In his new book, Dan Wang argues that America is too good at making rules, and could learn from Beijing’s laser focus on technical innovation.

JoyCaption, the open source image captioning model that I work on as a hobby, recently had its Beta One release, which was also the first release that used Reinforcement Learning (RL) to improve the model. RL has been a bit of a hot topic ever since the…

LLMs suck at comedy, art, journalism, research, and science for the same fundamental reason

Tracking AI is a cutting-edge application that unveils the IQ Scores of frontier artificial intelligence models. Explore and analyze the IQ Scores of AIs with our intuitive platform, designed to foster transparency in the world of artificial intelligence.…

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was released and returned to Israel after being charged with luring a child for a sex act

The Marginalia Search index has been partially rewritten to perform much better, using new data structures designed to make better use of modern hardware. This post will cover the new design, and will also touch upon some of the unexpected and unintuitive…

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for. Derivatives Derivatives are the most fundamental concept in calculus. If you have a funct…

Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of summer when air conditioners are working hardest. In addition to hot weather, a variety of factors are causing power bills to climb…

Program providing key aid halted after complaints from Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer close to Trump

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ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Discovery of a critical Bluetooth and GPS privacy vulnerability in iOS 18.5 enabling silent BLE scans, covert GPS activation, and trust metadata exposure without user consent. Native Apple daemons ...

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  Since 2017, the DrugAge database has been a resource cataloguing longevity studies for many substances fed to animals in lab experiments. A preprint by Parish et al was recently posted to the bioRxiv website which assessed the quality of these various studies…