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Best Books of 2024
I read 75 books in 2024 (please befriend me on Goodreads 🙏), by far my best-ever total, and I’m feeling smug, so I thought I’d do a quick review of my top 5 fiction and non-fiction books of the year.
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Last week
- Finished off VOC and PCQM PRs for Lyapunov project
- Got back into LR project: re-read working doc, reviewed a load of PRs
- LR meeting + X, concrete next steps decided
Published:
TODO
- Fix up LapPE for A, clean up repo, raise PR
- Look at exps from before and run a select few with LapPE
- LR:
- Look at pre-Xmas notes, where we left off
- Review PRs you haven’t looked at
- Send a message to J and S
Published:
Best Books of 2024
I read 75 books in 2024 (please befriend me on Goodreads 🙏), by far my best-ever total, and I’m feeling smug, so I thought I’d do a quick review of my top 5 fiction and non-fiction books of the year.
Published:
TODO
- RT investigation:
- Can you reproduce the RT plot with the same params?
Plots for all weight sharing (and non-sharing) combinationsStudy the differences between the GCN implementations
Published:
Yesterday
- Cleaned up JUDGE repo, sorted cache file with downloadable link
- Started sorting stuff for A
Published:
TODO
Final push and submission of JUDGE HTR paper.
Go through X’s comments on JUDGE paper draft and make edits and improvementsMake figures to explain method
Finish cleaning up repo and put link in paper- Clean up plot/fig generating notebooks
Check_minpages=02was working right- Run codebase e2e including with fresh env to make sure it all works
Anonymize and check
Submit paper on CMT before EoD
Published:
TODO
- Morning meeting catching up w/ A
- Then off to Rotterdam for a mini-break over the weekend
Published:
29th-4th
- Grinding out experiments and a paper draft for the DocUI@AAAI-25 document understanding workshop. Finally finished 😮💨
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Yesterday
- Worked a little on Lyapunov but mostly cleaning up HTR code and notebooks all day
- Messaged T
Published:
Yesterday
- Meetings and fixing up some experiment code, both for LR and Lyapunov
- LoG Oxford meetup
Published:
Yesterday
- Collated/cleaned up HTR tables, multi-page results
- Unsuccessful exp checking if rerarranging pages so page * is first fixes error
- Unsuccessful exp with very challenging old German RPK docs
Published:
Yesterday
- Shared HTR proj w/ X, got M on board
- LR PR, cleaned up, refactored, no longer returning nan/inf (but not training properly by the look of it)
Published:
TODO
- HTR exps and notebook to point of sharing with XD; send to him
Further divide pre-processing and exps/results— should be able to run exps on either dataset with a single notebookExps for page selection on both into notebookExps for doc length variation- A messy paper roundup for initial lit review
Merge LR PR if J/S approve
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Yesterday
- Morning LR call and plan for the next week, took rest of day off because of family visiting
Published:
Yesterday
- Made a start on PR in LR repo, almost got very rough func synthetic exp pipeline working
- Chat w/ M about HTR
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Friday/weekend
- First draft of HTR-ICL write-up and promising experiments for Bentham and IAM
Published:
Yesterday
- Worked on HTR-ICL all day instead of LR stuff
- Got a rudimentary exp pipeline for Bentham and sorted preproc for IAM
Published:
Yesterday
- Reread some old F papers, helps w/ LR
- Read one of O’s papers
- Call w/ A and some setup stuff for that PR
- Got IAM, OCR space, made a little progress on HTR-ICL
Published:
Yesterday
- Properly grokked the discrete vs continuous thing for Jacobian eigenvalues/stability
- Somewhat made sense of notes from LR meeting yesterday, wrote up some stuff in the Overleaf
TODO
- Until noon:
Read F’s CT paper, read O’s papers- More notes into the LR Overleaf, clean up a little
- Clean up piled up misc Obsidian notes
- Afternoon:
- Start on PR for A
If time, IAM and a little progress on HTR-ICL idea
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Friday
- Read A-DGN
- Call w/ A and follow-up dig into repo/Overleaf
- Broke ground on HTR-ICL idea
Published:
TODO
Read stack of papers related to project w/ A- Gather thoughts and Qs for meeting tomorrow
Published:
Yesterday
- Paper notes writeups, grokking PRODIGY
- Meeting(s) w/ O, A, S on LR
- Meeting w/ A
- Useful talk w/ M
Published:
Friday
- Read a load of papers (CARTE, TabMDA, LoCalPFN, GraphToken, Talk like a Graph, PRODIGY)
- Chat with Y
Published:
Yesterday
- Went through DRew2/STMP stuff, made some notes, made an assessment
- OxNSG group meeting, chat w/ J and S about LR
- Read SPoT-Mamba
- More wrapping head arounf J’s LR notes
- Meeting with XD, talking about short- and long-term plans going forward
Published:
Yesterday
- More SSM/Mamba reading
- BuNN/diffusion reading for LR proj
- Some LR proj proposal writeup
Published:
Yesterday
- Dive into long-range papers/datasets, notes for convo w/ Jacob, convo, first draft of potential project abstract
Published:
TODO
- Before group meeting:
Finish skimming graph mamba- Quick look at the reading list paper this week (is there one?)
Quick recap of long range papers/benchmarksQuick compilation of notes about long-range thoughts for chat w/ Jacob
- After:
Dig into mamba for STMP- Dust off half-written Overleafs from STMP and old experiments, make a plan to get into a nicely written form — springboard
- Send message to arrange first post-internships supervisor meeting