Drivers of cars by General Motors, Kia, Subaru and Mitsubishi may not realize that their driving data — like when they sped or braked too hard — is being shared with insurance companies. Numerous people have complained about spiking premiums as a result. nyti.ms/3TeLC7H

Over half of Swiss families are struggling to make ends meet, according to a survey. We’ve interviewed Philippe Gnaegi, director of Pro Familia Schweiz | Suisse | Svizzera, who is now calling for swift political action. 👇 buff.ly/4cbYeF9

Even in a welfare state like Switzerland more and more people are struggling to find somewhere to live. Most emergency shelters are full. Why? Some homeless people tell their stories. buff.ly/3PoQQN8

Time to use that in-room safe. Hackers crack millions of hotel room keycards by the legendary Andy Greenberg (@agreenberg at the other places). wired.com/story/saflok-h…

In 2022, we at WIRED told the story of P4x, a hacker who singlehandedly took down the entire North Korean internet. Now he's revealing his name—Alejandro Caceres—and his strange experience since then: trying to teach the US military to be more like him. wired.com/story/p4x-nort…

The 12 types of ML papers. (created by Natasha Jaques Max Kleiman-Weiner) #MachineLearning #ML #DataScience

Swiss academics criticise a “major discrepancy” between the resources available and Switzerland’s “ambitious” strategic objectives, which remain unchanged. buff.ly/3Uti6gs Swiss National Science Foundation Innosuisse swissuniversities ETH-Rat ETH Zurich EPFL

The dataset is everything. Great read: nonint.com/2023/06/10/the…

The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization dlvr.it/T60YPD

apparently Google laid off their entire Python Foundations team, WTF! ( Aaron Gokaslan who is one of the pybind11 maintainers just informed me, asking what ways they can re-fund pybind11) The team seems to have done substantial work that seems critical for Google internally as well.

It's amazing to me that the year is 2024 and some people still equate task-specific skill and intelligence. There is *no* specific task that cannot be solved *without* intelligence -- all you need a sufficiently complete description of the task (removing all test-time novelty and

The OpenAI superalignment team was only one kind of “safety”—the unproven kind. Meanwhile, there are so many actual harms that require serious thought and research. If you are panicking because OpenAI stopped caring about “safety”, you’ve probably bought into too much hype.

@datenschatz I usually consider these as "oh, interesting. Since that doesn't look too complicated to implement, let's bookmark this and use this in a project and see if it actually works as well as advertised. (Spoiler: it usually doesn't.)" With DPO itself, you find that it works pretty

Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words. "Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in

We put OpenAI o1 to the test against ARC Prize. Results: both o1 models beat GPT-4o. And o1-preview is on par with Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Can chain-of-thought scale to AGI? What explains o1's modest scores on ARC-AGI? Our notes: arcprize.org/blog/openai-o1…

NVIDIA just dropped a gigantic multimodal model called NVLM 72B 🦖 Explaining everything from what I got of reading the paper here 📝

Hitchhiker's guide to rebranding: - Machine learning -> statistical mechanics - Loss function -> energy functional - Optimize the model -> minimize free energy - Trained model -> reached equilibrium distribution - KL divergence -> free energy difference - Gaussian noise -> random

Find it here - github.com/VikParuchuri/t…

Fixed a bug which caused all training losses to diverge for large gradient accumulation sizes. 1. First reported by Benjamin Marie, GA is supposed to be mathematically equivalent to full batch training, but losses did not match. 2. We reproed the issue, and further investigation

It has not been reported much, but I believe ETH Zurich has, as of last week, banned new Master and PhD students who attended a long list of universities in China, Russia, and Iran. 🧵