Articles by yorwba
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Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models (arxiv.org)

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Asymmetric Flow Models (arxiv.org)

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Creating new knobs of control in biology (owlposting.com)

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Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity (owlposting.com)

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Sanity Checks for Sparse Autoencoders: Do SAEs Beat Random Baselines? (arxiv.org)

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Alpha School's Secret Sauce (fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com)

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What Education Can Learn from Zig Engelmann (fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com)

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The Sweet Lesson of Neuroscience (asteriskmag.com)

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Tech-Free January (fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com)

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A Three-Way Race for China's AI Super-App (chinai.substack.com)

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The Interventions We Need (fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com)

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Notes on Afghanistan (mattlakeman.org)

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How I Trained My Memory (fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com)

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Beyond Data Filtering: Knowledge Localization for Capability Removal in LLMs (arxiv.org)

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A Week of Teaching (fivetwelvethirteen.substack.com)

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SSDD: Single-Step Diffusion Decoder for Efficient Image Tokenization (arxiv.org)

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Open Data Synthesis for Deep Research (arxiv.org)

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Myanmar armed groups disrupt China rare earth trade, sparking regional scramble (dvb.no)

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iDAI.field: software for the documentation of archaeological fieldwork (github.com/dainst)

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China overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer (pekingnology.com)

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Improving Generative Ad Text on Facebook Using Reinforcement Learning (arxiv.org)

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The gains from trade are not the gains from trade (nicholasdecker.substack.com)

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Radial Attention: Sparse Attention with Energy Decay for Long Video Generation (arxiv.org)

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LayerPeeler: Autoregressive Peeling for Layer-Wise Image Vectorization (layerpeeler.github.io)

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The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text (arxiv.org)

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Evidence-based policy is hard when social science journals publish poor research (asteriskmag.com)

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Hardware testing automation: a status update (postmarketos.org)

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Heritability: Five Battles (lesswrong.com)

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BYD, "Slave-gate" and the soul search about China's cutthroat industrial model (pandapawdragonclaw.blog)

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Scoring my predictions about self driving cars, robots, AI/ML, and space travel (rodneybrooks.com)

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The Misperception Spiral in US-China tech policy competition (chinai.substack.com)

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Why Recursion Pharmaceuticals abandoned cell painting for brightfield imaging (owlposting.com)

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Why the Global Standard Deviation Statistic does not filter out the noise [pdf] (spcpress.com)

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Machine Failing: How Software Development Flaws Contribute to Military Accidents (tnsr.org)

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Knuth–Bendix Completion Algorithm (wikipedia.org)

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Why We Shut Down (asteriskmag.com)

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Speculating on what is next for Ctrl Labs' wristband neural interface (from-the-interface.com)

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VoteMatch Europe (votematch.eu)

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Notes on El Salvador (mattlakeman.org)

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What lengths will Chinese companies go to get an Nvidia A100 chip? (chinai.substack.com)

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Why Isn't Solar Scaling in Africa? (asteriskmag.com)

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Pepfar and the Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis (asteriskmag.com)

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Much of the Web Is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism (arxiv.org)

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Notes on the Ivory Coast (mattlakeman.org)

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NPS, the Good Parts (apenwarr.ca)

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Separating debug symbols from executables (tweag.io)

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A kernel update broke my stylus (davidrevoy.com)

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Notes on Ghana (mattlakeman.org)

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Fiji Mermaid (wikipedia.org)

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Most Americans haven’t used ChatGPT; few expect a major impact on their job (pewresearch.org)