Issue #251
July 17, 2024
- 1. The Invention of Zero [themarginalian.org]
- 2. The Math of Card Shuffling [fredhohman.com]
- 3. You want to train [language models yourself]
- 4. Two Common Pitfalls to Avoid When Doing Cross-Validation [towardsdatascience.com]
- 5. Markov Chains [medium.com/kinomoto-mag]
- 6. General Theory of Neural Networks [robleclerc.substack.com]
- 7. How America’s Fastest Swimmers Use Math to Win Gold [quantamagazine.org]
- • The structure and function of antagonistic ties in village social networks (A. Ghasemian, N. A. Christakis)
- • Mortality risk information and health-seeking behavior during an epidemic (H. Purcell, I. V. Kohler, Alberto Ciancio, J. Mwera, A. Delavande, V. Mwapasa, H.-P. Kohler)
- • How Deep Neural Networks Learn Compositional Data: The Random Hierarchy Model (F. Cagnetta, L. Petrini, U. M. Tomasini, A. Favero, M. Wyart)
- • Machine Learning Can Predict Shooting Victimization Well Enough to Help Prevent It (S. B. Heller, B. Jakubowski, Z. Jelveh, M. Kapustin)
- • Training of Physical Neural Networks (A. Momeni, B. Rahmani, B. Scellier, L. G. Wright, P. L. McMahon, C. C. Wanjura, Y. Li, A. Skalli, N. G. Berloff, T. Onodera, I. Oguz, F. Morichetti, P. del Hougne, M. Le Gallo, A. Sebastian, A. Mirhoseini, C. Zhang, D. Marković, D. Brunner, C. Moser, S. Gigan, F. Marquardt, A. Ozcan, J. Grollier, A. J. Liu, D. Psaltis, A. Alù, R. Fleury)
- • Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective (R. Cosentino, S. Shekkizhar)
- • Formal Aspects of Language Modeling (R. Cotterell, A. Svete, C. Meister, T. Liu, L. Du)
Brian Kernighan Reflects on "The Practice of Programming"
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