together
- Title case all refs (Section, Table, etc) – done
- \texttt all urls (reddit, etc) – done
- search for and / or slashes
- Fix underlines as per here– done!
% for better underlining \usepackage[outline]{contour} \usepackage{ulem} \normalem % use classical emph \newcommand \myul[4]{% \begingroup% \renewcommand \ULdepth {#1}% \renewcommand \ULthickness {#2}% \contourlength{#3}% \uline{\phantom{#4}}\llap{\contour{white}{#4}}% \endgroup% }
Phil 1.17.20
An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have
- Like a brain, an ant colony operates without central control. Each is a set of interacting individuals, either neurons or ants, using simple chemical interactions that in the aggregate generate their behaviour. People use their brains to remember. Can ant colonies do that?
7:00 – ASRC
- Dissertation
- More edits
- Changed all the overviews so that they also reference the section by name. It reads better now, I think
- Meeting with Thom
- GPT-2 Agents
- GSAW Slide deck
Phil 1.16.20
Optuna: An open source hyperparameter optimization framework to automate hyperparameter search
- Medium writeup. It looks like this is Bayesian, and is better than hyperopt?
7:00 – 5:00 ASRC GOES
- Dissertation
- Starting to add Wayne’s comments
- Finished the intro, starting motivation
- NSOF Meeting with Isaac & Bruce
- Still looking at the optimal scenario to use the current simulators (running over a weekend) to generate data
- Data sets are used to train and evaluate, then progressively simplified until they can no longer recognize the source data. This will let us estimate the fidelity of the simulations we need.
- JuryRoom meeting. Looking into adding UX faculty. Meeting is expanding to 6:00 – 8:00
Phil 1.15.20
I got invited to the TF Dev conference!
The HKS Misinformation Review is a new format of peer-reviewed, scholarly publication. Content is produced and “fast-reviewed” by misinformation scientists and scholars, released under open access, and geared towards emphasizing real-world implications. All content is targeted towards a specialized audience of researchers, journalists, fact-checkers, educators, policy makers, and other practitioners working in the information, media, and platform landscape.
- For the essays, a length of 1,500 to 3,000 words (excluding footnotes and methodology appendix) is appropriate, but the HKS Misinformation Review will consider and publish longer articles. Authors of articles with more than 3,000 words should consult the journal’s editors before submission.
7:00 – ASRC GOES
- Dissertation
- It looks like I fixed my LaTeX problems. I went to C:\Users\phil\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9\tex\latex, and deleted the ifvtex folder. Re-ran, things installed, and all is better now
- Slides
- GOES
- Pinged Isaac about the idea of creating scenarios that incorporate the NASA simulators
- Meeting
- GSAW
- Slides
- Speakers presenting in a plenary session are scheduled to speak for 15 minutes, with five additional minutes allowed for questions and answers from the audience
- Our microphones work best when the antenna unit is clipped to a belt and the microphone is attached near the center of your chest.
- We are NOT providing network capabilities such as WiFi. If you require WiFi, you are responsible for purchasing it from the hotel and ensuring that it works for the presentation.
- Charts produced by the PC version of Microsoft PowerPoint 2013, 2016 or 365 are preferred
- . In creating your slides, note that the presentation room is large and you should consider this in your selection of larger fonts, diagram size, etc. At a minimum, a 20-point font is recommended
- GPT-2 – Maybe do something with Aaron today?
Phil 1.14.20
7:00 – 5:00 ASRC GOES/PhD
- Finishing touches on the dissertation. Need to lint the bibtex – done
- The work machine is not behaving. Had to move to Overleaf
- Call commonvision to schedule printing and binding – done
- Order some thumb drives – done
- Meeting with Don. Discovered that he’s a digital format guy. Discovered that the Lit Review was missing from the exec summary
- Corresponding with Thom. Hardcopy. Meeting still on Friday?
Phil 1.13.21
7:00 – 6:30 ASRC GOES
- Dissertation
- More preface – done
- More acknowledgements – done
- Updated to new format – done
- Meeting with Aaron
- Need to do CV, just copy over from the word doc
- https://texlab.netlify.com/
- https://www.jabref.org/
- GOES
- New board is not showing up. Yay, it shows up if I remove the old board and put it in the old position
- Ordered a 1,000 watt power supply
Phil 1.11.20
On the Relationship between Self-Attention and Convolutional Layers
- Recent trends of incorporating attention mechanisms in vision have led researchers to reconsider the supremacy of convolutional layers as a primary building block. Beyond helping CNNs to handle long-range dependencies, Ramachandran et al. (2019) showed that attention can completely replace convolution and achieve state-of-the-art performance on vision tasks. This raises the question: do learned attention layers operate similarly to convolutional layers? This work provides evidence that attention layers can perform convolution and, indeed, they often learn to do so in practice. Specifically, we prove that a multi-head self-attention layer with sufficient number of heads is at least as powerful as any convolutional layer. Our numerical experiments then show that the phenomenon also occurs in practice, corroborating our analysis. Our code is publicly available.
- I’ve just started to think about how machines and humans could serve as different attention heads, which is why we concentrate into populations with shared features. Attention, given the right conditions, may be an emergent phenomena. Need to look at Kauffman.
Dissertation
- More Forward – done!
- Dedication – done
- Acknowledgements – started!
- Sometime between the end of the forward and meeting with Aaron, move over to the new template
Phil 1.10.20
7:00 – 4:30 ASRC PhD, BD, GOES
- Dissertation
- Stampedes are a form of runaway attention, and precision/recall aid that process
- Starting on forward. Using the Arab Spring and GamerGate as the framing
- 11:00 VOLPE Meeting
- Pursuing the resilience proposal was well received. Next, go up and meet with the folks?
- Install card – done! Passed the smoke test
Phil 1.9.20
7:00 – 5:00 ASRC PhD, GOES
Dissertation
- Fix H3a-c – look at the heatmaps to see if there is some way of showing cell visitation as trustworthy, low border cells as safe, and stampede conditions as untrustworthy. Otherwise, use DTW
- Helpful information on Excel Histograms
Nomad, flocking, and stampeding heatmaps
- A border/core ratio explains this nicely. when border dwell time (BDT) > 1, dangerous stampede. When BDT = 1, then nomads, When BDT < 1, flocking.
- Updated the simulation results section. Now I need to update the conclusion hypothesis. – done!
Got my graphics card!
Phil 1.8.20
7:00- 4:00 ASRC PhD, GOES
- Dissertation
- Finishing discussion – done
- Rolling in TACJ from introduction – done
- Adding conclusions – done
- Fix H3a-c
- Reimbursement for fall – done
- Mission Drive meeting (need to get time for dissertation and GSAW prep)
