pinouchon (u/pinouchon)

pinouchon commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

pinouchon · a year ago

Neurosym labs | Zurich (maybe NY/Boston, maybe SF/Bay area) | ONSITE, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time

I am considering starting an AI/ML research company in the field of neurosymbolic programming (which sits at the intersection of deep learning, program synthesis and probabilistic programming). The goal is to be 100% focused on producing research that is made publicly available, guided by intellectual curiosity and a desire to move the field forward.

I am looking for co-founders or early employees. Although there is an existing company & office that will be ready by the end of summer, not all details are figured out yet. The location is 80% likely to be Zurich (keeping the current office), but could be in the US. The funding is privately secured by other ML-related ventures I was involved with in the past. The name is also a placeholder name and will change. I can give more details privately.

Roles and compensation:

  - Full-time employees: base of around 100-250k USD/annum + equity with standard vesting (negotiable).
  - Interns or residency program: base of around 80-180k USD/annum

(Other research interests: self-play, world models, common sense reasoning, program induction, causality, bayesian inference)

To apply, send me an email to b.crouzier at gmail and including "Neurosym labs application" in the title. Please reach out also if you just have pointers or other things you want to discuss, as I'm still exploring all options available.

pinouchon commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022) · Posted by u/whoishiring

basis_ai · 4 years ago

Basis | Research Scientist / Engineer | In-person (NYC/Boston) + Remote

Basis is a new organization founded by leaders in causal probabilistic programming and probabilistic machine learning.

Our mission is to automate reasoning and learning to accelerate scientific and societal progress.

We're looking for exceptional people with expertise in:

- Inference methods e.g. variational / MCMC methods

- Programming language & compiler design and analysis

- program synthesis

- (probabilistic) machine learning

Positions open:

- Full-time / Part-time / Contract / Internships (Spring/Fall/Winter)

- Span the spectrum from research scientist to software engineer

Please get in touch at hiring@basis.ai

pinouchon · 4 years ago

This institute is founded by some of the best people in their respective fields. I think probabilistic programming is one of the most underrated fields in AI. Have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYQrNfSmQ0M&t=1000s or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFXcVlKqPlM for an intro. So I highly recommend getting in touch with them if you have the skills/interest.

pinouchon commented on Web3 is centralized blog.wesleyac.com/posts/w... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

neuroma · 4 years ago

It's fascinating how on hacker news one typically finds detailed, reasoned and thoughtful comments. However on the topic of crypto and web3 the comments reliably degenerate into partisan tit for tat, consisting mainly of poorly researched, unreasoned sound bytes.

It's a pity because I'd love to hear quality thought on the space.

My personal view is that crypto and Web3 "are a thing" (Mean Girls) and will continue to be a thing. But the sector is very very new, and supercharged by capital, leading to tumerous horrors. People get burnt, robbed, and jealous, and it leads to nasty feelings.

I find the space interesting and exciting, over all. Also massively frustrating of course. But I try to judge all things not by the worst cases of them (Daniel Dennet - I.e. cars are often good, they aren't always murder boxes). Looking at good examples also gives perspective on what work still needs to be done in the rest.

Can someone recommend places to read or be involved in non partisan discussion about these topics?

pinouchon · 4 years ago

Look for Vitalik, balaji srinivasan, naval ravikant podcasts, also chris dixon

pinouchon commented on What Does It Mean for AI to Understand? quantamagazine.org/what-d... · Posted by u/theafh

tomthe · 4 years ago

My understanding of "Understanding":

Imagine a photo of a written poem:

An image-processing program can "understand" the digital image: It can read the jpg, change the picture completely (e.g.: change the colors slightly), without changing the meaning one level up. But it doesn't understand the characters or words.

An OCR program can read the image and "understand" the characters (or the textual representation. It can change the representation completely (save it as UTF-8 or whatever) without changing the meaning one level up. But it doesn't understand the language.

GPT-3.... well, let't go directly to humans

A human can read the text and understand the words and understand their meanings and what the sentences say. Another human really understands the poem and the subtext another level up.

I think understanding always works on different levels and is a part of communication.

pinouchon · 4 years ago

Interestingly, the poet with the highest level understanding can be clueless about UTF-8 or what a pixel is

pinouchon commented on Why AI is harder than we think arxiv.org/abs/2104.12871... · Posted by u/pilingual

ghgr · 4 years ago

Regarding this topic I came across the subject of Open-endedness [1] and the fascinating works of Jeff Clune, Ken Stanley and their colleagues (the two former are currently working at OpenAI).

EDIT: I added this paper [2] by Jeff Clune, a nice introduction of Open-endedness and their potential for reaching general AI.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/radar/open-endedness-the-last-grand-...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10985

pinouchon · 4 years ago

Yeah. Have a look at this for a good summary of the ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhYGXYeMq_E

pinouchon commented on Dvorak vs Colemak (2010-2020) xahlee.info/kbd/dvorak_vs... · Posted by u/harporoeder

tbenst · 4 years ago

I prefer the quantitative approach taken by Carpalx [1].

This analysis finds that Dvorak and Colemak are both substantially better than QWERTY, but Colemak has the edge.

[1] http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?popular_alternatives

pinouchon · 4 years ago

I'm using the qgmlwy layout for a few years now, pretty happy with it. I remapped caps & added a new modifier to have a "special chars" layer and it works pretty well. Overall it's more trouble than it's worth, if I had to redo the whole journey, I would simply learn to touch-type with querty (maybe colemak), but I'm still happy with the end result.