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Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Beta in Shambles Maximal Truth still seems far away
3 weeks ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What's next after the AI bubble bursts? In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five...
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In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five year period. This was all largely…
Marcus on AI
OpenAI Cries Foul Irony is for losers
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some...
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When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we do—that’s how (most of us) are built, and that’s the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things...
The Berkeley...
The Berkeley Crossword Solver We recently published the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS), the current state of the art for solving...
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We recently published the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS), the current state of the art for solving American-style crossword puzzles. The BCS combines neural question answering and probabilistic inference to achieve near-perfect performance on most American-style crossword...
Don't Worry About...
Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
a month ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Games in which you walk (and get immersed) SOMA, The Path, Life Is Strange, The Stanley Parable, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Amnesia: The...
over a year ago
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SOMA, The Path, Life Is Strange, The Stanley Parable, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dear Esther, Firewatch
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 035: Me or your lying eyes October 6, 2023.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking December 20, 2024.
2 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News, Analysis, and Discovery | NO. 356 SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read...
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SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read European TikTok data. Pressure is increasing across the US government to outright ban the app, but it's quickly becoming national infrastructure so many young people. MORE |...
Jaz's Blog
How HLS Works Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The...
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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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
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
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of Google Bard It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system...
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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
Artificial Ignorance
10 of the most impactful AI stories of 2023 A quick look back on a very busy year in AI.
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
I don't know how to build software and you don't either Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it...
3 months ago
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Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it better to have that dictated by some…
Marcus on AI
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI With a review of last year’s predictions
2 months ago
fast.ai
GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving...
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a year ago
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
Rozado’s Visual...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
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In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 070: AI whistleblowers June 7, 2024.
9 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On the OpenAI Economic Blueprint Table of Contents
a month 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
One Useful Thing
Which AI should I use? Superpowers and the State of Play And then there were three...
11 months ago
Matt Mazur
Indie Hacking Week 2 Recap – TimelineGPT Progress, LearnGPT Decision Time For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin...
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For Martin Luther King weekend my family and I headed to Boone, North Carolina and stayed in a cabin for a few days. We went snow tubing at Beech Mountain while we were there, one of the many ski resorts in the area. As is common on vacations, I spent way too much time thinking...
Society's Backend
Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Three Ideas for Regulating Generative AI Policy input to the federal government from a Stanford-Princeton team
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D Ideas come from the edges, not the center
8 months ago
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
5 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
4 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
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I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
Matt Mazur
Screw it, I’m Keeping Emergent Mind A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I...
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A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I could focus on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker. I wound up having a lot of discussions with potential buyers, but in the end the offers I received were either too low to be worth...
Strange Loop Canon
How would you interview an AI, to give it a job? from puzzles to poker
a week ago
One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
a year ago
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
a month ago
Sam Altman
Helion Needs You Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q >...
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Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1...
AI Snake Oil
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
7 months ago
Solving the decision...
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
6 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On OpenAI's Safety and Alignment Philosophy OpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and...
a week ago
Sam Altman
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
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There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
AI Tidbits: AI...
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
a month ago
The Berkeley...
Goal Representations for Instruction Following Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is...
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Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is centered and set to 50% page width. --> A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has...
Society's Backend
JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
9 months ago
The Berkeley...
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks TLDR: We propose the asymmetric...
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Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks TLDR: We propose the asymmetric certified robustness problem, which requires certified robustness for only one class and reflects real-world adversarial scenarios. This focused setting allows us to introduce...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 032: The Insight Forum September 15, 2023.
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Sleep, Diet, Exercise and GLP-1 Drugs As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are...
a month ago
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a month ago
As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are all different and our motivations are different, so figuring out the best things to do is difficult.
Stories by Andrej...
ICLR 2017 vs arxiv-sanity
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Claude 3.7 and the banality of reasoning Plus Claude Code and notes on our rapidly converging AI future
2 weeks ago
Strange Loop Canon
People want competence, seemingly over everything else All elections are about state capacity
4 months ago
Matt Mazur
When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help...
a year ago
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a year ago
For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help (thanks Liesl!), but these days support takes at most an hour per week, and all requests fall into two buckets: As a result, there hasn’t been a pressing need to outsource support. But...
Sam Altman
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
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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,...
Daniel Miessler
Scott Kuffer of Nucleus Security | SPONSORED INTERVIEW SERIES In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO...
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In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO of Nucleus Security. I was already excited by this vendor just based on the research I did to allow them to be a sponsor, but the conversation with them really made me think they’re...
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024 2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
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2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
Artificial Ignorance
What President Biden's AI executive order actually means I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Ghostbuster: Detecting Text Ghostwritten by Large Language Models The structure of Ghostbuster, our new state-of-the-art method for detecting AI-generated...
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The structure of Ghostbuster, our new state-of-the-art method for detecting AI-generated text. Large language models like ChatGPT write impressively well—so well, in fact, that they’ve become a problem. Students have begun using these models to ghostwrite assignments, leading...
One Useful Thing
Speaking things into existence Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
2 days ago
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
11 months ago
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
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Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
One Useful Thing
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
5 months ago
Society's Backend
Know Your Benchmarks How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
11 months ago
Society's Backend
An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked...
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Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
Society's Backend
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
Economics Roundup #5 While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch up on the queue and look at various economics-related things.
One Useful Thing
The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation Taking AI timelines seriously
a year ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries every developer needs to build functional and efficient AI...
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue September 1, 2023
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Exploring ChatGPT’s Knowledge Cutoff A recurring topic of discussion on the OpenAI forums, on Reddit, and on Twitter is about what...
a year ago
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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
AI Roundup 064: Big Tech's small models April 26, 2024.
10 months ago
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
a year ago
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a year ago
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 368 | ChinaBalloons, CustomGPT, 90s++… ✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll...
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✅ Please add this address to your "safe senders" or equivalent within your mail client. It'll prevent the email from occasionally descending into the void. SECURITY The US shot down a Chinese spy balloon. They gathered the debris from the water it fell into, and it's currently...
Sam Altman
The Virus Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to...
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Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19. I hope that society views this as a warning for the future.  Covid-19 is bad, but only a warm-up.  I think it’s...
AI Snake Oil
Will AI transform law? The hype is not supported by current evidence
a year ago
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting Don't overcomplicate things
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
In defense of Gemini a kvetch
a week ago
One Useful Thing
The Best Available Human Standard What are the imperatives of the upside?
a year ago
Society's Backend
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
8 months ago
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
10 months ago
Marcus on AI
Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right
3 months ago
Matt Mazur
The Security Questionnaire Dilemma About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a...
a year ago
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About once a year I get an email from someone working in a security and compliance department at a large organization asking that I fill out a detailed security questionnaire to help them assess the risk of their employees using Preceden. I received one recently from a large,...
Marcus on AI
“Nvidia could soon take a serious hit, too” The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, but today might be the day.
a month ago
Xena
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
a month ago
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My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to build an AI agent (Part 2) Part 2: Giving our agent internet access.
a year ago
Sam Altman
Join the YC Software Team If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's...
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If you want to get funded by YC as a founder in the future, but you don't have a startup that's ready for that yet, joining the YC software team is a great hack to get there. The YC software team is a small group of hackers in SF that write the software that makes all the parts...
Solving the decision...
The next evolution of serverless is stateful (A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
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...
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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...
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...
Daniel Miessler
My Prediction For Twitter I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the...
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I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the shenanigans. As for my take on things, I will just say that Elon miscalculated a number of things in his handling of the transition. I think he thought his actions would be better received....
Daniel Miessler
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
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over a year ago
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
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Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
Artificial Ignorance
Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to...
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While benchmarks (and leaderboards) are useful tools, they are but a small facet when it comes to evaluating large language models. Often, they're not the best indicators of real-world utility - and I want to dig into why (and what other approaches exist).
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I know I'm working with a strong engineer There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE,...
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There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE, what projects they’ve worked on). I…
Strange Loop Canon
AI bill vetoed; what's next? Make AI regulations evidence based
5 months ago
Win Vector LLC
Kelly Betting With Discrete Stakes In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s...
2 months ago
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In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s Mathematical Puzzles. Our observation is the amazing zero variance strategy shown is in fact the Kelly criteria. Which means, this is a surprising situation where the Kelly strategy...
One Useful Thing
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true...
a year ago
Society's Backend
LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
7 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Closing Quantum Flytrap
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 2) VC funding, here we come.
5 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Reachy 2 IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU DHABI, UAE ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024,...
Marcus on AI
Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
a month ago
Society's Backend
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
4 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Science-based games and explorable explanations Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making complex topics like physics and machine learning accessible and fun.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 051: The Taylor Swift thing January 26, 2024.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random...
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over a year ago
Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random Thoughts If you’re reading this you already know the internet is on fire over the new  GPTChatBot from OpenAI. There are people using it to create full virtual machines, to be their...
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...
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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”...
Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
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Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 108: Vibecoding March 7, 2025.
6 days ago
The Gradient
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in...
3 months ago
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What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while...
Sam Altman
The Strength of Being Misunderstood A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
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over a year ago
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
Don't Worry About...
NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
What can LLMs never do? On goal drift and lower reliability. Or, why can't LLMs play Conway's Game Of Life?
10 months ago
Marcus on AI
Shame on Google, twice A very, very brief Super Bowl special
a month ago
Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
3 weeks ago
Society's Backend
Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
2 weeks ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI's Strawberry May Enhance AI Reasoning, Optimization of Vision Language Models, Info on... Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mars Chopper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
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
The Berkeley...
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
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TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
AI Tidbits: AI...
The Voice Agents Toolkit for Builders Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries to launch reliable and efficient voice agents
2 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
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Sam Altman
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
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Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
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This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Tinder anecdata and Sankey diagrams I really enjoy visiting r/dataisbeautiful, both for original content [OC]. Yesterday, I saw a post...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really enjoy visiting r/dataisbeautiful, both for original content [OC]. Yesterday, I saw a post about visualizing Tinder matches for…
IEEE Spectrum
Why Simone Giertz, the Queen of Useless Robots, Got Serious On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked...
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On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked perfectly for ridiculous applications, such as a headboard-mounted alarm clock with a rubber hand to slap the user awake. This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie...
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Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się…
Marcus on AI
Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
a week ago
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Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team...
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Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven…
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
4 months ago
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...
Society's Backend
Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
2 months ago
Made by Ollin
Priors for Autonomous Vehicle Development
over a year ago
Sam Altman
Idea Generation The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
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The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
The first post: why Jekyll? Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
10 months ago
Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
a month ago
Weighty Thoughts
What Mattered in GenAI in 2024 Despite the Noise, The Big Narratives from January are Still the Big Narratives
15 hours ago
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year ago
Solving the decision...
smol party: Hello Wololo! Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here
a month 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
Artificial Ignorance
The greatest movies never made A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
a month 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...
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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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Starting deep learning hands-on: image classification on CIFAR-10
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
This Inventor Is Molding Tomorrow’s Inventors This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing Invention: Stories from Innovation’s...
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This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing Invention: Stories from Innovation’s Edge.” Marina Umaschi Bers has long been at the forefront of technological innovation for kids. In the 2010s, while teaching at Tufts University, in Massachusetts, she codeveloped the...
Society's Backend
Things Everyone Should Understand About the Stanford AI Index Report And my notes on why they’re important
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
How a $2000/hour escort uses AI to automate sex work Listen now | A conversation with Adelyn Moore, an independent escort and adult content creator.
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
a year 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
fast.ai
My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
a year ago
The Berkeley...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
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FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another. Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
Don't Worry About...
AI #104: American State Capacity on the Brink The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they...
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The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they have done in many other places and departments, seemingly purely because they want to find people they can fire.
Sam Altman
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
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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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum mechanics for high-school students Outlines and materials related to my basics courses, with light polarization as the quantum...
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Outlines and materials related to my basics courses, with light polarization as the quantum information carrier.
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025 And a review of last year's predictions.
2 months ago
fast.ai
AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale Moving AI ethics beyond explainability and fairness to empowerment and justice
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Automating creativity There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative.
a year ago
Solving the decision...
iff On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
over a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
Yes you should understand backprop
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Software Engineering is Doomed Or is it?
8 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI Winters and The Third Wave of Today A sneak preview from my upcoming book "What You Need To Know About AI"
a month 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
4 weeks ago
Society's Backend
LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 033: DALL·E 3 September 22, 2023.
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
On Writing #1 This isn’t primarily about how I write.
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
Saving the world with AI and government grants Listen now | A conversation with Helena Merk, founder and CEO of Streamline Climate.
8 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI in Hedge Funds and High Finance Talking about the future of AI in finance with Alex Campbell
a month ago
Marcus on AI
Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply
a month ago
One Useful Thing
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
over a year ago
Sam Altman
Tech Workers' Values For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the...
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For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights....
Artificial Ignorance
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
a year ago
Society's Backend
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases...
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The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases open models, Google generates audio for video, and more
Society's Backend
Should You Get a PhD? The one good reason to do a PhD and two others that fall flat
5 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
7 months ago
Society's Backend
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
a week ago
Marcus on AI
CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble
4 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes) Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Elon Musk's inability to listen to others is torching almost everything he touches Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was...
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2 weeks ago
Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was taking a flamethrower to his own reputation.
Artificial Ignorance
Stop begging for JSON How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
3 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...
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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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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...
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
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SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
Weighty Thoughts
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology But is AI different than other technologies?
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Hot take on an AI catfight Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
a month ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters...
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Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
a year ago
The Gradient
Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen? Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for...
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Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for self-driving cars, and what are the key challenges?
Frank’s Ramblings
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...
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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...
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Lessons on thinking from large language models Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars...
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Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars have been spent to study how they think…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 047: NYT v. OpenAI Friday, December 29.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports The debate about the harms of AI is happening in a data vacuum
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
I gave ChatGPT access to my Gmail I'm sure this will end well.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species...
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Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality data that can be fed into...
Frank’s Ramblings
a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing … glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on...
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a year ago
… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr: The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered...
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
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About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
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
The Gradient
Why Doesn’t My Model Work? Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
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Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
Don't Worry About...
Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
a month ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras or PyTorch as your first deep learning framework
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today The book will be published on September 24
6 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 366 | T-Breach, Siri++, Conception Ages… 🎙️If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
over a year ago
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🎙️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 Another T-Mobile Breach T-Mobile has had another security breach, this one affecting at least 37 million accounts. They...
Sam Altman
Hard Startups The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard...
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over a year ago
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be...
Xena
Formalising modern research mathematics in real time (This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and...
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a year ago
(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and Sahasrabudhe appeared on the arXiv, announcing an exponential improvement to the upper bound on Ramsey numbers, an open problem since 1935. … Continue reading →
IEEE Spectrum
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
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a month ago
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
over a year ago
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Good engineers are right, a lot Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s...
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Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about…
Win Vector LLC
Don’t think of a basketball player, or search engines don’t even support “not” In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a...
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In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a while. This may be a small part of why the newer Large Language Models (LLMs) / Generative AIs look so good. The large language models at least implement a usable approximation of...
Sam Altman
American Equity I’d like feedback on the following idea. I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual...
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over a year ago
I’d like feedback on the following idea. I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual share of the US GDP. I believe that owning something like a share in America would align all of us in making the country as successful as possible—the better the country does, the...
Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
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Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
Marcus on AI
Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions
3 days ago
Weighty Thoughts
When the AI Bubble Bursts It’s when, not if, for these kinds of new technologies
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 069: Project Greymatter May 31, 2024.
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The intern and the coach A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it...
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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
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
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One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
Daniel Miessler
Humiliation is Deadly I’ve been thinking for a few years about the danger presented by humiliated people and groups. That...
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I’ve been thinking for a few years about the danger presented by humiliated people and groups. That is, people who not only feel like they have no respect and no options to gain any respect, but who also feel that: They deserve those things, and… That someone else is the cause of...
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Blockchain for beginners Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making...
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Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making distributed crypto-currencies like Bitcoin…
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Smart Icons, Automatic Suggestions, Dealing with Spammers, Better Icon Colors Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we...
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Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we rolled out the AI Suggestions feature last week, the typical experience for the user would go something like this: Lots of UX issues there though: To remedy this, I updated Preceden to...
AI Snake Oil
Can AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI stories that shaped 2024 Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot Introduces Modular Mobile Home Robot Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a...
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Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something...
Society's Backend
Godmother of AI Warns Against Regulation, Apple Intelligence System Prompts, Faster and Cheaper AI,... Machine learning resources and updates 8/12/2024
7 months ago
Society's Backend
AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
The future, soon: what I learned from Bing's AI We had a brief glimpse of two different types of AI. Both are significant
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
GenAI in two words: ”Success Theater” Success Theater
2 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
Acceleration. 7 days of new AI technologies shows us that everything is happening very fast.
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
AlphaGo, in context
over a year ago
Win Vector LLC
ODSC West 2024 I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus...
4 months ago
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I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus McGovern again! Thank you ODSC for putting together a great conference and being wonderful hosts at ODSCWest. I had a great time, and was very energized by all of the […]
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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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...
Jaz's Blog
Speeding Up Massive PostgreSQL Joins with Common Table Expressions I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent...
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I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network. This network creates text-based posts at a rate of around 400,000 posts per day, and I’ve been feeding the posts through different ML models to try and...
Artificial Ignorance
Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
GPT and Search There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down...
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There’s a lot of talk about how GPT is going to take over search. Meaning, compete with or take down Google. I get the excitement there, but there are some pretty serious barriers to having this happen immediately. First, GPT is non-deterministic, meaning you can ask it the same...
Sam Altman
A Clarification I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to...
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I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it. I didn’t mean that we need to tolerate brilliant homophobic jerks in the lab so that we can have scientific progress.  Although there are famous...
Solving the decision...
The unfortunate truth of software for technologists It's all about the money, baby
a month ago
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Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
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Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
Society's Backend
Anti-Social Media How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
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a year ago
How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
IEEE Spectrum
Worm-like Robots Install Power Lines Underground After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to...
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After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to prevent future fires has gained renewed urgency in the state. While the exact cause of the fires remains under investigation, California utilities have spent years undergrounding power...
One Useful Thing
In Praise of Boring AI Automation has always been about killing tedious work. AI can do the same.
a year ago
Sam Altman
E Pur Si Muove Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.  I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home. That...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Drogowskaz Pasjonata
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
2 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
This Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then installing it on location can be tedious for multi-part projects. What if there was a way for your printer to print its creation exactly where you needed it? That’s the promise of...
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
Society's Backend
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
2 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 026: AudioCraft August 4, 2023
a year ago
Jascha’s blog
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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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...
One Useful Thing
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
7 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Fall of Data Moats AI actually makes most data moats weaker
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
a year ago
Society's Backend
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The ‘Great Awokening' Preceded Trump. It May Continue Beyond Him Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They’ve simultaneously become
Strange Loop Canon
Power, money and human nature Thoughts on OpenAI, a tragedy
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to leverage long form content with AI Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
9 months 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...
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers”...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
a year 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
Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025 OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 353
over a year ago
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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback: for actions, not guilt.
Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
3 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 349
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
a month ago
Society's Backend
All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve decided to try out separating paid/free updates. I’m constantly trying new ways to make information consumption easier for you while working within the confines of the platforms...
Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
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
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
My Book's Pre-Sale is Live! Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
a month ago
Jaz's Blog
A Tale of Two Technologies: Why Large Language Models are the Future and the Metaverse Isn't In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the Metaverse and Large Language Models (LLMs). Though the Metaverse, a virtual reality-based universe, initially garnered significant attention and expectations, it ultimately failed to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 081: Creative differences August 23, 2024.
6 months ago
Sam Altman
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get...
a year ago
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a year ago
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry...
Jaz's Blog
Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1) I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things have been going very well. The system scales and handles millions of users without breaking a sweat, the ScyllaDB-backed Data Plane service sits at under 5% DB load in the most...
Society's Backend
Why Gemini's Struggles Aren't Straightforward And an overview of LLM security issues
11 months ago
The Berkeley...
Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Strange Loop Canon
Symposium: On Building God
a year ago
The Gradient
Salmon in the Loop On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
a year ago
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a year ago
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
Society's Backend
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
6 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
I wrote a book! AI enables us to, finally, get "soft" APIs
a year ago
Sam Altman
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Marcus on AI
The race for "AI Supremacy" is over — at least for now. Decades of government kowtowing to Big Tech has thus far failed to produce a decisive victory
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Hottest On The Ice Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
a year ago
Jaz's Blog
Scaling Go to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView. The AppView is a piece of infrastructure that aggregates posts, likes, follows, etc. from all across ATProto and merges them into a consistent view of the...
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...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
6 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less) The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
A new AI scaling law shell game? Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
3 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 077: A good week for open-source July 26, 2024.
7 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Soul nullius in verba
a year ago