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“In this paper, we present Stored Embeddings for Efficient Reinforcement Learning (SEER), a simple modification of existing off-policy RL methods, to address these computational and memory requirements…”
“We hope our proposed architecture serves as a reproducible reference for a minimalistic implementation of transformer based video generation models. Samples and code are available at https://wilson1ya…”
“Here we give an extended review of the quasilinear reformulation of the Lovelock gravitational field equations in harmonic gauge presented in 1409.6656 [gr-qc].”
“In this paper we introduce a new attack algorithm called SCAR, designed to fool classifiers of binary images. We show that SCAR significantly outperforms existing L0 attacks applied to the binary sett…”
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“Our paper “Exponential Quantum Advantage in Processing Massive Classical Data” proves that quantum machines can solve common machine learning tasks using exponentially less memory than a classical mac…”
“Thanks, Ingrid Fadelli, for this nice article about our recently published paper with @RobertHuangHY and @MSoleimanifar. The paper describes a surprisingly simple protocol for verifying that a many-qu…”
“This one: https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.12.3845”
“This paper introduces the User Data Sharing System (UDSS), a platform-agnostic framework designed to facilitate secure, privacy-first PII (Personally Identifiable Information) exchange between device …”
“This paper presents the Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Long Term Forecasting (STT-LTF ), an extended framework that advances beyond purely temporal analysis to integrate spatial context modeling with…”
“We introduced PHASE (PHysically grounded Abstract Social Events), a large dataset of procedurally generated animations, depicting physically simulated two-agent interactions on a 2D surface.”
“I've discussed supply chain attacks, specifically in the context of the Node.js package manager, NPM ecosystem, in this 2022 update.”
“VentureBeat has a very good article explaining what happened to Axios.”
“Fortifying the enterprise: 10 actions to take now for AI-ready cyber resilience”
“There's there's another blog post that um perhaps you know about called the intelligence curse. Yes. Um which uh goes over some of this ground as well which which I recommend people look up.”
“you know we published it in physical review letters and it got a lot of attention and I think we had a little article in Scientific American that was very proud of”
“I hope you read our paper when it's on archive soon”
“this essay called Keep Your Identity Small, I think, by by Paul Graham is his name.”
“By the way, I want to call out Donald J McGraw's 1974 thesis "The Antibiotic Discovery Era" as a crucial source for this part of the video. McGraw somehow got unprecedented access to Eli Lilly's corpo…”
“How to become a supermanager with AI: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-become-a-supermanager-with”
“How custom GPTs can make you a better manager | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product at Whoop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDMkkOC-EhI”
“In this work, we derive the non-Markovian dynamics between TLS and qubits during a SWAP-like two-qubit gate and the associated average gate fidelity for frequency-tunable Transmon qubits. This gate de…”
“Answering the question of existence of efficient quantum algorithms for NP-hard problems require deep theoretical understanding of the properties of the low-energy eigenstates and long-time coherent d…”
“I just published "Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad": https://t.co/LTMrsxFeuS”
“you can check out the paper that Michael Nielson had about this idea”
“In this paper, we report the design and characterization of a prototype cryogenic CMOS integrated circuit that has been optimized for the control of transmon qubits. The circuit has been integrated in…”
“Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising variational learning paradigm with applications to near-term quantum processors, however they still face some significant challenges.”
“This is an updated version of supplementary information to accompany "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor", an article published in the October 24, 2019 issue of Nature. T…”
“Summary of changes since arXiv:1910.11333v1 (submitted 23 Oct 2019)”
“# GLoMo: Unsupervisedly Learned Relational tGraphs as Transferable Representations”
“We introduce a fermion-to-qubit mapping defined on ternary trees, where any single Majorana operator on an $n$-mode fermionic system is mapped to a multi-qubit Pauli operator acting nontrivially on $\…”
“First of all, Center for Humane Technology, my nonprofit, has a solutions report that's coming out around the time of the film. It's a PDF. It has, I think, seven major solutions. I want everybody to …”
“Here we report on experimental observations of relaxation in such simulations, measured on up to 1440 qubits with microsecond resolution. By initializing the system in a state with topological obstruc…”
“According to a new report by Citadel Research, software engineering job postings are rising rapidly.”
“This video is actually very heavily inspired by this article, and I'm going to link to it in the description because I highly recommend that you read the whole thing. It is definitely worth your time.”
“Here my friend Jens Eisert and I assess the current status and the challenges ahead.”
“The paper that blew my mind was InstructGPT, because it pointed out that you can take the pretrained model, which is autocomplete, and if you just fine-tune it on text that looks like conversations, t…”
“one example of this is that there was a few papers came out of Cornell over the last few months like one of them was they published this after good financial cryptography 2016 workshop that they were …”
“In this paper, we address this by introducing adaptive canonicalization, a general framework in which the canonicalization depends both on the input and the network. Specifically, we present the adapt…”
“Leveraging recent advancements in multi-modal LLMs, we propose SLEDGE: Step-by-step LayEred Design GEnerator to model each update to a design as an atomic, layered change over its previous state, whil…”
“This paper introduces Physics-Informed Extreme Learning Machines (PIELMs) as fast alternative to PINNs for solving both forward and inverse problems in financial PDEs.”
“# JEPA as a Neural Tokenizer: Learning Robust Speech Representations with Density Adaptive Attention”
“We discuss this, along with the other implications of this research, in our blog: https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-alignment-researchers”
“For the full study, see here: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/automated-w2s-researcher/”
“Read the full letter here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09520v1”
“weird thing to put in print https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/10/13/Forbes-ranks-Walton-as-richest-American-for-second-year/4151529560000/”
“His full walkthrough is linked in the description.”
“We address this challenge by unifying calibration with computation, granting the quantum error correction process a dual role: its error detection events are not only used to correct the logical quant…”
“To address these issues, we introduce STARC-9 (STAnford coloRectal Cancer), a large-scale dataset for multi-class tissue classification.”
“We hope that the simplicity and theory-friendly ecosystem offered by LeJEPA will reestablish self-supervised pre-training as a core pillar of AI research”
“Well, let's get to that. I mean, so, so yesterday, you know, and I'm glad to say this was the cover of Nature, Nature Journal yesterday.”
“Counterpoint: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publishers-on-twitter-our-analysis-suggests-yes/”
“There was an algorithm that was theorized by a guy named Peter Shor. I think I talked about this on a prior episode in 1994 called Shor's algorithm. Today, it's kind of the commonly well-known model f…”
“we've been publishing at the general of laward we've been P publishing prompts that turn the AI into a tutor into a mentor that uh into a student you have to explain stuff to”
“And then, a couple years ago, I think in 2023, there was another computer scientist named Oded Regev from NYU who published another paper that showed a faster different approach to Shor's algorithm.”
“This paper introduces KunLunBaizeRAG, a reinforcement learning-driven reasoning framework designed to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in complex multi-hop question-a…”
“Last week I shared our recent arXiv paper detailing the world’s largest entangled state, with 120 qubits at 56% fidelity with a shot-retention rate of 28%, run on Heron R2 ibm_aachen.”
“# Cambrian-S: Towards Spatial Supersensing in Video”
“This is not in the technical report but this is from the paper actually that kind of originates our tokenization approach. \n Paper name is called one tokenizer to rule them all.”
“The corresponding paper is actually the art of asking you can find in in the archive that actually has research on this particular focus.”
“All of them in command line translate but it includes rulebased \n filtering again difficulty filtering which come up again this difficulties as an important metric and also we looked at some some of …”
“For for the merging recipe. We have another paper here a simmer merge that is actually not using only one merging technique \n but kind of select the merging techniques based on some of the metrics.”
“This paper is concerned with Quantum Picturalism, a novel visual mathematical language for quantum physics. Originally developed over two decades ago to explore the foundational structure of quantum t…”
“We present Legilimens, a continuous learning system for the mobile edge's System-on-Chip GPUs.”
“_ArXiv paper co-authored by Andrew Ng_”
“I know you have too many suggestions, but consider this anyway. Clearly in your territory.”
“Vitalik already quoted some of the wonderful stuff that he released in his article in uh, April this year. And I want to focus on that, the importance of privacy.”
“The Urgency of Interpretability: Why it's crucial that we understand how AI models work”
“Here @robbieking1000 considers the issue from the perspective of complexity theory. http://quantumfrontiers.com/2025/12/11/can-ai-predict-the-quantum-universe/”
“# Constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodic dynamics”
“We present an experimental study of magic state cultivation on a superconducting quantum processor.”
“This conversation with Amjad, my recent one with New York Assembly member Alex Morris, and the series of episodes we did last year on SB1047 are all good examples of this.”
“Advice on how to interview for a faculty job, from an authoritative source. http://quantumfrontiers.com/2026/01/04/nicoles-guide-to-interviewing-for-faculty-positions/”
“In this paper, we propose improved methods for training world models that enable efficient gradient-based planning.”
“I loved your urgency of interpretability essay.”
“# International AI Safety Report 2025: Second Key Update: Technical Safeguards and Risk Management”
“I read the Alpha Evolve paper, or to be more precise, I fed it into Notebook LM and had it make a podcast that I could then listen to that would explain it to me.”
“The Trump administration just announced that we'd be rescinding what's known as the Biden diffusion rule, which was a rule that came out in January.”
“SpecReason: Fast and Accurate Inference-Time Compute via Speculative Reasoning https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07891”
“I don't know if you read Sam Altman's blog that was out this week called The Gentle Singularity. Uh I would encourage everybody to actually go read it.”
“an editor from nature approached me and said like would you write a review paper on uh on on the topic to introduce the topic to the larger scientific community and that's how this paper came about.”
“there's a paper you know famous paper u the that that sort of proposes this idea resnet um the lead author was coming her from at the time Microsoft research in Beijing. This is the most cited paper i…”
“Jungsang Kim, Ken Brown, Luming Duan, Peter Maunz and I published sort of this architecture paper... 2013 or 2014 how you might build a scalable modular quantum computer.”
“We propose a novel framework for one-shot visual imitation learning via world-model-guided trajectory generation... Our method is evaluated on two simulated benchmarks and three real-world robotic pla…”
“Building deep learning models that can reason about their environment requires capturing its underlying dynamics. Joint-Embedded Predictive Architectures (JEPA) provide a promising framework to model …”
“We combine our findings to propose a model that outperforms two established baselines, DINO-WM and V-JEPA-2-AC, in both navigation and manipulation tasks. Code, data and checkpoints are available at h…”
“Our work addresses the problem of learning latent actions world models on in-the-wild videos, expanding the scope of existing works that focus on simple robotics simulations, video games, or manipulat…”
“We apply an Information Bottleneck framework to compare human conceptual structure with embeddings from 40+ LLMs using classic categorization benchmarks.”
“we propose Guillotine, a hypervisor architecture for sandboxing powerful AI models -- models that, by accident or malice, can generate existential threats to humanity.”
“one of the best responses to it was by another writer named Derek Thompson who wrote a article called Nobody Knows Anything, which I think is a reference to a famous take by legendary Hollywood writer…”
“there was an article that went viral this week by Matt Schumer called something big is happening where he talked about this career opportunity that's going to be available to kind of AI early adopters…”
“this is from an article by Philip Ragaway a very famous one the moral character of cryptographic work. I would uh highly encourage people to read it.”
“the Hoover Institution just published something this morning and it's a complete indictment of what the billionaire tax was trying to do... they ran 100,000 runs and in 71% of those runs, it comes out…”
“I think the Stanford did a study on AI optimism. They simply asked the question, do you think AI is going to be more beneficial than harmful? Something like 80% of people in China said yes.”
“I saw an oped in the Wall Street Journal to that effect that we shouldn't try and find an offramp, we should just keep going with this.”
“we actually released a very detailed paper on command a which describes exactly what we did but similar to others we do a large pre-training phase”
“Gemma Scope 2: helping the AI safety community deepen understanding of complex language model behavior”
“I know you know Daniel Cocatello I know you guys... you're familiar with his AI 2027 scenario”
“We train models to Predict Ego-centric Video from human Actions (PEVA), given the past video and an action represented by the relative 3D body pose.”
“In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models.”