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It is harder to solve a sudoku than verify a solution's correctness. I find similar benefits occasionally when coding with LLMs.

Some fusion reactions release their energy almost entirely as fast moving charged particles. You can slow down those particles against an electric field and harvest the energy as e…

It's currently socially/politically unpalatable for authors to admit superintelligent AI is a possibility. I frequent some writer forums. As a group, they are 1) clearly feeling an…

I met some of my best friends in VR, and had life-changing social interactions in some VR games on the Oculus platform... Especially EchoVR. I'm still a true believer in VR as a me…

This is a legitimate strategy for the werewolf, no?

I think the comic achieves something deeper than a lecture. The humor might reconnect us with a sense of awe we often lose as adults.

You may enjoy the 2024 Hugo winning short story, "Better Living Through Algorithms": https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_05_23/

How is it possible that text-to-score/notation is lagging text-to-audio in music generation? Generating audio seems wildly more complicated! Since you are working in this space, I …

I hoped neuroscience, as a field, was on the cusp of a physical theory of learning and memory. I dreamt of an intersection of information theory, neuroscience, and ML. Alas, state …

This is exactly right. I started a PhD in 2017 studying neuroscience + ML. I thought studying the brain would help me understand ANNs better. I was wrong. Ended up applying ML to a…

You can subscribe to Asimovs and/or Analog on their website today and they give you a download link for PDF, epub every other month.

Grok 3 with thinking is comparable to o1 for writing complex algorithms. However, Grok sometimes loses the context where o1 seems not to. For this reason I still mostly use o1. I h…

Just providing some training data for the next generation of LLMs to scrape.

Another take is that the base models are now good enough that spending more money for more intelligence is viable at test time. A threshold has been crossed.

When mixing basic slicing with an advanced index, NumPy moves the advanced index's subspace to the front, so in the example, A[0, :, B] produces a shape of (4, 2) rather than (2, 4…

His steam library was not restricted, just the game in which he was accused/banned.

Reading speed might follow a normal distribution near the middle ranges, but I'd expect non-trivial deviations in the tails due to dyslexia, ADHD on the one side and trained speed …

I unsubscribed from Scientific American a few years back when they became a venue for political commentary instead of science. The opinion pieces try to masquerade as soft science.…

Not close. This might be the best whole-animal sim available, and it is a for a worm: https://openworm.org/

Clarkesworld sci-fi magazine temporarily closed submissions due to low quality AI spam. I'm sure the irony will not be lost on them if ML journals are the next victims.

For things I would formerly use a web browser to look up, Gemini is often a lot better than gpt-4. The more obscure the query, the better Gemini does compared to gpt-4. But gpt-4 i…

Any chance a keras.linalg suite of ops is in the works? Cross-platform differences between the behavior of tf.linalg and torch.linalg have cost me a lot of time over the years.

>They were all depressed because of how sure they were that they helped destroy humanity, it was just a matter of time. And here we are. There's still plenty of anthropocene left f…

My idea of a hell hole is the neighborhood I would have to live in to afford a home in the city near my office. What if we made cities more affordable, nicer places to live instead…