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I don't know if this is the future, but if it is, why bother building one version of the software for everyone? We can have agents build the website for each user exactly the way t…

This idea leads to the p-adic numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number

It's not about training directly on the test set, it's about people discussing questions in the test set online (e.g., in forums), and then this data is swept up into the training …

If I'm understanding correctly, by "income", this article means "actual individual consumption", which is the amount of money spent by a household. Thus, the article is saying that…

This is exactly the problem we have found in our research on generative AI for education [1]. We ran a pilot in a large high school in collaboration with math teachers, and found t…

This breaks down because it's not easy to statically reason about when a variable is a NonZeroNumber. For example, what is the type signature for subtraction of two NonZeroNumbers?…

Important caveat with some of the results: they are using better prompting techniques for Gemini vs GPT-4, including their top line result on MMLU (CoT@32 vs top-5). But, they do h…

> So, the 2% growth rate for world energy consumption should be a conservative assumption. An important caveat: this article assumes that energy consumption will continue to increa…

I don’t really understand the argument that corporate profits are driving inflation. If demand for a product goes up, we would naturally expect prices to rise since there is more c…

Just out of curiosity, in what sense is Codex is better trained than CodeGen?

I’m not sure I buy the conclusion. The point in the original story (at least the version I’ve read) was that Mel’s main job was to write code that could make the computer appear as…

I'm not sure about that. If Mary knows all the physics of light, she can design and set up a sensor to detect the color of the apple and the instructions, just like we have sensors…

One important caveat is that in the study, as far as I can tell, the money is coming from a different country (presumably the USA) than the target country (Kenya), so there is a ba…

Uniformly random data means that someone’s perception of their ability is uncorrelated with their actual ability, which is exactly what DK=true is saying!

I feel like this article is severely over-complicating the analysis. Looking at the original blog post [1], their key claim appears to be that "random data produces the same curves…

As far as I know, Konrad Zuse didn't prove that this strategy was a universal model of computation. In contrast, Turing proved that his universal machine could emulate any other ma…

I'm not sure what the author has in mind, but a standard way to put a topology on this space would be to use the discrete topology [1] on {0, 1}, and then use the product topology …

There has been some interesting recent work [1] applying Fourier transforms (more precisely, an adaptation of the Fourier transform to the sphere) to CNNs, to automatically encode …

There is a subtle but important difference. To be more precise, consider the following two statements: 1) There exists some n such that all integers >= n satisfy the desired proper…

I don't think that's quite right. There are two possible precise statements for such claims: 1) There exists some n such that all integers >= n satisfy the desired property. 2) For…

But, humans can currently learn to teleoperate robots (e.g., surgical robots) much better than AI. So, they are dealing with the same hardware, and it is hardware a priori unfamili…