Last summer, I found out that MIT offers advanced standing exams (ASEs), which are a way to test out of introductory STEM classes. Since MIT has a pretty large set of STEM graduation requirements (two semesters each of physics and calculus, one semester each of chemistry and biology), it can… Read More »Why I Love Anki: 10K+ Reviews and 100 Days Later
Unfortunately, many archaeologists discover ancient Latin texts in damaged condition, with words missing throughout. To solve this problem, Latin experts usually emend the texts and try to fill in these missing words. However, this process is often difficult and time-consuming. In 2020, researchers at UC Berkeley and UT Austin developed… Read More »Edging Out Latin BERT at Text Infilling With Fine-Tuned GPT-4o
In the olden days (sometime around the 5th century BCE), it was commonly believed that all numbers were rational and could be expressed as fractions with integer numerators and denominators. When Hippasus of Metapontum demonstrated that the square root of 2 is irrational, it challenged the Pythagorean worldview. According to… Read More »Statistical Significance Might Be Less Significant in the Future