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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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)

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500 karma on lesswrong, 6 posts, 130 comments

1324 contributions on github (the balance is still going down, might stabilize around 1200 or so)

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> June: Twitter: 490 Following 300 Followers

Twitter: 500 following 330 followers

512 karma on lesswrong, 6 posts, 144 comments

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1295 contributions on GitHub (still falling)

540 karma on lesswrong, 7 posts and a dialog, 159 comments

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600 karma on LessWrong, 7 posts and 2 dialogs, 173 comments

1284 contributions on GitHub

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LessWrong: 687 7 187

GitHub 1313

Twitter 500 338

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858 LessWrong karma (7 253) and 858 citations on Google Scholar

GitHub 1099

Twitter 531 379

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888 LessWrong Karma (8 260)

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Twitter (upgraded one): 536 400

LessWrong Karma: 939 (8 265)

GitHub 1083 (this might be around the new equilibrium)

>Nov 22: Finally, 800 citations on Google Scholar (224 vs 211 for the two leading papers, so that 14 new citations for these two papers out of 17 new overall)

861 (262 vs 216 for the two leading paper, so 38+5=43 out of new 61 citations, this is a bit better (I value "other citations" more, 1 citation is for the new "Safety without alignment" preprint))

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LessWrong Karma 1000 (8 292)

Twitter 540 417

GitHub 1113

Google Scholar 874 (270 217, so 8+1=9 out of new 13 citations, so 4 citations for other papers)

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twitter 550 440

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50 comments here,

1060 (!) commits on GitHub