Wolfgang Pauli

@typewriteralley.bsky.social have you heard anything about the hit and run accident between a red ford mustang and a bicycle on the intersection of 9th ave n and westlake ave n at 11am on Friday? There were many witnesses.

Sadly I have a „feeling“ that this guidance may be updated soon.

How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture? This Gradient Updates issue goes over the major changes that went into DeepSeek’s most recent model.

If you are interested in learning more about what DeepSeek did to improve the efficiency/performance of its latest model that is making such a splash, here is a nice explainer from @epochai.bsky.social

“First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Socialist.

Sound Transit’s ’emergency’ light rail contract goes to CEO’s former firm Transit staff says CEO Goran Sparrman left the choice of contractors to the agency's professional procurement staff, to avoid any whiff of favoritism.

So it goes …

“Sound Transit CEO Goran Sparrman’s former employer, the giant engineering company HNTB, is going to be paid $1.5 million to help solve frequent light rail stalls, without having to compete with other bidders.”

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

What’s the short timeline plan? — LessWrong This is a low-effort post (at least, it was intended as such ...). I mostly want to get other people’s takes and express concern about the lack of de…

Some food for thought about the acceleration of ai development, associated risks, and safety considerations. www.lesswrong.com/posts/bb5Tnj...

Eureka: Evaluating and Understanding Large Foundation Models Rigorous and reproducible evaluation is critical for assessing the state of the art and for guiding scientific advances in Artificial Intelligence. Evaluation is challenging in practice due to several...

This is great! Is there a peer reviewed version of the article as well?

arxiv.org/abs/2409.10566

I came across a p-value at work the other day, but I think it was really small.