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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates external knowledge to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs), yet systems remain susceptible to two critical flaws: providing correct answers without expl...

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

Nearly all success is due to some mix of ability and luck. But some successes we attribute to the agent’s ability, whereas others we attribute to luck. To better understand the criteria distinguishing...

Open-weight LLMs memorize books far more than previously believed. Memorization varies by model family, model size, and book. In extreme cases, entire books are memorized, and we can generate them eff...

Links of to interesting stuff elsewhere… Mini-Heap posts usually appear when several new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, a collection of items from around […]

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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The Value of Sleeping - Volume 11 Issue 2

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead.  The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

Extracting interpretable mathematical models from complex dynamical systems is difficult, especially for chaotic dynamics observed with noisy experimental data. We present PEM-UDE, a method that combi...

Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society - Tobias Blanke, Georgina Born OBE FBA, Beth Coleman

The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.

American presidents have generally tried to avoid appearing to profit from the office. President Trump has chosen a different path.

To what extent is the “the story about the analytic turn” in philosophy a story about politics? There’s been an increased discussion in recent years […]

Childhood is a key period for acquiring and transmitting cultural knowledge and skill. Hunter-gatherer children, such as the Congolese BaYaka, learn a…

On the origins of cost-benefit analyses in governmental decision making

Felipe De Brigard, professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, principal investigator at the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, and core faculty of […]