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Agreed. Also it seems like, if the actual test scores and perceived test scores were both sampled iid, the “perceived” line should just be flat, with everyone being at 50th percent…

Por que no los dos? Scientific review times are up, it’s harder to find reviewers, and many reviews are AI generated anyway. Auto-generated research publications will arguably make…

Thank you for writing a much more thoughtful reply to this comment than I was drafting

Good point, this is probably the author assuming a little more context on the reader’s part. The cases where you can record from neurons in humans are very rare (basically only in …

This approach implies the probability doesn’t depend on N. It only happens to be 1/2 for N=4 (the article goes into this). The trick is that you don’t know beforehand which semicir…

Matlab is annoying for many reasons. But to me the main advantage of using Matlab over Python is the plotting. Plotting in Python is still a pain. Notebooks help, but they still do…

One surprise of reading this thread was learning that Terry Tao is an active user of Math Overflow!

I was confused also. My guess was that maybe a “sequence” has to be 4 or more pebbles?

I totally agree but unfortunately it really is one of the fundamental laws of wikipedia. To me this becomes especially silly when editing math wiki articles, where you might be tem…

I’m with you—-I think you did a good job of summarizing all the places that LLMs are super practical/useful, but agreed that for prose (as someone who considers themselves a profic…

I was surprised to see the author claim that citations in the Introduction are a bad thing. I do think ML papers are generally pretty bad at acknowledging other relevant literature…

I have no idea (but wish I knew). I’m embarrassed to admit it took me years to even notice that it wasn’t being updated anymore

Scihub hasn’t been updated since 2020! But anyway arxiv has a lot of important features specifically for academic papers (eg quality control, categories, browsing, issuing dois, et…

without paywall: https://archive.is/eu8te

Wowwww I had no idea this was a thing. Thank you for sharing, this is perfect

This is amazing and super inspiring. I love how such a professional looking enclosure is actually a repurposed Ikea flowerpot—-brilliant. Does anyone know how one would print the b…

The fact that Pando is a single organism is so confusing to me. I’m guessing there are more forests like Pando that are also a single organism? Is this something unique to this par…

Probably this (awesome) paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2019/hash/e98741479a7b9...

This paper was published in this year’s issue of sigbovik, the best satirical academic journal you (may) have never heard of: https://sigbovik.org/2024/

Can anyone explain how this works? I made this app that converts video to emojis ( https://gifmoji.github.io/ ) and would love to know if I could somehow do a similar thing over ss…

There is a big effort to do that actually, called Project CETI: https://www.projectceti.org/