Gunay Soni

Seeking better explanations

I am interested in understanding the world. I believe training models with Deep Learning, and understanding what/how these models learn is going to be the best way to do this. Currently building ML systems, and trying to understand the full stack, from atoms to applications. Looking for roles that align with this vision.

What is on my mind

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Does intelligence have diminishing marginal utility?

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How can we quantify the notion of 'a better representation' and help models learn these better representations

03

How do humans solve the credit assignment problem for long horizon tasks / what is taste?

Principles that have stuck with me

There is only one way of thinking that is capable of making progress, or of surviving in the long run, and that is the way of seeking good explanations through creativity and criticism. ~ David Deutsch

A man cannot step into the same river twice, because it is not the same river, and he is not same man. -Heraclitus

It from bit ~ John Archibald Wheeler

Optimism in the face of uncertainty ~ Richard Sutton

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