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Computer Science

Edited by Collisteru last updated 4th Aug 2020

The study of computers and algorithms from both practical and theoretical standpoints. Often considered to be a subset of mathematics, particularly its more theoretical considerations. A thorough understanding of computer science is necessary to understand AI, and indeed, the modern world.

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82Paper: Discovering novel algorithms with AlphaTensor [Deepmind]

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16Analyzing the Problem GPT-3 is Trying to Solve

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72Avoid the abbreviation "FLOPs" – use "FLOP" or "FLOP/s" instead

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44Think like an educator about code quality

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15What is the evidence on the Church-Turing Thesis?

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73A brief history of computers

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67Paradigms for computation

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54A proof of Löb's theorem in Haskell

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45Gödel's Legacy: A game without end

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38Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains

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38The consistent guessing problem is easier than the halting problem

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37The No Free Lunch theorem for dummies

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35Verification and Transparency

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32[LINK] Judea Pearl wins 2011 Turing Award

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28Proof as mere strong evidence

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