Francisco Mondaca

[Francisco Mondaca @fco_mondaca]

Capítulo cuatro: ¿Qué es el ruido? https://t.co/FWIvecLbWa via @YouTube

[Francisco Mondaca @fco_mondaca]

@SebastianNehrd2 We have APIs for the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries available here:
https://t.co/0GrPj6ZqHc

[Francisco Mondaca @fco_mondaca]

@pdvn

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls:
This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!!

These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular."

This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll.

In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned.

The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us.

It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful!

Read more in our announcement: https://t.co/rUlrdGXBMs

[Aidan Gomez @aidangomez]

Had a great week at Davos and happy to report the illuminati are nice as hell

[antirez @antirez]

My feeling is that AI will strongly increase the demand for APIs from services that right now are just apps. Without APIs, smart agents can't interact with the physical world. However I image that many service vendors will try to resist, not wanting to reduce user screen time.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

e/ia - Intelligence Amplification
- Does not seek to build superintelligent God entity that replaces humans.
- Builds “bicycle for the mind” tools that empower and extend the information processing capabilities of humans.
- Of all humans, not a top percentile.
- Faithful to computer pioneers Ashby, Licklider, Bush, Engelbart, ...

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Open source AI foundation models will wipe out closed and proprietary AI models for the same reason Wikipedia wiped out generalist commercial encyclopedia: crowd-sourced human contributions to open platforms can cater to a high diversity of interests, cultures, and languages.

[Sina Ahmadi @sina_ahm]

I received an email earlier today saying that my visa application to attend #ACL2023NLP in Canada is approved.

The conference was held five months ago in July 2023! 😑
#NLProc #AcademicTwitter

[Native Dialogs in German @nativedialogsde]

My brain doesn't like when I think about artificial neural networks. I think it is jealous.

[François Fleuret @francoisfleuret]

So much this. The transition will be brutal.

[Francisco Mondaca @fco_mondaca]

@FocusedCompound cc @tomcasanegra

[Francisco Mondaca @fco_mondaca]

@surzua_chile Orden, nada más. No hay que reubicarlo.

[Francisco Mondaca @fco_mondaca]

@euzaguirre @pcayuqueo La edición ilustrada por Alberto Montt es interesante https://t.co/IAdyO0VO5O

[Raphael Bergoeing @RBergoeingV]

La única fuerza aceptable en una universidad es la de la razón. Ver a estudiantes impidiendo que un profesor (@SergioMicco) opine en @derechouchile es inaceptable y me entristece profundamente, como ex alumno y profesor de la @uchile.

[Felix Bohr @felix_bohr]

"Es war nicht eine kleine Zahl von Verbrechern, es waren Hunderttausende einer sogenannten deutschen Elite, Männer, Jungen & entmenschte Weiber, die unter dem Einfluss verrückter Lehren in kranker Lust diese Taten begangen haben."

Thomas Mann

9. November 1938

[Max Colodro ‎מָקס @maxcolodro]

Esto viene ocurriendo en la U desde hace mucho tiempo. Fue bien explicado y documentado por Alfredo Jocelyn Holt en “La escuela tomada”. Es el mismo fenómeno que destruyó los liceos emblemáticos. Y todos sabemos quiénes lo avalaron, justificaron, romantizaron o, en el mejor de los casos, guardaron silencio.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Comparing deep learning models to human intelligence reminds me of when folks compared computers to brains in the 1950-1980 period. It's simply a category error.

Those models have none of the general cognitive abilities of humans, and in reverse, the specialized abilities they have are not held by any human.

[Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie @BMWE_]

It's almost four weeks since the horrific terrorist attack on #Israel. A lot has happened, the public debate has become heated and confused. Find thoughts from Vice-Chancellor Robert #Habeck in the video, putting the events in context. 📣With English, Hebrew and Arabic subtitles.

[Guillermo Soto Vergara @guillermosotov]

No hay forma de exagerar la relevancia de Lenz para el estudio del lenguaje y la cultura en Chile. Con él se inaugura el estudio científico de la lengua y la cultura mapuches. También, el estudio científico del español de Chile. Y la instalación disciplinaria de la lingüística /1