Tagged “papers”

I don't love the forced Q&A format it comes up with, the questions feel leading or forced. But overall well done 5m summaries of papers.

Seems effective but maybe annoying?..

cool

It is theoretically possible to sustain 10.4bn people within planetary boundaries

more detail on testing/RLHF stuff, I wanted to know how the vision works

yes

maybe? Saw some tweet on the equivalent of "I can't remember phone numbers" but for coming up with ideas. Maybe worrying, probably fine.

• Immense training datasets are impossible for individuals (or anyone?) to validate
• Cost and memory constraints
• Prompts are hard to get right
• Output is unpredictable, or indeterminate

exercise!

Big list of LLM papers, the topic breakdown alone is helpful for understanding all this craziness

Reasons we could never have machines larger than humans

so can people

too many papers being published leads to "ossification of canon"

Explain text from papers or answer questions. Cool way to fill in gaps on unfamiliar topics.

From show HN

Abstract:

Instrumental variable (IV) analysis assumes the instrument only affects the dependent variable via its relationship with the independent variable. Other possible causal routes from the IV to the dependent
variable are exclusion-restriction violations and invalidate the instrument. Weather has been widely used as an instrumental variable in social science to predict many different variables. The use of weather to instrument different independent variables represents strong prima facie evidence of exclusion violations for all studies using weather IVs. A review of 288 studies reveals 192 variables previously linked to weather: all representing potential exclusion violations. Using sensitivity analysis, I show that the magnitude of many of these violations is sufficient to overturn numerous existing IV results. I conclude with practical steps to systematically review existing literature to identify possible exclusion violations when using IV designs.

questions:

• what is an instrumental variable?
• what are exclusion results?
• is 192 variables in 192 studies, or are some shared
• what else is included in weather?
• what is sensitivity analysis?
• what are IV results

Saved for if Google kills Scholar

Summary of recent Sci-Hub legal challenges

I really wonder how this is going to play out. For those who don't follow the current situation with Sci-Hub, Alexandra (the creator and likely the sole operator) of Sci-Hub shut down the part of the website ("the magical proxy") that is responsible for fetching the papers that were not previously retrieved. This was done to comply with the request of the Indian court, as described in the article.
As a result, any papers published in 2021 (and some of the rarer, older ones, that nobody tried to access in the past) are not retrievable by Sci-Hub. The user only gets to see a white screen.

This is meant to be a temporary measure, but it's been going on since December of last year (due to various court hearing delays), and the desperation in online communities like the r/scihub subreddit has been palpable [1,2].

I liked Uri Bram's comment on this: "A PDF, but well worth the inconvenience".

Interesting stuff. I have no real background in this but still found the article and experiment outline very readable.