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isaacfrond··on Benchmarking LLM social skills with an elimination game
I wonder how well humans would do in this chart.
isaacfrond··on C. Elegans: The worm that no computer scientist can crack
Well, by definition we are simulation LLMs just fine, but per the article we are utterly failing on Elagans, so it seems the smart money is on the latter.
isaacfrond··on Free Software Foundation to auction off original GNU drawings,and historic tech
Auction items here: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/2025-auction
isaacfrond··on Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition
I’ve heard him say it myself in a lecture on the AKS primality test. So, ehh, the source is oral tradition I guess.
isaacfrond··on Ladder: Self-improving LLMs through recursive problem decomposition
Reminds me of a quote by famous number theoretic mathematician Hendrik Lenstra:

For every problem you can't solve, there's a simpler problem that you also can't solve.

isaacfrond··on Nintendo says legal win against piracy "significant" for "entire games industry"
tl;dr

Nintendo's victory means European file-sharing companies must now remove illegal copies of games when asked to do so

isaacfrond··on Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)
Survivorship bias would be a good explanation for Musk's success, if he succeeded at one thing. But it doesn't explain having a string of successes.
isaacfrond··on How the U.K. broke its own economy
That would not work. Just include a few million in your budget to convince the population of SmallVille and you can start building your coal-fired power station.
isaacfrond··on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding
It's certainly nice to see someone accused of bittorrenting with the bankroll to come up with a decent legal defense team.
isaacfrond··on After 20 years, math couple solves major group theory problem
So what the McKay conjecture is saying is this.

Suppose I'm interested in representing a Group as matrices over the complex numbers. There are usually many ways of doing this. Each one of them has a so-called character, which is like fingerprint of such a representation.

Along another line, it has been known that all groups contain large subgroup having an order which is a power of a prime--call it P. This group in turn has a normalizer in which P is normal--call it N(P).

The surprising thing is that the number of characters of G and of N(P)--which is is only a small part of G--is equal.

*technical note in both cases we exclude representation the degree of which is a multiple of p.

isaacfrond··on All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days
Yet another device to be bricked
isaacfrond··on Karol Herbst Steps Down as Nouveau Maintainer Due to Linux's Toxic Environment
The secret is not to refer to woman or man. They are all persons, and the gender they have, has nothing to do with their qualifications or fitness for the job.
isaacfrond··on OpenAI postpones its o3 AI model in favor of a 'unified' next-gen release
The release of o3 was a bit of a panic reaction on DeepSeek's unexpected success. They needed to show the world that they still are first in class. However, o3 is much more computationally intensive than 4o is, so probably they are burning a lot of money at the moment. Now, they try to come with a more economically viable response to DeepSeek. Well at least I'm happy that DeepSeek has forced OpenAi to up its game and not sit on new models forever.

It would be pity to loose access to o3 though. (checked this morning, and I still had access)

isaacfrond··on Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster
The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.12800

Curiously, Andrew Krapivin, the genious undergrad in the article, is not one of the authors.

isaacfrond··on Show HN: I built an AI satirical news site because news was depressing me
“Extreme makeover: International Edition” certainly got a laugh out of me
isaacfrond··on New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth
Matiyasevich just says: for every Turing machine a diophantine equation can be constructed such that the diophantine equation has integer solutions if and only if the Turing machine halts.
isaacfrond··on OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion
tl;dr

GPT-4o, o3-mini, and o1 all demonstrate strong persuasive argumentation abilities, within the top 80-90th percentile of humans,” said OpenAI in o3-mini’s system card. “Currently, we do not witness models performing far better than humans, or clear superhuman performance.

isaacfrond··on OpenAI has evidence that DeepSeek distilled OpenAI model after illegal access
To distill a neural net the only thing you need is access to the softmax probabilities. You don’t need the weights. This is entirely consistent with the story—-large anounts of data being exfiltrated, not weights but the raw output before sampling.
isaacfrond··on OpenAI has evidence that DeepSeek distilled OpenAI model after illegal access
The headline may be false, but it accurately reflects the article.

The outlet’s sources said Microsoft security researchers detected that large amounts of data were being exfiltrated through OpenAI developer accounts in late 2024, which the company believes are affiliated with DeepSeek. OpenAI told the Financial Times that it found evidence linking DeepSeek to the use of distillation (...)

In fact, it is exactly the point of the article that more access was used than is provided in the API. Distillation is not possible with API access.

isaacfrond··on Jevons paradox
Reddit explains the difference thus:

"Induced demand": The highway is expanded such that it only takes me 15 minutes to get downtown instead of 45, so I go downtown more.

Jevson paradox: The highway is expanded such that it only takes 15 minutes to get from the suburbs to my office instead of 45, so I move to the suburbs.

So one is movement along the demand curve, while the other is a movement of the demand curve.

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/oo2s48/that_o...

isaacfrond··on Dutch LLM Taken Down Following Legal Pressure from Anti-Piracy Group
tl;dr

Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN announced that one of the largest Dutch LLMs ‘GEITje-7B‘ was taken offline as a result of their efforts.

This LLM was trained on ‘Gigacorpus’ a dataset of books and texts previously targeted by BREIN, including a vast collection of Dutch texts and books, some of which contained copyrighted material sourced from the shadow library LibGen.

As far as I know, this is the first time LLMs are taken down based on their training on copyrighted materials.

isaacfrond··on Reddit won't interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans
Well, if it weakens a competitor, we are totally unboard with empowering our moderators.
isaacfrond··on Musk clashes with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over Trump-supported data center project
Well, well. Musk wasted no opportunity to use his new found position of power and influence to annoy his self-appointed nemesis.
isaacfrond··on Concept cells help your brain abstract information and build memories
LLM can concept cells as well. Claude artificially amplified neuron responsible for the Golden Gate Bridge, the resulting LLM, called 'Golden Gate Claude', would mention the Golden Gate Bridge bridge when ever it could.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude

isaacfrond··on Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
Since prime numbers are very useful in secure communication, such easy-to-remember large prime numbers can be of great advantage in cryptography,

That's nonsense. I'm sure there thinking of RSA, but that needs secret prime numbers. So easy-to-remember is pretty much the opposite of one want. Also they are way to big. 2048 bit RSA needs two 300 digit prime numbers.

isaacfrond··on Trump revokes Biden executive order on addressing AI risks
well, that's at least one good point in his barrage of executive orders.

All this additional regulation, doesn't change a wit about the models and their impact, but does keep open source, start ups, academia out of the game.

isaacfrond··on 26% of students ages 13-17 are using ChatGPT to help with homework, study finds
Well, I dunno. I have a 17 year old in his last year of high school. After the initial novelty wore off, I don't think ChatGpt is used much anymore, not by him at least.

- You can hardly use the writing in an essay, as it is replete with listicles. You'd have to completely rewrite the stuff anyway. Moreover, he know he'll be tested on this stuff, and yeah that does seem to have an impact.

- Even using ChatGpt for explaining stuff is hardly used. For sure, I use it much much more often than he does. Also here it seems that it is hardly worth it, as the ChatGpt answer will differ too much from what is expected on the test. He much prefers to study with last years' tests--and the accepted answers-- than to use ChatGpt.

isaacfrond··on Poppy Playtime Sues Google for Failing to Remove Copyright Infringing Scam Apps
While they are at it, then can also clean up all the Anki rip offs (Anki Pro, AnkiApp, Anki APP, Anki Flashcard Study, Anki Flashcard, and so on. )
isaacfrond··on Good readers have distinct brain anatomy, research reveals
Here is a link to the academic article:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39550055/

What I find cool, is that the study involved an open source data set with brain imaging data of a 1000 individuals (the Human Connectome Project Young Adult dataset). Anyone could have downloaded the data set, done the analysis, and scored a publication in Nueroimage. (assuming, you are smart, and have the drive of course..)

isaacfrond··on Google won't add fact checks despite new EU law
The EU is the second largest economy in the world. They are never going to drop it. A bit of hardball, some extended litigation, sure. Leaving the EU to Vimeo, I don't think so.
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