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We Need a Baseline for LLM-Aided Experiments

J BostockMay 24, 2025, 8:52 PM
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Every­thing I Know About Se­man­tics I Learned From Mu­sic Notation

J BostockMar 9, 2025, 6:09 PM
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Turn­ing up the Heat on De­cep­tively-Misal­igned AI

J BostockJan 7, 2025, 12:13 AM
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In­tranasal mRNA Vac­cines?

J BostockJan 1, 2025, 11:46 PM
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Linkpost: Look at the Water

J BostockDec 30, 2024, 7:49 PM
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[Question] What is the alpha in one bit of ev­i­dence?

J BostockOct 22, 2024, 9:57 PM
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The Best Lay Ar­gu­ment is not a Sim­ple English Yud Essay

J BostockSep 10, 2024, 5:34 PM
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At­ten­tion-Fea­ture Tables in Gemma 2 Resi­d­ual Streams

J BostockAug 6, 2024, 10:56 PM
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Risk Overview of AI in Bio Research

J BostockJul 15, 2024, 12:04 AM
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How to Bet­ter Re­port Sparse Au­toen­coder Performance

J BostockJun 2, 2024, 7:34 PM
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To Limit Im­pact, Limit KL-Divergence

J BostockMay 18, 2024, 6:52 PM
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In­tro­duc­ing Statis­ti­cal Utility Me­chan­ics: A Frame­work for Utility Maximizers

J BostockMay 15, 2024, 9:56 PM
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Tam­ing In­finity (Stat Mech Part 3)

J BostockMay 15, 2024, 9:43 PM
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Con­served Quan­tities (Stat Mech Part 2)

J BostockMay 4, 2024, 1:40 PM
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So What’s Up With PUFAs Chem­i­cally?

J BostockApr 27, 2024, 1:32 PM
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For­get Every­thing (Statis­ti­cal Me­chan­ics Part 1)

J BostockApr 22, 2024, 1:33 PM
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Mea­sur­ing Learned Op­ti­miza­tion in Small Trans­former Models

J BostockApr 8, 2024, 2:41 PM
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Briefly Ex­tend­ing Differ­en­tial Op­ti­miza­tion to Distributions

J BostockMar 10, 2024, 8:41 PM
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Finite Fac­tored Sets to Bayes Nets Part 2

J BostockFeb 3, 2024, 12:25 PM
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From Finite Fac­tors to Bayes Nets

J BostockJan 23, 2024, 8:03 PM
38 points
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