'Ghost number' 6174: Meet Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar, the Indian schoolteacher who discovered a mysterious 4-digit number that almost always returns to itself

Dattatreya Ramchandra Kaprekar, an Indian schoolteacher, discovered the intriguing number 6174. This constant emerges from a simple four-digit number rearrangement process. Repeatedly applying this ...
eLife

Split-trial analysis reveals the information capacity of neural population codes

This valuable study describes a simple and robust approach for estimating information-limiting noise by splitting neural populations and comparing estimator values. The authors report more accurate ...
note

A surprising demo of a Looped Transformer that runs in about a minute

This demo is set up with a task configuration that is extremely convenient for loops. Whether loops can be conveniently used in general LLMs is not at all clear from this demo, but in any case, it is ...
napa-net

Talking Points: Is It Convergence — or a Combination?

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard the word "convergence" over the past year . . . well, I'd probably have enough to fund a managed account. Maybe two. Retirement advisors are becoming wealth ...