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Zulfikar Ramzan

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CTO, Point Wild. Prev: Chief Scientist, Aura; CTO, RSA; Interested in Cybersecurity, Crypto(graphy), AI. MIT PhD. He / Him. My opinions.

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.
—Daniel J. Boorstin

15.03.2025 19:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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FAQ on Microsoft’s topological qubit thing Q1. Did you see Microsoft’s announcement?A. Yes, thanks, you can stop emailing to ask! Microsoft’s Chetan Nayak was even kind enough to give me a personal briefing a few weeks ago. Yest…

scottaaronson.blog?p=8669

21.02.2025 21:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Banning TikTok reroutes and magnifies risk through more specious avenues, like RedNote. Black-and-white security policies that ignore user motivations don’t curb danger — they amplify it. A textbook case of unintended consequences.

17.01.2025 15:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Building effective agents A post for developers with advice and workflows for building effective AI agents

“… we've worked with dozens of teams building LLM agents across industries... we share what we’ve learned from working with our customers and building agents ourselves, and give practical advice for developers on building effective agents.”

www.anthropic.com/research/bui...

21.12.2024 01:53 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reinforcement Learning: An Overview This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model-based met...

arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265

20.12.2024 15:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a16z Bio + Health Reception @ NeurIPS a16z Bio + Health Reception @ NeurIPS

I am doing a very fun #NeurIPS2024 a16z BioHealth
fireside chat today w/ @jameszou.bsky.social on the future of AI, biotech and health: wide ranging topics spanning agentic AI virtual labs, interpretable protein language models, startup opportunities & much more! info.a16z.com/register-for...

13.12.2024 16:51 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world th...

The second law of thermodynamics states that a quantity called entropy is on the rise, indicating that the universe is predisposed to disorder. But the idea of entropy is evolving. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

13.12.2024 15:38 👍 95 🔁 41 💬 2 📌 8
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Quanta's annual Year in Review series returns next week. Learn about some of 2024's biggest discoveries in math, physics, biology and computer science, handpicked by our editors, then watch interviews with scientists on our YouTube channel.

13.12.2024 16:02 👍 54 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
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Hi NeurIPS!

Explore ~4,500 NeurIPS papers in this interactive visualization:

jalammar.github.io/assets/neuri...
(Click on a point to see the paper on the website)

Uses @cohere.com models and @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social's datamapplot/umap to help make sense of the overwhelming scale of NeurIPS.

10.12.2024 22:49 👍 61 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold | Quanta Magazine In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications.

Excellent write-up on the recent advances in quantum error correction, which is a critical component for scaling quantum computers so they can be used for practical applications: www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-comp...

10.12.2024 16:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An agenda to maximise AI’s benefits and minimise harms, by David Patterson How technologists, researchers and policymakers can reassure people AI will serve the public good

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

06.12.2024 06:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Intro | PPC

A Course in Particle Physics for High School students: ppc.web.cern.ch

04.12.2024 14:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0