“We show that despite poor performance in solving competitive programming problems, LLMs exhibit a strong capacity in describing and explaining solutions. We try to disentangle the contribution of reasoning and coding in solving these problems by LLMs. Instead of solving the problem directly just from its NL description as LLM input (NL to code), we study the backward process of extracting the idea from a correct code solution. We show that our extracted rationales can significantly boost the solve rate of LLMs on CodeContests.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05337
Simple text compression algorithms demonstrate few-shot learning. https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426/
Semantic-SAM: Segment and Recognize Anything at Any Granularity https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04767 (https://github.com/fudan-zvg/Semantic-Segment-Anything)
“How can we speed up Mechanistic Interpretability? Researchers spend a lot of time searching for the internal model components that matter. We introduce the Automatic Circuit DisCovery (ACDC) ⚡ algorithm!” https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14997
Nvidia deepens bets on AI in drug discovery with Recursion investment https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-invests-50-mln-recursion-train-ai-models-drug-discovery-2023-07-12/ [https://archive.is/oht8k]
With medication, “he became less interested in fatty, sugary foods and ate smaller meals but didn’t anticipate aversion to alcohol…That’s what surprised me…It makes you want to do all the things doctors have told you your whole life.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/well/eat/ozempic-side-effects-alcohol.html [https://archive.is/KsbMu]
CRISPR enables heritable genome editing in planta https://www.cell.com/trends/genetics/fulltext/S0168-9525(23)00155-5
Review of Edward Dutton's 'Breeding the Human Herd: Eugenics, Dysgenics and the Future of the Species.' https://www.amren.com/features/2023/07/are-we-doomed/
“This study documents two exceptions to the global invariance of the age-crime curve: in South Korea and Taiwan, the adolescent crime peak just isn't there. Instead, their peaks are shifted to much later ages and their overall age-crime relationship is comparatively flat.” https://twitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1676345735095222273
Lex Fridman interviews Benjamin Netanyahu: Israel, Palestine, Power, Corruption, Hate, and Peace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpC7SVDXimg
Will Ukraine Be Able To Stop Russian Artillery? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVqHY5hpzv8
To defeat Russia, Ukraine’s top commander pushes to fight on his terms https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/14/ukraine-military-valery-zaluzhny-russia/ [https://archive.is/X4SsI]
International Mathematical Olympiad 2023 - Top 20 Countries
Note that the US and Canada teams are also East Asian. The interesting outlier seems to be Romania. Turkey being 8 is also interesting.
It would be interesting to see the International Mathematical Olympiad rankings *per capita*.