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A new essay asks why large language models like GPT-2 weren't built nearly a decade earlier, arguing that the key ingredients—the transformer architecture, scaling laws, and the intuition to bet big on them—arrived later than the underlying data and compute might have allowed. The piece examines which component of deep learning progress was the true bottleneck: ideas, hardware, or simply people not trying the obvious.
- 2Columbia graduate Onyekachi Iwu makes her way to Broadway▼How Onyekachi Iwu, CC ’19, followed her intuition from Columbia’s stages to Broadway
Onyekachi Iwu, who graduated from Columbia College in 2019, has taken her performing career from Columbia University's student stages to Broadway. In an interview with the Columbia Daily Spectator, she describes how trusting her intuition guided her path through college theatre and into a professional stage career in New York, offering an example for aspiring student performers.
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A stunt video titled 'I BROKE PHYSICS with ROCKS' is drawing large audiences online, showing the creator using rocks in experiments that appear to defy everyday physical intuition. The item has drawn more than 200,000 engagements, with viewers debating whether the trick involves an illusion, editing, or a genuine quirk of mechanics. Similar 'physics-breaking' demos routinely circulate as entertainment rather than real scientific discoveries.