Computing, Sudoku-Style (2010) by teleforce

When Alexey Radul began graduate work at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 2003, he was interested in natural-language processing — designing software that could understand ordinary written English. But he was so dissatisfied with the computer systems that natural-language researchers had to work with that, in his dissertation, he ended up investigating

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Computing Tricky Probabilities Using Model Counting by zero_k

Probabilities of certain events are really hard to estimate sometimes. Often, it’s because we lack information of the underlying causal chains, but sometimes, it’s because the causes are so intertwined that even if we know the underlying probabilities of certain events happening along with the causal chains, it’s still impossible for us to untangle the

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Communal computing for 21st century science [pdf] by infinite8s

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Post-GPT Computing by gradys

March 24, 2023Yesterday, I watched someone upload a video file to a chat app, ask a language model “Can you extract the first 5 s of the video?”, and then wait as the language model wrote a few lines of code and then actually executed that code, resulting in a downloadable video file. Oh, and

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Post Collapse Computing Part 4: The Road Ahead by pabs3

Part 1 of this series looks at the state of the climate emergency we’re in, and how we can still get our governments to do something about it. Part 2 looks at collapse scenarios we’re likely to face if we fail in those efforts, and part 3 is about concrete things we could work towards

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Computing Wikipedia’s internal PageRanks (2014) by danuker

Introduction Wikipedia is the world’s largest online encyclopedia, comprising millions of pages and links between pages. It also gives away all of this data in an easy-to-process format, via its periodic database dumps. What would happen if we took this set of data and ran the classic PageRank algorithm on every single page? PageRank is…

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Computing MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE – Can machines think? by yashwastaken

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Wearable Computing: Remembrance Agent and Privacy (1996) [video] by matt_daemon

Wearable Computing: Remembrance Agent and Privacy (1996) [video]

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