Link Incubator, January 2023, rtheory.xyz
stillness in research, mimetic theory, who is the next genius?
Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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1 Writings
The New York school board has blocked access to ChatGPT on its networks in order to prevent students from using it to complete their essays, despite the implications of ChatGPT being orders of magnitude larger than GPT4 this year. But what about other homework assignments?
2.1 Meta-Science / Statistics
"A consistent challenge in my development as a researcher has been: how to cultivate deep, stable concentration in the face of complex, ill-structured creative problems?"
What is harder to achieve, becoming a chess grandmaster or getting a PhD in any field?
Albert Einstein is gone, and Stephen Hawking is gone. Who is the next genius?
Pages with the most daily views on Wikipedia for 2022
Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
2.2 Psychology / Biology / Genetics
Breeding maggots to heal wounds
2.3 Technology / AI
The New York school board has blocked access to ChatGPT on its networks in order to prevent students from using it to complete their essays, despite the implications of ChatGPT being orders of magnitude larger than GPT4 this year. But what about other homework assignments?
The Microsoft CEO has declared that machine learning will be incorporated into all of your Windows and Office experiences. OpenAI is currently running on the Azure platform. Much of the activity that people engage in on Windows today occurs through Chrome, so the CEO may be correct, although not in the exact way he intended.
a Meta team has a model that can make 3D animations from text prompts
Rows, one of the web next spreadsheet apps is trying to integrate ChatGPT
Meanwhile, Microsoft announced a very impressive voice synthesis tool, Vall-E. (In all the excitement people have kind of forgotten that OpenAI has no monopoly on any of this stuff.) LINK
Despite the excitement surrounding Microsoft's announcement of their impressive voice synthesis tool, Vall-E, it is important to remember that OpenAI does not have a monopoly on this type of technology.
At 2100+ (not a typo) pages , this is almost all the Math you need for Machine Learning without dumbing it down! PDF link: https://cis.upenn.edu/~jean/math-deep.pdf
2.4 Politics / Religion / Culture
2.5 Tools
Chrome extension that summarises articles into a single paragraph using AI
Designing tools for creatives on the web
Other places
(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°) Telegram/Discord group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful.
👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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