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It turns out that pushing rocks up hills isn’t all that bad.
3 Great ‘Workout Hikes’ in the Bay Area to Try (When You Can’t Face the Gym) | KQED
Want to get some heavy exercise without a treadmill? Pick one of these arduous — but rewarding — local mountain trails.
Hiking in Houston | 12 Amazing Trails | Blog
Explore the breathtaking trails & natural beauty of Houston. Plan your outdoor journey now and embark on an unforgettable adventure!
Mountains Beyond Mountains — Basic Apple Guy
A wallpaper collection inspired by majesty of the Rocky Mountains.
East Don Trail
I decided to check out the East Don Trail today. Rob Zaichkowski has already written about it extensively, so I wanted to check it out for myself. Starting at the entrance to the new trail which is…
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The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
THRESHOLD
In a lonely station atop a mountain, a train rumbles its precious cargo to places unknown. Now is your shift. Keep the pace. Uncover a mystery. Fight for your last breath. The air is thin up here.
Faulty reward functions in the wild
Reinforcement learning algorithms can break in surprising, counterintuitive ways. In this post we’ll explore one failure mode, which is where you misspecify your reward function.
Models Don't "Get Reward" — LessWrong
Models don't "get" reward. Reward is the mechanism by which we select parameters, it is not something "given" to the model. Reinforcement learning sh…
Summit Bag
Use Strava? Like hills? Automatically identify the peaks and cols that you've bagged with Summit Bag!
Every Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | Defector
A couple of blocks from my office is a steep hill. Sometimes at lunch I go out into the sun and walk up the hill. The hill is very California: asphalt so newly laid that it looks AI-generated; a handful of wheeling turkey vultures; golden dried grass edging up to fortress-like new construction. I usually…
