Explained Simply: Superposition, Entanglement, and Quantum Computing
Understand the key concepts of Quantum Physics and the Multiverse in 15 minutes
Nick Yoder
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"I Don’t Want To" Button: Engineering Questions from Dario Amodei’s Thought Experiment
Can we guide an Artificial Intelligence to self-select tasks based on internal "wants" or desires?
GPT-2: Feature Influence
Explore Emotionally Biased GPT-2 Responses This simple web tool lets you experiment with mechanistic interpretability by biasing GPT-2 toward specific emotions or topics. For each of ten features (e.g., joy, anger, politics), we used a labeled dataset to identify which neurons in the base model activate in
A Mathematical Constraint on Reality: Why the Universe Must Be 11-Dimensional
A mathematical quasi-proof for the existence of exactly 11 dimensions
Beyond Orthogonality: How Language Models Pack Billions of Concepts into 12,000 Dimensions
In a recent 3Blue1Brown video series on transformer models, Grant Sanderson posed a fascinating question: How can a relatively modest embedding space of 12,288 dimensions (GPT-3) accommodate millions of distinct real-world concepts? The answer lies at the intersection of high-dimensional geometry and a remarkable mathematical result
COMPLETE BOOK LIST
Every book I've read since I starting reading outside of school (Age 7-8).
The Reasoning Mirage: Why LLMs Fall Short of Logical Intelligence or AGI
How far are we from AGI or true logical reasoning? As I continue to test large language models (LLMs), I'm increasingly convinced they're performing something closer to memorization and interpolation rather than genuine logical reasoning. Today, I conducted an experiment using a probability puzzle I previously
Hemisphere's Plot
ACT I: ASCENT Dr. Cael Thorne was, briefly, the brightest mind of the post-singularity age. He viewed an intelligent agent's ability to introspect and alter its own architecture, not as distant possibility or danger, but rather as the core purpose of the system architecture. Dr. Thorne labored
SILENT SKY
The Greatest Mystery at the End of the Galaxy
The Kelly Criterion
How to apply the famous betting formula in investment, trading and professional gambling
Electric vs Gasoline: A Satire
In a world where only electric vehicles exist, a salesman is pitching a new invention: Gasoline Cars
Moore's Law of Moore's Law of Quantum Computing
The future of computing is VERY cool, -273° C to be precise...
5 Minute History: How Pepsi Acquired The World's 6th Largest Military
A Tale of Submarines, Vodka, Pepsi and War...
10-Point Scale & Wikipedia
Perfectionism is killing me...
The Kelly Criterion
How to apply the famous betting formula in investment, trading and professional gambling