Eric Dickinger
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Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism
DeepMind continues to perform at the absolute highest level more than a decade on. Really inspiring stuff here.
Officially validated IMO gold medal, purely via search in token space, achieved in 4.5 hrs (unclear at what compute cost). The solutions read nicely as well deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
Men will literally build a data center the size of Manhattan instead of finally reading the scaling law literature.
That's.... MASSIVE CAN YOU FEEL THE ACCELERATION
Scaling up RL is all the rage right now, I had a chat with a friend about it yesterday. I'm fairly certain RL will continue to yield more intermediate gains, but I also don't expect it to be the full story. RL is basically "hey this happened to go well (/poorly), let me slightly…
Since the “architecture sucks now” theme is coming around on X again, a reminder that Hyatt and Marriott atriums are as impressive as cathedrals and pyramids, but, unlike cathedrals and pyramids, anyone can get a drink in them or spend the night for a reasonable fee.
This looks incredible! Can't wait to add it to my stack and run against Claude, Scite, et al
Introducing: Consensus Deep Search 🔬 Deep Search is a research agent that conducts literature reviews across 200M academic papers in two minutes.
Easiest “buy now” of my life
When I tell you I inhaled this book, I mean I read it in one sitting, then 7 times over again. I've recommended it 57 times, gifted 12 copies, and lovingly annotated it on 6 flights. Donald Braben's Scientific Freedom is an eulogy to scientific discovery, autopsied while it was…
Hadn’t at all thought about this, and still don’t think it’s strong enough reason for diversion of current trajectory…but the second order effects here are clearly interesting
OK, this is an original and good point.
Kevin Kelly on how the most interesting technologies serve as platforms that enable other people’s creativity
A gymnasium-compatible reimplementation of the original “hard maze” from novelty search, so you can learn about how other approaches manage deception.
OK, this is an original and good point.
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Adenoviruses, despite their large cargo carrying capacity, have been beat by the much smaller AAV in the gene therapy field. I wrote a summary on why that is (link below.) (hint: having a large genome is a double edged sword in the viral vector space)
There’s this metaphor in Chinese business strategy that you see all the time, even though you never really hear it in Western business schools (at least I haven't). It’s called the “catfish effect,” and it supposedly comes from a Norwegian fishing practice. Apparently, when…
The most vocal critics of the debt and deficit tend to be people who run successful trading businesses: Dalio, Griffin, Druckenmiller, Singer, Solomon, Gross, Dimon, Gundlach, etc. Here's my theory why... Every successful trading business is grounded in risk management.…
Two things can be true: 1. AI hype rivals the dotcom bubble. 2. We’re still radically underestimating its ultimate impact.
We torched Biden for abusing emergency powers during COVID. Now some Republicans want to do the same thing? If tyranny is wrong in blue, it's still wrong in red.