GPT-3 is OpenAI's newest language model, that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. Ever since the release of GPT-3, I have been super excited. It is not readily accessible yet, even though it is open-source, but I am on the waitlist,… Continue Reading
This paper, by Jacob White, the focus is on the study of Cohen-Macaulay Hopf monoids in the category of species. Some insights from the abstract: "The goal is to apply techniques from topological combinatorics to the study of polynomial invariants… Continue Reading
I found this paper on the arXiv a couple of months ago and from time to time I go back to it to try and understand this new diagrammatic language. I think the abstract is quite informative (more so than… Continue Reading
In this Quanta Magazine article, the author summarizes some new work that makes iO (indistinguishability obfuscation) sound like something we may actually achieve in the near future. Up to this point, crypographers have been unable to make iO usable in… Continue Reading
Nuclear fusion powerplants (thats right, fusion, not fission!) are looking like a possibility in the somewhat near future. In this article they explain how the world's largest nuclear fusion project, in southern France, expects to be able to generate ultra-hot… Continue Reading