Biography:Collin Burns

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Short description: American speedcuber
Not to be confused with Colin Burns.

Collin Burns is an American speedcuber who formerly held the world record for solving the Rubik’s Cube in 5.25 seconds.

Biography

In 2014, Burns set a North American continental record of 5.93 seconds for solving the 3×3×3 cube,[1] and he beat the world champion at the time, Feliks Zemdegs in the US Nationals 2014 speedcubing competition.[2]

On April 25, 2015, Burns set the world record for the fastest 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube single solve with a time of 5.25.[3] The solve was recorded at a Rubik's Cube competition at Central Bucks West High School in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.[4] He set the record age 15.[4][5][6] He set that time (which was the world record for approximately seven months) using the YuXin brand 3×3×3 cube.[1][4][6] Burns solved the cube 0.3 seconds faster than the previous world record of 5.55 seconds, set by Mats Valk.[7] His record was later broken by Lucas Etter with a time of 4.90 on November 21, 2015.[8][9]

Burns is now a researcher in the field of AI alignment.[10] In 2020, a team of researchers, including Dan Hendrycks and Burns, developed the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) model, a benchmark to assess large-language models.[11][12][13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Collin Burns". World Cube Association. https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/p.php?i=2010BURN01. 
  2. ↑ "US Nationals 2014 | World Cube Association". https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/USNationals2014/results/podiums. 
  3. ↑ "Doylestown Spring 2015 | World Cube Association". https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/DoylestownSpring2015. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Eleftheriou-Smith, Loulla-Mae (27 April 2015). "Watch teenager Collin Burns break the Rubik's Cube world record by solving puzzle in just 5.25 seconds". The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/watch-teenager-collin-burns-break-the-rubiks-cube-world-record-by-solving-puzzle-in-just-525-seconds-10206378.html. 
  5. ↑ Eng, J (2015-04-28). "5.25 seconds! American teen Collin Burns sets Rubik's Cube world record" (in en). https://www.local3news.com/5-25-seconds-american-teen-collin-burns-sets-rubiks-cube-world-record/article_435d0c70-ad47-5c75-bc73-9cef7768cee1.html. ""Burns, a home-schooled 15-year-old, set his record at a World Cube Association competition on Saturday at Central Bucks West High School."" 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Visser, Nick (27 April 2015). "Teen Collin Burns Absolutely Destroys Rubik's Cube, Sets New World Record". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/27/collin-burns-rubiks-cube-record_n_7153204.html. "His record is expected to stand, Mashable reported, meaning the competition was legitimate and Burns will hold the official world record." 
  7. ↑ D'Orazio, Dante (2015-04-26). "Teenager cuts nearly a third of a second off Rubik’s Cube world record" (in en-US). https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/26/8500579/rubiks-cube-world-record-2015. 
  8. ↑ "Lucas Etter | World Cube Association". https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/persons/2011ETTE01. 
  9. ↑ "Records | World Cube Association". https://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/records?event_id=333&show=history. 
  10. ↑ "Collin Burns". https://collinpburns.com/. 
  11. ↑ Hendrycks, Dan; Burns, Collin; Basart, Steven; Zou, Andy; Mazeika, Mantas; Song, Dawn; Steinhardt, Jacob (2020-09-07). "Measuring Massive Multitask Language Understanding" (in en). https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.03300v3. 
  12. ↑ Liang, Percy; Bommasani, Rishi; Lee, Tony; Tsipras, Dimitris; Soylu, Dilara; Yasunaga, Michihiro; Zhang, Yian; Narayanan, Deepak et al. (2022-11-16). "Holistic Evaluation of Language Models" (in en). https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09110v2. 
  13. ↑ Li, Haonan; Zhang, Yixuan; Koto, Fajri; Yang, Yifei; Zhao, Hai; Gong, Yeyun; Duan, Nan; Baldwin, Timothy (August 2024). Ku, Lun-Wei; Martins, Andre; Srikumar, Vivek. eds. "CMMLU: Measuring massive multitask language understanding in Chinese". Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 (Bangkok, Thailand: Association for Computational Linguistics): 11260–11285. doi:10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.671. https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.671/. 




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