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We want to build safe, aligned artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems that pursue the intended goals of its designers. Causal influence diagrams (CIDs) are a way to model decision-making situations that allow us to reason about agent incentives. By relating training setups to the incentives that shape agent behaviour, CIDs help illuminate potential risks before training an agent and can inspire better agent...
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Marvel Phase 5: every new MCU movie and Disney Plus show that'll be released by mid-2025
Here's all you need to know about Marvel Phase5 before it ends in July.
2022 Bentley Flying Spur Hybrid Review: Your Mileage Will Vary
In some situations, Bentley's plug-in hybrid sedan is blissful. In other situations, it's anything but.
Issue 571
Is SwiftUI less flexible or hackable than AppKit or UIKit? Maybe, but that's probably a good thing.
Finalized no. 36
tl;dr Merge sequence engaged ...
Realising scientists are the real superheroes
Meet Edgar Duéñez-GuzmΓ‘n, a research engineer on our Multi-Agent Research team whoβs drawing on knowledge of game theory, computer science, and social evolution to get AI agents working better together.
Dear SaaStr: How Long Does It Take the Average SaaS Startup to βExitβ?
Dear SaaStr: How Long Does It Take the Average SaaS Startup to βExitβ? I took a look a little while back at how long it took the average SaaS company that was sold for $1B+ to get that acquisition. The answer? 11.7 years on average, with a median of 10.0 years (maybe the better metric):... Continue Reading
2023 BMW iX xDrive50 Review: Pleasing Performer, Vexing Design
The all-new iX gets the EV fundamentals right -- performance, range, comfort and more. So why don't I love this otherwise excellent machine?
2022 Maserati MC20 Review: Visceral Excitement
The mid-engine MC20 is the halo car Maserati deserves.
Issue 570
Software development is a lot like rock climbing, I think!
2023 Kia Sportage Hybrid Review: Grow Up, Glow Up
Kia's fifth-generation compact SUV is a big improvement over its predecessors, and the new hybrid model is the best configuration to get.
2022 Nissan Rogue Review: Little Engine Makes a Big Difference
A new turbocharged inline-three gives Nissan's best seller more power and better fuel economy.
Sepolia Post-Merge Upgrade Announcement
The Sepolia testnet will undergo a post-merge execution layer (EL) upgrade at block 1735371, expected on August 17, 2022 The upgrade will cause EL clients on the network to disconnect from peers which have not transitioned to proof-of-stake. It does not add additional functionality beyond this. Sepolia node operators must...
Academic Grants Round grantee announcement
We are thrilled to announce the 39 grantees selected for the recent Academic Grants Round. This grants round invited researchers, think-tanks, Ph.D. students, and all those interested in advancing knowledge around the Ethereum ecosystem to submit academic proposals. Thank you to all those who submitted proposals, and congratulations to...
Issue 569
Where would you write Swift code without Xcode? TextEdit? Microsoft Word? Or β¦
The race to cure a billion people from a deadly parasitic disease
Accelerating the search for life saving leishmaniasis treatments
Tracing the evolution of proteins back to the origin of life
Looking into a proteinβs past to unlock the mysteries of life itself
How the honeybee could help protect species around the world
New insights into immunity to help protect the worldβs flora
AlphaFold transforms biology for millions around the world
Big data that leads to discoveries that benefit everyone
Advancing discovery of better drugs and medicine
Researchers are designing more effective drugs than ever before
Creating plastic-eating enzymes that could save us from pollution
Helping plastics become 100% recyclable
AlphaFold unlocks one of the greatest puzzles in biology
Piecing together one of the largest molecular structures in human cells
Accelerating the race against antibiotic resistance
Unlocking a decade of data in minutes to help beat antibiotic resistance
AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe
Today, in partnership with EMBLβs European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), weβre now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the AlphaFold DB by over 200x - from nearly 1 million structures to over 200 million structures - with the potential to dramatically increase our understanding of biology.
Goerli/Prater Merge Announcement
For the last testnet proof-of-stake transition, Goerli will merge with Prater. The combined Goerli/Prater network will retain the Goerli name post-merge. Bellatrix, the Prater upgrade readying it for The Merge will happen at epoch 112260, expected at 12:24PM UTC on August 4, 2022. After Bellatrix is activated, the Goerli/Prater merge...
How web hosting affects SEO
Find the right web hosting solution can be a huge boost for your business.
Before You Start as a VP β Please, Please, Please. Do a 60-Day Plan. And Make Sure the CEO Agrees With It.
If youβre feeling relieved you finally got that great VP to join the company, read this from @jasonlk next. (And if you are that VP, definitely read it first.) https://t.co/cVodwksp3N β James Cham (@jamescham) July 23, 2022 Iβve now worked with or invested in ~30 successful start-ups beyond my own companies and Iβve watched a... Continue Reading
2022 Bentley Continental GT Speed Review: Excessive, Unnecessary Excellence
A road trip to the desert proves that the range-topping Continental GT doesn't really need to exist, but I'm so glad it does.
Issue 568
To embrace or resist the new wave of AI-based APIs. That is the question!
Putting the power of AlphaFold into the worldβs hands
When we announced AlphaFold 2 last December, it was hailed as a solution to the 50-year old protein folding problem. Last week, we published the scientific paper and source code explaining how we created this highly innovative system, and today weβre sharing high-quality predictions for the shape of every single protein in the human body, as well as for the proteins of 20 additional organisms that scientists rely on...
Devcon Scholars Returns & Announcing Devcon Week!
Queridos Amigos, Yesterday, Wave #01 of Devcon tickets sold out just a few minutes after going online! After two years of anticipation, the whole team awaited this moment with curious suspense. But donβt worry, more ticket waves are coming soon. Today we are excited to announce the return...
2022 Mercedes-Benz S500 Review: 6-Cylinder Serenity
The redesigned S-Class' base engine feels anything but entry level.
The virtuous cycle of AI research
We recently caught up with Petar VeliΔkoviΔ, a research scientist at DeepMind. Along with his co-authors, Petar is presenting his paper The CLRS Algorithmic Reasoning Benchmark at ICML 2022 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Perceiver AR: general-purpose, long-context autoregressive generation
We develop Perceiver AR, an autoregressive, modality-agnostic architecture which uses cross-attention to map long-range inputs to a small number of latents while also maintaining end-to-end causal masking. Perceiver AR can directly attend to over a hundred thousand tokens, enabling practical long-context density estimation without the need for hand-crafted sparsity patterns or memory mechanisms.
2023 Genesis GV60 Review: Sprightly and Stately
This EV has plenty of get-up-and-go, but the GV60 always seems happiest when it's playing the role of a small luxury car.