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Society's Backend:...
Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
10 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels --> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
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--> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have noticed that computers can now automatically learn to play ATARI games (from raw game pixels!), they are beating world champions at Go, simulated quadrupeds are learning to run and leap,...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 365 | China’s Decline, MicrosoftAI, Creativity Ratio… 🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS NYC Surveillance Amnesty International has revealed new research showing that the NYPD has over 15,000 cameras that can do...
Society's Backend:...
What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Who’s Winning the AI War? All of us, except the AI startups and VCs—unless a real war breaks out
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes Several states just banned deepfakes in political ads and porn.
a year ago
PromptArmor Blog
Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
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over a year ago
About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
Armin Ronacher's...
I'm Leaving Sentry Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years ago I took a leap into the unknown, today I take another. After a decade of working on Sentry I move on to start something new. Sentry has been more than just a job, it has been a...
Society's Backend:...
Meet Devansh: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of 193,000 Subscribers Content creation and networking lessons from a wildly successful freelance tech writer
a year ago
One Useful Thing
When you give a Claude a mouse Some quick impressions of an actual agent
8 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Stop Obsessing Over the Product and Start Thinking About the Bigger Picture The actual takeaways from the iPhone 15 event
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Deep Learning, Deep Scandal Some of the big tech giants may be playing fast and loose with AI
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 of the most impactful AI stories of 2023 A quick look back on a very busy year in AI.
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Software engineering under the spotlight Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and…
Society's Backend:...
Mastering the Art of Documentation Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How LLMs work Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
Society's Backend:...
Why everyone loves Spider-Man Lessons anyone can learn from our friendly neighborhood web-crawler
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
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over a year ago
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
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Paths through the space of all possible solutions Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed system, you can’t violate the CAP…
Weighty Thoughts
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
Society's Backend:...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
2 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On OpenAI's Model Spec 2.0 OpenAI made major revisions to their Model Spec.
4 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:...
LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman’s very good TED Interview.
Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
a year ago
Marcus on AI
The secret to AGI, in 4 pages A couple days ago I learned on X that getting to AGI was much easier than I had long thought.
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day April 11, 2025.
2 months ago
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
a year ago
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a year ago
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:...
Marcus on AI
GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5 Investors should be worried
4 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Prompt Engineering for Claude Watch now | If you’ve ever wanted to level up your AI prompting skills, this is the workshop for...
9 months ago
Daniel Miessler
AI is About to Feel Like AGI, and You Need to Get Ready I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more. Basically, the current trajectory of AI, with all the art generation, the language models, etc., are about to become a whole lot more instruction and response based. What does that mean?...
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...
Machine Learning for...
How to explain complex machine learning topics Why it's so incredible important not only for explaining scientific concepts, but also for everyday...
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now)...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now) that they’re doing what birds and primates would do to stick the landing: just grabbing the branch and hanging on. But it turns out that squirrels, being squirrels, don’t actually...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I got promoted to staff engineer twice At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. In…
Society's Backend:...
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
5 months ago
Society's Backend:...
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24 Everything I've been reading
12 months ago
Don't Worry About...
AI 2027: Responses Yesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Yesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander. Today covers the reactions of others.
IEEE Spectrum
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers) This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Learning Deep Learning with Keras Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning with links to didactic materials.
Don't Worry About...
On OpenAI's Safety and Alignment Philosophy OpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and...
4 months ago
fast.ai
In defense of screen time Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
8 months ago
Matt Mazur
The Security Questionnaire Dilemma About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a...
a year ago
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a year ago
About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a large organization asking that I fill out a detailed security questionnaire to help them assess the risk of their employees using Preceden. I received one recently from a large,...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
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5 months ago
Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Advice for prompting reasoning models I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models are different. When you’re using…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 026: AudioCraft August 4, 2023
a year ago
Win Vector LLC
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
One Useful Thing
What people ask me most. Also, some answers. A FAQ of sorts
a year 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
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
5 months ago
Machine Learning for...
Weekly ML for SWEs #13: Avoiding brain rot is the key to success An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 6-24-25
a week ago
Sam Altman
Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other.  So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora. Quora is doing extremely well. They now...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 100: CES January 10, 2025.
5 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Jak masować osoby autystyczne?
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class Also prompts! And things to watch out for!
over a year ago
The Berkeley...
Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); ...
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a year ago
function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.style.display = 'flex'; } window.onload = () => { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.addEventListener('click', () => { ...
Society's Backend:...
Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
a year ago
Xena
Beyond the Liquid Tensor Experiment The liquid tensor experiment is now fully completed. Continue reading →
over a year ago
Jascha’s blog
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently 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; } Many machine learning researchers worry about risks from building artificial intelligence...
Xena
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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 →
One Useful Thing
Change blindness 21 months later
10 months ago
Solving the decision...
let's talk about a task tracking system for ai agents AI agents need tracking software, and we need to build it.
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
4 months ago
Solving the decision...
drop that meet link just keep talking
3 months ago
One Useful Thing
A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects What Albert Einstein, John Carmack and John Romero have in common? They all started their great...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What Albert Einstein, John Carmack and John Romero have in common? They all started their great projects as side projects.
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4 These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Fall of Data Moats AI actually makes most data moats weaker
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality data that can be fed into...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 059: In̶f̶l̶e̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ Microsoft AI March 22, 2023.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Hinton vs Musk Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 092: Watermarking the AI wave November 8, 2024.
7 months ago
Win Vector LLC
Kelly Betting With Discrete Stakes In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s Mathematical Puzzles. Our observation is the amazing zero variance strategy shown is in fact the Kelly criteria. Which means, this is a surprising situation where the Kelly strategy...
Weighty Thoughts
Who’s Winning the AI War: 2025 (DeepSeek?) Edition Same fundamentals, new unhinged vibes
5 months ago
Xena
Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing. Continue reading →
Don't Worry About...
AI #109: Google Fails Marketing Forever What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed?
3 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…
Rozado’s Visual...
El desproporcionado número de referencias al machismo en los medios de comunicación españoles Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos...
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over a year ago
Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos internacionales por su alto número de referencias al machismo que triplican a las de cualquier otro país
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025,...
Strange Loop Canon
Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Summary of manuscript “Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse: A...
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble How Meta's messy launch overshadowed its latest flagship model.
2 months ago
One Useful Thing
Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 037: The AI IPCC October 20, 2023.
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine Or: How we weaponised serendipity
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking.
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control June 28, 2024.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
The impeccable logic of Sam Altman From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
Mind Prison: Notes...
AI is transforming us into NPCs Notes From the Desk: No. 30 - 2024.03.26
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
4 weeks ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Prawdopodobieństwo a informacja
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
a month ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Embodiment for nerds Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
a year ago
One Useful Thing
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Is The Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part II: Evidence from News Media Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down....
over a year ago
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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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Doom 2016 vs Doom Eternal: UI side-by-side A dark journey vs demon piñata. Demons invaded Earth and ruined HUD.
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
On hype, and the unbearable banality of ChatGPT’s poetry A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A new AI study is making the rounds, claiming that ChatGPT can write poetry that is “indistinguishable” from William Shakespeare.
Don't Worry About...
o3 Will Use Its Tools For You OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini.
2 months 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
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Why Claude 3 is a big upgrade On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks,...
a year ago
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a year ago
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.
Machine Learning for...
Books every machine learning engineer should read Just a quick announcement of a resource addition to the ML for SWEs repo
2 weeks ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Lessons on thinking from large language models Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars have been spent to study how they think…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 084: Strawberry / o1 September 13, 2024.
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
Strategies for an Accelerating Future Four questions to ask your organization.
a year 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...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
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. ...
IEEE Spectrum
Worm-like Robots Install Power Lines Underground After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to prevent future fires has gained renewed urgency in the state. While the exact cause of the fires remains under investigation, California utilities have spent years undergrounding power...
Solving the decision...
The problem with importing css On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
Sharing small, incremental updates with users I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway provides a widget I have installed on Preceden to let users know when there have been updates. Users will see a bell with a count of unread items (which Headway keeps track of in...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 039: The governance issue November 3, 2023.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
What it's Like to Work in AI and Advice from 10 AI Professionals I asked 10 AI professionals 4 questions about their work in AI and the qualifications required for...
7 months ago
Solving the decision...
guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
2 months ago
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,...
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #112: Release the Everything OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models.
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Jevons Paradox and the future of programming Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
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.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some...
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What kind of work I want This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of...
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This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of places I’d like to work. The short version…
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
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One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D Ideas come from the edges, not the center
a year ago
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When you should lie to the language model Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was...
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Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else. The problem is that…
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The future of AI is Ruby on Rails Large language models are very good at generating and editing code. Right now, it’s probably the...
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Large language models are very good at generating and editing code. Right now, it’s probably the “killer app” of AI: the companies actually…
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A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
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Xena
Think of a number: an update A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around...
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A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around private datasets as a way of measuring the mathematical abilities of language models. More generally I was frustrated about the difficulty of being … Continue reading →
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Bridging the Efficiency Gap Between FromStr and String Sometimes in Rust, you need to convert a string into a value of a specific type (for example,...
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Sometimes in Rust, you need to convert a string into a value of a specific type (for example, converting a string to an integer). For this, the standard library provides the rather useful FromStr trait. In short, FromStr can convert from a &str into a value of any...
Artificial Ignorance
I gave ChatGPT access to my Gmail I'm sure this will end well.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025 OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
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OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Win Vector LLC
Don’t Let a Data Leak Sink Your Project One of the bigger risks of iterative statistical or machine learning fitting procedures is over-fit...
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One of the bigger risks of iterative statistical or machine learning fitting procedures is over-fit or the dreaded data leak. Over-fit is when: a model performs better on training data than on future data. Some degree of over-fit is expected. A data leak is when: the model learns...
One Useful Thing
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI
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Debugging, emotional resilience, and mental models Being good at debugging is more useful than being good at writing code - you only write a piece of...
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Being good at debugging is more useful than being good at writing code - you only write a piece of code once, but you may end up debugging it hundreds of times. As programmers use more AI-written code, debugging may end up being the only remaining programming skill. But for some...
Made by Ollin
Game Emulation via Neural Network
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What is the IQ of ChatGPT? Making an AI model take an IQ test
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The rise of autonomous agents Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
a year ago
Solving the decision...
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AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
fast.ai
fasttransform: Reversible Pipelines Made Simple Introducing fasttransform, a Python library that makes data transformations reversible and...
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Introducing fasttransform, a Python library that makes data transformations reversible and extensible through the power of multiple dispatch.
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Hack: Combining Abstract Designs with Objects This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 072: The new new Claude June 21, 2024.
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AI Roundup 108: Vibecoding March 7, 2025.
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Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
over a year ago
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Closing Quantum Flytrap
over a year ago
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DeepSeek: Don't Panic As reactions continue, the word in Washington, and out of OpenAI, is distillation.
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Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
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3 Key Principles for AI at Scale [Part 2] The key to how large AI companies outcompete
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AI 2027: Dwarkesh's Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious...
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Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future holds. His ‘What 2026 Looks Like’ was very concrete and specific, and has proved remarkably accurate given the difficulty level of such...
AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
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Pitfalls of building with large language models Dealing with more than just hallucinations.
a year ago
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How to... use AI to unstick yourself We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.
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AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
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UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
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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...
Marcus on AI
The Pope gets it In age when few political leaders are engaging with AI, Pope Leo XIV gets it.
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Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
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AI Snake Oil
What the executive order means for openness in AI Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details
a year ago
One Useful Thing
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
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Xena
2022 Xena Project undergraduate workshop I have funding to run an undergraduate workshop! When? 26th to 30th September 2022 (the week before...
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I have funding to run an undergraduate workshop! When? 26th to 30th September 2022 (the week before term starts for many people in the UK). What? A week-long in person workshop including a bunch of working on group projects in … Continue reading →
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In defense of ruthless managers There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are...
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There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…
fast.ai
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
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Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
Machine Learning for...
How to afford Machine Learning for Software Engineers How I'm planning to make ML for SWEs more helpful while remaining affordable
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What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
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A brief response to a reader regarding prejudice denoting terms in Swedish media Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a...
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Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a reader comments about it, several things to note:
Weighty Thoughts
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
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Artificial Ignorance
The greatest movies never made A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
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IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
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An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
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We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color scheme and logo! :) - Logan I've been researching text summarization methods for a project I'm working on. Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs have become a go-to...
exist
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
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Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
Sam Altman
Time to Take a Stand It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President...
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It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable.  In repeatedly invoking unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million...
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Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
In Praise of Boring AI Automation has always been about killing tedious work. AI can do the same.
a year ago
Sam Altman
Hard Startups The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard...
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over a year ago
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...
Weighty Thoughts
Let's talk about AI power costs It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
11 months ago
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Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
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A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
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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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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...
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.
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There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
AI Snake Oil
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
In defense of Gemini a kvetch
4 months ago
exist
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
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over a year ago
There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of people using tools like ChatGPT to draft Python scripts, Go code, and all sorts of other useful things. Okay, so how do I use ChatGPT effectively? How do I Use ChatGPT...
Sam Altman
Idea Generation The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
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over a year ago
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
Society's Backend:...
OpenAI's o1, Model Merging, California Approves AI Regulation, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-17
9 months 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...
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over a year ago
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
Don't Worry About...
Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
4 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Medical Roundup #4 It seems like as other things drew our attention more, medical news slowed down.
4 months ago
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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2024) Notes from the AI Engineer World's Fair.
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 054: Ten million tokens February 16, 2024.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 046: AI has a CSAM problem December 22, 2023.
a year ago
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
5 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Preferences of LLMs Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
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Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
AI Snake Oil
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias? A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI, fizyka kwantowa, relacje, ludzie, przyszłość
11 months 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...
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(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Don't Worry About...
AI #102: Made in America I remember that week I used r1 a lot, and everyone was obsessed with DeepSeek.
4 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
How would you interview an AI, to give it a job? from puzzles to poker
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The Gradient
Mamba Explained Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a...
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Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
Don't Worry About...
NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
5 months ago
One Useful Thing
Magic for English Majors Programming in prose in an AI-haunted world
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
9 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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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. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
Artificial Ignorance
Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to...
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While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to evaluating large language models. Often, they're not the best indicators of real-world utility - and I want to dig into why (and what other approaches exist).
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
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AI Snake Oil
Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 070: AI whistleblowers June 7, 2024.
a year ago
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
over 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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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...
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
Win Vector LLC
The Statistics of Drawing Cards After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the...
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4 months ago
After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the methods used to characterize card counting. So, I’d like to share my new article on the statistics of drawing cards. This note relates the distribution of draw cards (which can seem...
Artificial Ignorance
How to reverse engineer the Substack (or any!) web API Building an unauthorized Substack client with Claude.
10 months ago
Don't Worry About...
AI CoT Reasoning Is Often Unfaithful A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this on o3 as well.
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon Onwards
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One Useful Thing
Post-apocalyptic education What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
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Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
a year ago
Sam Altman
The Virus Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to...
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over a year ago
Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19. I hope that society views this as a warning for the future.  Covid-19 is bad, but only a warm-up.  I think it’s...
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
a year ago
The Gradient
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
a year ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
5 months ago
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
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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...
Marcus on AI
One giant leap towards authoritarian rule in the United States In the midst of the tariffs, an even bigger story is brewing: Trump is attempting to take over...
2 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Should You Get a PhD? The one good reason to do a PhD and two others that fall flat
9 months ago
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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...
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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…
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
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 088: Movie magic October 11, 2024.
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Society's Backend:...
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
10 months ago
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I don't care about your magic prompts There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any...
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a month ago
There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any situation. The tweets in question typically read something like “this prompt will make you superhuman”, or “this prompt will be a 20k growth consultant in your pocket”. There’s a kernel of...
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...
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7 months ago
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Society's Backend:...
The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation And the impact it'll have for decades to come
a year ago
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...
Win Vector LLC
ODSC West 2024 I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus McGovern again! Thank you ODSC for putting together a great conference and being wonderful hosts at ODSCWest. I had a great time, and was very energized by all of the […]
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Exploring Phobos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. European Robotics Forum: 25–27...
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Acing the design interview If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole January 12, 2023.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI's invisible instructions What meme prompts can teach us about better interface design.
8 months ago
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
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a year ago
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Solving the decision...
Three missing primitives in every UI framework (please build them)
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Weighty Thoughts
Is AI a Winner-Take-All Market? A critical question for investors in AI
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
GPT-4o is the new face of AI image generation The technical evolution reshaping AI's creative capabilities.
3 months ago
One Useful Thing
Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help
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Artificial Ignorance
How a $2000/hour escort uses AI to automate sex work Listen now | A conversation with Adelyn Moore, an independent escort and adult content creator.
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Superposition
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters...
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over a year ago
Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.
The Gradient
Why Doesn’t My Model Work? Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
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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.
Machine Learning for...
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
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Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
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Society's Backend:...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
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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
One Useful Thing
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
a year ago
exist
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...
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a year ago
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...
One Useful Thing
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
9 months 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...
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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...
Daniel Miessler
Scott Kuffer of Nucleus Security | SPONSORED INTERVIEW SERIES In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO...
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In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO of Nucleus Security. I was already excited by this vendor just based on the research I did to allow them to be a sponsor, but the conversation with them really made me think they’re...
Marcus on AI
OpenAI, in deep trouble Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
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Machine Learning for...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
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AI Snake Oil
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
Don’t Self Host Unlicensed Proxima Nova Fonts I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time...
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I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time I was loading Proxima Nova on Preceden via Typekit (a hosted web font service) for $49.99/year, but at some point I decided to self-host it to avoid the third party request which...
Marcus on AI
PSA: Microsoft may be training on your private data without your knowledge The Great Data Heist continues.
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AI Snake Oil
Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports The debate about the harms of AI is happening in a data vacuum
over a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming? Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
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Machine Learning for...
Coding with AI is getting even better ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
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Society's Backend:...
Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
a year ago
The Berkeley...
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...
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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...
Artificial Ignorance
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
!!con or doing inclusivity well Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
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over a year ago
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
Society's Backend:...
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024 The top 5 articles and resources
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Don't Worry About...
GPT-4o Is An Absurd Sycophant GPT-4o tells you what it thinks you want to hear.
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Weighty Thoughts
Writing, Originality, and Why Does Anyone Care What I Write About? Musings, Insecurities, and Thoughts on Writing a Book (or Substack)
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Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile...
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Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.
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Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
Piotr Migdał's Blog
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
over a year ago
fast.ai
Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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
fast.ai
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Marcus on AI
The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
2 months ago
exist
An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2) In Part 1 of this series, we tried to answer the question “who do you follow who also follows user...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Part 1 of this series, we tried to answer the question “who do you follow who also follows user B” in Bluesky, a social network with millions of users and hundreds of millions of follow relationships. At the conclusion of the post, we’d developed an in-memory graph store for...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 123: Video killed the image gen star June 20, 2025.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 119: I/O, io, Codex, Claude May 23, 2025
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One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
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Don't Worry About...
GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how...
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a month ago
Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how OpenAI responded to that.
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The importance of character in software engineering Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become...
a month ago
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a month ago
Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become a better software engineer often center around learning more facts: programming language syntax, design patterns, details of how particular technologies work, and so on. It’s also...
Society's Backend:...
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives Dreaming of Thoreau on Instagram
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Humanoids Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
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
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...