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Understanding Open Model Licenses And what to look for in custom licenses
15th Apr 2026
1

Understanding Open Model Licenses

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

15th Apr 2026
And what to look for in custom licenses
AI Vibe Coding, Is It Working? No Notes From the Desk: No. 53 - 2025.12.18
18th Dec 2025
1

AI Vibe Coding, Is It Working? No

from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Dec 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 53 - 2025.12.18
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
27th Dec 2017
1

OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips

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

27th Dec 2017
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
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...
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
17th Jan 2024
87

Evaluations are all we need

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

17th Jan 2024
On analysing talent in LLMs
From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
25th Apr 2024
38

From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls

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

25th Apr 2024
If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples are not Rare The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a...
23rd Jul 2026
1

Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples are not Rare

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

23rd Jul 2026
The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a family of functions had nice properties. In July 2026 Levent Alpöge exhibited a simple counter-example that he said was found by Claude Fable 5. Fields medalist Terence Tao wrote on...
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
5th Dec 2024
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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.
MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal? Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree...
17th Jun 2024
37

MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal?

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

17th Jun 2024
Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree search. Going back months, the “Q*” leak…
America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great! AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
3rd Jul 2026
1

America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great!

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

3rd Jul 2026
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
6th Apr 2022
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DALL•E 2

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

6th Apr 2022
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
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
1
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 →
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.
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text? 'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
5th Mar 2024
97

Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?

from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Mar 2024
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its...
15th Mar 2025
1

Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs

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

15th Mar 2025
I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its heart it’s an extension of what I worked on with my translation package tinbox. (The new project uses translated sources to bootstrap a knowledge database.) Building in an...
Uniform Thought Machines: Global Competition for Attention How social media is a failed experiment of a global socialization space that became a competition...
1st Jul 2025
1

Uniform Thought Machines: Global Competition for Attention

from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jul 2025
How social media is a failed experiment of a global socialization space that became a competition battleground for attention
Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
5th Nov 2025
11

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
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
1

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.
New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
29th Dec 2022
23

New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome

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

29th Dec 2022
Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
Choosing what to keep human A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
27th May 2026
1

Choosing what to keep human

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

27th May 2026
A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
Formalization of Erdős problems [This is a guest post by Boris Alexeev. Now over to Boris.] I’m here to tell you about various...
5th Dec 2025
1

Formalization of Erdős problems

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Dec 2025
[This is a guest post by Boris Alexeev. Now over to Boris.] I’m here to tell you about various exciting developments centering on Erdős problems, especially involving the formalization of old and new mathematics using artificial intelligence. Background As is … Continue reading →
Solving Thundering Herds with Request Coalescing in Go Caches are a wonderful way to make your most frequent operations cheaper. If you’ve got a resource...
28th Sep 2023
23

Solving Thundering Herds with Request Coalescing in Go

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

28th Sep 2023
Caches are a wonderful way to make your most frequent operations cheaper. If you’ve got a resource somewhere on disk (or a network hop away) that is accessed often, changes infrequently, and fits in memory, you’ve got an excellent candidate for a cache! Caching Celebrity...
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
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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...
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
Signs and Portents Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
6th Jan 2024
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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
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
25th Mar 2025
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

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

25th Mar 2025
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...
Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is it Truthful and Accurate? Notes From the Desk: No. 52 - 2025.11.02
3rd Nov 2025
1

Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is it Truthful and Accurate?

from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Nov 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 52 - 2025.11.02
Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At...
22nd Jan 2024
1

Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks

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

22nd Jan 2024
The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At the time, deep learning (the technique behind recent advances in AI) was the purview of a small and homogeneous handful of practitioners. The standard approach was to have...
Run AI agents safely with Ollama and Fly.io AI agents can now use Ollama's cloud models safely inside Fly.io's cloud computers.
a week ago
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Run AI agents safely with Ollama and Fly.io

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

a week ago
AI agents can now use Ollama's cloud models safely inside Fly.io's cloud computers.
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker...
20th Sep 2024
158

Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

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

20th Sep 2024
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
How to prompt Code Llama This guide walks through the different ways to structure prompts for Code Llama and its different...
9th Sep 2023
1

How to prompt Code Llama

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Sep 2023
This guide walks through the different ways to structure prompts for Code Llama and its different variations and features including instructions, code completion and fill-in-the-middle (FIM).
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.
Nobody Knows Anything on living with ignorance
16th Aug 2026
1

Nobody Knows Anything

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

16th Aug 2026
on living with ignorance
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
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
4th Aug 2019
1

OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) Review and Tips

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

4th Aug 2019
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
3rd May 2022
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Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence

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

3rd May 2022
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
7th Jul 2025
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Against "Brain Damage"

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

7th Jul 2025
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
Redis Quicklist: Do you even list? Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the...
19th Dec 2014
1

Redis Quicklist: Do you even list?

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

19th Dec 2014
Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the third and final major improvement to Redis Quicklist. Previously On Recap Before Quicklist, Redis Lists had two representations: ziplist stored small lists in a solid block of...
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
7th Aug 2025
51

GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff

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

7th Aug 2025
Putting the AI in Charge
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
1

An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail

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

27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
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...
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
6th Jan 2017
27

king - man + woman is queen; but why?

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

6th Jan 2017
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
Push Notifications: What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
24th Dec 2023
1
24th Dec 2023
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
13th Dec 2024
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
26

“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”
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.
How to get started in Data Science Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
25th Jun 2017
1

How to get started in Data Science

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

25th Jun 2017
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
(started posting on Medium instead) The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared....
20th Jan 2018
72

(started posting on Medium instead)

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

20th Jan 2018
The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared. I’ve certainly become less active on blogs since I’ve joined Tesla, but whenever I do get a chance to post something I have recently been defaulting to doing it on Medium because...
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
29th Dec 2023
108

Vision Transformers are Overrated

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

29th Dec 2023
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
5th Sep 2023
67

How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously

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

5th Sep 2023
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
19th Aug 2024
28

spatial compute

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

19th Aug 2024
Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
How I’m Reflecting on 2020 and Planning for 2021 Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
6th Dec 2020
1

How I’m Reflecting on 2020 and Planning for 2021

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

6th Dec 2020
Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
3rd May 2024
87

Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources

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

3rd May 2024
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024 Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open...
2nd Jan 2025
1

LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024

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

2nd Jan 2025
Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open multimodal vision models from Meta, an open-source Perplexity alternative, and easy LLM fine-tuning
Market Research for Entrepreneurs What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out...
14th Oct 2024
1

Market Research for Entrepreneurs

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

14th Oct 2024
What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out a smart niche report. (Market research for entrepreneurs.) The post Market Research for Entrepreneurs first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1) I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things...
15th Apr 2024
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Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1)

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

15th Apr 2024
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things have been going very well. The system scales and handles millions of users without breaking a sweat, the ScyllaDB-backed Data Plane service sits at under 5% DB load in the most...
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
126

Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

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

3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX...
29th Apr 2024
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Apr 2024
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
14th Oct 2025
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
14th Jan 2025
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Don't use cosine similarity carelessly

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

14th Jan 2025
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
Turning Billions of Strings into Integers Every Second Without Collisions I’ve recently started building a POC of a Redis RESP3 Wire Compatible Key/Value Database built on...
26th Sep 2025
1
26th Sep 2025
I’ve recently started building a POC of a Redis RESP3 Wire Compatible Key/Value Database built on FoundationDB with @calabro.io and though it’s rather early, it’s already spawned a fun distributed systems problem that I thought would be interesting to share. Previously I’ve...
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry...
5th Jan 2026
1
5th Jan 2026
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for...
The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Images Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
26th Jun 2024
1
26th Jun 2024
Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for...
20th Aug 2026
1
20th Aug 2026
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for my Mac, but without having to use an Apple keyboard. (I generally like their keyboards, but my daily driver keyboard these days is a big clicky mechanical beast.) I’d gone down...
What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming? Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
7th Mar 2024
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What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming?

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

7th Mar 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Virtue Ethics in AI Alignment Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t...
18th Feb 2026
1

The Reasonable Effectiveness of Virtue Ethics in AI Alignment

from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Feb 2026
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of actions, action-dispositions,...
We are going to kill “unalive” I talk to a lot of old people, those who were born in the 20th century, and if I ask them what the...
2 weeks ago
1

We are going to kill “unalive”

from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 weeks ago
I talk to a lot of old people, those who were born in the 20th century, and if I ask them what the word “unalive” means, they usually have no idea what I’m talking about, except for some of them who have kids or who study Internet culture. This will, of course, probably seem very...
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.
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

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

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving? This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in...
16th Aug 2022
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The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Aug 2022
This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in computer science and mathematics. He completed this work while visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics. Introduction The history of interactive theorem...
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
25th May 2023
165

Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update

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

25th May 2023
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
How Verifier Loops Made AI Coding Useful | The Rise of Vibeware, Abandonware and Technical Debt as... How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex...
22nd Mar 2026
1
22nd Mar 2026
How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex applications and at what cost?
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
15th May 2025
1

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th May 2025
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
10th Jan 2025
96

Prophecies of the Flood

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

10th Jan 2025
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
What AI can tell us about microscope slides This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her...
2nd Feb 2025
1

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

2nd Feb 2025
This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her journey as an AI researcher returning to school for immunology.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a...
3rd Jun 2025
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

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

3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
Productivity I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me...
10th Apr 2018
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Productivity

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

10th Apr 2018
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic.  A...
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...
- Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope....
10th Apr 2026
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from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2026
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no...
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
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Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You

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

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
4th Sep 2022
1

Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines

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

4th Sep 2022
Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
13th Aug 2024
The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
7th Dec 2017
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The Merge

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

7th Dec 2017
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...
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
2nd Aug 2026
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OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra

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

2nd Aug 2026
Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
Programming Errors at Project Scale Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects...
12th Aug 2014
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Programming Errors at Project Scale

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

12th Aug 2014
Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects involve typical programming errors1 and, more annoyingly, interpersonal errors. This article is a quick overview of both technical and interpersonal errors we encounter when trying...
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.
Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
4th May 2025
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4th May 2025
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
RecSys 2022: Recap, Favorite Papers, and Lessons My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
2nd Oct 2022
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RecSys 2022: Recap, Favorite Papers, and Lessons

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

2nd Oct 2022
My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
Avoiding worry driven development Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a...
11th Sep 2020
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Avoiding worry driven development

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

11th Sep 2020
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
Is Writing as Important as Coding? As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders.
4th Oct 2020
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Is Writing as Important as Coding?

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

4th Oct 2020
As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders.
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
How I ship projects at big tech companies I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
9th Nov 2024
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How I ship projects at big tech companies

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

9th Nov 2024
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
79

ICLR 2017 vs arxiv-sanity

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

14th Mar 2017
Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling .apr-fig { text-align: center; margin: 1.35em 0; line-height: 1.4; } .apr-fig--wide img { display:...
8th May 2026
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Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling

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

8th May 2026
.apr-fig { text-align: center; margin: 1.35em 0; line-height: 1.4; } .apr-fig--wide img { display: inline-block; width: 100%; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; } .apr-fig--wide-0-8 { max-width: 80%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } .apr-fig--tall img...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
6th Apr 2023
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The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon

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

6th Apr 2023
The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
12th Apr 2026
Developer Shapes of the 2020s The Developer Shapes of Tomorrow, Today You’ve probably heard of T-Shaped developers, but have you...
12th Jul 2021
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Developer Shapes of the 2020s

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

12th Jul 2021
The Developer Shapes of Tomorrow, Today You’ve probably heard of T-Shaped developers, but have you heard of all the other shapes we can be? trigger warning: page may be hazardous to vampires or entities known to have intersecting right angle visual processing defects. Wikipedia...
Better Models: Worse Tools A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is...
4th Jul 2026
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Better Models: Worse Tools

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

4th Jul 2026
A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The edit itself is...
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
9th Apr 2023
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Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan

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

9th Apr 2023
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
25th Feb 2021
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Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions

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

25th Feb 2021
Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
5th Mar 2025
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
2nd Sep 2026
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Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.

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

2nd Sep 2026
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
LLM councils show groupthink perils and problems of LLM peer review
15th Jun 2026
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LLM councils show groupthink

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

15th Jun 2026
perils and problems of LLM peer review
World Models Can Change Everything If they work, AI can finally conquer the real world… but that’s a big “if”
6th May 2026
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World Models Can Change Everything

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

6th May 2026
If they work, AI can finally conquer the real world… but that’s a big “if”
The lost civics lesson Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
13th Feb 2024
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The lost civics lesson

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

13th Feb 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
Acing the design interview If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work...
1st Jan 2021
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Acing the design interview

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

1st Jan 2021
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
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...
Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random...
4th Dec 2022
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Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT

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

4th Dec 2022
Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random Thoughts If you’re reading this you already know the internet is on fire over the new  GPTChatBot from OpenAI. There are people using it to create full virtual machines, to be their...
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
7th Sep 2026
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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life

from Cal Newport [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Sep 2026
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
OpenAI’s “Code Red” Maybe people should have seen this coming?
3rd Dec 2025
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OpenAI’s “Code Red”

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

3rd Dec 2025
Maybe people should have seen this coming?
The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
2nd May 2021
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The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning

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

2nd May 2021
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are...
4th Feb 2025
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Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation

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

4th Feb 2025
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are my notes on the chapter. Overview and Core Philosophy “Data will be mostly just toil, tears and sweat.” This is how we start the chapter :) This candid assessment frames dataset...
Helion Needs You Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q >...
13th Jul 2022
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Helion Needs You

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

13th Jul 2022
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1...
The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons Demonstrating why everyone getting their own AI agents will necessitate markets; otherwise known as...
20th Jan 2026
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The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons

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

20th Jan 2026
Demonstrating why everyone getting their own AI agents will necessitate markets; otherwise known as Hayek's revenge
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
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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...
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot has recently taken the software engineering world by storm, hitting a milestone of...
10th Oct 2023
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on GitHub Copilot

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Oct 2023
GitHub Copilot has recently taken the software engineering world by storm, hitting a milestone of $100M ARR. This achievement alone qualifies it to be a publicly listed company. Meanwhile, funding continues to flow into code-focused LLM use cases. But what do developers actually...
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes) Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
21st Jan 2023
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Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes)

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

21st Jan 2023
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
24th Nov 2024
AI is not like you and me My talk at an Aspen Institute event
2nd May 2024
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AI is not like you and me

from Zach Seward [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd May 2024
My talk at an Aspen Institute event
Stephen Clark Seward My eulogy for Dad
19th Jun 2024
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Stephen Clark Seward

from Zach Seward [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Jun 2024
My eulogy for Dad
Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
1st Mar 2025
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff

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

1st Mar 2025
With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
21st Apr 2025
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
20th Jan 2025
64

Think of a number.

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2025
My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
AI Hallucinations: Proven Unsolvable | Why They Exist | Why They Incentivize Nefarious AI Uses The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
17th Jun 2025
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17th Jun 2025
The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
4th Oct 2024
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AI in organizations: Some tactics

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

4th Oct 2024
Meet the Lab and the Crowd
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
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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
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.
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D...
8th Apr 2025
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Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

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

8th Apr 2025
PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in...
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.
Update: I’ve returned to fast.ai I started this blog a few years ago when I began my journey studying immunology, to have a place to...
2 days ago
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Update: I’ve returned to fast.ai

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

2 days ago
I started this blog a few years ago when I began my journey studying immunology, to have a place to write about what I was learning and about applications of AI to the field. My studies were a success: I completed a Masters in Microbiology-Immunology, explored interesting...
Emergent Mind finally went viral Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
16th Aug 2023
121

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...
Claude Code and What Comes Next With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
7th Jan 2026
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Claude Code and What Comes Next

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

7th Jan 2026
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
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:...
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
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New paper: AI agents that matter

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

3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
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
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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...
Can LLMs learn from a single example? Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam...
3rd Sep 2023
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Can LLMs learn from a single example?

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

3rd Sep 2023
Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam questions, we observed some highly unusual training loss curves. In particular, it appeared the model was able to rapidly memorize examples from the dataset after seeing them just...
OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.
25th Aug 2018
1

OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) Review and Tips

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

25th Aug 2018
OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.
Why Doesn’t My Model Work? Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
24th Feb 2024
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Why Doesn’t My Model Work?

from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI

24th Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
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...
27th Feb 2025
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
11th Jun 2020
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Biohacking Lite

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

11th Jun 2020
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline? An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
1st Jul 2025
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ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline?

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

1st Jul 2025
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
What is Codemode More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into...
2 weeks ago
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What is Codemode

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

2 weeks ago
More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is All You Need and I wrote about that MCP needs code. With Pi 1.0 we now added...
IBM Granite 3.0 models Ollama partners with IBM to bring Granite 3.0 models to Ollama.
21st Oct 2024
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IBM Granite 3.0 models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Oct 2024
Ollama partners with IBM to bring Granite 3.0 models to Ollama.
Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
1st Apr 2026
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Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust

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

1st Apr 2026
Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
17th Aug 2025
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DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

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

17th Aug 2025
How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology But is AI different than other technologies?
8th Mar 2024
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Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology

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

8th Mar 2024
But is AI different than other technologies?
1st Sep 2023
To grieve, or not to grieve? Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the...
2 weeks ago
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To grieve, or not to grieve?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 weeks ago
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen before. Language models are solving hard problems which … Continue reading →
Ollama's new app Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
30th Jul 2025
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Ollama's new app

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Jul 2025
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
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3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career

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

1st Apr 2025
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
DEI Statement Requirements in Faculty Hiring Have More Than Halved Between 2024 and 2025 A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across...
21st Apr 2026
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21st Apr 2026
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across faculty hiring between 2024 and 2025
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
2nd Feb 2023
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2nd Feb 2023
Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
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
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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.
In Support Of Shitty Types You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. ...
4th Aug 2025
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In Support Of Shitty Types

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

4th Aug 2025
You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. One of the reasons I find them useful is that they enable autocomplete, which is generally a good feature. Having a well-integrated type system that makes sense and gives you...
I am Tired of Praise of Byproduct I’ve been worrying a bit over the philosophy of creation and dissemination in the era of LLMs (large...
10th Jan 2026
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I am Tired of Praise of Byproduct

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

10th Jan 2026
I’ve been worrying a bit over the philosophy of creation and dissemination in the era of LLMs (large language models). I feel we are overly impressed with the byproduct or even the bycatch. LLMs do complete some tasks, write code, and produce superficially convincing texts. In my...
2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This...
1st Jul 2026
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2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

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

1st Jul 2026
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine...
How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and...
11th Feb 2024
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How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning

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

11th Feb 2024
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
Science-based games and explorable explanations Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making...
20th May 2024
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Science-based games and explorable explanations

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

20th May 2024
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making complex topics like physics and machine learning accessible and fun.
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
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On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

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

27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
3rd Oct 2023
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The shape of the shadow of The Thing

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

3rd Oct 2023
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
Coming soon This is PromptArmor Blog.
14th Dec 2023
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Coming soon

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

14th Dec 2023
This is PromptArmor Blog.
How to think about evals Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first...
19th May 2025
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How to think about evals

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

19th May 2025
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first session was all about mental models for thinking about the topic as a whole, mixed in with some teasers of practical examples and advice. I’ll try to keep up with blogging about...
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into...
10th Jan 2026
1

Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

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

10th Jan 2026
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements...
Llama 3.2 Vision Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
6th Nov 2024
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Llama 3.2 Vision

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Nov 2024
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
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13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
NVIDIA Internship (2017) Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
15th Dec 2017
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NVIDIA Internship (2017)

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Dec 2017
Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
Thinking companion, companion for thinking Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
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Thinking companion, companion for thinking

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

5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
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Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition

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

6th Jun 2024
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
The Shape of the Thing Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
12th Mar 2026
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The Shape of the Thing

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

12th Mar 2026
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its...
30th Jul 2018
1

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).
39 Lessons on Building ML Systems, Scaling, Execution, and More ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference...
3rd Nov 2024
1
3rd Nov 2024
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
14th Sep 2026
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The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents

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

14th Sep 2026
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics A Growing Threat The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
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Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics

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

2nd Apr 2024
A Growing Threat The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019 (“Antimicrobial Resistance” 2023). In the USA, AMR results annually in 8 million additional days spent in the hospital and over $20 billion in...
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
996 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The...
4th Sep 2025
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996

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

4th Sep 2025
“Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s really doing ‘007’ now—midnight to midnight, seven days a week […] if you want to build a $10...
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
20th Jan 2022
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The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers

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

20th Jan 2022
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has documented a pronounced increase in the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in American news media content. Some have referred to this shift in journalistic discourse and related...
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
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
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How AI companies get around data regulation

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

5th Feb 2025
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now What AI to use in late 2025
19th Oct 2025
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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

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

19th Oct 2025
What AI to use in late 2025
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
Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
13th Jan 2025
32

Zvi's 2024 In Movies

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

13th Jan 2025
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
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