In our previous post we followed one LDG.E down through all the hardware units on an RTX 4090 — through its L1, translation, through the crossbar to its L2 slice, and thence to DRAM. The request retrieved its result, and … Read more
Progress in large language models is usually reported as what the best model can now do that no model could do before. That is the direction that produces headlines, and it has indeed been truly incredible. Each step up at … Read more
Language Models Under Pedagogically-Controlled Knowledge Exposure A language model that only knows what a 5th grader knows. Fanfei Li1,2*† · Jana Zeller1,2,3* · Manuel Prada-Corral1,2,3 · Thaddäus Wiedemer1,2 · Prasanna Mayilvahanan1,2 · Ryan Cotterell3 · Wieland Brendel1,2 1MPI for Intelligent … Read more
Aaron Horwath is the director of AI operations at a creative technology company where he is focused on implementing AI in a way that supports both humans and business. On a recent morning commute, I sat on a train in … Read more
Here’s a simple CUDA program. It adds two vectors. __global__ void vadd(const float* a, const float* b, float* c, int n) { int i = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; if (i = n @%p1 bra $L__BB0_2; // if out … Read more
Bowling Green, Kentucky — Oct. 31, 2023: Downtown commercial business area surrounding Fountain Square Park. Bowling Green is also home to Western Kentucky University and the National Corvette Museum (Photo by Pgiam/Getty Images) Earlier this year, on a visit back … Read more
CNN — When the Japanese artist Shimabuku was 31 years old, he took an octopus on a tour of Tokyo. After catching it from the sea with the help of a local fisherman in Akashi, a coastal city over 3 … Read more
Annals of Education What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing? The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. By Hua Hsu June 30, 2025 … Read more
Explore Almost a decade ago, a Baptist Biblical scholar, a Catholic priest, several rabbis, an Islamic leader, a Zen Buddhist roshi, and more than a dozen other religious leaders walked into a lab—and took high doses of magic mushrooms. All … Read more
