The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance — it is the illusion of knowledge.
—Daniel J. Boorstin
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.
“… 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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
A Course in Particle Physics for High School students: ppc.web.cern.ch