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Thinking companion, companion for thinking Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
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Thinking companion, companion for thinking

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

5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
23rd Dec 2021
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A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases

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

23rd Dec 2021
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone. If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
9th Mar 2023
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9th Mar 2023
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } Many machine learning researchers worry about risks from building artificial intelligence...
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
13th Jan 2024
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13th Jan 2024
On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here
3rd Feb 2025
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The End of Search, The Beginning of Research

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

3rd Feb 2025
The first narrow agents are here
Personality and Persuasion Learning from Sycophants
1st May 2025
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Personality and Persuasion

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

1st May 2025
Learning from Sycophants
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
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Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review

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

10th Apr 2023
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
9th Sep 2024
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

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

9th Sep 2024
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
"Flow" in software development is overrated Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the...
5th Nov 2025
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"Flow" in software development is overrated

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

5th Nov 2025
Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the obvious "Flow considered harmful" title. You're welcome.
Post Capitalism You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want...
2 weeks ago
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Post Capitalism

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

2 weeks ago
You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want this, and there will only be so long you can keep shoving it down their throats. Money is tied to nothing. American companies sell equity instead of products. The main narratives...
The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
5th Feb 2025
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The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible

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

5th Feb 2025
How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
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
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

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

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...
Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie...
30th Sep 2022
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Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD

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

30th Sep 2022
Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się…
Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
1st Oct 2025
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Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy

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

1st Oct 2025
A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
Programming Errors at Project Scale Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects...
12th Aug 2014
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Programming Errors at Project Scale

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

12th Aug 2014
Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects involve typical programming errors1 and, more annoyingly, interpersonal errors. This article is a quick overview of both technical and interpersonal errors we encounter when trying...
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
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21st Oct 2022
Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us “The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
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5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

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

11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.” I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026) Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights...
1st Jul 2026
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Pluralistic: Technocarcinization (01 Jul 2026)

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

1st Jul 2026
Today's links Technocarcinization: Enshittification is the great leveler. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Grampa's backyard Disneyland; Elizabeth Warren on monopolies; Spotify v Apple (antitrust edn); Exxon lobbyist confesses; "When the Sparrow Falls."...
High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low...
9th Sep 2025
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High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard

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

9th Sep 2025
Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low dimensional intuition that is holding progress back. I’d like to try and explain why that isn’t quite the case. The background Some of the rigorous work on the nature of stationary...
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
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AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4

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

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...
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
5th Jul 2024
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The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66%

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

5th Jul 2024
A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
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
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ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement

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

10th Sep 2025
The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
1st Sep 2023
1st Apr 2026
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
19th Apr 2023
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How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster

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

19th Apr 2023
There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of people using tools like ChatGPT to draft Python scripts, Go code, and all sorts of other useful things. Okay, so how do I use ChatGPT effectively? How do I Use ChatGPT...
I Built My Resume In Markdown Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
3rd Dec 2024
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I Built My Resume In Markdown

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Dec 2024
Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
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...
5th Sep 2026
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Latent Powers

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

5th Sep 2026
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...
Make Authenticity Great Again Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
2nd Aug 2025
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Make Authenticity Great Again

from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Aug 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
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
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

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

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th Jun 2026
Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small...
2 weeks ago
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Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)

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

2 weeks ago
Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencils...
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
Reflections The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
6th Jan 2025
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Reflections

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

6th Jan 2025
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already...
11th Dec 2024
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Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Dec 2024
So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing. Continue reading →
Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
9th Dec 2016
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Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products

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

9th Dec 2016
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
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Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences

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

9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
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
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Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids

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

3rd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
2025 Year in Review An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
14th Dec 2025
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2025 Year in Review

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

14th Dec 2025
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of...
30th Nov 2020
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Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets

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

30th Nov 2020
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of every trade in the stock market? Unlike other market APIs which tell you “don’t request too many symbols” or set hard caps on what you can request, here you can just ask for the...
13th Dec 2024
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13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
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
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

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

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...
Dyson CameraJet So when I saw Dyson had a $500 toothbrush, I was excited. Finally, advertising that targets me! I...
2 weeks ago
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Dyson CameraJet

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

2 weeks ago
So when I saw Dyson had a $500 toothbrush, I was excited. Finally, advertising that targets me! I love brushing my teeth, and I have more money than I know how to spend. Not because I’m particularly rich, but because most stuff doesn’t really appeal to me. Like if I owned a...
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
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It is starting to get strange.

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

2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
20th Oct 2023
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Preceden’s Spam Problem

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

20th Oct 2023
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
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Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition

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

6th Jun 2024
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
Planning Your Career: Values and Superpowers What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
4th Apr 2021
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Planning Your Career: Values and Superpowers

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

4th Apr 2021
What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available....
10th Aug 2026
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10th Aug 2026
Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available. Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local coding agents, and accelerated by Ollama's MLX engine with new native DFlash and...
OpenAI’s “Code Red” Maybe people should have seen this coming?
3rd Dec 2025
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OpenAI’s “Code Red”

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

3rd Dec 2025
Maybe people should have seen this coming?
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
21st Jun 2021
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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

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

21st Jun 2021
.wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; overflow-wrap: break-word; /* allow wrapping of very very long strings, like txids */ } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 13px; /*...
Modeling Uncertainty For Better Outcomes Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC...
8th Aug 2025
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Modeling Uncertainty For Better Outcomes

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

8th Aug 2025
Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC sampler. It has allowed us to infer deep business factors, instead of being limited surface KPIs (key performance indicators). Modeling uncertainty requires stronger optimizers to...
The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for...
12th Dec 2024
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The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era

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

12th Dec 2024
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations...
24th Jul 2026
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Becoming Skilled at Making Documents

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

24th Jul 2026
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly...
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) Today's links The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress....
1st Jan 2026
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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

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

1st Jan 2026
Today's links The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Error code 451; Public email address Mansplaining Lolita; NSA backdoor in Juniper Networks; Don't bug out; Nurses whose...
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
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27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
28th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

28th Jan 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
13th May 2024
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GPT-4o

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

13th May 2024
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This...
1st Jul 2026
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2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

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

1st Jul 2026
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine...
GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not? Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
28th Oct 2018
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GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not?

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

28th Oct 2018
Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015) Redis Architecture Diagram Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the...
2nd Apr 2015
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Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015)

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

2nd Apr 2015
Redis Architecture Diagram Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the diagram(s) below. The pictures on this page and all associated materials are released free to the public for inclusion in any other materials/presentations/teachings/learnings. The...
Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its...
15th Mar 2025
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Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs

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

15th Mar 2025
I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its heart it’s an extension of what I worked on with my translation package tinbox. (The new project uses translated sources to bootstrap a knowledge database.) Building in an...
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
10th Jul 2023
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On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning

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

10th Jul 2023
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest “This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
2nd Sep 2024
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Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest

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

2nd Sep 2024
“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
30th Jun 2025
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...
23rd May 2023
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GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Large Language Models

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

23rd May 2023
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,...
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
4th Oct 2024
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FAQ about the book and our writing process

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

4th Oct 2024
What's in the book and how we wrote it
5th Dec 2025
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AI Roundup 147: OpenAI's Code Red

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

5th Dec 2025
December 5, 2025.
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital”...
2nd Sep 2026
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2nd Sep 2026
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore. There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a...
6th Oct 2025
How HLS Works Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The...
5th Jul 2024
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How HLS Works

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

5th Jul 2024
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...
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
14th Jan 2025
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Don't use cosine similarity carelessly

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

14th Jan 2025
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
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An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition

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

7th Dec 2023
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
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
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Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation

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

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...
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
2nd Nov 2024
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8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia

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

2nd Nov 2024
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
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...
5th Dec 2024
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Which CEO will be the last to see it?

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

5th Dec 2024
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.
lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools...
23rd Jul 2018
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lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation

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

23rd Jul 2018
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools every day this week. day 1: lematt day 2: netmatt day 3: email 2018 day 4: web 2018 day 5: local nets I made a kickass certificate automation platform called lematt and this page is...
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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Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years

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

4th Jan 2023
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...
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
4th Aug 2019
1

OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) Review and Tips

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

4th Aug 2019
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
3rd Feb 2025
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o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA

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

3rd Feb 2025
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
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2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI

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

14th Feb 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
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Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At...
22nd Jan 2024
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Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks

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

22nd Jan 2024
The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At the time, deep learning (the technique behind recent advances in AI) was the purview of a small and homogeneous handful of practitioners. The standard approach was to have...
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
1st Feb 2025
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?

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

1st Feb 2025
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
Formalization of Erdős problems [This is a guest post by Boris Alexeev. Now over to Boris.] I’m here to tell you about various...
5th Dec 2025
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Formalization of Erdős problems

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Dec 2025
[This is a guest post by Boris Alexeev. Now over to Boris.] I’m here to tell you about various exciting developments centering on Erdős problems, especially involving the formalization of old and new mathematics using artificial intelligence. Background As is … Continue reading →
Understanding Open Model Licenses And what to look for in custom licenses
15th Apr 2026
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Understanding Open Model Licenses

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

15th Apr 2026
And what to look for in custom licenses
Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50...
28th Oct 2024
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Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml

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

28th Oct 2024
There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50 responses. Here are some randomly-chosen…
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
7th Jul 2025
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Against "Brain Damage"

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

7th Jul 2025
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
7th Apr 2024
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Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind

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

7th Apr 2024
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

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

12th Feb 2024
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A guide to understanding AI as normal technology And a big change for this newsletter
9th Sep 2025
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A guide to understanding AI as normal technology

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

9th Sep 2025
And a big change for this newsletter
one document, two hands the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
20th Jul 2026
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one document, two hands

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

20th Jul 2026
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
1st Feb 2026
It’s Been a Minute I’ve been meaning to write about *all of this*.
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It’s Been a Minute

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

3 weeks ago
I’ve been meaning to write about *all of this*.
First post! Time to start writing.
6th Jul 2016
1

First post!

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

6th Jul 2016
Time to start writing.
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
19th Jan 2023
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El sesgo político de ChatGPT

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

19th Jan 2023
A la izquierda del centro político
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
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New paper: AI agents that matter

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

3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in the summer, but it...
14th Jan 2026
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Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent

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

14th Jan 2026
Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in the summer, but it turned out to be a bit too much for what I had time for. However, things have advanced since. Yesterday I ported MiniJinja (a Rust Jinja2 template engine) to native Go, and I used...
Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
3rd Jan 2021
1

2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More

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

3rd Jan 2021
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
12th Feb 2026
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AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper

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

12th Feb 2026
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
AI Play #4 AI Play #4 The Play-en-ing system> You are writing Aaron-Sorkin-esque characters in a JMS-like...
7th Mar 2023
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AI Play #4

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

7th Mar 2023
AI Play #4 The Play-en-ing system> You are writing Aaron-Sorkin-esque characters in a JMS-like sci-fi environment with fantasy elements. Please create a character sheet succintly describing 5 named characters, each having first and last names from 5 different cultures, each with...
!!con or doing inclusivity well Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
14th Aug 2017
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!!con or doing inclusivity well

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

14th Aug 2017
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it “Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt...
17th Oct 2025
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Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it

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

17th Oct 2025
“Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt would work?”
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
3rd Feb 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

3rd Feb 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
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
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How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously

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

5th Sep 2023
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
10th Jul 2023
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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment

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

10th Jul 2023
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
29th Dec 2023
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Vision Transformers are Overrated

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

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...
Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it...
2nd Mar 2026
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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

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

2nd Mar 2026
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: AOL email tax; Ebook readers' bill of rights; Sanders media blackout. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
OpenAI Responses API is an attempt at lock-in OpenAI has a new Responses API, which, in contrast to the de facto standard Chat Completion API that...
17th Mar 2025
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OpenAI Responses API is an attempt at lock-in

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

17th Mar 2025
OpenAI has a new Responses API, which, in contrast to the de facto standard Chat Completion API that other providers have adopted as well, is stateful. The change makes sense from their business perspective.
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
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

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

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...
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
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Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

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

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. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
12th Sep 2024
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Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning

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

12th Sep 2024
Solving hard problems in new ways
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
10th Jun 2023
Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
11th Oct 2016
1

Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition

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

11th Oct 2016
Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
How to Announce Your Actual AI How to Announce Your Actual AI To The World If you did make a non-gimmick Actual AI1, how would you...
6th Jul 2022
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How to Announce Your Actual AI

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

6th Jul 2022
How to Announce Your Actual AI To The World If you did make a non-gimmick Actual AI1, how would you show the world? P1 Let’s run through the only possible introduction vectors plus some upcoming scenarios: grand public announcement / press release at first plausible result...
The next evolution of serverless is stateful (A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
6th Feb 2024
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The next evolution of serverless is stateful

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

6th Feb 2024
(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

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

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
Towards Data Science - Author Spotlight with Eugene Yan My favourite project, how I write weekly and how you can start, and content I would like to see more...
2nd Jun 2021
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Towards Data Science - Author Spotlight with Eugene Yan

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

2nd Jun 2021
My favourite project, how I write weekly and how you can start, and content I would like to see more of.
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry...
5th Jan 2026
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5th Jan 2026
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for...
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
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The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines

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

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...
DATAx - A Production ML system for SEA's Biggest Hospital Group How we built an ML system to predict hospitalization costs at admission; sharing at DATAx...
6th Mar 2019
1
6th Mar 2019
How we built an ML system to predict hospitalization costs at admission; sharing at DATAx Conference.
The Fermi Paradox Just From Rarity Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds”...
22nd Nov 2025
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The Fermi Paradox Just From Rarity

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

22nd Nov 2025
Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds” recently pointed out a new paper on the Fermi paradox: Antal Veres “The solitude zone: A probabilistic window for singular lifeform existence”, Acta Astronautica Volume 238, Part...
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
1

Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype

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

4th Feb 2016
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent research shows that STEM students are indeed more autistic than the general population.
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 26 -- evaluating the fine-tuned model This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language...
3rd Nov 2025
1
3rd Nov 2025
This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In the last post I covered the part of the chapter that covers instruction fine-tuning; this time round, we evaluate our model -- particularly interestingly, we...
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
1st Aug 2024
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The SearchGPT Paradigm

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

1st Aug 2024
What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
Too big to fail? Get ready for chaos
2nd Nov 2025
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Too big to fail?

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

2nd Nov 2025
Get ready for chaos
Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
4th May 2025
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4th May 2025
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
5th Jul 2024
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
9th Oct 2022
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Maple Diffusion

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Oct 2022
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one...
1st Feb 2025
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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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

1st Feb 2025
IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one place since the filming of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” Not a single entrant made it across the finish line. Some didn’t make it out of the parking lot. So it’s all the more...
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
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

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.
What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? What happens if we just treat a local Postgres like SQLite? What does that mean? In this article,...
22nd Sep 2025
1

What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?

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

22nd Sep 2025
What happens if we just treat a local Postgres like SQLite? What does that mean? In this article, I’d like to expand on that idea.
My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016 Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
25th May 2016
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My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016

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

25th May 2016
Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
AI Is This Correct? AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
1

AI Is This Correct?

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

15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output. The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32e -- Interventions: the learning rate I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on...
10th Mar 2026
1
10th Mar 2026
I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on code based on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In my training code, I have this code to create the optimiser: optimizer =...
Structured outputs Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a...
6th Dec 2024
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Structured outputs

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

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.
82

Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and More

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

2nd Dec 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
1

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we...
9th Sep 2023
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Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities

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

9th Sep 2023
In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we steer this technology towards better outcomes?
Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
1st Mar 2025
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff

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

1st Mar 2025
With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to...
20th Jan 2026
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

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

20th Jan 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is one of our civilization’s oldest and most powerful technologies for trying to...
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
7th Apr 2024
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What is Defensibility?

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

7th Apr 2024
Back to basics for AI startups and others
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
4th Jun 2024
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Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning

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

4th Jun 2024
And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
2nd Sep 2026
1

Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.

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

2nd Sep 2026
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
25th Aug 2022
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The Jupyter+git problem is now solved

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

25th Aug 2022
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
A Trillion Dollar Data Structure? In *this* Economy? what’s a trillion dollars1 between friends? crisis in the linked list forums recently on the linked...
5th Nov 2022
1

A Trillion Dollar Data Structure? In *this* Economy?

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

5th Nov 2022
what’s a trillion dollars1 between friends? crisis in the linked list forums recently on the linked list fan forums, a well regarded programmer — perhaps the most highly regarded coder ever — wrote a love letter to linked lists, and the forums went wild. so what are linked lists...
Your Immune System is Not a Muscle That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the...
12th Aug 2024
1

Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

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

12th Aug 2024
That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Who doesn’t love an analogy? But is this one accurate? We can see that not all obstacles make you stronger. Destroy the cartilage in your...
Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random...
4th Dec 2022
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Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT

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

4th Dec 2022
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...
24th Feb 2025
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
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A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read

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

17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
The Annals Challenge My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50...
13th Aug 2026
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The Annals Challenge

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Aug 2026
My team of post-docs funded by this Renaissance Philanthropy grant has constructed a dataset of 50 Lean statements, corresponding to 50 important recent mathematical theorems! The 50 theorems were all published in the Annals of Mathematics (a prestigious mathematical journal) …...
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
25th Nov 2024
104

I'm writing a book!

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

25th Nov 2024
Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
2024 BAIR Graduate Directory Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most...
11th Mar 2024
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2024 BAIR Graduate Directory

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

11th Mar 2024
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most talented and innovative minds in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our Ph.D. graduates have each expanded the frontiers of AI research and are now ready to embark on new...
Coming soon This is PromptArmor Blog.
14th Dec 2023
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Coming soon

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

14th Dec 2023
This is PromptArmor Blog.
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
5th Mar 2024
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A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming

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

5th Mar 2024
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
Singing Style Transfer Initial Experiments
22nd Mar 2017
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Singing Style Transfer

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

22nd Mar 2017
Initial Experiments
AI at IMO 2025: a round-up Setting the scene The 2025 International Mathematics Olympiad has come and gone. Reminder: this is...
3rd Aug 2025
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AI at IMO 2025: a round-up

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Aug 2025
Setting the scene The 2025 International Mathematics Olympiad has come and gone. Reminder: this is an exam for high-school kids across the world (each country typically sends six kids), comprising of two 4.5-hour exams each containing three questions, so six … Continue reading →
Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o “You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
23rd Oct 2024
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Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o

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

23rd Oct 2024
“You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
1st Jan 1970
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from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jan 1970
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
7th Aug 2024
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Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet

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

7th Aug 2024
AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) - Java and collaboratively developing an Android app.
13th Aug 2017
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OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) Review and Tips

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

13th Aug 2017
OMSCS CS6300 (Software Development Process) - Java and collaboratively developing an Android app.
Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
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Why now?

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

4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
10Gb/s Ethernet: using mini-heatsinks with a 10GBASE-T SFP+ module In my last post I showed the somewhat-scary temperatures I was getting on the MikroTik 10GBASE-T...
18th May 2026
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18th May 2026
In my last post I showed the somewhat-scary temperatures I was getting on the MikroTik 10GBASE-T SFP+ module I have plugged into nigel, the 10Gb/s switch I have in my study. As I mentioned then, the plan was to try using some of the mini-heatsinks that people use on Raspberry...
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
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Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation

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

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...
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
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17th Jun 2025
The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
Simpler Experimentation with Jupyter, Papermill, and MLflow Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
15th Mar 2020
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Simpler Experimentation with Jupyter, Papermill, and MLflow

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

15th Mar 2020
Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
5th Mar 2025
52

See Me at SXSW Next Week!

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

5th Mar 2025
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
7th Aug 2025
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GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff

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

7th Aug 2025
Putting the AI in Charge
Ollama is now available as an official Docker image Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU...
5th Oct 2023
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Ollama is now available as an official Docker image

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Oct 2023
Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU acceleration on Linux.
Ten Years of AI in Review From 2015 to 2025
1st Jan 2026
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Ten Years of AI in Review

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

1st Jan 2026
From 2015 to 2025
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
23rd Sep 2024
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Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers

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

23rd Sep 2024
Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
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...
1st Dec 2020
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The Strength of Being Misunderstood

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

1st Dec 2020
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...
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction .modal { display: none; position: fixed; z-index: 9999; padding-top: 50px; left: 0; top:...
1st Jul 2025
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Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

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

1st Jul 2025
.modal { display: none; position: fixed; z-index: 9999; padding-top: 50px; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: auto; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.9); } .modal-content { margin: auto; display: block; max-width: 90%; max-height:...
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
6th Dec 2023
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The age of access

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

6th Dec 2023
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
12th Apr 2026
To grieve, or not to grieve? Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the...
2 weeks ago
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To grieve, or not to grieve?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 weeks ago
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen before. Language models are solving hard problems which … Continue reading →
Tool support Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to...
25th Jul 2024
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Tool support

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

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.
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
29th Jul 2022
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Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Jul 2022
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs --> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language...
13th Mar 2026
1

Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

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

13th Mar 2026
--> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and...
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
9th Feb 2025
70

What is a quotient?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2025
Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean, because they have been taught a specific model for quotients in their classes, which is not the model that Lean uses. This post is an attempt to … Continue reading →
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
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From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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

4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
Trying to instrument an agentic app with Arize Phoenix and litellm It’s important to instrument your AI applications! I hope this can more or less be taken as given...
3rd Jun 2025
1

Trying to instrument an agentic app with Arize Phoenix and litellm

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

3rd Jun 2025
It’s important to instrument your AI applications! I hope this can more or less be taken as given just as you’d expect a non-AI-infused app to capture logs. When you’re evaluating your LLM-powered system, you need to have capture the inputs and outputs both at an end-to-end level...
Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
5th Nov 2025
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Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size

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

5th Nov 2025
Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
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