The prevailing wisdom is that compute is the most important factor for frontier AI training. We think this is wrong: data is the most costly and important component of AI training. We collected estimates of revenue for major data labeling companies and compared them with the

"What comes next is not the next spectacular demo but the quiet absorption of today’s tools into the 80 percent of the economy that still runs on Excel and email. Code will ship with more AI-authored lines, but senior devs will still sign the diffs."

I’ve got bad news. The AI cycle is over—for now. I’ve been an unapologetic AI maximalist since the first time I tricked GPT-4 into writing a working Python back-test for a volatility strategy back in early 2023. I’m still convinced it will take the wider economy years—maybe

In order to supervise an automation tool (or another person!) effectively, you need to be able to do the same job yourself. Doesn't matter if you rarely ever do the job yourself (like a manager who no longer codes), you need to be *able* to do it.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in @ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. https://t.co/AdFtM2MDOu

“La duda que surge es hasta cuándo este “modelo de convivencia” resiste. No vale defender sistemáticamente a cada corporación que reclama su parte, y luego poner cara de incrédulo y preguntar ¿por qué Uruguay es caro?” Uruguayísima - ⁦@Itu_Agustin⁩

More than 50% of the reported reasoning abilities of LLMs might not be true reasoning. How do we evaluate models trained on the entire internet? I.e., what novel questions can we ask of something that has seen all written knowledge? Below: new eval, results, code, and paper.

Un nuevo proyecto para 2024: Inteligencia Artificial y Ciencia de Datos en @UCUoficial. Un gusto haber trabajado con @VazquezGust y @pablo_itu en este desafío. Una carrera específica en #IA y #Datos. https://t.co/x4yHPHEc0u a través de @YouTube

I like having no strong opinion on most things. Having an opinion about the topic of the day would require me to know a decent amount about it, and given the endless ocean of things there are to opine about, that would represent an immense loss of focus and waste of energy.

☺️La Academia Nacional de Ingeniería de Uruguay 🇺🇾 entregó sus premios 🏆anuales a los mejores trabajos de grado y posgrado. Nuestra #AlumniUCU Natalia Martínez resultó premiada 🥇por su trabajo en la categoría trabajo de grado en Ingeniería en Electrónica 👏 ¡Felicitaciones 🥳!

Finalizó la 9a Olimpíada de Robótica, Programación y Videojuegos con más de 2.300 estudiantes y 308 docentes que participaron, investigaron e integraron conocimientos a problemáticas cercanas. #OlimpiadaCeibal 🏅

Them: "A PhD provides you with a set of general-purpose and highly transferable skills" Me: "\vspace{-0.254em}"

This is a cyclist using his knowledge of physics and aerodynamics to gain a competitive advantage Michael Guerra unclips from his pedals, lies down on the seat and stretches out his legs to achieve ultimate aerodynamic efficiency. https://t.co/FUBFsvMbVk

All of linear algebra in one diagram:

Gran mesa con tremendos expositores en el 🚀 lanzamiento de la Maestria en Ciencia de Datos de @UCUoficial

Proxy Variable https://t.co/pZlsuQJNLY

The public are excited by the images, but astronomers are as excited by the spectra, like this one. I want to talk about why

YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct date format. * It's an ISO standard: https://t.co/n3wKGrNuMH * It's unambiguous (is 03/05/22 March 5 or May 3? No such problem here!) * General-purpose sorting sorts dates correctly * East Asian countries like Japan 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 use it ("2022年5月3日")

"The crucial lesson was that the scope of things I didn't know wasn't merely vast; it was, for all practical purposes, infinite. That realization, instead of being discouraging, was liberating. If our ignorance is infinite, the only possible course of action is to muddle through"

This new absolutely killer feature is now in #overleaf!