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Sal Khan reflects on an independent randomized controlled trial that found Khan Academy helped below-grade-level students make math gains.

SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at being a person, told reporters Thursday that he saw huge potential in AI. “While it’s still in its early phase, artificial intelligence will one day accomplish things that humans could have never even dreamed of doing,” said Parker, who, by all accounts, has never stretched himself to do something he found difficult; has never created anything truly original; and, deep down, has absolutely zero understanding of what makes things good, enjoyable, or rewarding. “Just yesterday, I asked an AI program to write an entire sci-fi novel for me, and [as someone who will die an empty shell of a man who wasted his life doing nothing for the world and, perhaps, should never have been born] I was super impressed. Soon, humans won’t need to do anything at all! Awesome.” At press time, Parker added that as someone whose contributions to society would almost certainly be measured cumulatively as a net loss, he also saw great potential in the future of the metaverse.

Per-token timing over an ordinary streaming API leaks a hosted model's architecture and inference stack. We recovered the 128K draft context window behind Gemini Flash 2.5 with nothing but a timer.

This Blog was started by the researchers in theoretical computer science at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley center (MSR-SVC). The first blog post was posted by Omer Reingold on Feb 14, 2012. The …

Strengthening taste

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

A judge ordered the man charged with setting a woman on fire​ on the CTA Blue Line to be held in custody while he awaits trial.

Congress should fund modernized upgrades of the barriers instead of pouring more money into ineffective transit security measures.

Polarons are quasiparticles that easily form in polarizable materials due to the coupling of excess electrons or holes with ionic vibrations. These quasiparticles manifest themselves in many different ways and have a profound impact on materials properties and functionalities. Polarons have been the testing ground for the development of numerous theories, and their manifestations have been studied by many different experimental probes. This Review provides a map of the enormous amount of data and knowledge accumulated on polaron effects in materials, ranging from early studies and standard treatments to emerging experimental techniques and novel theoretical and computational approaches.

AI agents are making it easier for the public to interact with government, such as by helping them apply for benefits, understand complex policies, and make their opinions heard. Although improving service accessibility is beneficial, any resulting surges in demand could strain unprepared government services. We term such surges agentic flooding of government services ("flooding") and provide three contributions. First, based on a collected dataset of 84 potential cases of flooding across 11 jurisdictions, we posit that flooding is likely occurring widely today, mostly through large language models (LLMs) generating text cheaply. Second, we evaluate what services are most exposed to flooding. We develop a risk matrix to analyze a service's exposure, and suggest that near-term risk is highest for financially attractive, but complex services. Finally, we map possible government responses to flooding. Precedent suggests these responses will likely be sufficient to stop most cases of flooding, but the fastest to deploy - friction-inducing measures like fees - often trade off equitable access to public services. Accordingly, we close by recommending near-term actions that may allow governments to mitigate flooding without invoking this trade-off.

Men, go play. It’s good for you and for the health of the nation.

A 24-year-old investor hailed as a visionary attracted billions—before turning into Wall Street’s latest cautionary tale.

Why culture matters for European progress

Former animators, cinematographers, and VFX artists are helping build AI systems that can script, storyboard, generate, and revise short dramas with unprecedented speed.

Article by Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly (October 2004)

The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it

The New Republic's article against elite education is destructive to my students

Once more on the Plumber Discourse and selective breeding...

The narrative shortchanges ambitious college-bound students and their parents

Is all this competition to get in really worth the effort? Probably, yes.

The Person or the Pedigree? A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports the results of a major compensation survey. The clear conclusion was ... Read more

Even as measured by financial return, there is little or no advantage in choosing an elite college over a less elite college.

Article by Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly (October 2004)

college admissions has, does, and will always serve only the institutions and their incredible greed

He nearly destroyed this magazine. Sixteen years later, his former best friend finally confronts him.

The nation's top colleges are turning our kids into zombies.

An in-depth look at the currently trending Arch Linux configuration that is Omarchy.

I’ve met Matz once, I think, at EuRuKo in Krakow in 2010. We chatted briefly in Japanese. He seemed nice, but also quiet and reserved. At the time, he didn’t speak much English; perhaps he could speak more and just wasn’t particularly confident, but he didn’t.

I was approached by a client to research the concept of 20% time for engineers, and they graciously agreed to let me share my results. Because this work was tailored to the needs of a specific clie…

OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets

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GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS

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"Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives while interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the field's key ideas and algorithms."--

Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. It can be used to refer to a philosophies, art practices, methodologies or communities. The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, exploring and re-making the Internet, cyberspace and new-media technologies in general. The foundational catalyst for the formation of cyberfeminist thought is often attributed by Europeans to Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto", third wave feminism, post-structuralist feminism, riot grrrl culture and the feminist critique of the alleged erasure of women within discussions of digital technologies.