I am in Tel Aviv Theory Fest this week - a fantastic collection of talks and workshops organized by Yuval Filmus , Gil Kalai, Ronen Eldan, and Muli Safra. It was a good chance to catch up with many friends and colleagues. In particular I met Elchanan Mossel and Subhash Khot, who asked me to … Continue reading A bet for the new decade

[The post below is by Dorit Aharonov who co-organized the wonderful school on quantum computing last week which I attended and greatly enjoyed. --Boaz] TL;DR: Last week we had a wonderful one-week intro course into the math of quantum computing at Hebrew U;  It included a one day crash course on the basics, and 7 mini-courses on math-oriented research … Continue reading A crash course on the math of quantum computing (guest post by Dorit Aharonov)

By Preetum Nakkiran, Gal Kaplun, Yamini Bansal, Tristan Yang, Boaz Barak, and Ilya Sutskever This is a lightly edited and expanded version of the following post on the OpenAI blog about the following paper. While I usually don't advertise my own papers on this blog, I thought this might be of interest to theorists, and … Continue reading Deep Double Descent (cross-posted on OpenAI blog)