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Presented at #ASCO26: Among patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the RAS(ON) inhibitor daraxonrasib led to significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival than chemotherapy. Full phase 3 RASolute 302 trial results:
— @NEJM
contributed by Andy on Jun 9, 2026 in curves, things that go down, standing ovations
videoI just pushed a new paper to arXiv. I realized that a lot of my previous work on robust losses and nerf-y things was dancing around something simpler: a slight tweak to the classic Box-Cox power transform that makes it much more useful and stable. It's this f(x, λ) here:
contributed by Andy on Feb 18, 2025 in curves, future fields medalists

Adam, a 9-yr old optimizer, is the go-to for training LLMs (eg, GPT-3, OPT, LLAMA). Introducing Sophia, a new optimizer that is 2x faster than Adam on LLMs. Just a few more lines of code could cut your costs from $2M to $1M (if scaling laws hold). https://t.co/GrMY600lLO 🧵⬇️
contributed by Andy on May 24, 2023 in curves, small multiples

Another example: Take two glasses of equally sweet water and mix them together. Children of intermediate age think that the resulting solution will be sweeter than the originals! Similar results have been found for water temperature.
contributed by Andy on Apr 21, 2023 in curves

Fintechs tends to have worse delinquency rates than banks in personal loans. Source: @JPMorganAM
contributed by Andy on Apr 18, 2022 in curves

@AlecStapp Isn't Japan somewhat unique since a significant amount of land (major cities esp) is "leasehold," held by the same families for generations. Lessors (users) build for short-term use, maybe a generation or 20 years before expected teardown, and Japan's population is shrinking:
contributed by Andy on Apr 7, 2022 in curves
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