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Shortages Create Opportunity Whether Real or From Export Controls
12th Oct 2025
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Shortages Create Opportunity

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

12th Oct 2025
Whether Real or From Export Controls
Lay the cornerstone yourself As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful...
14th Jun 2026
1

Lay the cornerstone yourself

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

14th Jun 2026
As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful attention to the foundations and not let the AI make all the decisions for you.
Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true A true life moment for your correspondent
2nd Jun 2026
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Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true

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

2nd Jun 2026
A true life moment for your correspondent
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
7th Jul 2025
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Against "Brain Damage"

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

7th Jul 2025
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
Reverse Transcription There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
2nd Nov 2022
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Reverse Transcription

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

2nd Nov 2022
There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have AIs producing so much extraordinary art. But I’m excited about something else that we’re naturally evolving GPT into, which I’m calling Reverse Transcription. A bit of background...
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4 "At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
31st May 2023
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Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4

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

31st May 2023
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
AI #149: 3 The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
1st Jan 2026
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AI #149: 3

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

1st Jan 2026
The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
What does a Data Scientist really do? No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
30th Apr 2019
1

What does a Data Scientist really do?

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

30th Apr 2019
No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

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

25th Oct 2019
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
People want competence, seemingly over everything else All elections are about state capacity
11th Nov 2024
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People want competence, seemingly over everything else

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

11th Nov 2024
All elections are about state capacity
How to Write Design Docs for Machine Learning Systems Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
7th Mar 2021
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How to Write Design Docs for Machine Learning Systems

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

7th Mar 2021
Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
After PyData Warsaw 2017 Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw...
15th Nov 2017
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After PyData Warsaw 2017

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

15th Nov 2017
Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw Conference 2017 (19-20 Oct 2017).
12th Apr 2026
14th Dec 2024
Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026) Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this...
1st Jun 2026
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Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)

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

1st Jun 2026
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this moment and for the moments that led to it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Home chemistry sets in danger; Every pirate wants to be an admiral; Painful...
Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
2nd Mar 2025
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Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes

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

2nd Mar 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
6th Oct 2025
AI embraces its product arc fuzzy processors are entering mass production
14th May 2024
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AI embraces its product arc

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

14th May 2024
fuzzy processors are entering mass production
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32a -- Interventions: training a baseline model I'm rounding out my series of posts on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from...
4th Feb 2026
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4th Feb 2026
I'm rounding out my series of posts on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)" by seeing how I could train the best base model I can from scratch on my own hardware. I started by training one in two days on my RTX 3090, and found that while it was a...
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
29th Mar 2022
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My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories

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

29th Mar 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
How to leverage long form content with AI Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
5th Jun 2024
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How to leverage long form content with AI

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

5th Jun 2024
Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
10th Aug 2025
1

我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》

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

10th Aug 2025
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
10th Jul 2023
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On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning

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

10th Jul 2023
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
microgpt .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
12th Feb 2026
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microgpt

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

12th Feb 2026
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies...
There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
9th Apr 2025
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There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets

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

9th Apr 2025
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
Choosing what to keep human A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
27th May 2026
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Choosing what to keep human

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

27th May 2026
A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
My Journey from Psych Grad to Leading Data Science at Lazada How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
27th Feb 2020
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My Journey from Psych Grad to Leading Data Science at Lazada

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

27th Feb 2020
How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

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

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent...
4th Feb 2016
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Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype

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

4th Feb 2016
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent research shows that STEM students are indeed more autistic than the general population.
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
3rd May 2024
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Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources

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

3rd May 2024
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? A better approach is possible Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the...
22nd Jun 2026
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Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? A better approach is possible

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

22nd Jun 2026
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the difference matters
AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
15th Apr 2025
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AI as Normal Technology

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

15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and More

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

4th Nov 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
Fact checking Moravec's paradox This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
29th Jan 2026
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Fact checking Moravec's paradox

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

29th Jan 2026
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low...
9th Sep 2025
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High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard

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

9th Sep 2025
Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low dimensional intuition that is holding progress back. I’d like to try and explain why that isn’t quite the case. The background Some of the rigorous work on the nature of stationary...
Post Capitalism You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want...
3 weeks ago
2

Post Capitalism

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

3 weeks ago
You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want this, and there will only be so long you can keep shoving it down their throats. Money is tied to nothing. American companies sell equity instead of products. The main narratives...
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
14th Apr 2023
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14th Apr 2023
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
20th Apr 2021
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Blockchain explained simply

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

20th Apr 2021
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
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
2nd Jun 2025
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ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math

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

2nd Jun 2025
An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
1st Dec 2025
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Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available

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

1st Dec 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
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...
28th Aug 2024
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How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

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

28th Aug 2024
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...
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
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It is starting to get strange.

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

2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
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,...
2nd Sep 2024
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Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest

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

2nd Sep 2024
“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...
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026) Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers...
2nd May 2026
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Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)

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

2nd May 2026
Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers next! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Colbert v GWB; Wallaby milk; Jay Rosen's journalism precepts; Radical Media(TM); What is carried interest? TCP...
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...
6th May 2025
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I don't care about your magic prompts

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

6th May 2025
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...
We are going to kill “unalive” I talk to a lot of old people, those who were born in the 20th century, and if I ask them what the...
2 weeks ago
1

We are going to kill “unalive”

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

2 weeks ago
I talk to a lot of old people, those who were born in the 20th century, and if I ask them what the word “unalive” means, they usually have no idea what I’m talking about, except for some of them who have kids or who study Internet culture. This will, of course, probably seem very...
Why Doesn’t My Model Work? Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
24th Feb 2024
87

Why Doesn’t My Model Work?

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

24th Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
2nd Dec 2024
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

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

2nd Dec 2024
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
1st Aug 2024
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On speaking to AI

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

1st Aug 2024
Voice changes a lot of things
AI Automating: The Worksheet Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's...
18th Jun 2025
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AI Automating: The Worksheet

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

18th Jun 2025
Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's going awfully. It's challenging. The post AI Automating: The Worksheet first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen...
1st Sep 2026
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Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

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

1st Sep 2026
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of...
Learning Deep Learning with Keras Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning...
30th Apr 2017
25

Learning Deep Learning with Keras

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

30th Apr 2017
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning with links to didactic materials.
Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6 Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its...
12th Jan 2025
1

Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6

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

12th Jan 2025
Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its various elements. We first learn about the different kinds of ‘documents’ that we can mimic with our prompts, then think about how to pick which pieces of context to include, and...
The real risk of AI is how it concentrates power Friends with no previous interest in AI ethics have begun asking me questions in the wake of the...
28th Jul 2023
1

The real risk of AI is how it concentrates power

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

28th Jul 2023
Friends with no previous interest in AI ethics have begun asking me questions in the wake of the release of ChatGPT4, Bard, and Bing Chat. This new generation of large language models has made headlines and sparked widespread debate. To consider the risks posed by new AI...
My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016 Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
25th May 2016
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My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016

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

25th May 2016
Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
3rd Jan 2025
70

AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not

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

3rd Jan 2025
January 3, 2025.
The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
2nd May 2021
1

The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning

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

2nd May 2021
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
developer relations after the cheat code machine (corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these...
2nd Apr 2026
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developer relations after the cheat code machine

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

2nd Apr 2026
(corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these systems)
- Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope....
10th Apr 2026
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from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2026
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no...
Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
12th Jan 2025
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Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

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

12th Jan 2025
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
21st Apr 2025
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to...
20th Jan 2026
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

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

20th Jan 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is one of our civilization’s oldest and most powerful technologies for trying to...
Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox
16th Jul 2025
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Could AI slow science?

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

16th Jul 2025
Confronting the production-progress paradox
Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it...
2nd Mar 2026
1

Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

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

2nd Mar 2026
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: AOL email tax; Ebook readers' bill of rights; Sanders media blackout. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
datakit: the most efficient data structures possible datakit — the most efficient data structure library A while ago I made a data structure library...
10th Jun 2024
1

datakit: the most efficient data structures possible

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

10th Jun 2024
datakit — the most efficient data structure library A while ago I made a data structure library fixing memory efficiency problems across many data structure types, but I never ended up releasing it. Now I’m releasing it. TOC: History / Why databox Efficient Maps Efficient...
13th Aug 2024
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
5th Nov 2021
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Helion

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

5th Nov 2021
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,...
The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
5th Dec 2022
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The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system

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

5th Dec 2022
Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
25th Apr 2024
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From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls

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

25th Apr 2024
If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on...
4th Jul 2022
39

Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence

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

4th Jul 2022
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
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add...
20th Dec 2018
1

OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips

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

20th Dec 2018
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence.
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
10th Apr 2023
121

Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review

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

10th Apr 2023
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face ​announced​ that they had discovered an intrusion...
27th Jul 2026
2

Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?

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

27th Jul 2026
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face ​announced​ that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more The post Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? appeared first on Cal Newport.
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look...
1st Aug 2026
1

Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)

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

1st Aug 2026
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; David Byrne x WinXP; Furries...
Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab,...
25th Feb 2025
1

Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Feb 2025
Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices by having small on-device models (such as...
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
21st Jun 2021
129

A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

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

21st Jun 2021
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24th Nov 2024
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
2nd Aug 2023
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AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models?

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

2nd Aug 2023
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
6th Jan 2017
27

king - man + woman is queen; but why?

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

6th Jan 2017
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
3rd Oct 2021
1

RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on

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

3rd Oct 2021
Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
Blogs I’ve enjoyed in 2025 I wanted to share my favourite blogs in the AI space with a colleague today, and thought that others...
14th Oct 2025
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Blogs I’ve enjoyed in 2025

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

14th Oct 2025
I wanted to share my favourite blogs in the AI space with a colleague today, and thought that others might enjoy that list, too!
LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025 Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better...
4th May 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025

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

4th May 2025
Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better agent for coding tasks, Karpathy's LLM tips, and financial hallucination research
Let's talk about AI power costs It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
6th Aug 2024
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Let's talk about AI power costs

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

6th Aug 2024
It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
4th Jun 2024
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Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning

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

4th Jun 2024
And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
How to think about evals Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first...
19th May 2025
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How to think about evals

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

19th May 2025
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first session was all about mental models for thinking about the topic as a whole, mixed in with some teasers of practical examples and advice. I’ll try to keep up with blogging about...
The Good Thing About Hard Things A new research paper titled “​AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance,”​...
3 days ago
1

The Good Thing About Hard Things

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

3 days ago
A new research paper titled “​AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance,”​ which was recently presented at the ​Conference on Language Modeling​, has been ... Read more The post The Good Thing About Hard Things appeared first on Cal Newport.
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
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Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences

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

9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
4th Jun 2025
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How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI

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

4th Jun 2025
A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
smol party: Hello Wololo! Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
22nd May 2023
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smol party: Hello Wololo!

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

22nd May 2023
Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
What To Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
8th Jan 2023
1

What To Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help

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

8th Jan 2023
Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools...
23rd Jul 2018
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lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation

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

23rd Jul 2018
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools every day this week. day 1: lematt day 2: netmatt day 3: email 2018 day 4: web 2018 day 5: local nets I made a kickass certificate automation platform called lematt and this page is...
The Shape of the Thing Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
12th Mar 2026
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The Shape of the Thing

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

12th Mar 2026
Where we are right now, and what likely happens next
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
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AGI is not a milestone

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

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
9th Jul 2026
1

Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in

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

9th Jul 2026
Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
3rd May 2022
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Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence

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

3rd May 2022
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
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An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition

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

7th Dec 2023
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders'...
8th Sep 2024
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Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks

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

8th Sep 2024
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
27th Oct 2024
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Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews

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

27th Oct 2024
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
My first 100 days as Data Science Lead How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
25th Sep 2017
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My first 100 days as Data Science Lead

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

25th Sep 2017
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
25th Sep 2020
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PG and Jessica

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

25th Sep 2020
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
Excess mortality during COVID pandemic, % of population vaccinated and Stringency Index of... Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence...
22nd Nov 2022
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22nd Nov 2022
Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence drift, herd immunity, etc.
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
6th Nov 2022
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6th Nov 2022
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...
Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
7th Aug 2026
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Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents

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

7th Aug 2026
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its...
15th Mar 2025
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Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs

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

15th Mar 2025
I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its heart it’s an extension of what I worked on with my translation package tinbox. (The new project uses translated sources to bootstrap a knowledge database.) Building in an...
OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) - Java and collaboratively developing an Android app.
13th Aug 2017
1

OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) Review and Tips

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

13th Aug 2017
OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) - Java and collaboratively developing an Android app.
Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
20th Oct 2023
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Preceden’s Spam Problem

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

20th Oct 2023
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
9th Sep 2024
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

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

9th Sep 2024
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
The Grand AGI Delusion and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society
12th Oct 2025
1

The Grand AGI Delusion

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

12th Oct 2025
and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society
AI for SWEs 73: What Ilya Saw and the Time of TPUs Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build
2nd Dec 2025
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AI for SWEs 73: What Ilya Saw and the Time of TPUs

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

2nd Dec 2025
Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build
Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
7th Apr 2024
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Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind

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

7th Apr 2024
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
'AI' just means LLMs now There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now...
2nd Aug 2025
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'AI' just means LLMs now

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

2nd Aug 2025
There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now there's only one.
A quick(ish) Chinchilla check I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models, training them both on 40 tokens per parameter...
7th Aug 2026
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A quick(ish) Chinchilla check

from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Aug 2026
I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models, training them both on 40 tokens per parameter rather than the 20 per parameter that is generally regarded as "Chinchilla-optimal". The normal heuristic is that instead of doing that, you should scale up the number of tokens...
Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
1st Apr 2025
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Housing Roundup #11

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

1st Apr 2025
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part...
6th May 2024
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The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby

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

6th May 2024
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part 1 here. A microbiome is the community of microorganisms found living together in a given habitat. The microbiome of the human gut can contribute to development of autoimmune...
Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm....
3rd Jun 2025
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Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse

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

3rd Jun 2025
I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm. Since this is sort of a priority for being able to follow along with the Hamel / Shreya evals course with my practical application, I’ll take another stab using a tool with which I’m...
The AI Panic Attack Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
16th Feb 2026
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The AI Panic Attack

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

16th Feb 2026
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server! I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can...
1st Aug 2025
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You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server!

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

1st Aug 2025
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can have access to all of my curated feeds that I use to keep up with AI resources, news and jobs. This is also a private space for paid subscribers to chat, learn, network, and get...
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
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Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You

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

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
4th Jun 2026
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jun 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
Thinking companion, companion for thinking Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
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Thinking companion, companion for thinking

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

5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
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,...
1st Apr 2025
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How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)

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

1st Apr 2025
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...
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
9th Nov 2023
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The agent principal problem

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

9th Nov 2023
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
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...
4th Sep 2023
70

Can LLMs learn from a single example?

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

4th Sep 2023
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.
99

AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason

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

7th Oct 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
What was Quartz? 2012–2025
7th Apr 2025
Aligning Anthropic The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
2nd Mar 2026
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Aligning Anthropic

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

2nd Mar 2026
The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
Lean 2022 round-up A brief survey post containing some of the things which happened in the Lean community in 2022. The...
8th Jan 2023
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Lean 2022 round-up

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Jan 2023
A brief survey post containing some of the things which happened in the Lean community in 2022. The Liquid Tensor Experiment In December 2020, Fields Medallist Peter Scholze challenged the formal computer proof community to verify one of his theorems … Continue reading →
I Tried the Agentic Browsers Today I tried three agentic browsers: Comet, Dia, and Fellou. The results were quite disappointing.
20th Oct 2025
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I Tried the Agentic Browsers

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

20th Oct 2025
Today I tried three agentic browsers: Comet, Dia, and Fellou. The results were quite disappointing.
1st Dec 2023
Science-based games and explorable explanations Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making...
20th May 2024
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Science-based games and explorable explanations

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

20th May 2024
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making complex topics like physics and machine learning accessible and fun.
IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the...
1st Mar 2026
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IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance

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

1st Mar 2026
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the developments made by today’s engineers. The Renaissance was a uniquely fertile era. Its ethos of curiosity and creativity fostered unprecedented collaboration across disciplines. Artists,...
I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
6th Feb 2024
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I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI

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

6th Feb 2024
And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
Tech in Asia - My Journey in Data Science and Advice for others Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
26th Jul 2017
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26th Jul 2017
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid...
3 weeks ago
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix

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

3 weeks ago
It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that...
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
9th Feb 2025
70

What is a quotient?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2025
Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean, because they have been taught a specific model for quotients in their classes, which is not the model that Lean uses. This post is an attempt to … Continue reading →
Helping exceptionally gifted children in Poland Gifted children have special educational needs. The Polish Children's Fund addresses this by...
11th Aug 2016
1

Helping exceptionally gifted children in Poland

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

11th Aug 2016
Gifted children have special educational needs. The Polish Children's Fund addresses this by offering scholarships and scientific camps for talented pre-university students.
Bandits for Recommender Systems Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
8th May 2022
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Bandits for Recommender Systems

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

8th May 2022
Industry examples, exploration strategies, warm-starting, off-policy evaluation, and more.
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
19th Feb 2025
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19th Feb 2025
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
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13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
7th Dec 2017
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The Merge

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

7th Dec 2017
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...
21st Jan 2025
33

The unfortunate truth of software for technologists

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

21st Jan 2025
It's all about the money, baby
Claude Code and What Comes Next With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
7th Jan 2026
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Claude Code and What Comes Next

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

7th Jan 2026
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
10th Sep 2023
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Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk

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

10th Sep 2023
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...
Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. ...
17th Oct 2025
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Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code

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

17th Oct 2025
In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. In the time since I utilized that idea for exploring non-coding agents at Earendil. And I’m not alone! In the meantime, multiple people have explored this space and I felt it was...
DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
7th Feb 2021
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DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes

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

7th Feb 2021
Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk This is the long version of what happened so far.
2nd Mar 2026
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Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk

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

2nd Mar 2026
This is the long version of what happened so far.
MVP: AI Relationship Bot Next week I’ll be fully launching my latest project: CoupleFlow, (project page here). CoupleFlow is...
6th Dec 2024
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MVP: AI Relationship Bot

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

6th Dec 2024
Next week I’ll be fully launching my latest project: CoupleFlow, (project page here). CoupleFlow is a Telegram Bot which (privately and securely) sits in the Telegram chat between you and your partner. It anonymously observes your DMs and collects together AI based insights on...
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
5th Feb 2025
60

Native Speakers

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

5th Feb 2025
How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
Do you actually like hard problems? I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for...
2 weeks ago
2

Do you actually like hard problems?

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

2 weeks ago
I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for different reasons.
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
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How AI companies get around data regulation

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

5th Feb 2025
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement How LLMs can accelerate programming, writing, and thinking
25th Sep 2025
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AI as a Partner, Not a Replacement

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

25th Sep 2025
How LLMs can accelerate programming, writing, and thinking
drop that meet link just keep talking
17th Mar 2025
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drop that meet link

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

17th Mar 2025
just keep talking
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
19th Jan 2025
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Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents

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

19th Jan 2025
How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
Speaking at the Bayesian Interest Group November 2026 Virtual Meeting I’ll be speaking at the Bayesian Interest Group November 2026 Virtual Meeting. The topic is using...
17 hours ago
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17 hours ago
I’ll be speaking at the Bayesian Interest Group November 2026 Virtual Meeting. The topic is using Bayesian models to interactively pre-estimate the value of applying an expensive inspection or procedure to a large population. For example: estimating the value of using an LLM...
Security Rules for Email Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard...
5th Apr 2016
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Security Rules for Email

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

5th Apr 2016
Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard in the mail. Much like a postcard in the mail1, email is not guaranteed to be private or secure in any capacity. email is not secure You must assume: Anybody can read anything you...
The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
5th Feb 2025
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The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible

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

5th Feb 2025
How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
3rd Jan 2021
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2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More

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

3rd Jan 2021
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
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Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time

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

3rd Apr 2024
That’s what makes it worthwhile
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
17th Nov 2022
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The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools

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

17th Nov 2022
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
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Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything

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

6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity. p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
14th Nov 2015
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Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.

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

14th Nov 2015
p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline? An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
1st Jul 2025
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ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline?

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

1st Jul 2025
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro) Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model....
8th Apr 2025
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First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro)

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

8th Apr 2025
Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model. This was taken from a post originally made on Twitter, so please excuse the terseness. First impressions: a bit too eager to jump into a deep research task even when I just ask a...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
11th Jun 2026
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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

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

11th Jun 2026
Coding agents as normal technology
LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024 Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open...
2nd Jan 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024

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

2nd Jan 2025
Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open multimodal vision models from Meta, an open-source Perplexity alternative, and easy LLM fine-tuning
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
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Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You

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

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
How I ship projects at big tech companies I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
9th Nov 2024
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How I ship projects at big tech companies

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

9th Nov 2024
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
Coming soon This is PromptArmor Blog.
14th Dec 2023
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Coming soon

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

14th Dec 2023
This is PromptArmor Blog.
The Annals Challenge My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50...
13th Aug 2026
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The Annals Challenge

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Aug 2026
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50 Lean statements, corresponding to 50 important recent mathematical theorems! The 50 theorems were all published in the Annals of Mathematics (a prestigious mathematical journal) …...
How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
20th Jun 2025
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How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue

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

20th Jun 2025
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
Push Notifications: What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
24th Dec 2023
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24th Dec 2023
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
7th Apr 2024
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What is Defensibility?

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

7th Apr 2024
Back to basics for AI startups and others
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
2 weeks ago
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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

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

2 weeks ago
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
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A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read

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

17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
2nd Feb 2024
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AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA

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

2nd Feb 2024
February 2, 2024.
Too big to fail? Get ready for chaos
2nd Nov 2025
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Too big to fail?

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

2nd Nov 2025
Get ready for chaos
Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
3rd Sep 2021
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Learning incident response with problem sets

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

3rd Sep 2021
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
Maybe it's time for lots of little indie AIs to take over “[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of...
15th Jun 2026
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Maybe it's time for lots of little indie AIs to take over

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

15th Jun 2026
“[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” That’s me, in The Guardian a few days ago, trying to distill a message that I’ve been trying to get out as broadly as possible for...
I Told You So My quote from 2019 “I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very...
12th Feb 2026
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I Told You So

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

12th Feb 2026
My quote from 2019 “I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very close. Once we reach the singularity, If we have the same motivations we have now — primarily power over people — things are going to be horrific” – George Hotz How is everyone...
How To Be Successful I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of...
24th Jan 2019
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How To Be Successful

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

24th Jan 2019
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter. Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier...
What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
12th May 2024
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What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs

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

12th May 2024
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
AI Is This Correct? AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
1

AI Is This Correct?

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

15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output. The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
Simpler Experimentation with Jupyter, Papermill, and MLflow Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
15th Mar 2020
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Simpler Experimentation with Jupyter, Papermill, and MLflow

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

15th Mar 2020
Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
The Unexpected New Threat to Video Creators Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the...
7th Oct 2025
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The Unexpected New Threat to Video Creators

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

7th Oct 2025
Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmels's show and the fact that we're seeing a shockingly rapid move towards the type of censorious media control typical of most authoritarian regimes. But there's a...
LLMs can now identify public figures in images ChatGPT and Claude won’t, but Gemini will.
28th Jul 2025
1

LLMs can now identify public figures in images

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

28th Jul 2025
ChatGPT and Claude won’t, but Gemini will.
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