argmax(blog)
Hi, I’m Max Shen. Here, I share my wanderings and wonderings. Thoughts are never final.
The deep retrieval + remixing hypothesis
How do modern deep generative models produce high-quality outputs?
What is data? The classical and postmodern views
Is data sacred?
On Creating AGI within Capitalism -- The Greatest Threat to AGI is ANI.
A speculative argument
Implicit regularization of SGD in a linear model
A brief mathematical result
Treating high-dimensional prediction/generation as optimization
Exploring connections between diffusion models, alphafold’s recycling, structured prediction energy networks, and manifold learning.