Stories by optimalsolver

By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity

Spyder: A Scientific Python IDE with Numpy, Pandas, and Matplotlib Integration

Searching for Search Algorithms: Experiments in Meta-Search (2003) [pdf]

Ultra-Orthodox and Trans

AstroPy: Core Astronomy Package for Python

OpenBazaar: A Free and Completely Decentralized Marketplace

Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression [pdf]

Cmix: Lossless Data Compression

Interpreting GPT: The Logit Lens

Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem (2019)

An Intuitive Explanation of Solomonoff Induction (2012)

The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge

Sorting Pebbles into Correct Heaps (2008)

Databay: Python Interface for Scheduled Data Transfer

The Crackpot Offer (2007)

Lyft/Kaggle Motion Prediction $30k Challenge

Facebook and Google offered almost $2M to some H-1B software engineers

Information compression as a unifying principle in human learning

Rationale for a Large Text Compression Benchmark (2009)

Natural language benchmarks don’t measure AI models’ general knowledge well

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