Whoa, did you know that Minecraft blocks don’t break? I didn’t either! I was playing a survival game on Minecraft and I went to break a block of dirt with my shovel. But it didn’t break. So then I tried to break a block of stone with my pickaxe. Nope! It didn’t work eit...
Daniel Hsu, a computer scientist at Columbia University who was one of Belkin’s coauthors on the double-descent paper, doesn’t expect all the answers anytime soon. “We have better intuition now,” he says. “But really explaining everything about why neural networks have this kind o...
During her testimony, Haugen particularly blamed Facebook’s algorithm and platform design decisions for many of its issues. This is a notable shift from the existing focus of policymakers on Facebook’s content policy and censorship—what does and doesn’t belong on Facebook. Many experts be...