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Estrogen masculinizes neural pathways in mice
A 2010 study found that estrogen, not testosterone, drives sex-specific brain development in newborn male mice. The testicular hormone converts to estrogen in the brain.
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What LLM labs actually hire for
Research engineer roles at the big labs filter for production ML skills first, paper count second.
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Kids treat chatbots like people more than adults do
New research shows children anthropomorphise LLMs at much higher rates than adults, which changes how we should think about guardrails.
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Mean-field theory might be lying about how neural networks actually learn
Physicists found that the standard mean-field approximation for neural networks breaks down when you look at correlations between neurons.
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