2025-04-15
A Talmudic Rationalist Cautionary Tale
Published on April 15, 2025 4:11 AM GMTThe following is a translated famous passage from the Babylonian Talmud (Bava Metzia 59aâb) that I believe has a good implicit rationalist intepretation....
Creating 'Making God': a Feature Documentary on risks from AGI
Published on April 15, 2025 2:56 AM GMTPlease donate to our Manifund (as of 14.04.25 we have two more days of donation matching up to $10,000). Email me at connor.axiotes...
MindEye2 (Not Pretrained) vs. MindEye1
In this section, we show how MindEye2 outperforms MindEye1 even without pretraining on other subjects.
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A Dissent on Honesty
Published on April 15, 2025 2:43 AM GMTContextDisney's Tangled (2010) is a great movie. Spoilers if you haven't seen it.The heroine, having been kidnapped at birth and raised in a...
MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-To-Image With 1 Hour of Data: Single-Subject Evaluations
In this section, we show more exhaustive evaluation metrics computed for every subject individually using 40 hours and 1 hour of fine-tuning data, respectively.
How AI Agents Could Have Supercharged Pfizerâs COVID-19 Vaccine Development
AI agents are systems that can reason, act, and learn over time. They arenât just passive tools. Theyâre active collaborators. We use them in software engineering to automate code reviews,...
Reconstruction Evaluations Across Varying Amounts of Training Data: Mindeye2
Here, we present a further analysis of how model performance scales with training data.
Principles for coding securely with LLMs
Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable. They have a capability that no other technology can match: the...
ChatGPT Can Now Remember and Reference All Your Previous Chats
Samuel Axon, writing for Ars Technica: Some time ago, OpenAI added a feature called âMemoryâ that allowed a limited number of pieces of information to be retained and used for...
Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
MindEye2 Dataset: fMRI Preprocessing and Normalization
Provides further details about the fMRI dataset used in MindEye2, including preprocessing and normalization procedures.
Behind the Scenes: The Making of MindEye2
Details the contributions of each author involved in the development and research of MindEye2.
Becoming a Writer in a Hyperconnected World
All platforms are now engaging, interactive. We can collaborate everywhere. To know the best platforms for evolving, we need to reflect on how we interact with these systems. Platforms, like...
Correcting Deceptive Alignment using a Deontological Approach
Published on April 14, 2025 10:07 PM GMTDeceptive alignment (also known as alignment faking) occurs when an AI system that is not genuinely aligned behaves as if it isâintentionally deceiving...
If Getting Laid-off is Bad, Wait Till You See What AI Does to Corporates
AI advancements present a bigger threat to bureaucracy corporates than it does to highly-skilled professionals.
What if there was a nuke in Manhattan and why that could be a good thing
Published on April 15, 2025 12:19 AM GMTIf a country wanted to perform a nuclear first strike, launching a missile might be the wrong way to do it.What if instead,...
Developer Productivity with GitHub Copilot & AI Tools by Aditya Mishra
As a runner-up in R Systems BlogBook, Aditya Mishra unpacks GitHub Copilotâs impact on coding workflowsâfrom AI-powered suggestions to code quality, testing, and learning.
đ ď¸ Fixing the Decline: 5 Proven Ways to Boost Credit Card Authorization Rates
Credit card authorization failures quietly destroy revenue across the internet. Most of them aren't due to fraud. And most can be prevented. Let's walk through five strategies modern merchants use...
Balatro's publisher beat gold stakes and the Jokerless challenge so quickly it even surprised LocalThunk: 'How did you do this so fast?'
"I sent him the video of the score, going, like, screw you. Yeah, I got it!" said Playstack's Wout van Halderen.
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