Aneesh Sathe

Are we slowly entering the post data annotation world? # The act of annotating data for ML has always been a shortcut to access concepts not present in the training data. This new work, incorporates literature with data to achieve a fuller picture with complementary information. Specifically the tech, utilizes GPT-4 to induce reliable disease-specific human expert concepts from medical literature and incorporate them with a group of purely learnable concepts to extract complementary knowledge from training data.

Beauty as resistance - Good visualization design is an act of liberation by Alberto Cairo Good visualization tells the reader what the collected data is saying it creates a little place in an otherwise confusing space. Truth and liberty are entwined in a self-reinforcing loop. When we design a good visualization we aren’t just conveying our best understanding of a truth; by sharing our contemplation of that truth, we’re also making ourselves and our readers freer.

I. Unruly, unmoored A tempest of questions In the car seat swrils II. The car seat is full Of a tidal wave Of question marks III. A flood of questions Pool in the car seat Doubting the universe IV. Between the tides of questions The car seat is both Raft and the sea V. Asleep The cauldron of the car seat Brews Questions Thank you, Olivia Dean — Dive

Traversing through human history, even in the last two decades, we see a rapid increase in the accessibility of knowledge. The purpose of language, and of course all communication is to transfer a concept from one system to another. For humans this ability to transfer concepts has been driven by advancements in technology, communication, and social structures and norms. This evolution has made knowledge increasingly composable, where individual pieces of information can be combined and recombined to create new understanding and innovation. Ten years ago I would have said being able to read a …

In Newton’s era it was rare to say things like “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants” and actually mean it. Now it’s trivial. With education, training, and experience, professionals always stand “on shoulders of giants” (OSOG). Experts readily solve complex problems but the truly difficult ones aren’t solved through training. Instead, a combination of muddling through and the dancer style of curiosity is deployed, more on this later. We have industries like semiconductors, solar, and gene sequencing with such high learning rates that the whole field seems to …