Researchers propose a self-distillation fix for ‘catastrophic forgetting’ in LLMs

LLMs tend to lose prior skills when fine-tuned for new tasks. A new self-distillation approach aims to reduce regression and ...

MIT's new fine-tuning method lets LLMs learn new skills without losing old ones

MIT researchers unveil a new fine-tuning method that lets enterprises consolidate their "model zoos" into a single, continuously learning agent.
Wired

A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of Infinity to Computer Science

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...
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Investigators search for shooter in Brookline killing of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro

QUESTIONS AND VERY FEW ANSWERS. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT. YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATORS SAID FROM THE START THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE IN ANY WAY CONNECTED TO THE BROWN UNIVERSITY SHOOTING. BUT TONIGHT, SOURCES ...
The Boston Globe

Colleagues and neighbors reel as investigation continues in Brookline killing of MIT professor

BROOKLINE — As investigators continued working Wednesday in the fatal shooting of an acclaimed MIT professor, stunned colleagues at the university where he worked and neighbors on the quiet Brookline ...
Futurism

MIT Fusion Physicist Murdered in His Home

The professor was shot “multiple times” at this home in Brookline, Massachusetts, according to officials, and died on Tuesday morning in the hospital. The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office has ...
Fox News

Neighbors of slain MIT professor stunned by killing

Neighbors in the Boston-area community where MIT professor Nuno Louriero was shot to death inside his apartment building earlier this week said they were stunned by the mysterious killing. Loureiro ...
Us Weekly

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, Professor and Director of Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, Shot Dead at Home

Authorities in New England are investigating the brutal assassination of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology nuclear science and physics professor who was gunned down in his own home, Us Weekly ...
New York Post

MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro found shot dead in home in swanky Mass. neighborhood

A prominent nuclear science professor at MIT was shot and killed inside his home in a swanky Massachusetts neighborhood Monday night, with police mum on details of the tragic slaying. Nuno Loureiro, ...
Boston Herald

MIT nuclear science professor shot, killed in Brookline home

A 47-year-old MIT professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night, according to law enforcement officials. Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police ...
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This was the computer warning from 1973 they tried to bury

This video explored how an MIT computer model from 1973 predicted the collapse of modern society and why its warnings aligned suspiciously well with elite agendas. It showed how the Club of Rome ...