I think a lot of people that I know personally would fail the Turing test

Aidan Roberts has repeated Alphane (Font 9A) at Chironico, in Ticino, Switzerland. This is the hardest a British climber has bouldered! ukclimbing.com/news/2022/10/a…

Stefano Ghisolfi makes FA of Excalibur (F9b+) Ghisolfi has kicked off his 2023 season in style making the first ascent of Excalibur, his long-term project at Drena, Arco. climber.co.uk/news/stefano-g…

I saw the best minds of my generation fail to connect to eduroam

The debate over AI capabilities often hinges on testing abilities that humans are presumed to have — reasoning, logic, systematic, compositional generalization, grammar, etc. But how reliably good are humans actually at these skills? 1/

But there's more: a few days ago, YoussefNader, working with new segmentations from the Vesuvius Challenge segmentation team, was able to generate this image of stunning clarity and size: This is the revolution in digital papyrology that Dr. Seales has created. Nothing like

Modeling the interaction between tokens is vital to NLP. It takes quadratic time—every pair of tokens needs to be compared. Our #EMNLP2023 paper shows that, by casting this problem as sorting, this complexity can be reduced to linear—just like you can sort n numbers in O(n).

Conrad Anker and @leo_houlding dressed as George Mallory and Sandy Irvine on Everest, back in 2007. The question of whether Mallory and Irvine may have made it to the summit of Everest before disappearing in 1924 has remained one of climbing's most enduring mysteries.

We just released Mixtral 8x22B. Super excited for this release!

One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls. I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*. If you find our work