AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.

We show that deep neural networks trained across diverse tasks exhibit remarkably similar low-dimensional parametric subspaces. We provide the first large-scale empirical evidence that...

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The retailer’s decision to close three automated fulfillment centers reflects the stark changes in grocery e-commerce that have taken place in the years since it launched its partnership with Ocado.

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The FDA does not formally regulate representativeness, but if trials under-enroll vulnerable patients, the resulting evidence may understate harm from drugs. We study the relationship between trial participation and the risk of drug-induced adverse events…

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I felt like it should be possible to train a GPT-2 small level model on my own hardware using modern tools and open datasets from scratch. It was!

New offerings from Quanta Books will invite readers on a tour of transformational ideas that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe.

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The Renaissance Period We are living through a Saturn renaissance. Buckets of noscripts previously locked away in Japan are seeing new audiences, thanks to the herculean efforts of small but dedicated…

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