Towards Continually Self-Improving AI by Zitong Yang Stanford Dissertation

The central idea of this paper is "A continually self-improving AI is one that, once created, can autonomously and continually improve itself better than its human creators can improve it." (P1) Continues acquiring knowledge into weights without forgetting (P2) Generates its own training signal - learning from it beats human-generated signals (P3) Can autonomously design … Continue reading Towards Continually Self-Improving AI by Zitong Yang Stanford Dissertation

Kaparthy’s Autoresearch Github

Kaparthy's autoresearch is a scientific method encoded as agent instructions. The agent is a ML trainer/researcher running overnight experiments on a GPU - modifying train.py, running 5-minute training runs, logging results, keeping improvements, reverting failures. Both GSD and Autoresearch aims to have the agents to automatically get a complex coding task done, The elegance of … Continue reading Kaparthy’s Autoresearch Github

Need Dirac Adjoint to Describe 1/2 Spinor’s Lorentz Transformation

According to Born’s rule, the probability is obtained from the square of the wavefunction. More generally, this is written as the product of the complex conjugate of the wavefunction and the wavefunction itself, ψ∗ψor(𝜓ˉ𝜓)ψ ∗ ψ or( 𝜓 ˉ 𝜓 ) to ensure the probability density is real and non-negative. Now focus on the Dirac … Continue reading Need Dirac Adjoint to Describe 1/2 Spinor’s Lorentz Transformation

Conservation of Charge

Noether's theorem states that For every continuous symmetry of the action, there is a corresponding conserved quantity. Continuous symmetry → a transformation that can be done smoothly, not discrete. Action → integral of the Lagrangian over time. SymmetryConserved quantityTime translation (Lagrangian doesn’t depend explicitly on time)EnergySpace translation (Lagrangian doesn’t depend on position)MomentumRotational symmetry (Lagrangian doesn’t … Continue reading Conservation of Charge