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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
(The third edition corrects minor typos and adds 3 chapters synthesized from published papers plus an appendix on maximum entropy distributions.) The monograph investigates the misapplication of conventional statistical techniques to fat tailed distributions and looks for remedies, when possible.
Jason Abaluck, Laura H. Kwong, Ashley Styczynski +19
Persuading people to mask Even in places where it is obligatory, people tend to optimistically overstate their compliance for mask wearing.
Philip Maymin
I prove that if markets are weak-form efficient, meaning current prices fully reflect all information available in past prices, then P = NP, meaning every computational problem whose solution can be verified in polynomial time can also be solved in polynomial time.
Joel Becker, Nate Rush, Elizabeth Barnes +1
Despite widespread adoption, the impact of AI tools on software development in the wild remains understudied.
Allen Wirfs-Brock, Brendan Eich
How a sidekick scripting language for Java, created at Netscape in a ten-day hack, ships first as a de facto Web standard and eventually becomes the world's most widely used programming language.
Scott Ruoti, Jeff Andersen, Daniel Zappala +1
This paper presents the results of a laboratory study involving Mailvelope, a modern PGP client that integrates tightly with existing webmail providers.
Malte Möser, Kyle Soska, Ethan Heilman +8
Monero is a privacy-centric cryptocurrency that allows users to obscure their transactions by including chaff coins, called "mixins," along with the actual coins they spend.
Emma Strubell, Ananya Ganesh, Andrew McCallum
Recent progress in hardware and methodology for training neural networks has ushered in a new generation of large networks trained on abundant data.
Johan Bollen, Huina Mao, Xiao-Jun Zeng
Behavioral economics tells us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavior and decision-making.
Ulrich Neumerkel, Stefan Kral
Many Prolog programs are unnecessarily impure because of inadequate means to express syntactic inequality.
Robert Viragh
This note comprises a negative resolution of the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
Remi Lam, Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez, Matthew Willson +15
Global medium-range weather forecasting is critical to decision-making across many social and economic domains.
Joanna Moncrieff, Ruth E. Cooper, Tom Stockmann +3
Abstract The serotonin hypothesis of depression is still influential.
Mark Chen, Jerry Tworek, Heewoo Jun +55
We introduce Codex, a GPT language model fine-tuned on publicly available code from GitHub, and study its Python code-writing capabilities.
Geoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals, Jeff Dean
A very simple way to improve the performance of almost any machine learning algorithm is to train many different models on the same data and then to average their predictions.
Cameron R. Jones, Benjamin K. Bergen
We evaluated 4 systems (ELIZA, GPT-4o, LLaMa-3.1-405B, and GPT-4.5) in two randomised, controlled, and pre-registered Turing tests on independent populations.
Michael Worobey, Joshua I. Levy, Lorena Malpica Serrano +15
Understanding how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in 2019 is critical to preventing future zoonotic outbreaks before they become the next pandemic.
Samuel Mimram, Cinzia Di Giusto
When working with distant collaborators on the same documents, one often uses a version control system, which is a program tracking the history of files and helping importing modifications brought by others as patches.
Leo White, Frédéric Bour, Jeremy Yallop
We present modular implicits, an extension to the OCaml language for ad-hoc polymorphism inspired by Scala implicits and modular type classes.
Ittay Eyal, Emin Gun Sirer
The Bitcoin cryptocurrency records its transactions in a public log called the blockchain.
David Rolnick, Priya L. Donti, Lynn H. Kaack +19
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, and we, as machine learning experts, may wonder how we can help.
Walter Bright, Andrei Alexandrescu, Michael Parker
As its name suggests, the initial motivation for the D programming language was to improve on C and C++ while keeping their spirit.
Tyna Eloundou, Sam Manning, Pamela Mishkin +1
We investigate the potential implications of large language models (LLMs), such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs), on the U.S.
Rich Hickey
Clojure was designed to be a general-purpose, practical functional language, suitable for use by professionals wherever its host language, e.g., Java, would be.
Fergal Reid, Martin Harrigan
Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a complicated issue.
Nicolas Christin
We perform a comprehensive measurement analysis of Silk Road, an anonymous, international online marketplace that operates as a Tor hidden service and uses Bitcoin as its exchange currency.
B. Hensen, H. Bernien, A. E. Dréau +16
For more than 80 years, the counterintuitive predictions of quantum theory have stimulated debate about the nature of reality.
Sara Hooker
Hardware, systems and algorithms research communities have historically had different incentive structures and fluctuating motivation to engage with each other explicitly.
DeepSeek-AI, Aixin Liu, Bei Feng +154
We present DeepSeek-V2, a strong Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model characterized by economical training and efficient inference.