I asked GPT-powered Bing how to plot a 3D cat in matplotlib. I got something very decent in 15 mins with 5 questions. After some tuning, I managed to visualize my sensor fusion. Question: should I replace the cat with a rat (less vertices) to reduce latency?

Taipei Aerospace & Defense Technology Exhibition

U.N. spox struggled to answer questions from JAMES BAYS today on Taiwan's exclusion from the U.N., referring only to "China." In the morning, deputy sec gen Amina Mohammed had spoken out against Taiwan's exclusion. It doesn't seem that Guterres's team thinks the same way.

At a presser on Sustainable Development, I'd asked DSG Mohammed if Taiwan's exclusion from the U.N. holds back efforts on development. (TW nationals not even allowed into U.N. buildings.) It's unusual for U.N. officials to call for ending Taiwan's exclusion, as Mohammed did.

103 PLA aircraft and 9 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today. R.O.C. Armed Forces have monitored the situation and tasked CAP aircraft, Navy vessels, and land-based missile systems to respond these activities.

C'est bien un harcèlement militaire.

“Google's payment covered three quarters of Apple's R&D budget” Remember, so much about what companies actually do is explainable by what their business actually is. Apple is an iPhone company. Google is an advertising company. Everything else is not that important for them.

Shunyu Yao Dan Friedman matt hardy Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab By reasoning about next-word prediction, we make several hypotheses abt factors that'll cause difficulty for LLMs 1st is task frequency: we predict better performance on frequent tasks than rare ones, even when the tasks are equally complex Eg, linear functions (see img)! 4/8

Shunyu Yao Dan Friedman matt hardy Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab Another example: shift ciphers - decoding a message by shifting each letter N positions back in the alphabet. On the Internet, the most common values for N are 1, 3, and 13. These are the only ones for which GPT-4 performs well! 5/8

Toshifumi Futamase, or the Japanese father of weak lensing, is visiting Taichung. He gave a talk about the Hubble tension. So I learned that this is still a thing in cosmology ^^

Visiting Taiwan Space Agency

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world. I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

CHINESE MILITARY DIPLOMAT HARASSED TAIWANESE VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT IN PRAGUE Czech media Seznam Zprávy Lukáš Valášek has broke a major scandal: - In mid March, Taiwanese Vice-President-Elect Bi-khim Hsiao 蕭美琴 visited Prague on invitation of Czech Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil. She was

Quel succès quand même pour ceux qui pensaient réussir, il y a quelques années, à distancier la Russie de la Chine, et il y a encore quelques mois, à distancier la Chine de la Russie… Je re-poste cet op-ed Le Monde que j’avais publié en mars 2023. Je n’y changerai rien.

THREAD on the Foreign Affairs magazine throwdown on the US-China endgame. What American policy is most likely to avoid WWIII? We've got some real heavyweights in the ring today: Rep. Gallagher + Trump NSC Pottinger Ex Biden NSC Doshi Ex State Weiss + Steinberg ex IC Heer