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Unstable Features, Reproducible Subspaces: Understanding Seed Dependence in Sparse Autoencoders
The Problem With Sparse Autoencoders Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are popular tools for understanding what neural networks learn. They decompose activations into interpretable…
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MVEB: Massive Video Embedding Benchmark
The Gap in Video Understanding Evaluation Researchers have built dozens of models that turn videos into numerical representations (embeddings)—useful for searching videos,…
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David Friedberg: California’s Voting System Looks Fraudulent, But It’s Working Exactly as Designed
A Statistical Anomaly Hiding in Plain Sight The 2024 Los Angeles elections produced voting patterns that don't behave like ordinary aggregations of individual choices. David…
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The forgotten violence that shaped modern China - Sarah Paine
The Forgotten Genocides That Built Modern China Look at an ethnic map of modern China and a curious pattern jumps out: the Han Chinese occupy almost all of the country's arable…
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Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497
The Universe as a Puzzle: What a Particle Physicist Knows, Doesn't Know, and Hopes to Find Physics, at its most ambitious, is the story of unification — the centuries-long…