Mathematicians are working to fully explain unusual behaviors uncovered using artificial intelligence.
A textbook example of shifting the standards of evidence to suit its authors’ needs.
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2310.06770v2: SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?
A post for developers about the new Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the SWE-bench eval
We provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than the US-born for 150 years. Moreover, relative to the US-born, immigrants' incarceration rates have declined since 1960: immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated (30 percent relative to US-born Whites). This relative decline occurred among immigrants from all regions and cannot be explained by changes in observable characteristics or immigration policy. Instead, the decline is part of a broader divergence of outcomes between less-educated immigrants and their US-born counterparts.
The findings revealed a beauty premium in face-to-face instruction. For non-quantitative courses (like business and economics), attractive students had higher grades during in-person teaching. However, this trend did not appear in quantitative subjects (such as math or physics), which are generally graded based on exams rather than assignments that involve more direct interaction.
The results also showed that the switch to online learning in 2024 eliminated the beauty advantage — but only for female students. For non-quantitative courses, attractive female students experienced a drop in grades with remote learning, while attractive male students continued to see the benefits of their appearance.
Last Thursday, appearing on the state TV program 60 Minutes, the Americanist Malek Dudakov said, “Trump will create many problems for the Europeans, not to mention that he will unload the expenditures for the Ukrainian project upon them. Let us wish success to both sides of the conflict.”
Ironically, a 2022 report by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service accused Russia of forging a letter purporting to be from Greenland’s foreign minister to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). The letter falsely claimed, “Our government is going to overcome all legal and political barriers... and to organize the referendum on independence of Greenland from Denmark as fast as possible.” In response, the Arkansas Republican boasted of being the one to float the idea of buying Greenland to Trump.
The goal of the forged document might have been to create a rift between NATO allies, but since Trump is enamored with the idea of taking over Greenland, Moscow’s initial plot might spectacularly backfire.
US diplomats may have been targeted by Russian sonic weaponry, say the Insider, Der Spiegel and CBS’s 60 Minutes
After long denying the possibility, some intelligence agencies are no longer willing to rule out a mystery weapon.
Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…
Chip Huyen's 8,000 word practical guide to building useful LLM-driven workflows that take advantage of tools. Chip starts by providing a definition of "agents" to be used in the piece …
Intelligent agents are considered by many to be the ultimate goal of AI. The classic book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Mode...
New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.
The “Talker” above could make scientific history within the next year. It is the communication device a nonverbal autistic girl used when she was originally suspected to be telepathic. I saw her independently type her answers into this “Talker,” without any touch, in three homemade videos from August, 2013. She developed a dependency upon having […]
Does Elon Musk also moonlight as the X influencer 'Adrian Dittmann'? Users have collected a lot of circumstantial evidence.
the evidence, from A to Z, and righting the wrongs
Within the first 12 months of Brexit immigration rules (up to December 2021), net migration jumped to 484,000; higher than any level in the past decade.
This trajectory has largely increased; revised government figures for the year ending June 2023 show record-breaking levels of net migration at 906,000 people.
In the four years before Brexit, net migration was higher from EU countries than non-EU countries.
Since 2019, data shows that the majority of net migration to the UK comes from non-EU countries; with figures at 662,000 in 2023 alone.
In fact, since 2021 when Brexit rules came into effect, net migration from the EU has been negative; meaning that more EU nationals are leaving the UK than coming to stay.
Brexit arguably had the intended effect of curbing EU migration. But the broader migration picture has simultaneously ballooned.
The top countries for non-EU immigration are India, Nigeria, Pakistan, China and Zimbabwe, according to the latest ONS figures.
"Such recalcitrance inevitably creates the impression that the investigators have something to hide and thus damages the credibility of the research."
"Success at obtaining significant RV results thus seems highly correlated with the attitudes toward psi of the principal investigators."