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Episode 27: Noam Brown, FAIR, on achieving human-level performance in poker and Diplomacy, and the power of spending compute at inference time

Generally Intelligent

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What Makes a Great Researcher?

There's still a lot of value in equilibrium computation for things like mechanism design. I've come to appreciate that being a great researcher is not just about being incredibly smart. Being able to communicate your work is an underappreciated part, he says.

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