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Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic...
2nd Dec 2025
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Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic researchers have shown that boredom in the workplace can be just as damaging as burnout. But search for information about childhood boredom and you’ll find the opposite message:...
Decoding T cells with AI I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s...
8th Jul 2024
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Decoding T cells with AI

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Jul 2024
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s important that scientists share their work with a broader audience. This 3-part series is an experiment: an accessible introduction to AI immunology concepts. This post is part 1 in...
Fridays With Bob When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which...
1st Aug 2026
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Fridays With Bob

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Aug 2026
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions. I didn’t find one right away. Then in 2005 we decided to do a special report,...
An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
3rd Oct 2023
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An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Oct 2023
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
3rd Sep 2024
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Sep 2024
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
Exploring Chess Positions and Counts Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number...
11th Feb 2026
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Exploring Chess Positions and Counts

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Feb 2026
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than the “Shannon number” 10120 side-note from Shanon’s remarkable 1950 paper “Programming a...
Simpler Experimentation with Jupyter, Papermill, and MLflow Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
15th Mar 2020
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Simpler Experimentation with Jupyter, Papermill, and MLflow

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Mar 2020
Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
AI and Existential Dread There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think...
14th Sep 2026
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AI and Existential Dread

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Sep 2026
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think it's a farce and others think we face extinction. Here are my thoughts.
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
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Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Apr 2024
That’s what makes it worthwhile
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
22nd Feb 2023
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

22nd Feb 2023
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
What Is Reasoning A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight...
19th Aug 2026
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What Is Reasoning

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Aug 2026
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and confusion...
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
15th Oct 2024
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Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Oct 2024
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
The Rise of Cloud Coding Agents What it’s actually like to work with today’s leading agents such as Devin, Codex, and Cursor
4th Sep 2025
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The Rise of Cloud Coding Agents

from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Sep 2025
What it’s actually like to work with today’s leading agents such as Devin, Codex, and Cursor
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...
7th Sep 2016
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A Survival Guide to a PhD

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Sep 2016
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...
Accelerating mathematics Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical...
9th Feb 2026
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Accelerating mathematics

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2026
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical discovery. How might they go about doing this? The traditional approach Historically it has been governments who have been driving this agenda, … Continue reading →
GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
13th May 2024
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GPT-4o

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th May 2024
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why? What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
3rd May 2020
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A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why?

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd May 2020
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
25th Apr 2019
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A Recipe for Training Neural Networks

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Apr 2019
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
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Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and More

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Dec 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
autoresearch and diary agent skills I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
26th Mar 2026
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autoresearch and diary agent skills

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

26th Mar 2026
I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine...
29th Aug 2022
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Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Aug 2022
Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine transition to protein engineering, but their design and application is nonetheless notoriously unprincipled. The development of tools and methods to guide this process is one of the...
10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025 A look back at the year in AI news.
4th Jan 2026
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10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jan 2026
A look back at the year in AI news.
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
5th Mar 2025
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See Me at SXSW Next Week!

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Mar 2025
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
20th Mar 2024
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Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification

from PromptArmor Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Mar 2024
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
Is AI in Writing a Problem? Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
3rd Apr 2026
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Is AI in Writing a Problem?

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Apr 2026
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
Vision models New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models...
2nd Feb 2024
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Vision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Feb 2024
New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models support higher resolution images, improved text recognition and logical reasoning.
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
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An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Dec 2023
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
9th Dec 2016
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Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Dec 2016
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
AI will create jobs It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it. AI and...
1st May 2026
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AI will create jobs

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st May 2026
It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it. AI and immigration are fundamentally the same. There’s new people showing up, and hopefully everyone understands how and why immigration creates jobs. Wants are effectively unlimited. It’s...
The AI Panic Attack Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
16th Feb 2026
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The AI Panic Attack

from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Feb 2026
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record...
26th Jun 2023
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26th Jun 2023
A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record of innovation. The mechanization of agriculture, steam engines, electricity, modern medicine, computers, and the internet—these technologies radically changed the world. Still, the...
1st Feb 2026
Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
7th Nov 2023
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Ask Stupid Questions

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Nov 2023
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
5th Jul 2024
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The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66%

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Jul 2024
A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
Welcome to Moltbook Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
2nd Feb 2026
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Welcome to Moltbook

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Feb 2026
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment...
4th May 2023
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4th May 2023
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
1st Aug 2025
How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
10th Jul 2025
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How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

from Token for Token [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Jul 2025
A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded...
15th Jul 2021
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Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jul 2021
Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News and Opinion Articles from News Media Outlets”
Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
5th Nov 2023
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Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Nov 2023
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
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11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research? Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
2nd Mar 2023
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Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research?

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2023
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro) Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model....
8th Apr 2025
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First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro)

from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Apr 2025
Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model. This was taken from a post originally made on Twitter, so please excuse the terseness. First impressions: a bit too eager to jump into a deep research task even when I just ask a...
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
9th May 2024
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The Real Risks of AI

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th May 2024
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
Vibe Governing using llms to set policy
7th Apr 2025
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Vibe Governing

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Apr 2025
using llms to set policy
Running LLM evals right next to your code One of the first things you learn when going down the path of building applications with LLMs is...
15th Jan 2025
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Running LLM evals right next to your code

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jan 2025
One of the first things you learn when going down the path of building applications with LLMs is that you need evals. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could live in your existing test system, and be run and displayed in CI, just like your tests?
Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6 Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its...
12th Jan 2025
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Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6

from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Jan 2025
Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its various elements. We first learn about the different kinds of ‘documents’ that we can mimic with our prompts, then think about how to pick which pieces of context to include, and...
Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now...
18th Sep 2024
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Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Sep 2024
Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now available in Ollama. It can fact-check responses generated by other models to detect and reduce hallucinations.
Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention --> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the...
29th Jun 2023
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Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Jun 2023
--> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the fine-grained (FG) ground truth conformer $X$, RDKit approximate conformer $\mathcal{R}$ , and coarse-grained (CG) conformer $\mathcal{C}$ as inputs (derived from $X$ and a predefined...
Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
31st Mar 2024
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Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

31st Mar 2024
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
13th Mar 2024
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LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty.

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Mar 2024
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
1st Nov 2023
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Working with AI: Two paths to prompting

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Nov 2023
Don't overcomplicate things
The political preferences of Grok Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
9th Dec 2023
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The political preferences of Grok

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Dec 2023
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
Bandits for Recommender Systems Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
8th May 2022
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Bandits for Recommender Systems

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th May 2022
Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
Mantra Gajatri po polsku Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
9th Mar 2025
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Mantra Gajatri po polsku

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Mar 2025
Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it...
2nd Mar 2026
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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2026
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: AOL email tax; Ebook readers' bill of rights; Sanders media blackout. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
13th Jan 2024
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13th Jan 2024
On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.
Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
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Why now?

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
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Breaking GPT-5 news

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
11th Mar 2026
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How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Mar 2026
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
AI #149: 3 The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
1st Jan 2026
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AI #149: 3

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jan 2026
The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13th Feb 2017
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Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Feb 2017
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
The rise of autonomous agents Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
19th Nov 2023
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The rise of autonomous agents

from AI Tidbits: AI Agents [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Nov 2023
Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple...
1st Mar 2026
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An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Mar 2026
An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple times so here’s some stuff about it. I often see people get basic outright stated plot details wrong about it, so maybe this can be a cheat sheet if you believe it all. This page is in...
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
14th Mar 2022
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Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Mar 2022
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some...
Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"? It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
12th Aug 2025
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Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Aug 2025
It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low...
9th Sep 2025
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High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Sep 2025
Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low dimensional intuition that is holding progress back. I’d like to try and explain why that isn’t quite the case. The background Some of the rigorous work on the nature of stationary...
Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
12th Jan 2025
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Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Jan 2025
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
TIL: HTTP middleware for custom Go module paths I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing...
5th Sep 2024
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TIL: HTTP middleware for custom Go module paths

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Sep 2024
I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing github.com/maragudk/example, I can import maragu.dev/example. Turns out it’s pretty easy.
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
2nd Dec 2024
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Dec 2024
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
What’s coming next for AI in 2024 A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
5th Jan 2024
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What’s coming next for AI in 2024

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Jan 2024
A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one...
1st Feb 2025
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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Feb 2025
IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one place since the filming of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” Not a single entrant made it across the finish line. Some didn’t make it out of the parking lot. So it’s all the more...
Emergent Mind finally went viral Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
16th Aug 2023
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Emergent Mind finally went viral

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Aug 2023
Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
Data Science Project Quick-Start Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
6th Mar 2022
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Data Science Project Quick-Start

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Mar 2022
Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its...
30th Jul 2018
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OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Jul 2018
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its variants).
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
4th Nov 2024
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The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Nov 2024
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
8th Jun 2024
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LLMs remain confidently unreliable and is the intelligence explosion near?

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Jun 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 34 - 2024.06.08
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
21st May 2026
1

Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st May 2026
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
"Flow" in software development is overrated Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the...
5th Nov 2025
1

"Flow" in software development is overrated

from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Nov 2025
Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the obvious "Flow considered harmful" title. You're welcome.
New Painting: Roger Waters Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
1st Nov 2025
1

New Painting: Roger Waters

from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Nov 2025
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4 "At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
31st May 2023
24

Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

31st May 2023
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
There’s no such thing as not a math person Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
15th Mar 2022
38

There’s no such thing as not a math person

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Mar 2022
Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
Do you actually like hard problems? I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for...
a week ago
2

Do you actually like hard problems?

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

a week ago
I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for different reasons.
Signs and Portents Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
6th Jan 2024
144

Signs and Portents

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jan 2024
Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
1st Dec 2025
1

Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Dec 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
10th Apr 2022
1

Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2022
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
AI Automating: The Worksheet Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's...
18th Jun 2025
1

AI Automating: The Worksheet

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Jun 2025
Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's going awfully. It's challenging. The post AI Automating: The Worksheet first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
6th Feb 2026
1

Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Feb 2026
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
19th Jul 2023
63

Is GPT-4 getting worse over time?

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Jul 2023
A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
1

Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
15th Nov 2015
67

CS183c Assignment #3

from Stories by Andrej Karpathy on Medium [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Nov 2015
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
19th Feb 2025
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19th Feb 2025
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
8th Feb 2024
Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
1st Dec 2024
1

Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Dec 2024
With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
Embodiment for nerds Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
18th Sep 2021
22

Embodiment for nerds

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Sep 2021
Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
Scaling Go to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of...
10th Jan 2024
22

Scaling Go to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Jan 2024
For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView. The AppView is a piece of infrastructure that aggregates posts, likes, follows, etc. from all across ATProto and merges them into a consistent view of the...
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
10th Apr 2025
58

Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2025
I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
Our Great War is a Spiritual War I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized...
6th Jun 2026
1

Our Great War is a Spiritual War

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jun 2026
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root? The answer is that those people prioritize convenience, safety, and...
The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
3rd May 2025
38

The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd May 2025
Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
The Dot and the Swarm Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
a week ago
1

The Dot and the Swarm

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

a week ago
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
2nd Mar 2019
22

An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2019
CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
1st Dec 2025
2

The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't

from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Dec 2025
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
OpenAI gpt-oss Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring gpt-oss to Ollama and its community.
5th Aug 2025
1

OpenAI gpt-oss

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Aug 2025
Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring gpt-oss to Ollama and its community.
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
133

On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro) Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model....
8th Apr 2025
1

First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro)

from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Apr 2025
Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model. This was taken from a post originally made on Twitter, so please excuse the terseness. First impressions: a bit too eager to jump into a deep research task even when I just ask a...
agent-shell: your output, your storage agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing...
6th Sep 2026
1

agent-shell: your output, your storage

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Sep 2026
agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head or tail or grep or sed or awk. That’s all they really want. Except, they do it wrong the majority of...
Reflections The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
6th Jan 2025
118

Reflections

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jan 2025
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Join the YC Software Team If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
19th May 2017
42

Join the YC Software Team

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th May 2017
If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there. The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab,...
25th Feb 2025
1

Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Feb 2025
Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices by having small on-device models (such as...
Tech in Asia - My Journey in Data Science and Advice for others Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
26th Jul 2017
1
26th Jul 2017
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o “You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
23rd Oct 2024
1

Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o

from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Oct 2024
“You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically.
11th May 2019
1

OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) Review and Tips

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th May 2019
OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically.
Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
3rd Sep 2021
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Learning incident response with problem sets

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Sep 2021
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
19th Apr 2023
23

How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Apr 2023
There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of people using tools like ChatGPT to draft Python scripts, Go code, and all sorts of other useful things. Okay, so how do I use ChatGPT effectively? How do I Use ChatGPT...
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
13th Sep 2024
115

Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail?

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Sep 2024
Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of...
30th Nov 2020
1

Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Nov 2020
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of every trade in the stock market? Unlike other market APIs which tell you “don’t request too many symbols” or set hard caps on what you can request, here you can just ask for the...
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
6th Dec 2023
85

The age of access

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Dec 2023
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
AWS VPC: A Reintroduction (or, how to allocate 5 million IPs in 5 minutes) AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2...
24th Jan 2022
1
24th Jan 2022
AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2 commands, 5 minutes. A Starting Do you know how many services AWS has these days? In [1]: import boto3 ...: ...: s = boto3.session.Session() ...:...
Ten Years of AI in Review From 2015 to 2025
1st Jan 2026
1

Ten Years of AI in Review

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jan 2026
From 2015 to 2025
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
3rd Mar 2025
53

On GPT-4.5

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Mar 2025
It’s happening.
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
5th Dec 2024
70

Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Dec 2024
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
6th Oct 2025
Feast your eyes on these delicious charts Here are today's specials.
19th Jul 2023
The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
24th Jan 2023
111

The practical guide to using AI to do stuff

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

24th Jan 2023
A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
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...
13th Dec 2023
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Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Dec 2023
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...
Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons On digging AI shaped holes
7th May 2025
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Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th May 2025
On digging AI shaped holes
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4 These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
1st May 2024
144

Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st May 2024
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
23rd Jul 2017
21

Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Jul 2017
Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
42

AGI is not a milestone

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
Epicycles All The Way Down “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
26th Nov 2025
1

Epicycles All The Way Down

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

26th Nov 2025
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy) A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
11th Nov 2025
1

How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy)

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Nov 2025
A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
25th Jun 2018
52

Reinforcement Learning Progress

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Jun 2018
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...
datakit: the most efficient data structures possible datakit — the most efficient data structure library A while ago I made a data structure library...
10th Jun 2024
1

datakit: the most efficient data structures possible

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Jun 2024
datakit — the most efficient data structure library A while ago I made a data structure library fixing memory efficiency problems across many data structure types, but I never ended up releasing it. Now I’m releasing it. TOC: History / Why databox Efficient Maps Efficient...
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
23rd Dec 2021
40

A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases

from Frank’s Ramblings [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Dec 2021
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone. If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
4th Jun 2025
34

How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jun 2025
A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
2nd Mar 2025
34

Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem 43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
1st Oct 2025
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ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Oct 2025
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
Can We Run Data Centers in Space? An overview of the engineering reality of the moonshot and what's going on with energy consumption...
10th Jun 2026
1

Can We Run Data Centers in Space?

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Jun 2026
An overview of the engineering reality of the moonshot and what's going on with energy consumption on Earth
How to Solve it With Code course now available An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
15th Oct 2025
27

How to Solve it With Code course now available

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Oct 2025
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
4th Nov 2025
1

OpenAI: The Battle of the Board: Ilya's Testimony

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Nov 2025
New Things Have Come To Light
Speeding up Postgres Queries by 200x with Analyze I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a...
20th May 2023
22

Speeding up Postgres Queries by 200x with Analyze

from Jaz's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th May 2023
I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network. Part of this process involves archiving every post on a social network, running Computer Vision models on every image posted to the network, and running sentiment...
Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club) Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
7th Jan 2024
1

Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club)

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Jan 2024
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
30

Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026) Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights...
1st Jul 2026
1

Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jul 2026
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls."...
Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for...
19th Sep 2022
87

Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Sep 2022
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...
DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
7th Feb 2021
1

DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Feb 2021
Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
61

From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts The parade of made-up numbers never stops
30th Oct 2024
44

An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Oct 2024
The parade of made-up numbers never stops
The Boring Phase of AI Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
4th Dec 2025
4

The Boring Phase of AI

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Dec 2025
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
3rd Feb 2025
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3rd Feb 2025
Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
14th Sep 2025
1
14th Sep 2025
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
Choose boring technology and LLMs I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed...
8th Nov 2024
1

Choose boring technology and LLMs

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Nov 2024
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming language. Throw...
Lay the cornerstone yourself As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful...
14th Jun 2026
1

Lay the cornerstone yourself

from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Jun 2026
As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful attention to the foundations and not let the AI make all the decisions for you.
14th Dec 2024
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets A working prototype
18th Apr 2017
Excess mortality during COVID pandemic, % of population vaccinated and Stringency Index of... Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence...
22nd Nov 2022
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22nd Nov 2022
Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence drift, herd immunity, etc.
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
1

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
Avoid Mini-frameworks 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
24th Dec 2025
1

Avoid Mini-frameworks

from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

24th Dec 2025
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters...
15th Oct 2022
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Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Oct 2022
Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.
AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied...
27th Jun 2024
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27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
15th Dec 2019
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OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Dec 2019
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good. Turning models into products runs into five challenges
19th Aug 2024
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19th Aug 2024
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
5th Nov 2025
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Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Nov 2025
Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
LinkedIn Highlights, Mar 2025 Document AI breakthroughs from GOT-OCR, Maestro, and Mistral, Vellum's agent autonomy framework,...
6th Apr 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Mar 2025

from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Apr 2025
Document AI breakthroughs from GOT-OCR, Maestro, and Mistral, Vellum's agent autonomy framework, Skyvern's visual web automation, plus performance tips for ChatGPT and reasoning models
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions....
1st Jul 2026
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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jul 2026
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
AI Story 2 AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago. The initial story prompt...
12th Oct 2025
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AI Story 2

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Oct 2025
AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago. The initial story prompt was just: I woke up in the cold. My Patronus stood in the corner. Since the incident, he doesn’t move. His eyes are vacant, but moving. Wherever I am in the world, his eyes follow...
Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
19th Jun 2024
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Seeing Like A Network

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Jun 2024
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
In the Iran war, it looks like AI helped with operations, not strategy A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
1st Apr 2026
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1st Apr 2026
A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
3rd Feb 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Feb 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
22nd Dec 2025
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Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats

from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

22nd Dec 2025
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving...
20th Mar 2023
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GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Mar 2023
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
7th Feb 2022
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My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I

from Frank’s Ramblings [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Feb 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
Formal or not formal? That is the question in AI for theorem proving. So it’s an interesting time for computers-doing-mathematics. A couple of interesting things happened...
22nd Oct 2025
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22nd Oct 2025
So it’s an interesting time for computers-doing-mathematics. A couple of interesting things happened in the last few days, which have inspired me to write about the question more broadly. First there is the question on whether computers will ever prove … Continue reading →
First Month at the Jules Team 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
1st Feb 2026
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First Month at the Jules Team

from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Feb 2026
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
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Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
27th Nov 2022
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27th Nov 2022
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
21st Jan 2025
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The unfortunate truth of software for technologists

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Jan 2025
It's all about the money, baby
It’s Time to Build 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...
23rd Apr 2024
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It’s Time to Build

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Apr 2024
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...
i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive”...
6th Feb 2022
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i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Feb 2022
Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive” thing treating you? perhaps, first understand certain kinds of dangerous ambition never grow again, ’cause killers linger evermore. depending on when this finds you, maybe we have...
The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for...
12th Dec 2024
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The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era

from AI Tidbits: AI Agents [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Dec 2024
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
The Reckoning So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial...
2nd Apr 2026
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The Reckoning

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Apr 2026
So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial Class, I used to talk about the reckoning. It was a nebulous concept, but it mostly involved the abrupt fall from grace of these people at the hands of machines. It’s kind of...
Reverse Transcription There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
2nd Nov 2022
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Reverse Transcription

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Nov 2022
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...
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Oct 2019
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
9th Nov 2023
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The agent principal problem

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Nov 2023
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us “The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
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5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.” I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
Spotify ML Case Study: AI Has Fundamentally Changed the Music Industry A case study of Spotify's algorithm, including how it works and the impact it has
11th Jul 2025
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Spotify ML Case Study: AI Has Fundamentally Changed the Music Industry

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Jul 2025
A case study of Spotify's algorithm, including how it works and the impact it has
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