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The Lindahl Letter

Dr. Nels Lindahl

Thoughts about technology (AI/ML) in newsletter form every Friday www.nelsx.com

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4:58

Why is diffusion so popular?

The Lindahl Letter ·

2022/07/29

Transformers were the thing. They were a big thing in the machine learning field. It was glorious. People talked about them a lot and papers were published. Oh so many papers were published. Now it feels like diffusion might be the thing. You will find that the thing of the moment in the field of machine learning shifts rapidly. I was looking at a GitHub repository based on, “high-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models,” and it has over 2,000 stars and has been forked 242 times [1]

8:01

Trust and the future of digital photography

The Lindahl Letter ·

2022/07/22

This week based on the backlog, I should be covering the topic of Bayesian optimization. During the course of sitting down to write this week something different happened. Apparently, I was a highly misbehaven backlog prompt this morning. Instead of digging into that topic I’m going to spend some time talking about a more pressing philosophical question related to the future of trust and digital images. This missive is more about expressing and recognizing concern than delivering information

5:41

Is quantum machine learning gaining momentum?

The Lindahl Letter ·

2022/07/15

One of the things I have seen trending around the internet places I visit is related to quantum machine learning. I went over to Google Trends and took a look at the last 12 months and could see a decent volume of people generating related queries. If you were to categorize interest by state, then the top 8 would look like: New Hampshire, Washington, California, Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana, Texas, and Florida [1]. I’m a little surprised that my research efforts within the last 12 months did not

4:52

What is post theory science?

The Lindahl Letter ·

2022/07/08

Last week some difficult questions were asked about overcrowding within the field of machine learning and the effect of that on engineering colleges [0]. This week things are getting even deeper into the hard philosophical questions we are starting to face. Working to answer the question, “What is post theory science?” will require a lot of consideration and a good bit of digging around. A lot of the ML things that are bubbling up right now in terms of ethical conundrums and rapidly changing ML

Is ML destroying engineering colleges?

The Lindahl Letter ·

2022/07/01

Welcome to a more investigative journalism based issue of The Lindahl Letter this week. This one really made me think. It's a provocative question for sure. Emotional reactions to the premise of destruction aside the question of overcrowding within the field of ML has really caught my attention this week. One piece of prose stood out on this topic and I’m not the only one to react to it. Published back on January 22, 2022 on LinkedIn of all places was a post titled, “How a False Love for AI/ML is