Harvard CMSA: Mathematics and Machine Learning (Sep to Nov 2024); Avi Wigderson: Reading Alan Turing (Sep 2024); Anna Huang: music transformer demo (Sep 2024); Zhiyao Duan: Generative AI Music Lab (Oct 2024); CMSA seminar: can transformers reason logically? (Dec 2024). [42.3736,-71.1097]
October 2024, the second half of the Harvard CMSA programme. Why LLM formal reasoning feels like financial economics in the 1960s and which idea might be our Bachelier, plus the music researchers who kept asking who the end user actually is.
Read More Financial economics in the 1960s, and the music peopleSeptember 2024, the first half of the Harvard CMSA programme on AI and Mathematics, commuting in from Boston by water taxi. A failed invite pushed me into CSAIL, where Avi Wigderson was talking about Turing and Peter Shor sat a few columns over reading a paper.
Read More Across the Charles, and a wrong turn into CSAILThe opening week of the Harvard CMSA Mathematics and Machine Learning programme, September 2024.
Read More Week one at the CMSA: mathematics, computers and AIFive days at the IAIFI Summer Workshop at MIT in August 2024, the first of five Cambridge visits that year.
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