“This paper suggests that the gender inequalities in children’s maths performance aren’t innate or inevitable,” says psychologist Jillian Lauer at the University of Cambridge, UK

#iTeachMath

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.

Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

1/12 How do animals build an internal map? In our new paper, we tracked thousands of mouse CA1 neurons over days/weeks as they learned a VR navigation task. @nspruston.bsky.social & co-1st author @johanwinn.bsky.social
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw_4...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very good (technical) explainer answering "How has DeepSeek improved the Transformer architecture?". Aimed at readers already familiar with Transformers.

epoch.ai/gradient-upd...

SWE-Bench has been one of the most important tasks measuring the progress of agents tackling software engineering in 2024. I caught up with two of its creators, @ofirpress.bsky.social and Carlos E. Jimenez to share their ideas on the state of LLM-backed agents.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bivZ...

Happy New Year! To kick off the year, I've finally been able to format and upload the draft of my AI Research Highlights of 2024 article.
It covers a variety of topics, from mixture-of-experts models to new LLM scaling laws for precision:

This could be one way to manage hallucinations

#NeurIPS2024 wrapped up last week. I put together a curated reading list for #DeepRL and #reinforcementlearning work. (represents my interests).

Talks and workshops:
third-crowd-c77.notion.site/NeurIPS2024-...

Curated reading list
fracturedplane.notion.site/NeurIPS2024-...

#Holidayreading

Fantastic read on OpenAI o3’s ARC benchmark results

Something to think about given the performance in context of ARC prize

Nice list of papers!

(Get Well Soon @sebastianraschka.com )