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Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
5 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Are Mastering Picking Packages As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy,...
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As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some pseudorandom fabric bin the size of a...
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Hack: Combining Abstract Designs with Objects This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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AI Snake Oil
AI scaling myths Scaling will run out. The question is when.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) 9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My...
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9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My One-Sentence Summary/Highlight The future of programming is not humans writing code, but neural nets creating weights. Capture Neural networks are mathematical expressions with many...
One Useful Thing
In Praise of Boring AI Automation has always been about killing tedious work. AI can do the same.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Meta's New Segmentation Model, A New Open-Source Image Generation Model, Apple Intelligence Model... Machine learning resources and updates 8/5/2024
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t.
3 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth...
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Quantifying ChatGPT’s gender bias Benchmarks allow us to dig deeper into what causes biases and what can be done about it
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
The secret to AGI, in 4 pages A couple days ago I learned on X that getting to AGI was much easier than I had long thought.
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Unlock the Power of Agile for Hardware Teams The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware...
7 months ago
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The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware teams seeking the benefits of Agile without the pitfalls of applying software-centric methods. Traditional development approaches, like waterfall, often result in delayed timelines,...
Armin Ronacher's...
Seeking Purity The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also...
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The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also found in passionate, technical discussions. By that I mean that purity in technology translates into adherence to a set of strict principles, whether it be functional programming,...
Society's Backend:...
You Are What You Eat: Digital Edition Why who you follow is more important than who follows you
a year ago
Solving the decision...
The problem with importing css On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
On Google's Safety Plan Google Lays Out Its Safety Plans
3 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Can AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
10 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Deplatforming: AI edition “This would feel like getting stabbed in the heart.”
2 months ago
Society's Backend:...
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss....
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Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss. If you want all the ML updates from X, follow me there. Mamba + Sliding Window Attention = SAMBA with Efficient Unlimited... China runs to be one of top global players in AI model...
Artificial Ignorance
How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
a month ago
Machine Learning for...
Coding with AI is getting even better ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
4 months 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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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...
Artificial Ignorance
Inside Pulley's AI-Native Engineering Team Lessons from a year of daily AI coding at a fast-growing startup (and why "Cursor wrote it" is not a...
4 weeks ago
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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).
Society's Backend:...
Open Models Catching Up, SearchGPT Release, Deepfake Victims Protected by Regulation, and More Weekly updates and resources 7/29/24
11 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
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
fast.ai
1st Two Lessons of From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early...
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4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early preview of the new course.
Don't Worry About...
Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
4 months ago
Matt Mazur
Indie Hacking Week 2 Recap – TimelineGPT Progress, LearnGPT Decision Time For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin...
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For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin for a few days. We went snow tubing at Beech Mountain while we were there, one of the many ski resorts in the area. As is common on vacations, I spent way too much time thinking...
Society's Backend:...
Meet Devansh: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of 193,000 Subscribers Content creation and networking lessons from a wildly successful freelance tech writer
a year ago
Marcus on AI
𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁... Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAI’s rollout that he joked “of course...
6 months ago
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
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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...
AI Snake Oil
One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop It's been an eventful year
a year ago
Marcus on AI
”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs? Society is once again left holding the bag
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 046: AI has a CSAM problem December 22, 2023.
a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
Studio Ghibli - AI's Latest Art Crisis Notes From the Desk: No. 43 - 2025.03.28
3 months ago
Made by Ollin
Emojin An infinite kaomoji generator
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
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. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
The Berkeley...
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
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Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those...
The Berkeley...
Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for...
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To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for constraining the agent to regions of high data density throughout its trajectory (left). Here, we present an approach which achieves this goal by combining features of density...
Rozado’s Visual...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
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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
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 040: GPTs November 10, 2023.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 059: In̶f̶l̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Microsoft AI March 22, 2023.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 093: Diminishing returns November 15, 2024.
8 months ago
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
over a year ago
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I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
Daniel Miessler
Companies as Alaskan Fishing Boats What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest...
over a year ago
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What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest Catch. So you have this tiny crew of total badasses. Everyone is a superhero at their particular role because the crew needs to stay extremely small to protect profits. The...
Artificial Ignorance
Small newsletters, big ideas A subscriber showcase full of hidden gems on Substack.
7 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
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....
6 months ago
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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…
Artificial Ignorance
How to reverse engineer the Substack (or any!) web API Building an unauthorized Substack client with Claude.
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI’s DevDay: The biggest announcements New models, new products, and new pricing.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Define Wokeness! Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps Visualizing what words often appear in the vicinity of woke/wokeness in news media content...
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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
Andrej Karpathy blog
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
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.wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; overflow-wrap: break-word; /* allow wrapping of very very long strings, like txids */ } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 13px; /*...
Society's Backend:...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 072: The new new Claude June 21, 2024.
a year ago
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...
2 months ago
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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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Human log loss for image classification
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
5 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address
11 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Closing Quantum Flytrap
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
GPT-4o is the new face of AI image generation The technical evolution reshaping AI's creative capabilities.
3 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy? An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
over a year ago
Machine Learning for...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
3 months ago
Matt Mazur
When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help...
a year ago
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a year ago
For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help (thanks Liesl!), but these days support takes at most an hour per week, and all requests fall into two buckets: As a result, there hasn’t been a pressing need to outsource support. But...
Rozado’s Visual...
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Summary of manuscript “Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A...
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
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...
Artificial Ignorance
Dealing with AI fatigue Notes for myself, and maybe you too.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts The parade of made-up numbers never stops
8 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The Slow Apocalypse: When will we run out of kids? More than you wanted to know about the fertility crisis
yesterday
IEEE Spectrum
It's Surprisingly Easy to Jailbreak LLM-Driven Robots large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore...
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large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore LLM-driven robots. However, a new study now reveals an automated way to hack into such machines with 100 percent success. By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could...
The Berkeley...
Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); ...
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function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.style.display = 'flex'; } window.onload = () => { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.addEventListener('click', () => { ...
Don't Worry About...
AI #107: The Misplaced Hype Machine The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely...
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The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely hype, but there was very little there there in that Claude wrapper.
Society's Backend:...
Anti-Social Media How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby 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...
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How I know I'm working with a strong engineer There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE,...
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There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE, what projects they’ve worked on). I…
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What makes strong engineers strong? As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
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As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
Society's Backend:...
The Fastest Way to Get Up to Speed on Machine Learning Fundamentals for Free Announcing the ML Road Map-Turbo
a year ago
The Berkeley...
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
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TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
Society's Backend:...
Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Open AI beats OpenAI, Understand Scaling Laws, Commerce in the Age of AI Agents, and More Society's Backend Reading List 01-24-2025
5 months ago
One Useful Thing
Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd A formula for AI in companies
a month ago
The Gradient
An Introduction to the Problems of AI Consciousness Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI consciousness are now taking center stage, marking a significant shift since the current AI resurgence began over a decade ago.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There will be the next Quantum Game with Photons More photons, an electron, so you can play with entanglement. We got invited by Artur Ekert to CQT...
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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...
Society's Backend:...
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
5 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
a year ago
Machine Learning for...
Weekly ML for SWEs #12: The easiest way to keep up with ML and AI research papers An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 6-17-25
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
Pitfalls of building with large language models Dealing with more than just hallucinations.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Help me improve Society's Backend! Two simple questions to help make Society's Backend better
2 months ago
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Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
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I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
Marcus on AI
Deep Learning, Deep Scandal Some of the big tech giants may be playing fast and loose with AI
3 months ago
Society's Backend:...
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
11 months ago
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
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The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 065: The gpt2-chatbot mystery May 3, 2024.
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Power, money and human nature Thoughts on OpenAI, a tragedy
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Out-of-office Donald Trump still more prominent in news media content than the current U.S.... In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump...
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In 2019, I helped my colleague Musa al-Gharbi document the extraordinary prominence of Donald Trump in news media content (see here). I have recently updated that previous analysis. Briefly stated, no U.S. president in recent history has received a similar amount of media...
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
5 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
7 months ago
Stories by Andrej...
AlphaGo, in context
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #111: Giving Us Pause Events in AI don’t stop merely because of a trade war, partially paused or otherwise.
3 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 367 | Hive Ransom, Anti-Google, Software 2.0… 🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
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🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI infiltrated the HIVE ransomware group, stopping over $130 million in ransomware attacks. HIVE is known for going...
AI Snake Oil
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield Annotated slides from a recent talk
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI 2027: Dwarkesh's Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future holds. His ‘What 2026 Looks Like’ was very concrete and specific, and has proved remarkably accurate given the difficulty level of such...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 124: $uperintelligence June 27, 2025.
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
5 months ago
AI Snake Oil
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 123: Video killed the image gen star June 20, 2025.
3 weeks ago
Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my...
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Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my Macbook (with its Apple M2 chip and 24 GB of memory). Here’s a great overview of the model for anyone interested in learning more. Short version: The Mistral “Mixtral” 8x7B 32k...
Sam Altman
Tech Workers' Values For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights....
Jascha’s blog
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to...
Win Vector LLC
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
4 months ago
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I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often...
3 months ago
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Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…
Marcus on AI
Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply
5 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
10 months ago
Sam Altman
Project Covalence Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
over a year ago
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Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.  Science remains the...
Society's Backend:...
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
6 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Doom 2016 vs Doom Eternal: UI side-by-side A dark journey vs demon piñata. Demons invaded Earth and ruined HUD.
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Andrej Karpathy blog
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
How to improve myself as a lecturer?
over a year ago
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
On MAIM and Superintelligence Strategy Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence...
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Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence Strategy. There is also an op-ed in Time that summarizes.
Strange Loop Canon
Progress when benefits are worth tallying the human cost of technological leaps
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 358 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY 🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🦃 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...
Marcus on AI
Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence...
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4 months ago
In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence under Biden, entitled, The Government knows A.G.I.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
What is the role of the logarithm in Shannon entropy?
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
The future of education in a world of AI A positive vision for the transformation to come
over a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Model Context Protocol explained as simply as possible Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks, interest in it seems to have really picked…
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024 2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
6 months ago
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Arms on Vacuums Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
9 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Exploring Phobos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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. European Robotics Forum: 25–27...
Matt Mazur
“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS...
a year ago
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a year ago
There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS for not refunding an accidental annual payment he made on their service. He intended to purchase the monthly plan, but due to an unclear UI and poor copy, he unintentionally...
Artificial Ignorance
Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble How Meta's messy launch overshadowed its latest flagship model.
3 months ago
Solving the decision...
Me Two Where is my mind?
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
A Fundamental Overview of Machine Learning Experimentation [Part 1] And how it differs from the software development you're familiar with
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
5 months ago
Solving the decision...
Durable Objects are Computers / Containers / Servers (everything old is new again)
7 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts Output similarity is a distraction
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Automating creativity There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
How Transparent Are Foundation Model Developers? Introducing the Foundation Model Transparency Index
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Irony too funny for words Oops
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 115: US v. Google April 25, 2025.
2 months ago
Society's Backend:...
1000+ AI Agents Make a Civilization, xAI Creates the Largest Supercomputer in 4 Months, Possible AI... Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-09
10 months ago
Sam Altman
The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
over a year ago
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A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...
Rozado’s Visual...
What is the IQ of ChatGPT? Making an AI model take an IQ test
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 027: Challenge accepted August 11, 2023
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
8 months ago
One Useful Thing
Confronting Impossible Futures We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
12 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 357 | NEWS, ANALYSIS, & DISCOVERY SERIES SECURITY NEWS Attackers have dumped nearly 8 million Australian health records on the dark web after...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS Attackers have dumped nearly 8 million Australian health records on the dark web after breaching a health insurance company with almost 10 million customers. MORE NSA has released guidance asking companies to switch to memory-safe languages like Rust, C#, Go, and...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 106: Grok 3 February 21, 2024.
4 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Society's Backend:...
Devin Has Exposed a Major Issue with Software Engineering And isn't that we're all going to lose our jobs
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
The mystery of the garage
a year ago
Machine Learning for...
Introducing Machine Learning for Software Engineers! Get hands-on with machine learning engineering
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #27: February 2025 I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the various machinations of DOGE.
Weighty Thoughts
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020 Reflecting on the Past Year
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve May 16, 2025.
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024 In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
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.
Daniel Miessler
The UL Boost Protocol This is a member-only post. Thank you for being part of this. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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over a year ago
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Artificial Ignorance
Saving the world with AI and government grants Listen now | A conversation with Helena Merk, founder and CEO of Streamline Climate.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Saunowe ukojenie w lesie
over a year ago
Solving the decision...
ui (a short story) “Wake up, Computer”
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,... Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
9 months ago