You can now play AI Dungeon with one of the most powerful AI models in the world. 4 min read · Jul 14, 2020 -- When I built the first version of AI Dungeon at a hackathon my senior year of college it
Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · Sep 27, 2018 -- Could The Transformer be another nail in the coffin for RNNs? Doing away with the clunky for loops, it finds a way to allow whole sent
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For my next trick, I will now attempt to summarize @ole_b_peters very insightful paper in @nature : The Ergodicity Problem in Economics At the risk of being hyperbolic, I think it is one of the most i
Abstract The ergodic hypothesis is a key analytical device of equilibrium statistical mechanics. It underlies the assumption that the time average and the expectation value of an observable are the sa
The U.S. Weather Service has always phrased rain forecasts as probabilities. I do not want a classification of “it will rain today.” There is a slight loss/disutility of carrying an umbrella, and I wa
Kevin Kwok had a great essay the other day on Figma, and how its runaway success is based on hundreds of successful loops baked into its product and business model: Why Figma Wins | Kevin Kwok It got
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. In 2006, i was 50 —
Even though World War II started more than seven decades ago, nearly the same temporal distance to today that the American Civil War was to World War II, the war’s legacy endures today, particularly s
An example of the data science life cycle, which describes the stages of data science research. Credit: Victoria Stodden The use of data science tools in research across campuses has exploded—from eng
Credit... Illustration by Christiana Couceiro Feature The Rebel Physicist on the Hunt for a Better Story Than Quantum Mechanics For a century, quantum theory has been scientific orthodoxy. The Italian
You might think that the Quotebacks extension - forbeing a piece of rather simple tech - is being talked about enough already.But I think we need to slow down and look at this closer. (Are we few? Tho
The obvious benefit to working quickly is that you’ll finish more stuff per unit time. But there’s more to it than that. If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mi
Shrinking in the face of challenges to career and reputation communicates fear, not faith, to a broken world. By Jun 14, 2020 Back when I was in the religious liberty litigation business, I’d sometime
BuzzFeed News More than 40 million people lost their jobs in the last few months, in the fastest and deepest economic slowdown ever recorded. More than half of all households with low incomes in the U
13 min read · May 8, 2020 -- A Review of The Price of Tomorrow — Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future by Jeff Booth Source: St. Louis Fed The world is at a crossroads. Our entire global econ
When representation theory emerged in the late 19th century, many mathematicians questioned its worth. In 1897, the English mathematician William Burnside wrote that he doubted that this unorthodox pe
The Ergodic Hierarchy (EH) is a central part of ergodic theory. It is a hierarchy of properties that dynamical systems can possess. Its five levels are ergodicity, weak mixing, strong mixing, Kolmogorov, and Bernoulli. Although EH is a mathematical theory, its concepts have been widely used in the…
Steven Strogatz on math, from basic to baffling. Have you ever had that anxiety dream where you suddenly realize you have to take the final exam in some course you’ve never attended? For professors, i
Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value. A work in progress : for email notifications of new pages, Re
artificial intelligence May 20, 2020 After translating some of math’s complicated equations, researchers have created an AI system that they hope will answer even bigger questions. Read Later By trans
12 min read · Mar 17, 2019 -- It all started with counting sheep. At least it’s the earliest example that I know of. It was thousands of years ago, and people didn’t know about numbers, they haven’t y
Twilio’s video player will be used as the backbone for the new video consultation service that Zocdoc is launching for its customers today, the two companies said in a statement. As the COVID-19 epidemic reshapes healthcare in the U.S. more service providers are going remote with the delivery of…
A project by Quanta Magazine . Text by Dan Falk. Design and illustrations by Eleanor Lutz and Olena Shmahalo. The human mind has long grappled with the elusive nature of time: what it is, how to recor
Buddhist philosophical metaphor This article is about the philosophical concept. For the 2014 book by Rajiv Malhotra, see Indra's Net (book) . For the geometry book, see Indra's Pearls (book) . Indra'
W hy is it so challenging to develop systems thinking ability? It’s because thinking systemically involves a rather large number of different skills—seven, at least—that all require practice. The syst
In an age where "software is eating the world", what can we learn from the tool that has withstood the test of time? This piece illustrates how the fundamentals behind Excel can be used to envision th
This blog post summarizes EMNLP 2019 paper Revealing the Dark Secrets of BERT by researchers from the Text Machine Lab at UMass Lowell: Olga Kovaleva ( LinkedIn ), Alexey Romanov ( LinkedIn ), Anna Ro
This article was originally published in the November 1998 issue. Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit. It was so old, in fact, that it was really an unstuff
In order to improve our reading , we need to learn to ask the right questions in the right order. Don’t forget, reading a book, for any reason other than entertainment, is essentially an effort on you
The newspapers are full of stories about how small groups of engineers from Formula 1 teams have been able to design, prototype and manufacture essential health equipment incredibly quickly. So why ar
Yesterday my feed had many references to a new Marc Andressen essay titled It’s Time to Build . I understand its popularity as it has an enthusiasm that’s in short supply in the tech world today. But
Johannes Kepler’s amazing book, Mysterium Cosmographicum , was published in 1596. Kepler’s central idea was that the distance relationships between the six planets (only six were known at that time) c
Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society,
Credit... Philip Montgomery for The New York Times I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same. A Covid diary: This is what I saw as the pandemic engulfed our hospitals. Credit...
It is tough times for start-ups. Even the strongest rarely have more than 12-18 months of runway, predicated on hitting milestones and raising more money. The venture capital spigot won’t dry up, but
Posted April 18, 2020 Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for th
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I. Vox asks What Went Wrong With The Media’s Coronavirus Coverage? They conclude that the media needs to be better at “not just saying what we do know, but what we don’t know”. This raises some import
Updated at 10:30 a.m. ET on April 15, 2020. M any years ago , when my son was 5, he got upside down on a long-term loan in Animal Crossing, Nintendo’s 2002 video game about running away from home to l
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