In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion.
Allo zoo di Osaka, in Giappone, ci hanno messo sette anni ad accorgersi che Gen-chan non è un maschio ma una femmina: era piuttosto complicato osservare i suoi genitali
Last night I estimated the distance to the planet Jupiter using nothing more than my eyes and a simple calculator.
Permettetemi di richiamare alcuni ulteriori aspetti che riguardano la vicenda di Holostem, della sua ricerca di punta e dei suoi ricercatori, tutti messi a rischio dalla decisione del suo principale investitore, in realtà dell’azienda farmaceutica Chiesi, di procedere alla liquidazione.
A month ago Coleman Hughes, a young writer whose name I recognized from his many thoughtful essays in Quillette and elsewhere, set up a virtual "AI safety roundtable" with Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and, err, yours truly, for his Conversations with Coleman podcast series. Maybe Coleman was looking for three people with the most widely…
[Warning: This might be the longest Shtetl-Optimized post of all time! But that’s OK; I expect most people will only want to read the introductory part anyway.] As I’ve mentioned before…
A from scratch GPU-free introduction to modern machine learning. Many tutorials exist already of course, but this one aims to really explain what is going on, from the ground up. Also, we’ll develop the demo until it is actually useful on real life data which you can supply yourself.
Other documents start out from the (very impressive) PyTorch environment, or they attempt to math it up from first principles. Trying to understand deep learning via PyTorch is like trying to learn aerodynamics from flying an Airbus A380.
Stephen Wolfram explores the broader picture of what's going on inside ChatGPT and why it produces meaningful text. Discusses models, training neural nets, embeddings, tokens, transformers, language syntax.
Ethan Tseng, Shane Colburn, James Whitehead, Luocheng Huang, Seung-Hwan Baek, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide Nature Communications
Stephen Wolfram applies lessons learned from the Wolfram Physics Project to construct a proper framework to explain why--and to what extent--the Second Law of thermodynamics is true.
I studied physics in university, and at one point asked a professor if I should learn German, because it seemed all the key texts of early ...
Il 7 gennaio 1953 il capo del progetto statunitense sulla bomba all'idrogeno andò a lavarsi nel bagno del suo treno: non sapeva che sarebbe stata una pessima giornata
Sunrise Sunset Algorithm
I recently sketched a quick proof of Stirling’s asymptotic formula for the factorial. But what does this formula really mean? Above is my favorite explanation. You can’t see the …
