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IEEE Spectrum
Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some...
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When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we do—that’s how (most of us) are built, and that’s the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things...
Marcus on AI
AlphaGeometry2: Impressive accomplishment, but still a long path ahead What GoogleDeepMind’s latest does and doesn’t show, and what we like about it
4 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Would You Put AI Art In Your House? I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I...
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over a year ago
I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini December 8, 2023.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and... Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
7 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI a Winner-Take-All Market? A critical question for investors in AI
10 months ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
The public trusts AI as a credible source Notes From the Desk: No. 27 - 2024.02.26
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
AlphaGo, in context
over a year ago
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...
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over a year ago
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter. Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier...
Artificial Ignorance
Looking a gift llama in the mouth How Llama 3.1 uniquely leverages Meta's business model (and why we should be a little bit cynical...
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How Llama 3.1 uniquely leverages Meta's business model (and why we should be a little bit cynical about it)
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas December 6, 2024.
7 months ago
AI Snake Oil
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The political preferences of Grok Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
4 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Dog Handstand Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Strange Loop Canon
Is AI hitting a wall?
6 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
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...
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8 months ago
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…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 126: Good Grok / Bad Grok July 11, 2025.
13 hours ago
Weighty Thoughts
Let's talk about AI power costs It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t.
3 months ago
Made by Ollin
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets A working prototype
over a year ago
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Senior engineers should make side bets When you’re a junior, you should work on what you’re given. There are two reasons for this. First,...
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When you’re a junior, you should work on what you’re given. There are two reasons for this. First, your work needs to be supervised and checked by a more experienced engineer, and if you go and work on random things it makes it hard for that engineer to stay across what you’re...
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
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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:...
Matt Mazur
Introducing Preceden’s new AI-Powered Timeline Generator For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for...
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a year ago
For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
AI Snake Oil
Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today The book will be published on September 24
10 months ago
Matt Mazur
Sharing small, incremental updates with users I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway...
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I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway provides a widget I have installed on Preceden to let users know when there have been updates. Users will see a bell with a count of unread items (which Headway keeps track of in...
Society's Backend:...
Updates to Society's Backend New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
GPT-4.1 Is a Mini Upgrade Yesterday’s news alert, nevertheless: The verdict is in.
2 months ago
Matt Mazur
When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help...
a year ago
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For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help (thanks Liesl!), but these days support takes at most an hour per week, and all requests fall into two buckets: As a result, there hasn’t been a pressing need to outsource support. But...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Tinder anecdata and Sankey diagrams I really enjoy visiting r/dataisbeautiful, both for original content [OC]. Yesterday, I saw a post...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really enjoy visiting r/dataisbeautiful, both for original content [OC]. Yesterday, I saw a post about visualizing Tinder matches for…
Marcus on AI
BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been... I hope the media will look into this
3 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Whither Utopia? The mystery of why we don't dream of building perfect societies anymore
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
What I do or: science to data science Data science freelancing (vs academia): freedom, impact, meritocracy, fast pace, money.
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Smart Icons, Automatic Suggestions, Dealing with Spammers, Better Icon Colors Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we...
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Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we rolled out the AI Suggestions feature last week, the typical experience for the user would go something like this: Lots of UX issues there though: To remedy this, I updated Preceden to...
Don't Worry About...
AI #109: Google Fails Marketing Forever What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed?
3 months ago
AI Snake Oil
AI safety is not a model property Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be...
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Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Tactical work in the age of layoffs In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life...
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In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life balance. Those glory days are over…
Sam Altman
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros. This is the game that to me feels closest to the real world and complex...
AI Snake Oil
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 051: The Taylor Swift thing January 26, 2024.
a year ago
Frank’s Ramblings
a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing … glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on...
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… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr: The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered...
IEEE Spectrum
This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
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Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
Don't Worry About...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
5 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy? An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
What Mattered in GenAI in 2024 Despite the Noise, The Big Narratives from January are Still the Big Narratives
4 months ago
The Berkeley...
Goal Representations for Instruction Following Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is...
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Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is centered and set to 50% page width. --> A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Polacy walczą o „cyfrowego Oskara”
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions Share this with your friends and family.
5 months ago
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman’s very good TED Interview.
Sam Altman
The Strength of Being Misunderstood A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
Sam Altman
Please Fund More Science Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health,...
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Experts on the COVID-19 pandemic seem to think there are three ways out—that is, for life, health, and the economy to return roughly to normal.  Either we get a vaccine good enough that R0 for the world goes below 1, a good enough treatment that people no longer need to be...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum mechanics for high-school students Outlines and materials related to my basics courses, with light polarization as the quantum...
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Outlines and materials related to my basics courses, with light polarization as the quantum information carrier.
Rozado’s Visual...
Define Wokeness! Or how you shall know a word by the company it keeps Visualizing what words often appear in the vicinity of woke/wokeness in news media content...
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Visualizing what words often appear in the vicinity of woke/wokeness in news media content illustrates why communication is almost impossible between red and blue America
Marcus on AI
AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man Guess who won?
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 095: QwQ November 29, 2024.
7 months ago
Matt Mazur
When LTD Purchasers Meet an Inactive User Policy Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo community. Maybe I’ll dive into my experience there in another post, but I wanted to share an interesting thing that’s happening now, a year after the deal ended. AppSumo has a policy...
Weighty Thoughts
Commentary on Technology, Startups, and Investing Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater...
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Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater and Google X. Co-Founder Lioness. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
Win Vector LLC
Kelly Betting With Discrete Stakes In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s...
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In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s Mathematical Puzzles. Our observation is the amazing zero variance strategy shown is in fact the Kelly criteria. Which means, this is a surprising situation where the Kelly strategy...
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind in The Atlantic One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The...
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One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The Atlantic who asked Caroline Mimbs Nyce, one of their reporters, to look into it. Caroline interviewed me for the article they just published which focused on the challenges Google is...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Multiple MagicBots Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit: 11–12 December...
Matt Mazur
Don’t Self Host Unlicensed Proxima Nova Fonts I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time...
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I’m a big fan of the Proxima Nova font and have been using it on Preceden for years: For a long time I was loading Proxima Nova on Preceden via Typekit (a hosted web font service) for $49.99/year, but at some point I decided to self-host it to avoid the third party request which...
Artificial Ignorance
Dealing with AI fatigue Notes for myself, and maybe you too.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Why everyone loves Spider-Man Lessons anyone can learn from our friendly neighborhood web-crawler
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
5 months ago
Sam Altman
2017 YC Annual Letter Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual...
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Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.  We...
Marcus on AI
“Nvidia could soon take a serious hit, too” The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, but today might be the day.
5 months ago
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
a year ago
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Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
IEEE Spectrum
The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. The cutting edge of robotics and artificial...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of the e-commerce company Amazon. As...
Weighty Thoughts
Consider the Llama Are closed source AI models doomed?
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
4 months ago
Xena
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
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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 →
Strange Loop Canon
Notes on Japan
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Aibo Foster Parents Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
5 months ago
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Don't Worry About...
On Google's Safety Plan Google Lays Out Its Safety Plans
3 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
a year ago
One Useful Thing
On holding back the strange AI tide There is no way to stop the disruption. We need to channel it instead
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
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I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
Society's Backend:...
MatMul-free Machine Learning Can Improve Efficiency, Excellent Foundational Learning Resources, SSMs... The top 10 most important updates of last week: 7/8/24
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful Here are five strategies and prompts that work for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
over a year ago
Xena
Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician. So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's start by explaining what this means. Continue reading →
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Cloak & dagger creativity camp “You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias? A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent! Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
5 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Self-driving as a case study for AGI Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI,...
a year ago
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Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI, its timelines, and what it might look like. Some of it is hopeful and optimistic, but a lot of it is fearful and doomy, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, a lot of it is also very...
Marcus on AI
AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
6 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Photographer Takes the Perfect Picture Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell...
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7 months ago
Finding it hard to get the perfect angle for your shot? PhotoBot can take the picture for you. Tell it what you want the photo to look like, and your robot photographer will present you with references to mimic. Pick your favorite, and PhotoBot—a robot arm with a camera—will...
Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
How to... use AI to unstick yourself We often lose momentum because of something small. AI can help.
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of GPT-4 Things are not always what they seem
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 082: System prompts August 30, 2024.
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Hottest On The Ice Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
5 months ago
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
One Useful Thing
Four Singularities for Research The rise of AI is creating both crisis and opportunity
a year ago
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
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This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Marcus on AI
Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024 In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate...
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In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Paths through the space of all possible solutions Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed...
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4 months ago
Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed system, you can’t violate the CAP…
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to...
8 months ago
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Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
The Berkeley...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
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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...
AI Snake Oil
Is the future of AI open or closed? Watch today’s Princeton-Stanford workshop By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy...
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By Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, Arvind Narayanan Perhaps the biggest tech policy debate today is about the future of AI, especially foundation models and generative AI. Will AI be open or closed? Will we be able to download and modify these models, or will a few...
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,...
10 months ago
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“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...
Machine Learning for...
Books every machine learning engineer should read Just a quick announcement of a resource addition to the ML for SWEs repo
3 weeks ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
!!con or doing inclusivity well Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
Daniel Miessler
UL NO. 354 | THE NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from...
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SECURITY NEWS The US has implemented a number of aggressive export controls to stop China from attaining advanced semiconductors. And now it looks like the bans will be expanded to quantum computing and AI as well. NYTIMES | MY ANALYSIS BELOW It appears Bytedance had a plan to...
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 058: Devin and SIMA March 15, 2023.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 111: Gemini 2.5 Pro March 28, 2025.
3 months ago
Marcus on AI
Google, 2001: Don’t Be Evil Google, 2025: Fuck It
5 months ago
Daniel Miessler
5 Things I’m Still Waiting for With the iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods I just camped for the new lineup of Apple products, as I have every year since 2007, and I am pretty...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just camped for the new lineup of Apple products, as I have every year since 2007, and I am pretty impressed. As many have said, this year was an incremental update. The iPhones look nearly identical. And so do the AirPods Pro 2. The exception was the Apple Watch Ultra, which...
Don't Worry About...
GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how OpenAI responded to that.
Artificial Ignorance
A stroll through Google's Model Garden What generative AI capabilities does Google offer to developers?
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #11: America Action Plan OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are
3 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI's Future in Lung Disease and Medicine A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical...
7 months ago
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A conversation with two radiologists—who are also experts in AI—about how AI can shape clinical practice and patient experiences
Piotr Migdał's Blog
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback: for actions, not guilt.
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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Introducing Machine Learning for Software Engineers! Get hands-on with machine learning engineering
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How to talk to your family about AI this Thanksgiving A handy guide for your uncle's burning questions.
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What kind of work I want This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of...
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This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of places I’d like to work. The short version…
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Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
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ChatGPT, at Age Two The bullshit just keeps on coming.
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Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
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Dating Roundup #4: An App for That Previously: #1, #2, #3.
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Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality It brings me no joy to say that
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AI Roundup 121: Digital doldrums June 6, 2025.
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call me maybe AI agents should be addressable
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Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
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I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
AI Snake Oil
What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
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guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
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GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
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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...
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GPT-4o Responds to Negative Feedback Whoops.
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Marcus on AI
Poor ROI for GenAI 61% in a recent survey report no ROI or disappointing ROI.
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Post-apocalyptic education What comes after the Homework Apocalypse
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1st Two Lessons of From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early...
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4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early preview of the new course.
One Useful Thing
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
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“Monthly Billed Annually” is Cursed Copy There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS...
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There was a great discussion on Twitter recently that began with Daniel Vassallo calling out a SaaS for not refunding an accidental annual payment he made on their service. He intended to purchase the monthly plan, but due to an unclear UI and poor copy, he unintentionally...
fast.ai
I was an AI researcher. Now, I am an immunology student. Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered...
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Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered machine learning
The Berkeley...
Interactive Fleet Learning Figure 1: “Interactive Fleet Learning” (IFL) refers to robot fleets in industry and academia that...
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Figure 1: “Interactive Fleet Learning” (IFL) refers to robot fleets in industry and academia that fall back on human teleoperators when necessary and continually learn from them over time. In the last few years we have seen an exciting development in robotics and artificial...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There will be the next Quantum Game with Photons More photons, an electron, so you can play with entanglement. We got invited by Artur Ekert to CQT...
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Starting deep learning hands-on: image classification on CIFAR-10
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Writing a tech blog people want to read My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing...
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My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have…
Andrej Karpathy blog
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
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Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
AI Snake Oil
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
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Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine...
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Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine transition to protein engineering, but their design and application is nonetheless notoriously unprincipled. The development of tools and methods to guide this process is one of the...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
How to improve myself as a lecturer?
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Bias of ChatGPT – Extended Analysis On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in...
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On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in the first release of ChatGPT from November 30. After the December 15th update of ChatGPT, I replicated my analysis and it appeared as if the political bias had been partially...
Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
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exist
Scaling Go to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of...
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For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView. The AppView is a piece of infrastructure that aggregates posts, likes, follows, etc. from all across ATProto and merges them into a consistent view of the...
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Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
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Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google...
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Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google continues to Fail Marketing Forever, OpenAI suddenly dropped GPT-4o Image Generation.
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How I got promoted to staff engineer twice At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I...
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At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. In…
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
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Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Marcus on AI
Musk, Grok, and “rigorous adherence to truth“ Elon Musk, yesterday: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.”
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Don't Worry About...
Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active...
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Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday, look deeply disappointing.
Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you won’t want to miss Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
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AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #103: Show Me the Money The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build...
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The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build upon the promise of the Bletchley and Seoul Summits, the French and Americans did their best to actively destroy what hope remained, transforming the event into a push for a mix of...
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
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AI Snake Oil
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without...
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The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
Matt Mazur
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
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At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
IEEE Spectrum
How Amazon Is Changing the Future of Robotics and Logistics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you have a good idea,” said Valerie Samzun, a leader in Amazon’s Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics (FTR) division. “It happens because you have the right team, the right...
Marcus on AI
Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day April 11, 2025.
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code...
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It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple…
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less) The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
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Mind Prison: Notes...
What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming? Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
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Marcus on AI
Casey (Newton) Strikes Out His continued skepticism of AI skepticism continues to miss the mark
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3 March 8, 2024.
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Machine Learning for...
How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at...
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My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at Google in 6 years without a master's degree or PhD
Marcus on AI
”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs? Society is once again left holding the bag
2 months ago
Armin Ronacher's...
Build It Yourself Another day, another rant about dependencies. from me. This time I will ask you that we start and...
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Another day, another rant about dependencies. from me. This time I will ask you that we start and support a vibe shift when it comes to dependencies. You're probably familiar with the concept of “dependency churn.” It's that never-ending treadmill of updates, patches, audits,...
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LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
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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...
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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…
Daniel Miessler
NO. 363 | FrontView Mirror: 2023 Edition New Content 💡FRONTVIEW MIRROR: 2023 EDITION  💡MY PHILOSOPHY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE LASTPASS...
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New Content 💡FRONTVIEW MIRROR: 2023 EDITION  💡MY PHILOSOPHY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE LASTPASS BREACHES SECURITY NEWS In a bit of Deja Vu from LastPass, Okta has now revealed that attackers have stolen source code from its GitHub repositories. This comes after it was hit by...
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Getting things "done" in large tech companies What does it mean to get things done? In the abstract, you can complete a mathematical proof or a...
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What does it mean to get things done? In the abstract, you can complete a mathematical proof or a problem set, but the real world is much fuzzier. Suppose I plant a tree in my backyard. Once the sapling is in the ground, is that done? Not really. There’s always more work to do:...
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #27: February 2025 I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the...
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I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the various machinations of DOGE.
Marcus on AI
April fools bring May hallucinations No, Grok didn’t just solve a legendary math problem. But it gets worse.
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Swiss-Mile Robot vs. Humans Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
AI Snake Oil
What the executive order means for openness in AI Good news on paper, but the devil is in the details
a year ago
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Advice for prompting reasoning models I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models...
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I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models are different. When you’re using…
The Gradient
An Introduction to the Problems of AI Consciousness Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI...
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Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI consciousness are now taking center stage, marking a significant shift since the current AI resurgence began over a decade ago.
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Acing the design interview If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work...
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If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
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(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color:...
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p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color: #eee; } The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
The Berkeley...
Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
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As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
Rozado’s Visual...
Excess mortality during COVID pandemic, % of population vaccinated and Stringency Index of... Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence...
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Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
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There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 053: Bye bye Bard February 9, 2024.
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AI Roundup 034: Meta Connect September 29, 2023
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The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
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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...
Society's Backend:...
Open Models Catching Up, SearchGPT Release, Deepfake Victims Protected by Regulation, and More Weekly updates and resources 7/29/24
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One Useful Thing
Strategies for an Accelerating Future Four questions to ask your organization.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard
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Strange Loop Canon
I wrote a book! AI enables us to, finally, get "soft" APIs
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
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...
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I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms global warming and climate change in news media discourse. For some reason, peak usage of the term global warming happened in 2007 and it has been dropping...
Matt Mazur
Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few...
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In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems AI Customer Targeting Levels – From Customer Segmentation to Recommendation Systems
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Artificial Ignorance
Distributing the future A reminder that things take time.
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Society's Backend:...
Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
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Solving the decision...
ui (a short story) “Wake up, Computer”
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IEEE Spectrum
Why Simone Giertz, the Queen of Useless Robots, Got Serious On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked...
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On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked perfectly for ridiculous applications, such as a headboard-mounted alarm clock with a rubber hand to slap the user awake. This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing...
Win Vector LLC
Examining Meta-Analysis Joseph Rickert and I put together an experiment trying to both run a standard meta-analysis and then...
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Joseph Rickert and I put together an experiment trying to both run a standard meta-analysis and then reproduce similar results directly using Bayesian methods. I think it came out really interesting and we share it here at R Works and also here on Github. A meta-analysis is an...
The Gradient
AGI Is Not Multimodal "In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
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"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...
Machine Learning for...
Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8) Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25
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Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
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In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
Daniel Miessler
Custom Models Are AI’s Killer App The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or...
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The killer app for AI right now is the universal “custom AI model”. Consume your whole business. Or your whole life experience. Every text. Every Slack. Every journal entry. Every blog post. Everything you’ve said or written publicly. All your logs. All your documentation. Turn...
Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
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Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
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AI Snake Oil
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves. What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
Matt Mazur
The Kenya Quick Answer Goes Viral, Again On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot...
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On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot of the now-famous “african country that starts with k” Google Quick Answer, which quickly went viral, garnering over 82k likes and 3 million views as of the time of this writing...
exist
Workload Agnosticism in Large Language Models: The Foundation for the Next Generation of Computing As discussed in my previous post, LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, Google’s Bard, and Meta’s...
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As discussed in my previous post, LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, Google’s Bard, and Meta’s LLaMA have risen seemingly out of nowhere, poised to disrupt the future of computing. Cloud Compute changed the landscape drastically when it was introduced by Amazon in the mid...
Daniel Miessler
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
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Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 355 | NEWS & ANALYSIS SERIES SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider...
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SECURITY NEWS ⛔️ There is likely to be a critical TLS vulnerability released this week. Consider getting your teams ready by looking for your instances before it drops. ZDNET | GLOBALSIGN | REDDIT DISCUSSION  The US accused 13 Chinese nationals of committing espionage-related...
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
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The Political Preferences of LLMs Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
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Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
Marcus on AI
Two visions of AI’s future It’s not looking good
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Society's Backend:...
Mastering the Art of Documentation Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Forums, Competitions, Challenges: Inspiring Creativity in Robotics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Khalifa University of Science and Technology. A total of eight intense competitions to inspire creativity and innovation along with 13 forums dedicated to diverse segments of robotics and artificial intelligence will be part of the...
Society's Backend:...
Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
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Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my...
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Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my Macbook (with its Apple M2 chip and 24 GB of memory). Here’s a great overview of the model for anyone interested in learning more. Short version: The Mistral “Mixtral” 8x7B 32k...
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering Notes from the first AI Engineer Summit.
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One Useful Thing
On the necessity of a sin Why treating AI like a person is the future
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Artificial Ignorance
GPT-4o and the illusion of AGI Why speed and multimodality is becoming the name of the game.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use October 25, 2024.
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ML for SWEs 6: RAG Is Not Dead Machine learning for software engineers 4-11-25
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One Useful Thing
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) Five analytical tasks in under a minute
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One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025 Some points of order before we begin the monthly:
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Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
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Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
Weighty Thoughts
AI Winters and The Third Wave of Today A sneak preview from my upcoming book "What You Need To Know About AI"
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Time to Take a Stand It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President...
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It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable.  In repeatedly invoking unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million...
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The rise of autonomous agents Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
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IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics’ Latest Vids Show Atlas Going Hands On Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we...
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Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going “hands on” with a practical factory task. This video is notable because it’s the first real look we’ve had at the new Atlas doing...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 062: Data is the new oil April 12, 2024.
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fast.ai
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smol party: Hello Wololo! Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
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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...
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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...
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Strange Loop Canon
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
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AI Roundup 078: Voice mode August 2, 2024.
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AI scaling myths Scaling will run out. The question is when.
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Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
over a year ago
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A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
PromptArmor Blog
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Why Medical AI is Garbage, Realistic Perspectives on DeepSeek Models, Understanding Reasoning... An AI engineer's must-reads for 1/31/25
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What happened in the 2010s? decoding a mystery
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AI Snake Oil
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
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Marcus on AI
The secret to AGI, in 4 pages A couple days ago I learned on X that getting to AGI was much easier than I had long thought.
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Marcus on AI
Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence...
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In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence under Biden, entitled, The Government knows A.G.I.
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
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Medical Roundup #4 It seems like as other things drew our attention more, medical news slowed down.
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In defense of Gemini a kvetch
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 049: Down the Rabbit hole January 12, 2023.
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I'm Leaving Sentry Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years...
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Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years ago I took a leap into the unknown, today I take another. After a decade of working on Sentry I move on to start something new. Sentry has been more than just a job, it has been a...
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: High Mobility Robots for Logistics Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
Society's Backend:...
Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
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Marcus on AI
Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
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One Useful Thing
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
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FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
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over a year ago
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another. Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
over a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
Grok 3 - Signs of Intelligence or Dementia? Notes From the Desk: No. 38 - 2025.02.21
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IEEE Spectrum
Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments with Advanced Sealing Systems This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing...
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3 months ago
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing deployment of collaborative robots (cobots) in outdoor environments presents significant engineering challenges, requiring highly advanced sealing solutions to ensure reliability and...
One Useful Thing
What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴ Siri versus the machine god?
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The Gradient
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Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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7 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
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Meet Devansh: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of 193,000 Subscribers Content creation and networking lessons from a wildly successful freelance tech writer
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exist
An entire Social Network in 1.6GB (GraphD Part 2) In Part 1 of this series, we tried to answer the question “who do you follow who also follows user...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Part 1 of this series, we tried to answer the question “who do you follow who also follows user B” in Bluesky, a social network with millions of users and hundreds of millions of follow relationships. At the conclusion of the post, we’d developed an in-memory graph store for...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Prawdopodobieństwo a informacja
over a year ago
exist
Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99% Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by...
Marcus on AI
Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger Pure scaling in shambles
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exist
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
IEEE Spectrum
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers) This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
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3 months ago
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot Introduces Modular Mobile Home Robot Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a...
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Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something...
Artificial Ignorance
The fable of Reflection 70B From groundbreaking to grifting.
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Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
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Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
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over a year ago
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...
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Model Context Protocol explained as simply as possible Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks,...
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Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks, interest in it seems to have really picked…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue September 1, 2023
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The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
a year ago
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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
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3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
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Marcus on AI
Deep Learning, Deep Scandal Some of the big tech giants may be playing fast and loose with AI
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Daniel Miessler
The UL Boost Protocol This is a member-only post. Thank you for being part of this. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Games in which you walk (and get immersed) SOMA, The Path, Life Is Strange, The Stanley Parable, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Amnesia: The...
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over a year ago
SOMA, The Path, Life Is Strange, The Stanley Parable, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dear Esther, Firewatch
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Mentions of Prejudice in Academic Papers: A Declining Trend Amidst Ongoing DEI Growth? Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms...
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Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
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I don't know how to build software and you don't either Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it...
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Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it better to have that dictated by some…
Artificial Ignorance
Milestones, motivations, and miscellany Some thoughts on the future of this newsletter.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
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Weighty Thoughts
AI's Endgame (How Foundational Model Companies Can “Win”) Playing monopoly in 2025
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