"We conclude that wearing of face masks in public corresponds to the most effective means to prevent interhuman transmission." pnas.org/content/early/… #facemask #covid19

Authoritarian governments, not democratic republics, send unmarked authorities after protesters. These Trump/Barr tactics designed to eliminate any accountability are absolutely unacceptable in America, and must end. x.com/matcha_chai/st…

America is the only democracy where judges on the highest court have unlimited terms. ... If America had 18-year non-renewable terms, ... it would help make the court a bit less central to American politics—and thus more central to American law.  economist.com/leaders/2020/0…

Parkour is the perfect sandbox for the Atlas team to experiment with new behaviors. Through jumps, balance beams, and vaults, we push Atlas to its limits to discover the next generation of mobility, perception, and athletic intelligence. bit.ly/3iTIxco

She was the only member of Congress to vote against war in Afghanistan. Some called her a traitor. wapo.st/3CWIS5S

#WhereIsPengShuai ?

12/12 Everything has a price, and now, in the spring of 2022, we must pay this price. There's no one to do it for us. Let's not "be against the war." Let's fight against the war.

Oh oh, Monster Energy uses #erythritol . It's their third ingredient, after water and citric acid, so there could be a lot per can. Looking forward to them publishing a response.

Impressive integration of AI into most of Microsoft's productivity tools! lnkd.in/g4U6y69a

"... ChatGPT’s math where it makes nonsensical errors such as adding two numbers in a subtraction problem or dividing numbers incorrectly. ..." If "math" is in the way, then my money is on v5. ;-) lnkd.in/gpTRDYE4

How did our medical #LLM, Med-PaLM 2, become the first to perform at “expert” level on U.S. Medical Licensing Exam-style questions? Check out our new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2305.09617…

Our dreams are starting to leak... 🔊 ᴏɴ ♫

Watch my conversation with @ElonMusk: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

"The reality of goodness, not the perception of it ... Let’s see how Earth responds to that ... by that time we'll have digital gods ... we live in the most interesting of times ... even if I knew that annihilation was certain ... it was the most interesting thing ... "

Prompt engineering (or rather "Flow engineering") intensifies for code generation. Great reading and a reminder of how much alpha there is (pass@5 19% to 44%) in moving from a naive prompt:answer paradigm to a "flow" paradigm, where the answer is constructed iteratively.

Are we able to agree on what we mean by "AGI". I've been using this definition from OpenAI which I thought was relatively standard and ok: openai.com/our-structure/ AGI: "a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work" For "most economically

can AI do research-level mathematics? make conjectures? prove theorems? there’s a moving frontier between what can and cannot be done with LLMs. that boundary just shifted a little. this is my experience with AI proving a new theorem. 1/

50 cents of compute for 500 dollars of value