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Artificial Ignorance
The AI email startup that's taking on Gmail A conversation with Andrew Lee, CEO of Shortwave and cofounder of Firebase.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
a week ago
Society's Backend
Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either. Much was quietly revealed yesterday
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent! Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
a month ago
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to reverse engineer the Substack (or any!) web API Building an unauthorized Substack client with Claude.
6 months ago
Society's Backend
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
6 days ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 046: AI has a CSAM problem December 22, 2023.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Frontview Mirror: 2023 Edition This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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Society's Backend
An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
a year ago
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a year ago
We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color scheme and logo! :) - Logan I've been researching text summarization methods for a project I'm working on. Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs have become a go-to...
Weighty Thoughts
China's AI Journey Talking to Jordan Schneider from ChinaTalk about China's technological ascent
9 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Something is Up With Meritocracy I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity magnifies inequality. Here’s one way I’ve seen it explained: If there are two main reasons for outcome differences: innate talent and environment, and if you equalize environment you will...
AI Snake Oil
Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism A checklist for avoiding hype
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Apple Wins Apple Intelligence and aggregation puts Apple in a dominant AI position
8 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
a month ago
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a month ago
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
Jascha’s blog
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
a year ago
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a year ago
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 047: NYT v. OpenAI Friday, December 29.
a year ago
Made by Ollin
Mac Replacement Icons A standardized, simplified, and beautiful icon set
over a year ago
fast.ai
A new old kind of R&D lab Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Xena
The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving? This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in computer science and mathematics. He completed this work while visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics. Introduction The history of interactive theorem...
Weighty Thoughts
News Roundup: May 15, 2024 Open AI announcements, DeepSeek-v2, and TSMC Arizona
10 months ago
Society's Backend
The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer And other practical guides to understand machine learning
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI stories that shaped 2024 Agents, deepfakes, Strawberries, and more.
2 months ago
Society's Backend
Why everyone loves Spider-Man Lessons anyone can learn from our friendly neighborhood web-crawler
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
2 months ago
Society's Backend
LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
3 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Karpathy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Economics Roundup #5 While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch up on the queue and look at various economics-related things.
AI Snake Oil
What is algorithmic amplification and why should we care? A symposium and a primer on social media recommendation algorithms
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Generate AI Art Using Your Own Writing One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are cool, but a lot of the magic comes down to prompt engineering, which is non-trivial. Prompt Engineering is almost equal parts...
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
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts Output similarity is a distraction
a year ago
Society's Backend
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024 The top 5 articles and resources
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
Did Elon Musk just Mu$k Sam Altman? With some bonus eye candy to lighten the mood
4 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
Distributing the future A reminder that things take time.
9 months ago
Matt Mazur
Screw it, I’m Keeping Emergent Mind A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I could focus on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker. I wound up having a lot of discussions with potential buyers, but in the end the offers I received were either too low to be worth...
Society's Backend
Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 032: The Insight Forum September 15, 2023.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Helping exceptionally gifted children in Poland
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
10 months ago
Sam Altman
What I Heard From Trump Supporters After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a surprisingly interesting and helpful experience—I highly recommend it.  With three exceptions,...
Society's Backend
Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time) To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions, hallucinations, Freudian slips, etc.
Weighty Thoughts
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020 Reflecting on the Past Year
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Jevons Paradox and the future of programming Supply and demand in the Age of AI.
11 months ago
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Porting and hacking Llama2.c for fun and profit Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) 9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My One-Sentence Summary/Highlight The future of programming is not humans writing code, but neural nets creating weights. Capture Neural networks are mathematical expressions with many...
Marcus on AI
The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny This post isn’t about AI; it’s about our future
2 weeks ago
Society's Backend
Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
a year ago
Win Vector LLC
Trying to Describe 2024 AI Premises I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025...
a month ago
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a month ago
I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025 and DeepSeek is relevant!). The 2024 AI money machine appears to have depended on several premises: The product would be valuable. The product would be very expensive to...
IEEE Spectrum
Fish-Inspired Sensor "Touches" Using Electric Fields The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s a real ability that some creatures have. A family of African fish known as Mormyrids are weakly electric, and have special organs that can locate a nearby prey, whether it’s in...
Artificial Ignorance
How Shopify is making AI Magic A case study on turning competitive advantages into useful AI.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Introducing the REFORMS checklist for ML-based science ML-based science is in trouble. Clear reporting standards for researchers could help.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The political preferences of Grok Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Who’s Winning the AI War? All of us, except the AI startups and VCs—unless a real war breaks out
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
One Useful Thing
Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do Also, my book has a cover (also I have a book coming out)
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 091: Search wars November 1, 2024.
4 months ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries every developer needs to build functional and efficient AI...
3 months ago
AI Snake Oil
AI scaling myths Scaling will run out. The question is when.
8 months ago
fast.ai
AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale Moving AI ethics beyond explainability and fairness to empowerment and justice
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The hidden side of Apple Intelligence More than just another keynote recap.
9 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Writing, Originality, and Why Does Anyone Care What I Write About? Musings, Insecurities, and Thoughts on Writing a Book (or Substack)
2 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
I gave ChatGPT access to my Gmail I'm sure this will end well.
a year ago
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...
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking December 20, 2024.
2 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.”
12 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
over a year ago
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
a month ago
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
a year ago
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a year ago
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
a year ago
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a year ago
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:...
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 078: Voice mode August 2, 2024.
7 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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
The Berkeley...
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark! Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 071: How do you like them AIs June 14, 2024.
8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Ensuring the Security and Resilience of Autonomous Fleets with Advanced Testing Frameworks Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks as their complexity grows. Despite advancements, existing testing frameworks fall short in addressing end-to-end security, resilience, and safety in zero-trust environments. The...
Matt Mazur
When you ship a major bug before signing off for the day For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help...
a year ago
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a year ago
For better or worse, I still handle all of Preceden’s support requests. At one I did have help (thanks Liesl!), but these days support takes at most an hour per week, and all requests fall into two buckets: As a result, there hasn’t been a pressing need to outsource support. But...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
A prosthesis for imagination: Using AI to boost your creativity AI can already beat humans in many measures of creativity. Let's use that to our advantage.
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
4 months ago
Solving the decision...
iff On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
What’s coming next for AI in 2024 A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Signs and Portents Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
a year 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...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
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
Piotr Migdał's Blog
The first post: why Jekyll? Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 369 | Reddit Hack, Deepfake Scams, Embracing Change… ✅ Please subscribe to and give a 17-star review to this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
✅ Please subscribe to and give a 17-star review to this show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Thank you! SECURITY Reddit has confirmed it was hacked, and it’s recommending users add 2FA. The attack started by phishing Reddit employees and stealing credentials and 2FA codes. After...
Sam Altman
The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...
Sam Altman
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
fast.ai
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
Society's Backend
The Slow, Painful Death of the Free Content Creator It's happening as you read this
a year ago
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...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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...
IEEE Spectrum
Worm-like Robots Install Power Lines Underground After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to...
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After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to prevent future fires has gained renewed urgency in the state. While the exact cause of the fires remains under investigation, California utilities have spent years undergrounding power...
PromptArmor Blog
Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor and Kai Greshake
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold Small improvements can lead to big changes
8 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Prawdopodobieństwo a informacja
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator recognition with transfer learning
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 360 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY SERIES SECURITY NEWS Security researchers found that Chinese electronics company Eufy (part of Anker) has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS Security researchers found that Chinese electronics company Eufy (part of Anker) has major vulnerabilities in its security cameras. The issues include uploading data to the cloud when they said they weren't, and the existence of a URL endpoint that allows an...
Marcus on AI
Irony too funny for words Oops
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
a year ago
Sam Altman
Productivity I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic.  A...
Society's Backend
Anti-Social Media How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
a year ago
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a year ago
How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
Jaz's Blog
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What makes strong engineers strong? As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
Society's Backend
What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
7 months ago
Marcus on AI
Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history? In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico asked “15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators”, including me, “to provide some explosive potential...
AI Snake Oil
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
9 months ago
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
Weighty Thoughts
Commentary on Technology, Startups, and Investing Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater and Google X. Co-Founder Lioness. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
Don't Worry About...
AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
a month ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 349
over a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
ICML accepted papers institution stats
over a year ago
Xena
Formalising modern research mathematics in real time (This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and Sahasrabudhe appeared on the arXiv, announcing an exponential improvement to the upper bound on Ramsey numbers, an open problem since 1935. … Continue reading →
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas December 6, 2024.
3 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Can AI diagnose mental conditions within a single conversation?
a year ago
Xena
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
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 →
Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
6 days ago
Marcus on AI
“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones” also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
a month ago
Marcus on AI
ChatGPT, at Age Two The bullshit just keeps on coming.
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 038: Preparedness October 27, 2023.
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
The Manus Marketing Madness While at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come.
17 hours ago
Marcus on AI
WARNING: Elon Musk is crippling the future of the United States And I am not sure he even understands the consequences of his own actions
4 weeks ago
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
a year ago
Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
a month ago
Stories by Andrej...
Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Blinded by Analogies What is this AI thing? The wrong model can lead us astray
over a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Are DeepSeek's new models really that fast and cheap? Everyone’s saying that DeepSeek’s latest models represent a significant improvement over the work...
a month ago
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a month ago
Everyone’s saying that DeepSeek’s latest models represent a significant improvement over the work from American AI labs. If they’re not…
Jascha’s blog
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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Preceden This week consisted of Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I getting TimelineGPT (the AI content generator we’re working on) from 80% ready to ship to 98%. Lots of small, boring tasks like: Hopefully can launch the v1 early next week, rolling it out to 25% of users and then...
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Introduction It can be fun to drive a problem all the way into the ground. I don’t always get to do that on paying projects, however sometimes I can do it with hobby projects. In this case I am going to re-solve Dudeney’s Remainder Problem again and again to argue […]
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The major aim of this feature is to support short (90 second max) video streaming at a quality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for us to provide for free. In order to stay within these...
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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...
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People are blown away that Apple keeps winning while its competitors are floundering. It’s a simple formula. Make consistently super-high-quality products that work together as part of an ecosystem. Google and Microsoft have 20X Apple’s losses in the last year. A staggering $3...
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Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
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A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
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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...
Daniel Miessler
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I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the shenanigans. As for my take on things, I will just say that Elon miscalculated a number of things in his handling of the transition. I think he thought his actions would be better received....
IEEE Spectrum
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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...
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...
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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...
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Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
Matt Mazur
Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing...
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Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
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I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more. Basically, the current trajectory of AI, with all the art generation, the language models, etc., are about to become a whole lot more instruction and response based. What does that mean?...
One Useful Thing
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fast.ai
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Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on this was written in April 2020 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
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The structure of Ghostbuster, our new state-of-the-art method for detecting AI-generated text. Large language models like ChatGPT write impressively well—so well, in fact, that they’ve become a problem. Students have begun using these models to ghostwrite assignments, leading...
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Whither Utopia? The mystery of why we don't dream of building perfect societies anymore
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Tech Workers' Values For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the...
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For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights....
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Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
YCombinator's AI boom is still going strong (W24) Combing through all 158 YC AI startups (65% of the batch).
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What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴ Siri versus the machine god?
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Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
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Sam Altman
Funding for COVID-19 Projects I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I...
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I’m trying to fund startups/projects helping with COVID-19, because it’s basically the one thing I know how to do that can help.  I think we will soon have enough testing capacity, so now I’d like to start funding more startups working on: Producing a lot of ventilators or...
One Useful Thing
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
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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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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…
Marcus on AI
o3, AGI, the art of the demo, and what you can expect in 2025 OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived....
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OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
Solving the decision...
A list of reasons why you should be using Cloudflare Workers for building your AI agent... (It's only shilling if it's posted during working hours. I'm on my lunch break.)
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AI Snake Oil
Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
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What is the IQ of ChatGPT? Making an AI model take an IQ test
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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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Strange Loop Canon
Is AI hitting a wall?
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Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
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It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
Society's Backend
Mastering the Art of Documentation Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
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A Clarification I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to...
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I made a point in this post inelegantly in a way that was easy to misunderstand, so I’d like to clarify it. I didn’t mean that we need to tolerate brilliant homophobic jerks in the lab so that we can have scientific progress.  Although there are famous...
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Slouching Towards Utopia by Brad DeLong
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Devin Has Exposed a Major Issue with Software Engineering And isn't that we're all going to lose our jobs
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition July 5, 2024.
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AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
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E Pur Si Muove Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more...
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Earlier this year, I noticed something in China that really surprised me.  I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco.  I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfortable than at home. That...
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On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
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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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Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
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AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
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Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply
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Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dreams, Drugs & ConvNets It seems that some artifacts of artificial neural networks are eerily similar to our altered states...
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It seems that some artifacts of artificial neural networks are eerily similar to our altered states of mind, be it dreams or psychedelics.
Artificial Ignorance
AI and the workplace How employees and CEOs alike can plan for the future.
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What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
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Glue work considered harmful “Glue work” is an concept Tanya Reilly came up with in 2019. The idea is that there’s a large amount...
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“Glue work” is an concept Tanya Reilly came up with in 2019. The idea is that there’s a large amount of unglamorous work that every team…
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What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1? The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released their new reasoning model R1, which is supposedly (a)...
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The Chinese AI lab DeepSeek recently released their new reasoning model R1, which is supposedly (a) better than the current best reasoning…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3 March 8, 2024.
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