GitHub Copilot X: GitHub Copilot is evolving to bring chat and voice interfaces, support pull requests, answer questions on docs, and adopt OpenAI’s GPT-4 for a more personalized developer experience. — “...less than two years since its launch, GitHub Copilot is already writing 46% of code and helps developers code up to 55% faster...Our R&D team at GitHub Next has been working to move past the editor and evolve GitHub Copilot into a readily accessible AI assistant throughout the entire development lifecycle. This is GitHub Copilot X—our vision for the future of AI-powered software development.” https://github.blog/2023-03-22-github-copilot-x-the-ai-powered-developer-experience/
Bill Gates: The Age of AI has begun. Artificial intelligence is as revolutionary as mobile phones and the Internet. https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun
Optical switching at record speeds opens door for ultrafast, light-based electronics and computers https://phys.org/news/2023-03-optical-door-ultrafast-light-based-electronics.html
Memorizing Transformers: "In this work, we extend language models with the ability to memorize the internal representations of past inputs." https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08913
“Pinecone is 🧠Long-term Memory for AI🧠” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrAChpbwygE
“Small language models can’t follow wrong/flipped exemplars. Large language models can override their prior knowledge and flip their predictions to follow flipped exemplars!” https://twitter.com/JerryWeiAI/status/1633548780619571200
AI #4: Introducing GPT-4 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ygMkB9r4DuQQxrrpj/ai-4-introducing-gpt-4
Generation of functional oocytes from male mice in vitro https://gwern.net/doc/genetics/gametogenesis/2023-murakami.pdf
A swapped genetic code prevents viral infections and gene transfer https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05824-z
“There are many counting problems in combinatorics whose solution is given by the Catalan numbers. The book Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 2 by combinatorialist Richard P. Stanley contains a set of exercises which describe 66 different interpretations of the Catalan numbers.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_number
“…the Eilenberg–Mazur swindle, named after Samuel Eilenberg and Barry Mazur, is a method of proof that involves paradoxical properties of infinite sums.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Mazur_swindle
Students aren't taught illiberalism by faculty—they arrive on campus with it: 81% faculty vs 48% students: allow controversial speakers; 80% faculty vs 63% students: against blocking entry to a speech; 15-'22: 408 attempts to sanction faculty speech by students vs 138 by faculty. https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/academic-mind-2022-what-faculty-think-about-free-expression-and-academic-freedom
(Did you know that a Turing machine can be emulated by Wang Tiles? https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4756)
The Greatest Defeats in Roman History
Battle of the Allia, c. 387 BC. Gallic sack of Rome. Most Senators slaughtered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Allia
Battle of Cannae, 2 August 216 BC. The Carthaginians and their allies, led by Hannibal, surrounded and practically annihilated a larger Roman and Italian army under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. It is regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history. During the Second Punic War, within just three campaign seasons (20 months), Rome lost one-fifth (150,000) of the entire population of male citizens over 17 years of age. Many of Rome's Italian allies, notably Capua, defected to Carthage, giving Hannibal's allies control over much of southern Italy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae
“In 105 BC, an army of 80,000 Romans fell to a barbarian horde led by the Cimbri tribe. The scale of the slaughter left only a few hundred survivors to tell Rome what had happened. This battle was just one defeat in a dozen-year war that raged between 113 and 101 BC. Though the Romans were ultimately victorious under their general Gaius Marius, it was a traumatic near-death experience for the Republic. The Cimbrian War echoed the conflict that the Romans had endured with Gaulish tribes 350 years earlier which had resulted in the first sack of Rome.” https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1638186153680437248 (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbrian_War)
Battle of Carrhae, 53 BC. Rome was humiliated by this defeat, which was made even worse by the fact that the Parthians had captured several Legionary Eagles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carrhae
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, c. September 9 AD. An alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed Roman legions and their auxiliaries, led by Publius Quinctilius Varus. All Roman accounts stress the completeness of the Roman defeat, and the finds at Kalkriese of 6,000 pieces of Roman equipment, but only a single item that is clearly Germanic (part of a spur), suggest few Germanic losses. Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus, according to the Roman historian Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars, was so shaken that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting: Quintili Vare, legiones redde! (Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest
Battle of Adrianople, 9 August 378. As part of the Gothic War (376–382), the battle is often considered the start of the events which led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. It ended with an overwhelming victory for the Goths and the death of Emperor Valens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Adrianople
Re: 12
Yes. It doesn't seem that universities "indoctrinating" students is accurate. Which also makes sense based on personal experience. Think back to high school? Whose opinion did you care about? Your teachers? Or your fellow students?
So how did wokeness happen? It seems to be a combination of three groups: admissions committee's, cultural influencers in elite institutions like the media, and wannabee elites among high school students.
The elites in the media send signals about what values (read: liberal values) are high-status. Admission committees then select students based on how well they seem to conform to those high-status values. Status-striving high school students then subconsciously modify their political beliefs, extracurriculars, and essays to reflect liberal values. Admission committee's then preferentially select the most liberal students who apply, who then become the new elite. Rinse and repeat.
At no point in the process is there anything resembling indoctrination from faculty to the students.