Citations; software progress

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I have always been feeling somewhat awkward that my most cited paper has been an industrial pre-machine-learning paper on how to extract geographic references from a text.

Recently, our 2009 paper in American Mathematical Monthly on non-zero self-distances has finally surpassed it in the number of citations.

Meanwhile, my two papers I like the most have exactly zero citations.

5 months in a new job: among software achievements: now I know how to take autocomputed gradients with respect to variables assembled inside nested dictionaries. So I am no longer forced to reshape complicated tree-like-structures into flat arrays in order to use differentiable programming.

As a result, I can finally experiment with DMM training using gradient methods without putting too much labor into those experiments.

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Had a great dialog which prompted me to start doing a straight port of 2017 Clojure version to Julia:

https://github.com/anhinga/late-2022-julia-drafts/tree/main/dmm-port-from-clojure

500 contributions on GitHub in the last year again.

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1) Finally has implemented a "superfluid" architecture (unearthed and developed our 2018 design) with flexible "activation function" inside a neuron; so, finally, we have achieved a "fully type-free" version (the Clojure one has been "almost type-free")

2) The standard first self-referential experiment (network inducing a wave pattern in its own connectivity matrix) just started to work, so we can now say that a port from Clojure to Julia does exist

3) 554 contributions on GitHub in the last year at the moment (9 of them will expire soon)

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600 contributions on GitHub in the last year at the moment.

Just finished an outline for a possible book on "Machine Learning in Julia" (I was approached and asked to explore this as a possible book project; keeping this one in a private repository for the time being).

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Just reached 662 contributions on GitHub; finally got above Sep 17.

Not doing the book (I decided it does not make sense to undertake such a project now, and especially on the publisher's terms).

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"666 contributions in the last year"

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"700 contributions in the last year"

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"800 contributions in the last year"

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"888 contributions in the last year"

We have a new preprint, "Safety without alignment": https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00752

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"900 contributions in the last year"

Полгода назад кончилась та служебная деятельность; сейчас бы она мне очень мешала...

На самом деле, это была пятница, 16-е сентября, а в понедельник, 19-го сентября Скотт Александр опубковал заметку про деятельность Януса, и, как раз, оказалось уместно полностью переключиться на новую проблематику...

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"999 contributions in the last year"

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"1101 contributions in the last year" - actively using GPT-4 now

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1199 contributions

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Twitter: 490 Following 300 Followers

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200 karma points on LessWrong

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300 karma points

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350 karma point; it's time to formulate some intermediate results in my thinking about all this:

https://github.com/anhinga/2023-notes/blob/main/non-anthropocentric-ai-safety/understanding-as-of-july-2023/README.md

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"1300 contributions in the last year" on GitHub - used GPT-4 heavily today to help me with TikZ LaTeX slides.

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100000 miles on the car

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"1400 contributions in the last year" on GitHub; private repository commits are slighly more than a half of that volume...

It will probably reach 1500 by mid-September, then it'll stop growing (and might easily go down)

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LessWrong: 5 posts, 100 comments, 390 karma points

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"1500 contributions in the last year" on GitHub", focusing on JAX recently, bumped JAX up in my resume.

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1540 contributions; the year is coming to a close (this is the evening of Rosh HaShanah), so I'll be getting large subtractions from this number going forward.

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1555 contributions (high watermark), so I'll stay above 1500 for at least one more week.

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holding at 1450 contributions
400 karma on lesswrong, 5 posts, 105 comments

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420 karma on lesswrong :-) 6 posts (the new one has Janus impressions on base-GPT-4!), 114 comments

1360 contributions on github (the high watermark is too high for me to maintain, like I've expected, although I am committing at a good rate)