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Research done by Prof. Subbarao on reasoning & planning with LLM seems to point in the negative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTXXYi75QCU He has lots of good threads distilling …

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle. James pulls an brilliant move of using various examples in technology as a tool t…

Search/Reasoning/Inference time compute, however you phrase it is still essential. You need search to improve upon learning to work in novel situations.

Can't unseen the amount of double negatives in this article.

I am working on RL and robotics. I came across Levin in Lex's podcast. And then went on a binge of his other podcast appearences. I agree totally with you, I would very much like t…

Have you checked RSSM approach in DreamerV1,V2,V3,PlaNet? It uses deterministic (GRU hidden state) and discrete stochastic latent states. The deterministic and stochastic (sampled)…

One interesting research group tackling this question is ex-computer engineer, currently biologist Prof. Micahel Levine's group. They built xenobots (biological robots) from frog c…

Worth checking out farcaster (farcaster.xyz). They are working towards a solution where things are "sufficiently decentralised". The server admins can't prevent users from followin…

Farcaster(farcaster.xyz) is working towards sufficiently decentralised social network ( https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decent... ). It aims to have a model w…

Does apple even encrypt the actual image data on device? Their system document says "payload = visual derivative + neural hash" and only that is encrypted with a secondary level en…

His narrative pushing feels nefarious to me. I think he is using his new tech podcast (all-in) as a new platform to build a image of a pragmatic do-gooder billionare (to whomever w…

I have experience in deep learning research/engineering in NLP and am getting into ml for robotics. Really excited for this course + hardware. I think one top value for me personal…

If uber/lyft doesn't allow their drivers to price themselves and not treat them as employers, they are more or less a cartel rather than a marketplace connecting buyers and sellers…

Same thing happened to me. I was using org-mode for GTD and note-taking for the past six months. I shifted all my notes to org-roam with links between them. But then I tried roam, …

Masks can protect other people primarily. If you're sick and don't know (asymtomatic), developing symptoms only now, if you're sick and don't have any option but to go out etc. And…

Wouldn't Land Value Tax solve the housing problem?

Would you consider using neural nets to solve integration and differential equations as it doing system 2 reasoning? https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-neural-networks-to-solve-...…

Lex, you're doing an amazing job. The level of commitment and hard work you put in to make this podcast is incredible. On the technical depth side criticism you're getting, I would…

But why is microsoft experimenting with the toy language then? https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/11/microsoft-exploring-rust-... 70% of microsoft errors would be gone in future if th…

This one isn't a Cartel as its like a taxi company but co-owned by workers. But Uber could be considered a cartel because they don't consider the car drivers as workers, so they ar…