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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
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Keep incidents boring The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The internet is full of exciting incident war stories. Tough engineering problems, solved under pressure by sleep-deprived developers. In an…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains 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. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
a month ago
The Gradient
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
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Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) 9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My...
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9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My One-Sentence Summary/Highlight The future of programming is not humans writing code, but neural nets creating weights. Capture Neural networks are mathematical expressions with many...
Society's Backend
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It? The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
Grok Grok This is a post in two parts.
2 weeks ago
Strange Loop Canon
I wrote a book! AI enables us to, finally, get "soft" APIs
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history? In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico asked “15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators”, including me, “to provide some explosive potential...
Marcus on AI
Shame on Google, twice A very, very brief Super Bowl special
4 weeks 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
10 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
How Will AI Impact Law Firms? An interview with Devansh from Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
a month ago
Marcus on AI
GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5 Investors should be worried
a week ago
One Useful Thing
Feats to astonish and amaze A compendium of things I didn't think AI should be able to do
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 362 | Dependency Scanner, Citrix Attacks, AI Analysis… SECURITY NEWS Google released an open-source scanner for vulnerabilities in project dependencies....
over a year ago
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SECURITY NEWS Google released an open-source scanner for vulnerabilities in project dependencies. It's a front-end to the OSV database that links a dependency list to its vulnerabilities. MORE The latest updates for Apple software fixed a new zero-day that could be used to hack...
Matt Mazur
AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally...
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over a year ago
Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally building add-on software called progs (Revolution, Meridian), publishing code libraries called bas files (Alpha32), and later co-founding AOL-Files.com (where I went by the hacker...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition July 5, 2024.
8 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
Xena
Lean in 2024 A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at...
a year ago
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a year ago
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a … Continue reading →
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probably 30 books and spent thousands of hours thinking about it. I am not talking...
Society's Backend
A Privacy Review: TikTok You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
over a year ago
Sam Altman
2017 YC Annual Letter Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual...
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over a year ago
Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.  We...
Stories by Andrej...
Yes you should understand backprop
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
Meta Pivots on Content Moderation There’s going to be some changes made.
a month ago
fast.ai
1st Two Lessons of From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early...
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over a year ago
4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early preview of the new course.
Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color:...
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over a year ago
p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color: #eee; } The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
Artificial Ignorance
Introducing the Model Memo Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
5 days ago
Solving the decision...
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
5 months ago
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
Don't Worry About...
On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks This week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s...
a month ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
How to stop feeling guilty about the unfinished work?
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Superposition
over a year 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...
Marcus on AI
𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁... Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAI’s rollout that he joked “of course...
2 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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…
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...
2 months ago
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2 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…
One Useful Thing
Magic for English Majors Programming in prose in an AI-haunted world
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Breaking: OpenAI's efforts at pure scaling have hit a wall — There is no wall
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
On Deliberative Alignment Not too long ago, OpenAI presented a paper on their new strategy of Deliberative Alignment.
4 weeks ago
Society's Backend
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
7 months ago
Society's Backend
Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
One Useful Thing
I, Cyborg: Using Co-Intelligence How I used AI in my book about AI
12 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Honey, I joined a cabal Or: Mainstream media still isn't great at covering tech and AI ideologies
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
a week ago
Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
3 months ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for...
2 months ago
Solving the decision...
The problem with iff's design How node's shared memory model ruins a perfectly good api design
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality It brings me no joy to say that
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
The Industrial Content Revolution A fundamental change in the structure the internet.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project...
a week ago
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a week ago
Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project out of Ron Fearing’s lab at UC Berkeley. The palm-sized spring-loaded jumping robot has gone from barely being able to chain together a few open-loop jumps to mastering landings,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 065: The gpt2-chatbot mystery May 3, 2024.
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
The future of education in a world of AI A positive vision for the transformation to come
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
5 months ago
Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Beta in Shambles Maximal Truth still seems far away
2 weeks ago
Made by Ollin
NVIDIA Internship (2017) Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
over a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why are big tech companies so slow? Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer...
a month ago
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a month ago
Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. This fact…
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Helix Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks 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...
Sam Altman
How To Be Successful I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Artificial Ignorance
How to leverage long form content with AI Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
9 months ago
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
2 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine Or: How we weaponised serendipity
11 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand....
a month ago
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a month ago
If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3 March 8, 2024.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
9 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Jak masować osoby autystyczne?
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
6 months ago
Marcus on AI
ChatGPT, at Age Two The bullshit just keeps on coming.
3 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
One Useful Thing
Scaling: The State of Play in AI A brief intergenerational pause...
5 months ago
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
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.
a month ago
Marcus on AI
Google, 2001: Don’t Be Evil Google, 2025: Fuck It
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
Power, money and human nature Thoughts on OpenAI, a tragedy
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI a Winner-Take-All Market? A critical question for investors in AI
6 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Prominence of Prejudice and Social Justice Rhetoric in UK News Media I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice and social justice rhetoric in UK news media. Recent years have seen considerable debate about the rise of political polarization in British society. Specifically, over the last...
Artificial Ignorance
Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How Shopify is making AI Magic A case study on turning competitive advantages into useful AI.
a year ago
Society's Backend
MatMul-free Machine Learning Can Improve Efficiency, Excellent Foundational Learning Resources, SSMs... The top 10 most important updates of last week: 7/8/24
8 months ago
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
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole January 12, 2023.
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Commentary on Technology, Startups, and Investing Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater and Google X. Co-Founder Lioness. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
Xena
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
Solving the decision...
requireCond() Shipping different versions of modules with requireCond()
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering Notes from the first AI Engineer Summit.
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Blockchain for beginners Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making distributed crypto-currencies like Bitcoin…
One Useful Thing
Acceleration. 7 days of new AI technologies shows us that everything is happening very fast.
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
Daniel Miessler
My Mom Died on Saturday My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My mom died on Saturday. My biological mother became unable to function when I was around five due to mental illness, which left my dad and me on our own. Sometime after we were blessed with a strong, beautiful soul named Rhonda. My dad and I were like rescue dogs, and she saved...
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
a year ago
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a year ago
(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Win Vector LLC
Reposting Partial Pooling Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to...
The Berkeley...
The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to...
a year ago
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a year ago
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development,...
Strange Loop Canon
Soul nullius in verba
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Superhuman? What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Fish-Inspired Sensor "Touches" Using Electric Fields The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s a real ability that some creatures have. A family of African fish known as Mormyrids are weakly electric, and have special organs that can locate a nearby prey, whether it’s in...
Strange Loop Canon
Progress when benefits are worth tallying the human cost of technological leaps
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Generate AI Art Using Your Own Writing One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are cool, but a lot of the magic comes down to prompt engineering, which is non-trivial. Prompt Engineering is almost equal parts...
Weighty Thoughts
The AI Executive Order AKA: “We’ll do something about it later”
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
OpenAI’s policies hinder reproducible research on language models LLMs have become privately-controlled research infrastructure
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Updates: Preceden Trends, Training Help Scout’s New Analytics Engineer, Don’t Look Up, and Ray... Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to Preceden. Prior to that the annual plans did not renew automatically which was an intentional (but bad) choice I had made because most users did not user Preceden for more than a...
Society's Backend
Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
5 months ago
Made by Ollin
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets A working prototype
over a year ago
The Gradient
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
11 months 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...
over a year ago
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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...
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...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 041: Lyria November 17, 2023.
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
One Useful Thing
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold Small improvements can lead to big changes
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny This post isn’t about AI; it’s about our future
2 weeks ago
AI Snake Oil
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves. What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
10 months ago
Society's Backend
What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
10 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism A checklist for avoiding hype
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
a week ago
Marcus on AI
AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
2 months ago
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
3 months ago
Society's Backend
New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,... Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
5 months ago
Society's Backend
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
a year ago
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
over a year ago
Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone March 29, 2024.
11 months ago
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
6 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
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…
Solving the decision...
Durable Objects Callbacks are Weird but it's also convenient to solve human-in-the-loop for ai agents
a month ago
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.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The political preferences of Grok Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini December 8, 2023.
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); ...
a year ago
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Stop begging for JSON How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
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Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan. Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:
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Today marks the end of my first week of full-time indie hacking. I feel like I’m getting in a good groove as far as my daily routine, but I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet how much flexibility I have in terms of my daily schedule. For example, I’m still waking up early to […]
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Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
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If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. The initial blog was on August 25th,...
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On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
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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...
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Emergent Mind finally went viral Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
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Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The major aim of this feature is to support short (90 second max) video streaming at a quality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for us to provide for free. In order to stay within these...
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind in The Atlantic One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The...
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One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The Atlantic who asked Caroline Mimbs Nyce, one of their reporters, to look into it. Caroline interviewed me for the article they just published which focused on the challenges Google is...
One Useful Thing
Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs Also, we have a prompt library!
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Writing good technical explanations Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and...
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Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and many thousands of books, talks and blog…
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Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive or high variance strategy, in that betting more than the Kelly selection can be...
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Introduction Theoretical computer scientists tend to love a class of problems I call “hat color” puzzles. There seem to be only a few of these puzzles, yet they feel like examples or tests for a large and important class of methodologies. I’d like to introduce a few of these...
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After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a surprisingly interesting and helpful experience—I highly recommend it.  With three exceptions,...
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At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
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In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms and Data Structures [1]. Think shortest path-finding, sorting, clever ways to break problems down into simpler problems,...
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OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
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AI Roundup 083: Bioacoustics September 6, 2024.
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I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms global warming and climate change in news media discourse. For some reason, peak usage of the term global warming happened in 2007 and it has been dropping...
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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.
fast.ai
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The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
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)
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Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99% Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a...
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Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by...
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Stargate AI-1 There was a comedy routine a few years ago.
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AI Art Will Push the Top 1% to Human Artists One effect I think we’ll see from all this AI-generated art is magnified status for those who insist...
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One effect I think we’ll see from all this AI-generated art is magnified status for those who insist on the opposite, i.e., manual, human art. The more manual the better. The more human the better. Ideally there’d only be one of whatever you have, and it’d only be yours. Why is...
The Berkeley...
Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy...
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In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
Marcus on AI
The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
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Data science intro for math/phys background Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
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Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
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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,...
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Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
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Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy...
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By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Will AI be open or closed? Will we be able to download and modify these models, or will a few...
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AI Roundup 072: The new new Claude June 21, 2024.
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An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
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Matt Mazur
Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few...
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In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
arXiv vs MathOverflow - popularity of disciplines
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GenAI in two words: ”Success Theater” Success Theater
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What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) Five analytical tasks in under a minute
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GPTs won't make you rich But they'll make you more productive.
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The Gradient
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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.
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Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
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Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard
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AI Roundup 045: Google's just getting started December 15, 2023.
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DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
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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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025 And a review of last year's predictions.
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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
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Bridging AI and human creativity A conversation with Harrison Telyan, co-founder of NUMI.
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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...
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🎙️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...
Marcus on AI
“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones” also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
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AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5 February 28, 2025.
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Why Apple Keeps Winning People are blown away that Apple keeps winning while its competitors are floundering. It’s a simple...
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People are blown away that Apple keeps winning while its competitors are floundering. It’s a simple formula. Make consistently super-high-quality products that work together as part of an ecosystem. Google and Microsoft have 20X Apple’s losses in the last year. A staggering $3...
Matt Mazur
Exploring ChatGPT’s Knowledge Cutoff A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what...
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A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what ChatGPT’s knowledge cutoff date actually is. It seems like it should be straightforward enough to figure out (just ask it), but it can be confusing due to ChatGPT’s inconsistent answers...
Artificial Ignorance
How Intercom is transforming customer support with AI A conversation with Fergal Reid, VP of AI at Intercom.
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The Chatbot Trap Why AI products really need some better UX.
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
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There will be the next Quantum Game with Photons More photons, an electron, so you can play with entanglement. We got invited by Artur Ekert to CQT...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
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On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
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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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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...
Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
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How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
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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…
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AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI July 12, 2024.
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Ensuring the Security and Resilience of Autonomous Fleets with Advanced Testing Frameworks Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks...
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Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks as their complexity grows. Despite advancements, existing testing frameworks fall short in addressing end-to-end security, resilience, and safety in zero-trust environments. The...
One Useful Thing
Detecting the Secret Cyborgs The AI Trap for Organizations
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Marcus on AI
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In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence under Biden, entitled, The Government knows A.G.I.
Daniel Miessler
Reverse Transcription There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
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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...
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
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The intern and the coach A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it...
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A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it found that BCG consultants who used GPT-4 were up to 43% more effective at tasks vs. employees who didn’t.
Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my...
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Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my Macbook (with its Apple M2 chip and 24 GB of memory). Here’s a great overview of the model for anyone interested in learning more. Short version: The Mistral “Mixtral” 8x7B 32k...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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Don't Worry About...
On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
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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.
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fast.ai
There’s no such thing as not a math person Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
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I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
IEEE Spectrum
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AI Roundup 078: Voice mode August 2, 2024.
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Weighty Thoughts
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It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system designed to advance government interests
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AI Roundup 035: Me or your lying eyes October 6, 2023.
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Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
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Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
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What makes strong engineers strong? As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
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As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
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Please Fund More Science Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health,...
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over a year ago
Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal.  Either we get a vaccine good enough that R0 for the world goes below 1, a good enough treatment that people no longer need to be...
Artificial Ignorance
What AI models really think about politics Exploring the political biases of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
4 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 353
over a year ago
fast.ai
Can LLMs learn from a single example? We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
Win Vector LLC
The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts:...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm Photo by Judgefloro – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43063034 Toying with the idea of...
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
The Five Stages of AGI Grief And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial General Intelligence means.
IEEE Spectrum
"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying microbots—weighed down by batteries and electronics—have struggled to get very far. But a new combination of circuits and lightweight solid-state batteries called a “flying batteries”...
Andrej Karpathy blog
(started posting on Medium instead) The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared. I’ve certainly become less active on blogs since I’ve joined Tesla, but whenever I do get a chance to post something I have recently been defaulting to doing it on Medium because...
Weighty Thoughts
Most AI startups are doomed Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
a year ago
Society's Backend
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 080: Grok 2 August 16, 2024.
6 months ago
One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Getting to the top of the GPT Store (and building an AI-native search engine, too) Listen now | A conversation with Christian Salem, founder and CPO of Consensus.
10 months ago
Marcus on AI
AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either. Much was quietly revealed yesterday
2 months ago
AI Snake Oil
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 027: Challenge accepted August 11, 2023
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs breach a threshold Open Source models get more powerful, and an AI system scores silver in Maths Olympiad
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs They're not going to disrupt everything (yet), but they're a ton of fun.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
R1 is reasoning for the masses Why everyone's focused on DeepSeek's new R1 model - and what it means for AI geopolitics.
a month ago
AI Snake Oil
Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays. Good. Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger Pure scaling in shambles
a week ago
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is now EmergentMind Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Naming things is hard. Shortly after ChatGPT launched at the end of November, I decided to build a site to share ChatGPT examples and eventually be the home to educational content to help people learn more about GPT. To my surprise, there were a lot of relevant available .com...
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
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.
Jascha’s blog
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
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);} ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...