You will all recall the clever use of LLMs to “de-copyright” the works of Studio Ghibli. Indeed, LLMs are great for not having to attribute works to their authors.

In such cases, however, the generated work never quite matches the original. LLMs are prone to hallucinations and non-deterministic behavior.

Enter Itsid! The first LLM to provide mathematically guaranteed reproduction of its inputs: https://itsid.cloud

#ai #llm

Edit: Alright, April 1 is over; we're closing down.

A while ago, I wrote about Welter's game: a simple combinatorial game where two players take turns moving coins down a line until no moves are possible. It has some curious connections to coding theory, but for our purposes, it's just a little game to play over the holiday.

However, the game setup implicitly discriminates against people who don't have any coins, and we can't have that, so here's a web version: https://welter.fuglede.dk/

#maths #combinatorics #games #combinatorialgames

Here's some stuff we've been up to at work lately: One of the main bottlenecks when using variational quantum algorithms to solve problems in quantum chemistry is that you need to call your quantum computer a lot of times.

A ton of fixes have been suggested in the past; we gather many of them in a single framework, show how to combine them and how to compare what comes out: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20029

And here's an animation that illustrates what the problem is about: https://kvantify-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/anim-arxiv-2603-20029.mp4

So, all users of Microsoft's GitHub Copilot (Free/Pro/Pro+) should now expect to have their intellectual property and personally identifiable information stolen, unless they explicitly opt-out. Feedback is … not great:

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/188488

Regarding personally identifiable information specifically, here's your recurring reminder that in the EU, users have the right to file complaints over GDPR infringements (in Denmark, that would be at at https://www.datatilsynet.dk/borger/klage)