I got a dell laptop and want to try switching back to linux after a long time with macos.
what distro should i try?
i am going for minimum over-time hassle and maximum battery life.
omarchy has nice aesthetics but DHH's (extreme lack of) technical expertise scares me.
if your paper title contains a question, then a minimum requirement is for the paper to try and meaningfully answer the question.
if your main claim is producing an artifact with property X, a minimum is to discuss how X was achieved, and to verify its quality.
(yay ICLR reviewing)
TIL that "middle east" is now considered a problematic term and we should be using "west asia" instead (say for region-based professional organizations).
so, a poll: middle east AI researchers, did you know you are part of west asia?
today at colm keynote henry farrell gave the amazing insight that llms are not magical creatures, but magical creatures that feed of off many decades of human creativity. and that it is important to involve the humanities to gain such insights and make use of them.
~6-7 million tokens per game for the cheapest run is quite a lot. many many reasoning tokens. def trained directly on such an env (no reasoning vs low reasoning on the standard harness also interesting)
"contain" "it's worst" and "resemble our internal monitoring deployments" (which we recently demonstrated are keeping logs and not looking at them until after the fact) is not super reassuring.
so:
- any task/environment that you can score reliably and invest enough money (= an obscene amount) in bruteforcing its training, will be solved
- every challenging and popular benchmark will meet this bar
- abilities won't necessarily transfer
how can we measure progress?
please don't title your papers for "maximizing engagement" by removing key information (=lying to people). we will find out in a minute anybow, so why waste our time? make titles as informative as possible, so we can easily find it when searching, and easily vet it while reading.