Chandan Gupta

being in AI is exhausting i feel like i need to be an expert in post training, pretraining, consciousness, neuroscience, biorisk, biotech, economics, rationalism, compute, semiconductor supply chains....

Gta 4 still the best game in the franchise btw

One of our greatest ever, signing off. Kane Williamson has announced his retirement from international cricket effective immediately. Head to nzc.nz/news to read more.

Most experiments fail, and negative results rarely get published. This means LLMs are unaware of the outcomes of most experiments.

The Remains of the Day is one of the best novels of the past 50 years.

When I left academia in 2013, I thought "At least now I won't have to spend the rest of my life dragged into frustrating intractable arguments, writing text after text in response to discourse opponents, trying to convince others even though I will never convince everyone".

AI scientists produce results without reasoning scientifically "Here, we evaluate LLM-based scientific agents across eight domains, spanning workflow execution to hypothesis-driven inquiry, through more than 25,000 agent runs" "the base model is the primary determinant of both performance and behavior, accounting for 41.4% of explained variance versus 1.5% for the scaffold. Across all configurations, evidence is ignored in 68% of traces, refutation-driven belief revision occurs in 26%, and convergent multi-test evidence is rare."

if theoretical physicists had discovered deep learning instead, they would call it something like Effective Non-Equilibrium Multiscale Hierarchical Non-Linear Coarse-Graining Spin-Glass Dynamics Renormalization Group Theory Ansatz (ENEMHNLCGSGDRGTA)

Professors today: "Wahh, wahh, my students gave me bad course evaluations and it hurt my feelings 😞😞😞" Professors in 14th century Paris: "I gave a bad lecture and the students threw stones at me"

Once in a while, I like to remind people that India has one of the world's lowest divorce rates - around 1% of marriages. And it doesn’t mean what you think it does.

While he was writing ULYSSES, Joyce told his friend Frank Budgen that he’d spent eight hours working on a single sentence. The sentence: “The heaventree of stars hung with humid, nightblue fruit.”

If Kafka had not been a great writer he could have written brilliant Jewish stand-up comedy routines (see Kafka diaries).

Neil, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, Neil, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it. Nice day, indeed

It's wild how many professional musicians never learnt to read music. The Beatles. Ray Charles. Stevie Wonder.

6. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder #100BestAlbums

America & Israel bombed an elementary school in Iran and killed 50 little girls. Justification? To liberate the women of Iran. Irony dies a thousand deaths.

My thoughts with @CricketAus at this very difficult time. 🙏

It’s important to realize that probability is a construct of the observer’s mind and not a feature of reality.

This ‘no shaking hands’ is such a silly thing that India has started. It’s unbecoming of a nation like ours. Either play properly within the spirit of the game or don’t play at all.