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• History and Philosophy of Physics in the Netherlands

  The history and philosophy of physics community in the Netherlands has created a new website that conveniently collects, in one place, all information about... Read more

  The 15 october 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Mechazilla Chopstick Catch (SpaceX)

  Watch it again.On the 5th integrated flight test of Starship the Super Heavy tower catch (better know as Mechazilla chopstick catch) SUCCEEDED AT THE FIRST... Read more

  The 13 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Once Again, LLMs Are Shown to Have Difficulty with Formal Reasoning

  1/ Can Large Language Models (LLMs) truly reason? Or are they just sophisticated pattern matchers? In our latest preprint, we explore this key question through ... Read more

  The 11 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Here Come the Sun

  

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  The 10 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• How to Say “No” to Our A.I. Overlords

  The NYTimes has a useful article about how to avoid the AI that Google, Microsoft and Meta are foisting on us: Big tech brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft... Read more

  The 10 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Nobel House [Media Notes 139]

  I’m talking about the miniseries from 1988, not the James Clavell novel on which it is based. Yikes! Not sure why I sat through all four episodes, but it did. Read more

  The 09 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• Hossenfelder: The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics Did Not Go To Physics -- This...

  

  Hossenfelder comments: "A quick comment on the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics which was awarded for the basis of neural networks and artificial intelligence. Well... Read more

  The 08 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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• CFA: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of...

  Not specifically philosophy of physics, even though philosophy of physics is naturally part of it:April 2-4, 2025, Technische Universität Berlin,... Read more

  The 08 october 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Utrecht, 12 November 2024: UPAC Workshop ‘Philosophy of Black Holes’

  The UPAC research group and COSMO-MASTER project team are organizing a half-day workshop around the Philosophy of Black Holes, on Tuesday the 12th of November... Read more

  The 08 october 2024 by   Wuthrich
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• Do LLMs Memorize? 25% of "memorized" Tokens Are Actually Predicted Using...

  Turns out LLMs don't simply memorize verbatim; 25% of "memorized" tokens are actually predicted using general language modeling featuresYouTube:... Read more

  The 05 october 2024 by   Bbenzon
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