AI:
LLM Automated Interpretability Agent: Built from LLM with black-box access to functions, can infer function structure; A "scientist" forming hypotheses, proposing experiments, & updating descriptions; Capture global function behavior, but can miss details. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03886
Self-Contrast: Better Reflection Through Inconsistent Solving Perspectives https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02009
What’s up with LLMs representing XORs of arbitrary features? [This seems to be a big deal?] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hjJXCn9GsskysDceS/what-s-up-with-llms-representing-xors-of-arbitrary-features
AI agents help explain other AI systems: MIT researchers introduce a method that uses artificial intelligence to automate the explanation of complex neural networks. https://news.mit.edu/2024/ai-agents-help-explain-other-ai-systems-0103
What You See Is What You GAN: Rendering Every Pixel for High-Fidelity Geometry in 3D GANs https://research.nvidia.com/labs/nxp/wysiwyg/
The Million Dollar Matrix Multiply https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2024/01/03/the-million-dollar-matrix-multiply/
“A 2023 report has revealed the staggering salaries for highly sought-after AI researchers who can command over $750,000 per year at top artificial intelligence (AI) companies right after completing their studies.” https://readwrite.com/ai-researcher-salary-eye-watering-pay-of-top-tech-job-revealed/
Miscellaneous:
“Chatted with an elevator technician today, was fascinated by his explanation of modern elevator safety compared to the action movie interpretation of a cable snapping and going into freefall to your doom.” https://twitter.com/Aristos_Revenge/status/1742651426239607156
“The core concept in “culture” is “coordination”, ie, whatever it is that makes us fall into one equilibrium over others. Culture points to the many ways that different equilibria of the same game might differ from each other” https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/culture-is-coordination
“This is pretty impressive knowledge for a politician. Unfortunately, Milei appears to favor Unified Growth Theory as an explanation of long-run macroeconomic trends. I'm currently trying to write a blog post about why the Jones model is a more robust fit to the data. If you're curious, section 2.1 in this paper provides a nice argument for the Jones model, but without any comparison to Unified Growth Theory. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.11690.pdf” https://twitter.com/MatthewJBar/status/1744146232271126799
Politics:
"Occupying Gaza unilaterally, which is what it seems that Israel will have to do at least for some time since it has closed off other viable alternatives, will require more than 80,000 soldiers if it is done correctly" https://warontherocks.com/2024/01/remaking-mistakes-in-gaza/
The Houthis have a larger and more varied collection of anti-ship missiles than most NATO countries. https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/military-balance/2024/01/houthi-anti-ship-missile-systems-getting-better-all-the-time/
Ukraine:
Did Ukraine Miss an Early Chance to Negotiate Peace With Russia? https://www.wsj.com/world/did-ukraine-miss-an-early-chance-to-negotiate-peace-with-russia-d864b7c9 [https://archive.is/Q91FK]
Reading Russian news https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1744615781441143085
On the issues with nothing being done about Russian drones over German military bases: but if they shot one down, and proved it was Russian, or caught the spies operating the drone locally, well then they'd have to do something...