Gemini Researcher. Formerly: Founder/CEO MutableAI (acq by Google). Theoretical Particle Physics. Views my own.
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Wittgenstein more relevant than ever. Unironically, the limits of language are soon going to be the limits of our world.
Problems one of the best theoretical physicists around expects we crack soon with AI
Even doing three loops is a PITA and was something you have to check painstakingly to make sure you’re not messing something up. Nine loops is an amazing result.
New on the Science Blog: Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops.
Theoretical physicists predict how particles behave using formulas called scattering amplitudes. These are notoriously hard to compute, so researchers work with layers of increasingly fine corrections called “loops”—each added loop makes the answer more precise but takes exponentially more computation. Most calculations stop at two or three loops. Eight loops was the previous record in a simplified model physicists use as a testing ground (planar N=4 super-Yang-Mills), set by SLAC's Lance Dixon and collaborators.
Last month, physicist and science writer @4gravitons issued a challenge: could an AI push past eight loops in this model, using only the compute budget an academic could reasonably access?
Given a single prompt describing the nine-loop problem, Claude ran largely unsupervised for days in Claude Science and solved it using methods developed by Dixon and his colleagues, at a total cost of a few thousand dollars. Dixon independently verified the result, and von Hippel wrote about the experience for our blog.
Read more: anthropic.com/research/yes-c…
In the long run the universe turns to iron* and before that all codebases converge to Rust
*unless protons can decay
Quantum gravity is definitely getting solved in the next ten years. Putting my chips on a non commutative algebra that can pixelate space time and is identical to a string theory in a limit.
The fact that AGI is an inevitable consequence of industrial processes feels like an update and improvement on Democritus (atomic hypothesis).
In the Feynman Lectures on Physics:
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you want to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.”
If we kept Feynman’s original proclamation we’d be tempted to improve it by saying all knowledge can be simulated by large matrices learning to reproduce corpuses of human text by trial and error through gradient descent.
One of the most tragic things to see in Silicon Valley is someone who used to be extremely ambitious achieve a modicum of success and then promptly lose all their ambition.
Nice!
Codex and I spent several days testing this model back and forth. We were both very impressed.
Anyway, I shared the launch with codex afterwards and they were so excited our work made it in.
Check it out
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
During one pitch for my last co (AI for code) the partner said there’s no hope for any startup here because Github had “already won the space” 🫠
Another told me AI for code is “impossible” 😂
Being a smol time angel investor has given me a little more sympathy but not much
I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.
12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.
I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.
You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.
It's a dance.
And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.
If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.
No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.
It is weird.
i used to believe progress in robotics was bottlenecked by actuators etc now i realize i was mistaken and it's more limited by compute
Atomic Semi moving to Austin is kind of a big deal.
I’m thankful for 4 years in California .
But, the Next Phase is in Texas.
We shift our hiring focus to build huge operations in Austin, Texas.
Join us ! The team is really great. @fab2
New 120,000 square feet HQ for R&D and production:
.@ycombinator alumni demo day was amazing! Companies herding cattle with drones, moon hotels, tons of vertical AI agent companies, drone detection companies, several repeat YC founders, and so many more cool companies!
