Eugene Yan
What I Did Not Learn About Writing In School
Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
2nd Aug 2020
Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
Eugene Yan
Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
19th Oct 2025
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
Ollama
Ollama: all aboard open models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and...
9th Jul 2026
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and many incredible angel investors.
Ollama
Structured outputs
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a...
6th Dec 2024
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
Mind Prison
AI Hallucinations: Proven Unsolvable | Why They Exist | Why They Incentivize Nefarious AI Uses
The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
17th Jun 2025
The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
Max Woolf's Blog
The Best Way to Use Text Embeddings Portably is With Parquet and Polars
Never store embeddings in a CSV!
24th Feb 2025
Never store embeddings in a CSV!
Woody Hayday
Small Bet Models
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I...
22nd Jul 2024
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I thought I’d explore a range of models rather than relying on my ‘known’ entrepreneurial mode (Freemium SaaS/WordPress plugin based business). Below I’ve collected together the...
fast.ai
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to...
20th Jan 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is one of our civilization’s oldest and most powerful technologies for trying to...
Win Vector LLC
Kelly Can’t Fail
Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly...
19th Dec 2024
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...
David Rozado...
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...
2nd Aug 2022
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...
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks
Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
10th Jun 2023
Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
Mind Prison
All Political Systems Die
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
7th Mar 2025
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
Matt Mazur
Progress on TimelineGPT, Emergent Mind missteps, finding balance
Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s...
27th Mar 2023
Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s periodic update on what I’ve been up to: TimelineGPT About two months ago I launched an in-app tool for Preceden that provides GPT-powered event suggestions to users to help them build...
David Rozado...
The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines
Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological...
19th Oct 2022
Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We used Transformer language models fine-tuned for...
Eugene Yan
INSEAD Lunchtime Talks - How Lazada uses Data
And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
25th Apr 2018
And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
laike9m's blog
我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
10th Aug 2025
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went.
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
14th Apr 2023
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
Weighty Thoughts
Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size
Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
5th Nov 2025
Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
Max Woolf's Blog
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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...
2nd Jan 2023
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...
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
9th Jan 2025
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
Ollama
Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models
Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted...
3rd Jun 2025
Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.
Eugene Yan
Tech in Asia - My Journey in Data Science and Advice for others
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
26th Jul 2017
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
Mind Prison
2026 Important Updated Perspectives on AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
1st Feb 2026
Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I ship projects at big tech companies
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
9th Nov 2024
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
Eugene Yan
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) Review and Tips
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
3rd Sep 2019
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
AI Tidbits
LinkedIn Highlights, Mar 2025
Document AI breakthroughs from GOT-OCR, Maestro, and Mistral, Vellum's agent autonomy framework,...
6th Apr 2025
Document AI breakthroughs from GOT-OCR, Maestro, and Mistral, Vellum's agent autonomy framework, Skyvern's visual web automation, plus performance tips for ChatGPT and reasoning models
Armin Ronacher's...
In Support Of Shitty Types
You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of
good typing systems. ...
4th Aug 2025
You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of
good typing systems. One of the reasons I find them useful is that they enable
autocomplete, which is generally a good feature. Having a well-integrated type
system that makes sense and gives you...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
Rachel Thomas, PhD
The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part...
6th May 2024
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part 1 here. A microbiome is the community of microorganisms found living together in a given habitat. The microbiome of the human gut can contribute to development of autoimmune...
fast.ai
Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment...
4th May 2023
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
Eugene Yan
A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why?
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
3rd May 2020
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 147: OpenAI's Code Red
December 5, 2025.
5th Dec 2025
fast.ai
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it...
3rd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
Don't Worry About...
2025 State of AI Report and Predictions
The 2025 State of AI Report is out, with lots of fun slides and a full video presentation.
10th Oct 2025
The 2025 State of AI Report is out, with lots of fun slides and a full video presentation.
David Rozado...
The Age of AI Flattery
How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
5th Aug 2025
How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
matt.sh
datakit: the most efficient data structures possible
datakit — the most efficient data structure library
A while ago I made a data structure library...
10th Jun 2024
datakit — the most efficient data structure library
A while ago I made a data structure library fixing memory efficiency problems across many data structure types, but I never ended up releasing it.
Now I’m releasing it.
TOC:
History / Why
databox
Efficient Maps
Efficient...
Jascha’s blog
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law
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6th Nov 2022
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Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to worse outcomes.
This is true almost everywhere.
We will name...
Eugene Yan
2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
3rd Jan 2021
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
Armin Ronacher's...
Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work
Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not
only is it getting...
30th Jul 2025
Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not
only is it getting millions of
downloads,
but these tools are also gaining features that help streamline workflows. As
you know, I got very excited about agentic coding in May,
and I’ve tried many of...
David Rozado...
The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms "global warming" and "climate change" in news...
I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing...
21st Dec 2021
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...
IEEE Spectrum
The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models,...
1st Dec 2025
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); in just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Data science intro for math/phys background
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
15th Mar 2016
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
Alex Strick van...
Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are...
4th Feb 2025
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are my notes on the chapter.
Overview and Core Philosophy
“Data will be mostly just toil, tears and sweat.”
This is how we start the chapter :) This candid assessment frames dataset...
fast.ai
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading
Experiments in reading with LLMs
20th Jan 2026
Experiments in reading with LLMs
AI Snake Oil
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
17th Nov 2022
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
matt.sh
AI Apocalypse Update #33
AI Apocalypse Terminality Update #33
it is a fearful thing, to fall into the hands of the living...
4th Dec 2022
AI Apocalypse Terminality Update #33
it is a fearful thing, to fall into the hands of the living god
The war on individual self-owned computing is accelerating. dead reckoning indicates imminent social and economic criticality. In the near future, your computer will only be a...
Weighty Thoughts
The Boring Phase of AI
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
4th Dec 2025
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
Dylan Huang Blog
The Impossible Testing Problem for AI Applications
26th Aug 2025
The Berkeley...
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction
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1st Jul 2025
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Rachel Thomas, PhD
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a...
3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
Stories by Andrej...
Yes you should understand backprop
19th Dec 2016
Eugene Yan
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
10th Apr 2022
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
The Berkeley...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories
Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
12th Nov 2024
Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience.
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We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
US Calls Iranian Retaliatory Strikes "Unprovoked", And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
2nd Mar 2026
David Rozado...
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...
28th Jan 2025
How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political orientation tests
Token for Token
There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
9th Apr 2025
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
Win Vector LLC
Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating...
21st May 2026
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data. It is a technical demonstration on how what one observes (outcomes, frequencies, and so on) differ from what we want to know...
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I...
11th Dec 2023
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on gRPC to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
Sam Altman
Helion
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
5th Nov 2021
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen.
David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2nd Feb 2025
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
One Useful Thing
AI in organizations: Some tactics
Meet the Lab and the Crowd
4th Oct 2024
Meet the Lab and the Crowd
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter
2nd Jan 2026
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Zapaleńcy i wypaleńcy, czyli o utracie pasji w trakcie studiów
26th Feb 2010
Win Vector LLC
Exploring Chess Positions and Counts
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number...
11th Feb 2026
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than the “Shannon number” 10120 side-note from Shanon’s remarkable 1950 paper “Programming a...
Eugene Yan
How I’m Reflecting on 2020 and Planning for 2021
Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
6th Dec 2020
Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
7th Dec 2023
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
laike9m's blog
调整一下投资的思路
我主要的问题是太过追求找到高 beta 的标的，却忽视了那些领头羊公司。
16th Jul 2025
我主要的问题是太过追求找到高 beta 的标的，却忽视了那些领头羊公司。
Eugene Yan
AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied...
27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems
AI Customer Targeting Levels – From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems
29th Aug 2018
AI Customer Targeting Levels – From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems
The Berkeley...
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
We deployed 100 reinforcement...
25th Mar 2025
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning
We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition
July 5, 2024.
5th Jul 2024
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Protest Laws Should Be Viewed As Efforts To Ban Criticism Of Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st May 2026
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects
2nd Jan 2015
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Getting the main thing right
5th Feb 2026
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA
February 2, 2024.
2nd Feb 2024
David Rozado...
The Political Preferences of LLMs
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
2nd Feb 2024
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
Eugene Yan
Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
31st Mar 2024
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
Armin Ronacher's...
Absurd In Production
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a
durable execution system we built for our own use at...
4th Apr 2026
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a
durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely
on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you don’t need a
separate service, a
compiler plugin, or an entire
runtime to get durable...
AI for Software...
ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement
The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
10th Sep 2025
The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
29th Dec 2023
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
Cal Newport
Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion...
27th Jul 2026
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face announced that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more
The post Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? appeared first on Cal Newport.
Eugene Yan
DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes
Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
7th Feb 2021
Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
One Useful Thing
Thinking companion, companion for thinking
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
Mind Prison
How Verifier Loops Made AI Coding Useful | The Rise of Vibeware, Abandonware and Technical Debt as...
How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex...
22nd Mar 2026
How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex applications and at what cost?
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest
“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
2nd Sep 2024
“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
Token for Token
'AI' just means LLMs now
There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now...
2nd Aug 2025
There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now there's only one.
Giles' blog
Putting my JAX-trained models on the Hugging Face Hub
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers...
2 weeks ago
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers has been PyTorch-only since version 5
(though they say they're working to add interoperability with JAX in the future), so it
would have been tough to get them working natively with...
Armin Ronacher's...
Latent Powers
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those
cheap Chinese CarPlay...
2 weeks ago
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those
cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The
idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, why not do something more
interesting with them? They all work quite...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Biohacking Lite
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
11th Jun 2020
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
The Berkeley...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
28th Aug 2024
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected.
The...
the singularity is...
The Reckoning
So go ask your Chomsky
10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial...
2nd Apr 2026
So go ask your Chomsky
10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial Class, I used to talk about the reckoning. It was a nebulous concept, but it mostly involved the abrupt fall from grace of these people at the hands of machines. It’s kind of...
laike9m's blog
初入投资容易犯的错误
我想列举几个初入投资容易犯的错误，其中的坑我也踩过。
29th Jun 2025
我想列举几个初入投资容易犯的错误，其中的坑我也踩过。
Max Woolf's Blog
What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
18th Jul 2026
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
matt.sh
AI Is This Correct?
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output.
The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind
I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
10th Jul 2023
I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
Token for Token
Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
15th Jun 2026
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove
2nd Jul 2026
AI Tidbits
LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025
Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat...
2nd Mar 2025
Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat with multiple LLMs, and tips to improve the performance of GPT-4.5 and o3
Marcus on AI
Breaking GPT-5 news
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
Sam Altman
American Equity
I’d like feedback on the following idea.
I think that every adult US citizen should get an annual...
27th Nov 2017
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...
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange.
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
20th Jan 2023
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator recognition with transfer learning
3rd Oct 2018
Solving the decision...
let the code do the talking
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
13th Mar 2026
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
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.
6th Sep 2022
Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
matt.sh
agent-shell: your output, your storage
agent-shell: stop spilling
your outputs
since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing...
a week ago
agent-shell: stop spilling
your outputs
since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one
thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head
or tail or grep or sed or awk. That’s all they really want.
Except, they do it wrong the majority of...
Win Vector LLC
Don’t Let a Data Leak Sink Your Project
One of the bigger risks of iterative statistical or machine learning fitting procedures is over-fit...
6th May 2025
One of the bigger risks of iterative statistical or machine learning fitting procedures is over-fit or the dreaded data leak. Over-fit is when: a model performs better on training data than on future data. Some degree of over-fit is expected. A data leak is when: the model learns...
One Useful Thing
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
4th Nov 2024
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
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
11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Outside of the bubble, AI is Black Mirror
5th Dec 2025
The Berkeley...
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
29th Apr 2022
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to a technology with real-world applications. Notable examples include DeepMind’s work on controlling a nuclear reactor or on improving Youtube video compression, or Tesla attempting...
Max Woolf's Blog
Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
22nd Dec 2025
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
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...
10th May 2022
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...
Solving the decision...
Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius
The World Will Be Prompt
28th May 2026
Matt Mazur
Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden
Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing...
20th Dec 2021
Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
AI Snake Oil
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
31st May 2023
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
One Useful Thing
An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
The Summer 2026 Edition
23rd Jul 2026
Piotr Migdał's Blog
After PyData Warsaw 2017
Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw...
15th Nov 2017
Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw Conference 2017 (19-20 Oct 2017).
Zach Seward
The jackpot is a lie
Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
1st Aug 2023
Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
Woody Hayday
Market Research for Entrepreneurs
What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out...
14th Oct 2024
What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out a smart niche report. (Market research for entrepreneurs.)
The post Market Research for Entrepreneurs first appeared on Woody Hayday.
matt.sh
lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation
Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools...
23rd Jul 2018
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation
Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools every day this week.
day 1: lematt
day 2: netmatt
day 3: email 2018
day 4: web 2018
day 5: local nets
I made a kickass certificate automation platform called lematt and this page is...
matt.sh
so talent much person
The Most Talented Person In The World
I discovered a genius online. Just look at all her...
11th May 2024
The Most Talented Person In The World
I discovered a genius online. Just look at all her accomplishments:
Jodie is a cross-functional 3D designer and blogger. She has special interests in open source 3D printing for R&D and has spent a lot of time at different projects across the...
Caitlin’s Newsletter
There Are No Good Zionists, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Apr 2026
Eugene Yan
AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your...
27th Oct 2024
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
Token for Token
The Case for More Ambition
why AI researchers should dream bigger and publish less
9th Jun 2025
why AI researchers should dream bigger and publish less
The Berkeley...
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving...
20th Jul 2024
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
25th Apr 2019
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
Strange Loop Canon
LLM councils show groupthink
perils and problems of LLM peer review
15th Jun 2026
perils and problems of LLM peer review
Xena
The Annals Challenge
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50...
13th Aug 2026
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50 Lean statements, corresponding to 50 important recent mathematical theorems! The 50 theorems were all published in the Annals of Mathematics (a prestigious mathematical journal) …...
Sam Altman
Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
28th May 2020
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...
Eugene Yan
Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
14th Sep 2025
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent...
4th Feb 2016
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent research shows that STEM students are indeed more autistic than the general population.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings...
Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about...
1st Dec 2025
Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta: It's one thing to hire an ex-Meta lobbyist, another entirely if she's signed a non-disparagement contract. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Custom...
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...
9th Jan 2025
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...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026)
Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this:...
2nd Feb 2026
Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Acme License-Plate Maker; IPV4 delenda est; Mandatory gun-ownership; Sukey; Ross and Carrie x LRH; Criti-hype. Upcoming appearances: Where...
One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI in Writing a Problem?
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
3rd Apr 2026
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
One Useful Thing
What just happened, what is happening next
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9th Apr 2024
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not
January 3, 2025.
3rd Jan 2025
Mind Prison: Notes...
Users prefer wrong answers when written by AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
26th May 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Decoding T cells with AI
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s...
8th Jul 2024
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s important that scientists share their work with a broader audience. This 3-part series is an experiment: an accessible introduction to AI immunology concepts. This post is part 1 in...
Sam Altman
Hard Startups
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard...
26th Feb 2020
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...
The Berkeley...
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
10th Jul 2023
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...
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1)
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
2nd Oct 2024
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
Weighty Thoughts
America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great!
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
3rd Jul 2026
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
Don't Worry About...
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on...
2 weeks ago
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass
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27th Mar 2021
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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...
Sam Altman
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Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.
Images have power, I hope....
10th Apr 2026
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything.
Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no...
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
28th Jan 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
Xena
Beyond the Liquid Tensor Experiment
The liquid tensor experiment is now fully completed. Continue reading →
12th Sep 2022
The liquid tensor experiment is now fully completed. Continue reading →
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
10th Jan 2025
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this...
1st Jun 2026
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this moment and for the moments that led to it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Home chemistry sets in danger; Every pirate wants to be an admiral; Painful...
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.
21st Oct 2022
Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
Sam Altman
Productivity
I think I am
at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me...
10th Apr 2018
I think I am
at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for
productivity tips. So I decided to just write them all down in one place.
Compound
growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well,
and it is magic. A...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Why use version control systems for writing a paper?
22nd Feb 2013
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...
6th Jan 2017
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
AI Tidbits
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents v2
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
1st Jun 2025
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
Caitlin’s Newsletter
Israeli Officials Promote Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories About Israel
Reading by Tim Foley:
2 weeks ago
The Gradient
AGI Is Not Multimodal
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
4th Jun 2025
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd
The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
Arguing with...
The AI Panic Attack
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
16th Feb 2026
Sharing what I've learned from mental health challenges and the moment we are in today.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
!!con or doing inclusivity well
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
14th Aug 2017
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
Society's Backend:...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
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...
7th Feb 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
Society's Backend:...
I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI
And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
6th Feb 2024
And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look...
1st Aug 2026
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; David Byrne x WinXP; Furries...
AI Tidbits: AI...
Agent-Responsive Design: Rethinking the web for an agentic future
How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
17th Nov 2024
How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
Zach Seward
AI news that's fit to print
My talk at SXSW 2024
11th Mar 2024
David Rozado...
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
20th Jan 2022
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has documented a pronounced increase in the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in American news media content. Some have referred to this shift in journalistic discourse and related...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again
April 4, 2025.
4th Apr 2025
Jaz's Blog
Turning Billions of Strings into Integers Every Second Without Collisions
I’ve recently started building a POC of a Redis RESP3 Wire Compatible Key/Value Database built on...
26th Sep 2025
I’ve recently started building a POC of a Redis RESP3 Wire Compatible Key/Value Database built on FoundationDB with @calabro.io and though it’s rather early, it’s already spawned a fun distributed systems problem that I thought would be interesting to share.
Previously I’ve...
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...
24th Jan 2019
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter.
Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier...
fast.ai
A new old kind of R&D lab
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
12th Dec 2023
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
Caitlin’s Newsletter
New Painting: Roger Waters
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
1st Nov 2025
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
Ollama
Tool support
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to...
25th Jul 2024
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world.
Stories by Andrej...
Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
17th Jan 2017
Eugene Yan
How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and...
11th Feb 2024
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
Artificial Ignorance
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
5th Dec 2024
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
10th Apr 2023
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
matt.sh
AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4
AI More Stories
These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized...
25th Nov 2023
AI More Stories
These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized to 4 bits (20 GB total quantized instead of 70 GB natural width).
It feels almost better than GPT-4 at some tasks. Also considering it costs nothing to run this model locally, the...
Eugene Yan
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
31st Jul 2022
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
To make a cool game, you first have to play other cool games
26th Aug 2019
Andrej Karpathy blog
microgpt
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12th Feb 2026
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This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies...
AI as Normal...
AI as Normal Technology
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019 (“Antimicrobial Resistance” 2023). In the USA, AMR results annually in 8 million additional days spent in the hospital and over $20 billion in...
Don't Worry About...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
3rd Feb 2025
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
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
5th Sep 2023
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
AI as Normal...
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Strange Loop Canon
Seeing Like A Network
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
19th Jun 2024
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
Eugene Yan
DataScience SG Meetup - Panel On the Different Roles in Data
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
17th Jan 2019
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
AI as Normal...
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
The Gradient
Salmon in the Loop
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
16th Dec 2023
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Sandboxing AI-Generated Code: Why We Moved from WebR to AWS Lambda
7th Aug 2025
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...
20th Mar 2023
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
8th Sep 2023
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...
Sam Altman
The United Slate
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
12th Jul 2017
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...
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