Stories by optimalsolver

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

Mitigating Metaphors: A Comprehensible Guide to Nature-Inspired Algorithms

Neural Networks Are Overrated

Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers (2013)

No, There Wasn't an Advanced Civilization 12,000 Years Ago

DNA Is Only One Among Millions of Possible Genetic Molecules

Exploring the Space of All Possible Programs

The Problem of “Post-Empirical Science”

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