Jeff Dean

Here’s a profile of Jeff Dean (musician):

Jeff Dean – Life & Musical Career

Early Background

  • Jeff Dean is an American punk rock musician and recording engineer based in Chicago, Illinois.

  • He originally hails from Las Vegas, Nevada.

Musical Style & Roles

  • Dean is primarily a guitarist in the punk / hardcore / pop-punk scenes.

  • He also works as a recording engineer (studio work) at Million Yen Studio in Chicago.

Band Affiliations & Projects

Jeff Dean has participated in many bands and projects over the years. Some notable ones:

  • The Bomb – plays guitar in this band led by Jeff Pezzati (of Naked Raygun).

  • Noise By Numbers – with Dan Vapid (of The Methadones)

  • Dead Ending – a supergroup formed in Chicago including Dean on guitar

  • All Eyes West – Dean is lead guitarist

  • He’s also played or contributed to Explode and Make Up, Four Star Alarm, Tomorrows Gone, Cleon’s Down, Zero in Trust, Certain People I Know, and The Story So Far.

His early work includes joining Tomorrows Gone, a hardcore band from Las Vegas, in the mid-1990s.

Approach & Presence

  • In interviews, Dean describes himself as “a prolific musician” playing in multiple bands around the Chicago area.

  • He relocated from Las Vegas to Detroit around 1995 to join the band Cleon’s Down, before later moving to Chicago.

  • His work spans both performance and behind-the-scenes production/engineering, making him a versatile figure in his musical circle.

Articles by the author

I think that is one of the main goals of pushing forward in machine learning: having computers provide the wisdom that a human companion would be able to provide in offering advice, looking up more information when necessary and those kinds of things.

Jeff Dean

Computers don't usually have a sense of if you have a picture of something what is in that image. And if we can do a good job of understanding what is in an image, that can bring along a lot of new things you can do in applications.

Jeff Dean

Computers can see, and understand what people say via speech recognition.

Jeff Dean

Traditionally computers have not been that good at interacting with people in ways that people feel natural interacting with.

Jeff Dean

I think true artificial general intelligence would be a system that is able to perform human-level reasoning, understanding, and accomplishing of complicated tasks.

Jeff Dean

Reinforcement learning is the idea of being able to assign credit or blame to all the actions you took along the way while you were getting that reward signal.

Jeff Dean

The idea behind reinforcement learning is you don't necessarily know the actions you might take, so you explore the sequence of actions you should take by taking one that you think is a good idea and then observing how the world reacts. Like in a board game where you can react to how your opponent plays.

Jeff Dean

AI can help solve some of the most difficult social and environmental challenges in areas like healthcare, disaster prediction, environmental conservation, agriculture, or cultural preservation.

Jeff Dean