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Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
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I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
AI Snake Oil
Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism A checklist for avoiding hype
over a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Keep incidents boring The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under...
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over a year ago
The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 352
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re...
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Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever…
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Support my open-source work and blog posts
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 050: Synthetic Geometry January 19, 2024.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
Marcus on AI
The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
6 months ago
Society's Backend:...
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
11 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
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Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
Weighty Thoughts
One Definite Sign of a Bad Startup Idea If you can’t tell anyone about your startup idea, it's not a good idea
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
6 months ago
Sam Altman
A Clarification I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to...
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I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it. I didn’t mean that we need to tolerate brilliant homophobic jerks in the lab so that we can have scientific progress.  Although there are famous...
Society's Backend:...
If You Understand Bananas, You Can Understand Machine Learning A simplified high-level overview of primary machine learning algorithms for anyone to understand
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
6 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
The Slow, Painful Death of the Free Content Creator It's happening as you read this
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 080: Grok 2 August 16, 2024.
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 120: DeepSeek's back May 30, 2025.
2 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
When the AI Bubble Bursts It’s when, not if, for these kinds of new technologies
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The GPT Era A look back at the timeline from ~GPT-3.5 to today.
3 weeks ago
The Gradient
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in...
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What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while...
Daniel Miessler
Reverse Transcription There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
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There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have AIs producing so much extraordinary art. But I’m excited about something else that we’re naturally evolving GPT into, which I’m calling Reverse Transcription. A bit of background...
Don't Worry About...
On OpenAI's Model Spec 2.0 OpenAI made major revisions to their Model Spec.
5 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific...
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AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific regional accents. And with just a few seconds of audio, AI can now clone someone’s specific voice. AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language....
One Useful Thing
The Machines of Mastery "Anyone can learn anything they want..." and how technology can help
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
When you give a Claude a mouse Some quick impressions of an actual agent
9 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
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8 months ago
“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Marcus on AI
The Pope gets it In age when few political leaders are engaging with AI, Pope Leo XIV gets it.
2 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum logic gates for a single qubit, interactively
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield Annotated slides from a recent talk
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
8 months ago
The Berkeley...
Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization... Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications....
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3 months ago
Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications. However, as LLMs have improved, so have the attacks against them. Prompt injection attack is listed as the #1 threat by OWASP to LLM-integrated applications, where an LLM input contains a...
Daniel Miessler
Sponsored Interview: Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne. So...
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In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne. So Jupiter One is a special company to me. I just built a vuln management program at Robinhood based around them, and I believe so much in their vision that I’m looking to actually...
Society's Backend:...
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now)...
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When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now) that they’re doing what birds and primates would do to stick the landing: just grabbing the branch and hanging on. But it turns out that squirrels, being squirrels, don’t actually...
Xena
The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving? This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in...
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This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in computer science and mathematics. He completed this work while visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics. Introduction The history of interactive theorem...
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Dangerous advice for software engineers I’m a big fan of “sharp tools”. These are tools that are powerful enough to be hugely helpful or...
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I’m a big fan of “sharp tools”. These are tools that are powerful enough to be hugely helpful or harmful, depending on how they’re used…
Rozado’s Visual...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 110: Siri stumbles March 21, 2025.
4 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes) Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 081: Creative differences August 23, 2024.
11 months ago
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
11 months ago
Sam Altman
Keep the Internet Open The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated...
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over a year ago
The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated he has no plan to stop soon. The internet is a public good, and I believe access should be a basic right.  We've seen such great innovation in software because the internet has...
Armin Ronacher's...
Automatic Server Reloading in Rust on Change: What is listenfd/systemfd? When I developed Werkzeug (and later Flask), the most important part of the developer experience for...
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6 months ago
When I developed Werkzeug (and later Flask), the most important part of the developer experience for me was enabling fast, automatic reloading. Werkzeug (and with it Flask), this is achieved by using two procsses at all times. The parent process holds on to the file...
One Useful Thing
One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Scaling: The State of Play in AI A brief intergenerational pause...
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to leverage long form content with AI Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Something is Up With Meritocracy I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity...
over a year ago
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I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity magnifies inequality. Here’s one way I’ve seen it explained: If there are two main reasons for outcome differences: innate talent and environment, and if you equalize environment you will...
Don't Worry About...
On (Not) Feeling the AGI Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the history of OpenAI.
One Useful Thing
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to reverse engineer the Substack (or any!) web API Building an unauthorized Substack client with Claude.
11 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
When we become cogs on motivation and technology
8 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
The first post: why Jekyll? Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
over a year ago
Armin Ronacher's...
Reflecting on Life Last year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and...
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7 months ago
Last year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and quite frankly personal mental health. My hope is that those who want to learn from me find it useful. This is a continuation to this. Over the years, I've been asked countless times:...
Xena
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
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It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
Don't Worry About...
AI #105: Hey There Alexa It’s happening!
5 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The mystery of the garage
a year ago
One Useful Thing
I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
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I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
AI Snake Oil
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Aibo Foster Parents Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
6 months ago
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
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Speeding Up Massive PostgreSQL Joins with Common Table Expressions I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network. This network creates text-based posts at a rate of around 400,000 posts per day, and I’ve been feeding the posts through different ML models to try and...
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get...
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Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probably 30 books and spent thousands of hours thinking about it. I am not talking...
Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
a year ago
Machine Learning for...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve May 16, 2025.
2 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie...
over a year ago
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Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się…
Weighty Thoughts
What Mattered in GenAI in 2024 Despite the Noise, The Big Narratives from January are Still the Big Narratives
4 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
How Will AI Impact Law Firms? An interview with Devansh from Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
5 months ago
AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Medical Roundup #4 It seems like as other things drew our attention more, medical news slowed down.
5 months ago
Don't Worry About...
The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more...
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The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more dramatic goes wrong first and even we successfully ‘solve alignment’ of AI to a given user and developer, is the ‘gradual’ disempowerment of humanity by AIs, as we voluntarily...
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest “This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Prompt Engineering for Claude Watch now | If you’ve ever wanted to level up your AI prompting skills, this is the workshop for...
10 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI a Winner-Take-All Market? A critical question for investors in AI
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 062: Data is the new oil April 12, 2024.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 089: Adobe MAX October 18, 2024.
9 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What kind of work I want This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of...
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This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of places I’d like to work. The short version…
Strange Loop Canon
Discovery is the original sin of the modern age technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Good engineers are right, a lot Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s...
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Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about…
Rozado’s Visual...
A brief response to a reader regarding prejudice denoting terms in Swedish media Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a...
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Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a reader comments about it, several things to note:
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
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(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Society's Backend:...
Code with AI but do it correctly ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
5 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars Thanks to Magnets A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less...
4 months ago
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A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly powered robot is currently very limited in how far it can travel away from the magnetic fields that drive its flight. However, the...
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MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal? Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree...
a year ago
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a year ago
Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree search. Going back months, the “Q*” leak…
Society's Backend:...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 109: Manus Manus Late last week, a new Chinese AI debuted to massive buzz: Manus, a general-purpose AI agent.
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated What happens when you minimize the chance of data leakage?
4 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016 Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI
6 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 364 | Reality Headset, BingPT, AI+Cyber If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite...
over a year ago
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If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite client. APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI is warning people to block online ads due to imposters poisoning search results. They advise users to 1) check ad URLs, 2) go...
Don't Worry About...
The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 078: Voice mode August 2, 2024.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
6 months ago
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
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About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
IEEE Spectrum
Kyiv Start-Up Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming...
4 months ago
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Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming could turn the tide in the war against Russia. They are developing an intelligent operating system to enable a single controller to remotely operate swarms of interconnected drones...
Artificial Ignorance
Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too) AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?
3 months ago
One Useful Thing
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after New models and new thresholds
3 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8) Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports The debate about the harms of AI is happening in a data vacuum
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Prejudice in Academic Papers: A Declining Trend Amidst Ongoing DEI Growth? Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
Don't Worry About...
We're in Deep Research The latest addition to OpenAI’s Pro offerings is their version of Deep Research.
6 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 349
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Slouching Towards Utopia by Brad DeLong
a year ago
Solving the decision...
an event bus for ai agents it is very professional yes
5 months ago
Stories by Andrej...
A Peek at Trends in Machine Learning
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google continues to Fail Marketing Forever, OpenAI suddenly dropped GPT-4o Image Generation.
fast.ai
My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization What happens when your customers come directly from ChatGPT?
2 months ago
The Berkeley...
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
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Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
One Useful Thing
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 2) Part 2: Giving our agent internet access.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
a year ago
Solving the decision...
Three missing primitives in every UI framework (please build them)
8 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Startup Valuation Made Simple(r) - Working Backwards Counterintuitively, start from how much money you need
over a year ago
Sam Altman
Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other.  So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora. Quora is doing extremely well. They now...
Win Vector LLC
How About Pi ~ 31/32? At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 =...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 = 3.1 is a worse approximation of pi than 22/7 ~ 3.142857.
Matt Mazur
Introducing Preceden’s new AI-Powered Timeline Generator For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for...
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For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
Society's Backend:...
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue September 1, 2023
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
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over a year ago
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
Solving the decision...
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
10 months ago
Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
7 months ago
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In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.
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We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
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Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia....
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For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
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Monthly Roundup #28: March 2025 I plan to continue to leave the Trump administration out of monthly roundups - I will do my best to...
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I plan to continue to leave the Trump administration out of monthly roundups - I will do my best to only cover the administration as it relates to my particular focus areas.
Artificial Ignorance
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I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway provides a widget I have installed on Preceden to let users know when there have been updates. Users will see a bell with a count of unread items (which Headway keeps track of in...
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As a programmer and CTO, I've developed a rough rule of thumb when it comes to scaling systems. When you scale your inputs (users, page views, messages, etc) by 10x, something breaks. Usually, it's something pretty fundamental. And the end result is that you need to replace a...
One Useful Thing
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Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something...
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AI #104: American State Capacity on the Brink The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they...
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The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they have done in many other places and departments, seemingly purely because they want to find people they can fire.
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2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
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An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
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We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color scheme and logo! :) - Logan I've been researching text summarization methods for a project I'm working on. Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs have become a go-to...
exist
A Tale of Two Technologies: Why Large Language Models are the Future and the Metaverse Isn't In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the...
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In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the Metaverse and Large Language Models (LLMs). Though the Metaverse, a virtual reality-based universe, initially garnered significant attention and expectations, it ultimately failed to...
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Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1...
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We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
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The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be...
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🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But that's a Friday, so I'm going to enable the discount link earlier. How early, and how much of a discount? You'll have to find out. If the link works before the date, then it's...
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As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are all different and our motivations are different, so figuring out the best things to do is difficult.
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Is GitHub Lying Here? My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I...
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My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I went on my own to our organization’s GitHub administration page and a similar message lives there. We run a small group, so I am pretty sure nobody has in fact asked for […]
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Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D...
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PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in...
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The problem with iff's design How node's shared memory model ruins a perfectly good api design
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fast.ai
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
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The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
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There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
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It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable.  In repeatedly invoking unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million...
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One Useful Thing
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In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
Marcus on AI
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When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us, together with Scott Aaronson, ran some informal experiments to probe its abilities.
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Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs Also, we have a prompt library!
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Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
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Visualizing what words often appear in the vicinity of woke/wokeness in news media content illustrates why communication is almost impossible between red and blue America
Strange Loop Canon
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After Musk's acquisition of Twitter, many people I respect and follow moved to Bluesky. I created an account there and made an honest attempt of making it my primary platform. Sadly, I found Bluesky to be surprisingly hostile towards AI content. There is an almost religious...
Weighty Thoughts
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Unwoven How the CoreWeave IPO may be the beginning of the end
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Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
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Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
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Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50...
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There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50 responses. Here are some randomly-chosen…
Artificial Ignorance
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Lessons from a year of daily AI coding at a fast-growing startup (and why "Cursor wrote it" is not a valid excuse).
exist
Workload Agnosticism in Large Language Models: The Foundation for the Next Generation of Computing As discussed in my previous post, LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, Google’s Bard, and Meta’s...
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As discussed in my previous post, LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, Google’s Bard, and Meta’s LLaMA have risen seemingly out of nowhere, poised to disrupt the future of computing. Cloud Compute changed the landscape drastically when it was introduced by Amazon in the mid...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
fast.ai
A new old kind of R&D lab Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
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Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
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Senior engineers should make side bets When you’re a junior, you should work on what you’re given. There are two reasons for this. First,...
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When you’re a junior, you should work on what you’re given. There are two reasons for this. First, your work needs to be supervised and checked by a more experienced engineer, and if you go and work on random things it makes it hard for that engineer to stay across what you’re...
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It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Sam Altman
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
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A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
Win Vector LLC
Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis Isn’t I have a new “crazy theorists” article up: “Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis...
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I have a new “crazy theorists” article up: “Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis Isn’t.” It is my notes on reading through Jonassen and Knuth’s amazing 1978 article analyzing 2 to 3 node search trees. You would think there couldn’t be a lot to that. But there is! I...
Sam Altman
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
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Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros. This is the game that to me feels closest to the real world and complex...
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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these missions is still required. Which means...
Marcus on AI
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We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Mind Prison: Notes...
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Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday, look deeply disappointing.
One Useful Thing
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Artificial Ignorance
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When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month, I was happy. As a legacy holder of the checkmark there’s a slight band-aid-sting of the check indicating specialness—who doesn’t want to feel special?—but I’d much rather see a...
Society's Backend:...
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p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
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At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
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Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
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