To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of encabulation - dated from Dr. Wolfgang Albrecht Klossner’s first successful run in that historic barn on the outskirts of Eisenhüttenstadt - this article* collects in one place a number of resources that provide, if not a comprehensive history, at least a catalogue of the major milestones and concepts.| www.oranlooney.com
Hi, I’m Oran Looney. I do math. I write programs. I science… data? That doesn’t sound right. I -tican stats? No, that’s even worse. My ideal job title would be Senior Nematode Wrangler because many of the neural networks I work with are roughly the same complexity as the C. elegans worm’s connectome. Sadly, this is not yet a recognized specialty within the broader field of machine learning, so you should probably think of me as a Data Scientist or a Machine Learning Engineer.| www.oranlooney.com
20,000 Years of Computing| www.oranlooney.com
Here’s a fact: GPT-4o charges 170 tokens to process each 512x512 tile used in high-res mode. At ~0.75 tokens/word, this suggests a picture is worth about 227 words—only a factor of four off from the traditional saying. (There’s also an 85 tokens charge for a low-res ‘master thumbnail’ of each picture and higher resolution images are broken into many such 512x512 tiles, but let’s just focus on a single high-res tile.| www.oranlooney.com