Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker
Staff writer @QuantaMagazine covering computer science. Former freelance physics writer, ex-physicist. Same handle at bluesky and mastodon. benbrubaker.com NYC Joined December 2020-
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It could be a while before we know if LLMs actually understand language. “I think the stuff that needs to happen for the next 10 years is not very sexy.” quantamagazine.org/does-ai-know-w…
From Thomas Vidick on Discord: Unfortunately, the bug by itself does not seem to teach us more about the overall viability of Chen's approach. I think that there is much more to do to understand what parts may still be valid, and if some of the ideas can be extended, 1/3
Chen’s paper has a bug, independently discovered by Hongxun Weng and Thomas Vidick, that he doesn’t know how to fix. If I understand correctly, in its current form the paper doesn’t yield any improvement on prior algorithms. eprint.iacr.org/2024/555
Chen’s paper has a bug, independently discovered by Hongxun Weng and Thomas Vidick, that he doesn’t know how to fix. If I understand correctly, in its current form the paper doesn’t yield any improvement on prior algorithms. eprint.iacr.org/2024/555
Forever grateful to @7homaslin for helping build @QuantaMagazine and for giving me an opportunity that changed my life.
Forever grateful to @7homaslin for helping build @QuantaMagazine and for giving me an opportunity that changed my life.
Dear @QuantaMagazine Readers: Today is my last day as editor-in-chief of the magazine. Thank you for taking this unforgettable journey with me. I don't know that I have the words to express what these past 11 years have meant to me, but I wrote a few here. quantamagazine.org/my-fantastic-v…
I'm thrilled and humbled to announce that I will be succeeding the visionary @7homaslin as Editor in Chief of @QuantaMagazine. I can't wait to begin working with the remarkable staff there!
Avi Wigderson was named the winner of the A.M. Turing Award for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation. trib.al/MvmRCPl
Maybe this is why the government is investing so much in quantum computing. Get @ewintang on the case!
"Cryptography is the killer app for computation complexity. Most computer scientists are rooting for problems to be easy. Cryptographers are the only ones rooting for problems to be hard." -- Russell Impagliazzo in @QuantaMagazine's new video: youtu.be/RjzSFa03i2U?fe…
Russell Impagliazzo’s playful framing of the biggest problems in computational complexity theory has inspired a generation of researchers. For @QuantaMagazine, I spoke to him about hypothetical worlds, randomness, improv comedy, and more: quantamagazine.org/the-researcher…
The supermassive black hole in the Milky Way’s center, seen in this new image released today by the Event Horizon Telescope (@ehtelescope), has a strong magnetic field spiraling around its edge, hinting that a jet might shoot out from it.
Some characteristically complicated gesticulation by me at the @SimonsInstitute panel on Computer Science journalism last week. Video recording coming soon!
Some characteristically complicated gesticulation by me at the @SimonsInstitute panel on Computer Science journalism last week. Video recording coming soon!
How can we understand the intrinsic capabilities and limitations of the neural networks that power large language models? I wrote about efforts to answer these questions using the tools of computational complexity theory: quantamagazine.org/how-chain-of-t…
Later today in Berkeley 👇 please come!
Later today in Berkeley 👇 please come!
Further fueling my obsession with quasicrystals <3
Further fueling my obsession with quasicrystals <3
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Oh, god: it's happened. A No-True-Scotsman argument that genuinely hinges on whether someone is a true Scotsman.
@JohnStuartWilso @gordonmurray7 Indigenous Scot's didn't reject independence, in fact they voted overwhelmingly for it in 2014, we were scuppered because the vote on our constitutional matter was open to everyone and his dog to have their say, in other words our govt gave away our best chance of independence.
@benbenbrubaker We workshopped the title quite a bit but somehow never thought of this!
It could be a while before we know if LLMs actually understand language. “I think the stuff that needs to happen for the next 10 years is not very sexy.” quantamagazine.org/does-ai-know-w…
Was fun working on this! The cool takeaway imo is that we can characterize the type of reasoning that blank tokens can help with… it’s reduced compared to CoT but experiments show it’s likely more than with no extra tokens
Do models need to reason in words to benefit from chain-of-thought tokens? In our experiments, the answer is no! Models can perform on par with CoT using repeated '...' filler tokens. This raises alignment concerns: Using filler, LMs can do hidden reasoning not visible in CoT🧵
@The_AnhTa Nice! Are they going to do a separate paper for each NP-complete problem?
I'll finally be able to hear 4'33" instead of having it drowned out by background noise.
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Incredible piece with a god-tier lede
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[Matt Levine voice] "One sort of thing you could do, if you're a physicist, is combine bumps. If they line up, and you have a bigger bump, that might mean you've found something. But other physicists may be unhappy and tell you 'Don't combine bumps from different places.'"
Throwing rocks at a despised orangutan rival
Ken Allen, the orangutan from San Diego Zoo, escaped his enclosure three times in the 1980s. His apparent goals were visiting other animals, throwing rocks at a despised orangutan rival, and taking photos with tourists. He never acted aggressively towards anyone during his…
5yo just asked if clouds were made out of fire, presocratic ass question
You know what? The French had it right with "Ordinateur." I would love to anglicize it and start calling computers 'Ordinators'. Much cooler word in my view.
This one is for the TCS people because I talked to Michael Sipser about sweeping automata and hierarchies and all the fun things I haven’t had a chance to study since college
From Thomas Vidick on Discord: Unfortunately, the bug by itself does not seem to teach us more about the overall viability of Chen's approach. I think that there is much more to do to understand what parts may still be valid, and if some of the ideas can be extended, 1/3
Any serious attempt to attack lattices/LWE that doesn’t change the status quo should increase our confidence in their security.
Chen’s paper has a bug, independently discovered by Hongxun Weng and Thomas Vidick, that he doesn’t know how to fix. If I understand correctly, in its current form the paper doesn’t yield any improvement on prior algorithms. eprint.iacr.org/2024/555
My favorite thing about this article is that the guy who wrote it started it on a Monday night at 10pm
Chen’s paper has a bug, independently discovered by Hongxun Weng and Thomas Vidick, that he doesn’t know how to fix. If I understand correctly, in its current form the paper doesn’t yield any improvement on prior algorithms. eprint.iacr.org/2024/555
Is lattice-based cryptography still (potentially) post-quantum now? 🥳 Update to #eprint555 by Yilei Chen
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