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Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological...
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Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We used Transformer language models fine-tuned for...
fast.ai
Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022 A complete from-scratch rewrite of fast.ai’s most popular course, that’s been 2 years in the making.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A complete from-scratch rewrite of fast.ai’s most popular course, that’s been 2 years in the making.
Society's Backend
Chinese AI is Less Expensive, What it's Like to Work in AI, an Evaluation Framework for Voice... Society's Backend Reading List 11-18-2024
a month ago
One Useful Thing
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
a year ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI's Strawberry May Enhance AI Reasoning, Optimization of Vision Language Models, Info on... Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
5 months ago
Matt Mazur
The Kenya Quick Answer Goes Viral, Again On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot of the now-famous “african country that starts with k” Google Quick Answer, which quickly went viral, garnering over 82k likes and 3 million views as of the time of this writing...
One Useful Thing
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
a year ago
Jascha’s blog
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to worse outcomes. This is true almost everywhere. We will name...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 053: Bye bye Bard February 9, 2024.
10 months ago
Stories by Andrej...
ICML accepted papers institution stats
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest “This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
3 months ago
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“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts Output similarity is a distraction
11 months ago
Society's Backend
What Apple Intelligence Means for You "We think you're gonna LOVE it"
6 months ago
Jascha’s blog
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to...
Society's Backend
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 050: Synthetic Geometry January 19, 2024.
11 months ago
Daniel Miessler
The UL Boost Protocol This is a member-only post. Thank you for being part of this. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a member-only post. Thank you for being part of this. This is UL Member Content Subscribe Already a member? Login
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to narrate video with Sora, GPT-Vision, and ElevenLabs The future of entertainment is going to be a wild ride.
9 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI’s DevDay: The biggest announcements New models, new products, and new pricing.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Jevons Paradox and the future of programming Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
3 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
What’s coming next for AI in 2024 A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started December 15, 2023.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
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over a year ago
Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
7 months ago
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
a year ago
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a year ago
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
Artificial Ignorance
A stroll through Google's Model Garden What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The future of education in a world of AI A positive vision for the transformation to come
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
2 months ago
Matt Mazur
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...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
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...
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Karpathy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 357 | NEWS, ANALYSIS, & DISCOVERY SERIES SECURITY NEWS Attackers have dumped nearly 8 million Australian health records on the dark web after...
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS Attackers have dumped nearly 8 million Australian health records on the dark web after breaching a health insurance company with almost 10 million customers. MORE NSA has released guidance asking companies to switch to memory-safe languages like Rust, C#, Go, and...
IEEE Spectrum
How Amazon Is Changing the Future of Robotics and Logistics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you...
6 days ago
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6 days ago
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you have a good idea,” said Valerie Samzun, a leader in Amazon’s Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics (FTR) division. “It happens because you have the right team, the right...
Daniel Miessler
UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
Matt Mazur
Introducing Preceden’s new AI-Powered Timeline Generator For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
Marcus on AI
Update re: Microsoft and training data Relevant to the post I sent earlier today,...
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3 weeks ago
Relevant to the post I sent earlier today, https://www.howtogeek.com/is-microsoft-using-your-word-documents-to-train-ai/says that an unnamed spokesperson at Microsoft claims that “Microsoft does not use customer data from Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 034: Meta Connect September 29, 2023
a year ago
Society's Backend
A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
2 months ago
AI Snake Oil
AI Snake Oil is now available to preorder What artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference
8 months ago
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
Society's Backend
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
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year ago
Made by Ollin
Mac Replacement Icons A standardized, simplified, and beautiful icon set
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
What AI can do with a toolbox... Getting started with Code Interpreter Democratizing data analysis with AI
a year ago
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
a year ago
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a year ago
(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Weighty Thoughts
Startup Valuation Made Simple(r) - Working Backwards Counterintuitively, start from how much money you need
over a year ago
Society's Backend
Anti-Social Media How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
a year ago
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a year ago
How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
One Useful Thing
On giving AI eyes and ears AI can listen and see, with bigger implications than we might realize.
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
Software 2.0
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Fall of Data Moats AI actually makes most data moats weaker
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Software Engineering is Doomed Or is it?
5 months ago
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #6: 59 Resources and Updates, AI is Taking Off in Medicine Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically, Apple is bringing their AI chips to data centers, StackOverflow partners with OpenAI, and more
Rozado’s Visual...
The ‘Great Awokening' Preceded Trump. It May Continue Beyond Him Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse...
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over a year ago
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They’ve simultaneously become
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
2 months ago
Society's Backend
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
6 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 27, 2014 🧴 Why does Google suck so much, Microsoft Co-Pilot Everywhere, and Sam Altman
6 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Happy Holidays! Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Artificial Ignorance
Milestones, motivations, and miscellany Some thoughts on the future of this newsletter.
5 months ago
Society's Backend
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve decided to try out separating paid/free updates. I’m constantly trying new ways to make information consumption easier for you while working within the confines of the platforms...
IEEE Spectrum
How a Robot Is Grabbing Fuel From a Fukushima Reactor Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Thirteen years since a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in northern Japan, causing a loss of power, meltdowns and a major release of radioactive material, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) finally seems to be close to...
fast.ai
Can LLMs learn from a single example? We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
Daniel Miessler
Something is Up With Meritocracy I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity...
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over a year ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity magnifies inequality. Here’s one way I’ve seen it explained: If there are two main reasons for outcome differences: innate talent and environment, and if you equalize environment you will...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 063: Llama 3 April 19, 2024.
8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Why Simone Giertz, the Queen of Useless Robots, Got Serious On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked perfectly for ridiculous applications, such as a headboard-mounted alarm clock with a rubber hand to slap the user awake. This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing...
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 066: AlphaFold 3 May 10, 2024.
7 months ago
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
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a year ago
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Marcus on AI
PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge The Great Data Heist continues.
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 070: AI whistleblowers June 7, 2024.
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The intern and the coach A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it found that BCG consultants who used GPT-4 were up to 43% more effective at tasks vs. employees who didn’t.
Society's Backend
JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
6 months ago
Society's Backend
I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
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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...
Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
9 months ago
Stories by Andrej...
CS183c Assignment #3
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
YC is now 80% AI startups (S24) Analyzing the latest companies out of "AI Combinator"
2 months ago
Frank’s Ramblings
a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing … glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on...
a year ago
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a year ago
… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr: The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered...
One Useful Thing
A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity AI can already beat humans in many measures of creativity. Let's use that to our advantage.
a year ago
Sam Altman
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
One Useful Thing
Change blindness 21 months later
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
7 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy...
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By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Will AI be open or closed? Will we be able to download and modify these models, or will a few...
Society's Backend
The State of AI in China Is China winning the race to AGI?
5 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI a Winner-Take-All Market? A critical question for investors in AI
4 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
a year ago
Sam Altman
US Digital Currency I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).  There was possibly a time when governments could have totally stopped it, but it feels like that’s in the rearview mirror. ...
Matt Mazur
When LTD Purchasers Meet an Inactive User Policy Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo community. Maybe I’ll dive into my experience there in another post, but I wanted to share an interesting thing that’s happening now, a year after the deal ended. AppSumo has a policy...
One Useful Thing
Scaling: The State of Play in AI A brief intergenerational pause...
3 months ago
Society's Backend
The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation And the impact it'll have for decades to come
6 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI's Future in Lung Disease and Medicine A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical...
a week ago
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a week ago
A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
Daniel Miessler
NO. 358 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY 🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But that's a Friday, so I'm going to enable the discount link earlier. How early, and how much of a discount? You'll have to find out. If the link works before the date, then it's...
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
2 months ago
The Berkeley...
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
a year ago
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a year ago
TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
AI Snake Oil
Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy? An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
a year ago
fast.ai
My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
over a year ago
Society's Backend
Updates to Society's Backend New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
9 months ago
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New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and more
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3 March 8, 2024.
9 months ago
Made by Ollin
HintBot Hinting icons automatically with a neural network
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is for sale. Contact me if you’re interested. On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business....
a year ago
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a year ago
On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business. I didn’t plan to sell LearnGPT because I didn’t think a month-old, pre-revenue project like this would be able to sell for enough to warrant going through a sale. It’s been three...
One Useful Thing
Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help
2 months ago
Daniel Miessler
The 2 Current Major AI Bottlenecks I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been going hardcore on using GPT to create essays, reports, and other kinds of analysis. I’ve had tons of success with it, and it’s given me a clear view of current limitations with the current tech. I’m not complaining. This stuff is brand-new. Here are the current...
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 055: Race conditions February 23, 2023.
10 months ago
fast.ai
A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To...
a month ago
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a month ago
fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To Solve It With Code’
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers”...
a month ago
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a month ago
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
Sam Altman
Keep the Internet Open The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The FCC has announced plans to roll back policies on net neutrality, and its new head has indicated he has no plan to stop soon. The internet is a public good, and I believe access should be a basic right.  We've seen such great innovation in software because the internet has...
Society's Backend
OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
12 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color: #eee; } The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
Marcus on AI
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan. Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:
3 weeks ago
Sam Altman
What I Heard From Trump Supporters After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a surprisingly interesting and helpful experience—I highly recommend it.  With three exceptions,...
Daniel Miessler
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fast.ai
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Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down. I have shown before some preliminary evidence from Twitter content about how Great Awokening terminology with negative connotations are indeed down but those with positive...
The Berkeley...
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One Useful Thing
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AI Roundup 056: Data deals March 1, 2024.
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fast.ai
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if...
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Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if software to rate loan applicants is racially biased or evaluating YouTube’s recommendation system) quickly leads to a host of qualitative questions. Unfortunately, there is often a large...
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NO. 369 | Reddit Hack, Deepfake Scams, Embracing Change… ✅ Please subscribe to and give a 17-star review to this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank...
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✅ Please subscribe to and give a 17-star review to this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank you! SECURITY Reddit has confirmed it was hacked, and it’s recommending users add 2FA. The attack started by phishing Reddit employees and stealing credentials and 2FA codes. After...
IEEE Spectrum
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The Gradient
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Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
Daniel Miessler
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The Gradient
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AI Roundup 054: Ten million tokens February 16, 2024.
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The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be...
One Useful Thing
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Who's winning the AI arms race? It depends whether AI is a "disruptive" or "sustaining" technology.
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Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
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On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks, add multi-modal capabilities, and are a real competitor to GPT-4.
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
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Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
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I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
Artificial Ignorance
The fable of Reflection 70B From groundbreaking to grifting.
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On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in the first release of ChatGPT from November 30. After the December 15th update of ChatGPT, I replicated my analysis and it appeared as if the political bias had been partially...
Marcus on AI
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When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us, together with Scott Aaronson, ran some informal experiments to probe its abilities.
One Useful Thing
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
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Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is centered and set to 50% page width. --> A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has...
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The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware teams seeking the benefits of Agile without the pitfalls of applying software-centric methods. Traditional development approaches, like waterfall, often result in delayed timelines,...
PromptArmor Blog
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fast.ai
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Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on this was written in April 2020 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
Matt Mazur
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A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
The Gradient
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Marcus on AI
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The Berkeley...
Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
The Berkeley...
Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Self-driving as a case study for AGI Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI, its timelines, and what it might look like. Some of it is hopeful and optimistic, but a lot of it is fearful and doomy, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, a lot of it is also very...
Made by Ollin
Emojin An infinite kaomoji generator
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
CUDA is Still a Giant Moat for NVIDIA Despite everyone’s focus on hardware, the software of AI is what protects NVIDIA
9 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
(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....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Strange Loop Canon
Predicting AI I revisit past predictions
3 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
11 months ago
Society's Backend
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT December 1, 2023.
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Indie Hacking Week 1 Recap: Starting TimelineGPT, Ending LearnGPT Today marks the end of my first week of full-time indie hacking. I feel like I’m getting in a good...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today marks the end of my first week of full-time indie hacking. I feel like I’m getting in a good groove as far as my daily routine, but I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet how much flexibility I have in terms of my daily schedule. For example, I’m still waking up early to […]
Rozado’s Visual...
Artificial Intelligence and Portraits of 17th Century Physicists The case for customizable AI systems as an alternative to one-size-fits-all AI systems
10 months ago
Daniel Miessler
5 Things I’m Still Waiting for With the iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods I just camped for the new lineup of Apple products, as I have every year since 2007, and I am pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just camped for the new lineup of Apple products, as I have every year since 2007, and I am pretty impressed. As many have said, this year was an incremental update. The iPhones look nearly identical. And so do the AirPods Pro 2. The exception was the Apple Watch Ultra, which...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 058: Devin and SIMA March 15, 2023.
9 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Scaling is a Choice Progress in tech is rarely “inevitable.” Looking at semiconductors and AI.
3 days ago
Sam Altman
Project Covalence Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.  Science remains the...
AI Snake Oil
Four more things we worked on in 2022 We had a busy 2022. Here are a few things we worked on but didn’t cover here.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Progress on TimelineGPT, Emergent Mind missteps, finding balance Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s periodic update on what I’ve been up to: TimelineGPT About two months ago I launched an in-app tool for Preceden that provides GPT-powered event suggestions to users to help them build...
Weighty Thoughts
Why we need AI as a society We’re aging too fast (AKA my entire AI/robotics investment thesis)
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
Democratizing the future of education We are all EdTech designers, now
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 029: Hug all the faces August 25, 2023
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves. What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The subscriptionization of AI Navigating the paid AI landscape.
9 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
China's AI Journey Talking to Jordan Schneider from ChinaTalk about China's technological ascent
6 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
a year ago
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a year ago
Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
3 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Which is the Wokest AI? A Wokeness Ranking of LLMs
9 months ago
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind in The Atlantic One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The Atlantic who asked Caroline Mimbs Nyce, one of their reporters, to look into it. Caroline interviewed me for the article they just published which focused on the challenges Google is...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
2 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
An Analysis of AI Political Preferences from a European Perspective Introduction
a month ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 7B Instruct on a Macbook Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Similar to yesterday’s post on running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model, I wanted to document the steps I took to run Mistral’s 7B-Instruct-v0.2 model on a Mac for anyone else interested in playing around with it. Unlike yesterday’s post though, this 7B Instruct...
Rozado’s Visual...
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop It's been an eventful year
a year ago
The Berkeley...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 2) Part 2: Giving our agent internet access.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mars Chopper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a week ago
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a week ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Sam Altman
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
One Useful Thing
Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class Also prompts! And things to watch out for!
a year ago
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition July 5, 2024.
5 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Soul nullius in verba
10 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 352
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon Onwards
11 months ago
fast.ai
1st Two Lessons of From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early preview of the new course.
Society's Backend
Google AI Essentials, A New LLM Benchmark, Washington's AI Task Force, and More [Top 10 ML Resource... Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I share more frequent ML updates on X so don’t forget to follow me there. Support Society's Backend for just $1/mo