Shankar Sivarajan

I'm interested in a measure of chess-playing ability that doesn't depend on human players, and while perfect play would be the ideal reference, as long as chess remains unsolved, the other end of the spectrum, the engine whose algorithm is "list all legal moves and uniformly at random pick one...

This question I submitted got rejected from the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) benchmark set for being too easy. I'm really proud of it though, so I figured I'd post it here. > A wooden cube of unit side length and relative density 0.75 floats stably in a pool of water....

This post is motivated by a popular conflation in the context of AI generation (such as the recent WSJ article about detecting "cheating") but this is applicable more generally. There are many ways of marking ownership/provenance of a particular work, text, images, or anything else, and they serve different purposes....

You might have been led to believe the only way to make sense of the equation 1+2+3+…=−112 is with "zeta function regularization," involving analytic continuation or similar high-tech tools, and that there is no way to develop intuition for this. You were probably was told this by mathematicians, to whom...

First, it's clear to me they're not just myths bolstered by propaganda, and they really are qualitatively different from their low-trust counterparts, which I understand, and consider to be "natural," requiring no explanation. I think it's a different concept than the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) thing, though of...