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A post from Sam Bowman(Anthropic&NYU). Any update in 2026?

Discussion 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39720388

The similiar course in

- Stanford: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs208e/cgi-bin/main.cgi/

- MIT https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-080-great-ideas-in-theoretical...

- Harvard https://beta.my.harvard.edu/course/COMPSCI1/2026-Spring/001

So, three-quarters of the people remained. That's a good result.

I'm a serial entrepreneur from China, and I've been here for 14 years now. HN is still the website I check every single day.

Truly grateful to everyone in this community.

Do you have any plan to turn it into a full book—maybe called Grokking Linear Algebra ?

Actually Z.ai is a spinoff of Tsinghua University and one of the first China labs open sourcing its own large models (GLM released in 2021) . https://github.com/THUDM/GLM

You can run GLM-4.5-Air 4bit on Macbook Pro M4 Max 128GB for local vibe coding: https://x.com/ivanfioravanti/status/1949854575902523399

CogAgent: Open source alternative from China.

Paper： https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08914

Code： https://github.com/THUDM/CogAgent

Model: https://huggingface.co/THUDM/cogagent-9b-20241220

See also the book or the course by Harry R. Lewis at Harvard:

- Ideas That Created the Future https://www.amazon.com/Ideas-That-Created-Future-Computer/dp...

- "Classics of CS" https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/34992/assignments/syllabu...

I am curious whether this theory can explain some phenomena of large language models.

I am teaching my daughter computer science. Are the key concepts in this article good starting points for learning?

Open-weights models are not really open source.

I tried this on ChatGLM, a frontier foundation model developed by Zhipu.ai and Tsinghua University, and it gave the correct answer: https://chatglm.cn/share/FoZBJ

They are just trying to see if they can come up with something big.

A comment from Boris Power, an OpenAI guy: The top line number for MMLU is a bit gamed - Gemini is actually worse than GPT-4 when compared on normal few shot or chain of thought https://twitter.com/BorisMPower/status/1732435733045199126

Unfortunately, these are two different processing.

"Applying AI to core search algorithm. We’ve also applied the AI model to our core Bing search ranking engine, which led to the largest jump in relevance in two decades. With this AI model, even basic search queries are more accurate and more relevant." The large foundational model will change lots of things!

I guess GPT-4 needs its own launch event. :)

Peter Principle is not only for individuals, but also for teams, companies, or other orgs.

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Turing Book ( https://www.ituring.com.cn/ ) will publish the Chinese version!