AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math
An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
2nd Jun 2025
An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
AI Snake Oil
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
The Berkeley...
RL without TD learning
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative”...
1st Nov 2025
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
25th Apr 2019
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
AI for Software...
You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server!
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can...
1st Aug 2025
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can have access to all of my curated feeds that I use to keep up with AI resources, news and jobs. This is also a private space for paid subscribers to chat, learn, network, and get...
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
9th Oct 2022
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
Zach Seward
What was Quartz?
2012–2025
7th Apr 2025
The Berkeley...
Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy...
10th Jul 2022
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
How to stop feeling guilty about the unfinished work?
10th Mar 2014
Don't Worry About...
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions....
1st Jul 2026
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
Max Woolf's Blog
Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata
Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
30th Jun 2025
Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
Marcus on AI
OpenAI, in deep trouble
Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
1st Mar 2025
Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
IEEE Spectrum
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus
Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project...
3rd Mar 2025
Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project out of Ron Fearing’s lab at UC Berkeley. The palm-sized spring-loaded jumping robot has gone from barely being able to chain together a few open-loop jumps to mastering landings,...
Weighty Thoughts
How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
11th Mar 2026
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes"
3rd May 2026
Eugene Yan
How to get started in Data Science
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
25th Jun 2017
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)
Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
1st Sep 2025
Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We don't know why you don't want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been....
Mind Prison
Make Authenticity Great Again
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
2nd Aug 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting
Don't overcomplicate things
1st Nov 2023
Don't overcomplicate things
Solving the decision...
The unfortunate truth of software for technologists
It's all about the money, baby
21st Jan 2025
It's all about the money, baby
Rachel Thomas, PhD
What AI can tell us about microscope slides
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
Sam Altman
Helion Needs You
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q >...
13th Jul 2022
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator.
The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1...
One Useful Thing
Claude Code and What Comes Next
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
7th Jan 2026
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
Mind Prison
The Destruction of Meaning by AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 49 - 2025.09.11
12th Sep 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 49 - 2025.09.11
The Berkeley...
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
3rd May 2022
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
8th Sep 2023
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
Sam Altman
Helion
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
5th Nov 2021
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen.
David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
One Useful Thing
Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look...
26th May 2026
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
One Useful Thing
Personality and Persuasion
Learning from Sycophants
1st May 2025
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
2nd Jan 2025
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
AI for Software...
Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
7th Aug 2026
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
Win Vector LLC
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips
I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
10th Apr 2025
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...
Rozado’s Visual...
Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media
Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded...
15th Jul 2021
Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News and Opinion Articles from News Media Outlets”
Rozado’s Visual...
DEI Statement Requirements in Faculty Hiring Have More Than Halved Between 2024 and 2025
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across...
21st Apr 2026
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across faculty hiring between 2024 and 2025
Eugene Yan
How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and...
11th Feb 2024
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
Weighty Thoughts
Why Is AI Bad at Writing?
And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
a week ago
And Why It’ll Likely Stay That Way—Em Dashes or Not!
Jascha’s blog
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently
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9th Mar 2023
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Many machine learning researchers worry about risks from building artificial intelligence...
Rozado’s Visual...
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system
Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
2nd Feb 2023
Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
Sam Altman
The Gentle Singularity
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital...
10th Jun 2025
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be.
Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day. People...
Woody Hayday
Small Bet Models
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I...
22nd Jul 2024
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I thought I’d explore a range of models rather than relying on my ‘known’ entrepreneurial mode (Freemium SaaS/WordPress plugin based business). Below I’ve collected together the...
Eugene Yan
How to Keep Learning about Machine Learning
Beyond getting that starting role, how does one continue growing in the field?
19th Jan 2022
Beyond getting that starting role, how does one continue growing in the field?
Matt Mazur
Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden
Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing...
20th Dec 2021
Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not
January 3, 2025.
3rd Jan 2025
IEEE Spectrum
LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon
As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the...
1st Feb 2026
As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the cathode-ray tube’s glow. The English band Pink Floyd blared through the speakers of my mom’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, beckoning us to the dark side of the moon.
The far side of...
Eugene Yan
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
27th Dec 2017
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
The Berkeley...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
30th Jun 2022
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
Tree, truth, druid, dryad, tar and dendrite grew from one Proto-Indo-European root
24th Jun 2026
matt.sh
Fix Homebrew Python and Unify Development
Stop Homebrew Version-Jacking Your Python All The Time
It happened again. I do a careless brew...
13th Dec 2020
Stop Homebrew Version-Jacking Your Python All The Time
It happened again. I do a careless brew upgrade and homebrew blows away1 the stable python install I had 20 virtualenvs pointing to in favor of a new major python version released two days ago that many extensions and modules...
fast.ai
How to Solve it With Code course now available
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
15th Oct 2025
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
9th Dec 2024
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
Woody Hayday
Project Pages 2.0
I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more...
7th Aug 2024
I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more than a portfolio maker, this is for all indie makers! Let's go.
The post Project Pages 2.0 first appeared on Woody Hayday.
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...
13th Jan 2025
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.
Machine Learning for...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026)
Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this:...
2nd Feb 2026
Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Acme License-Plate Maker; IPV4 delenda est; Mandatory gun-ownership; Sukey; Ross and Carrie x LRH; Criti-hype. Upcoming appearances: Where...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
Cal Newport
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
a week ago
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more
The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
matt.sh
APFS Object Map Recovery (free)
APFS Object Map Recovery
I spent a day figuring out how to look into a corrupt encrypted APFS...
19th Nov 2019
APFS Object Map Recovery
I spent a day figuring out how to look into a corrupt encrypted APFS partition. Here’s the notes.
If you only care about the answer, jump to the last section.
Kernel Panic
macOS hard panicked on me with a graphics driver corruption error...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country' (01 Jun 2026)
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this...
1st Jun 2026
Today's links Molly Crabapple's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country': An essential book for this moment and for the moments that led to it. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Home chemistry sets in danger; Every pirate wants to be an admiral; Painful...
Ollama
OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama
OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run...
28th May 2026
OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run on your own hardware, with Ollama support built-in.
Strange Loop Canon
Vibe Governing
using llms to set policy
7th Apr 2025
Max Woolf's Blog
Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"?
It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
12th Aug 2025
It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
Eugene Yan
First post!
Time to start writing.
6th Jul 2016
AI for Software...
AI for Software Engineers: Looking Forward to 2026
Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
1st Jan 2026
Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
The Berkeley...
What exactly does word2vec learn?
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding...
1st Sep 2025
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a well-known precursor to modern language models, for many years, researchers...
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides
This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her...
2nd Feb 2025
This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her journey as an AI researcher returning to school for immunology.
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...
19th May 2020
A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback: for actions, not guilt.
Weighty Thoughts
Ten Years of AI in Review
From 2015 to 2025
1st Jan 2026
One Useful Thing
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
4th Jun 2026
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
matt.sh
Programming Errors at Project Scale
Programming Errors at Project Scale
Errors in Multi-Person Projects
Errors in multi-person projects...
12th Aug 2014
Programming Errors at Project Scale
Errors in Multi-Person Projects
Errors in multi-person projects involve typical programming errors1 and, more annoyingly, interpersonal errors.
This article is a quick overview of both technical and interpersonal errors we encounter when trying...
matt.sh
i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
Hello AI
Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness,
how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive”...
6th Feb 2022
Hello AI
Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness,
how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive” thing treating you?
perhaps, first understand certain kinds of dangerous ambition never grow again, ’cause killers linger evermore.
depending on when this finds you, maybe we have...
The Gradient
Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
24th Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
Solving the decision...
one document, two hands
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
20th Jul 2026
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
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
2nd Dec 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
Society's Backend:...
How AI companies get around data regulation
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
Eugene Yan
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
9th Apr 2023
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
Eugene Yan
RecSys 2022: Recap, Favorite Papers, and Lessons
My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
2nd Oct 2022
My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
Stories by Andrej...
Yes you should understand backprop
19th Dec 2016
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Acing the design interview
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work...
1st Jan 2021
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
AI as Normal...
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
12th Feb 2026
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
Ollama
Embedding models
Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in...
8th Apr 2024
Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications.
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Decoding T cells with AI
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s...
8th Jul 2024
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s important that scientists share their work with a broader audience. This 3-part series is an experiment: an accessible introduction to AI immunology concepts. This post is part 1 in...
Xena
The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving?
This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in...
16th Aug 2022
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...
Eugene Yan
The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
2nd May 2021
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
One Useful Thing
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research
The first narrow agents are here
3rd Feb 2025
The first narrow agents are here
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
Dylan Huang Blog
APIs Over UIs: Agents Are the Future Interface to Everything
11th Feb 2026
AI Snake Oil
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
31st May 2023
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
Eugene Yan
AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied...
27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
Jascha’s blog
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
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12th Feb 2024
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ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
28th Feb 2025
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
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...
25th Oct 2015
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...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
AI for Software...
The Mistakes Most Entry-Level Candidates Make in Technical Interviews
And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
12th Feb 2026
And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
7th Feb 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
maragu’s blog
Go and SQLite in the Cloud
Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
4th Nov 2022
Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019 (“Antimicrobial Resistance” 2023). In the USA, AMR results annually in 8 million additional days spent in the hospital and over $20 billion in...
Marcus on AI
Scaling hasn’t gotten us to AGI, or ‘superintelligence’, let alone AI we could trust. What do we do...
Pointer to a new essay by the author, in The New York Times
3rd Sep 2025
Pointer to a new essay by the author, in The New York Times
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Flytrap - Shaping the Future of Quantum DevTools
1st Jul 2022
Made by Ollin
Game Emulation via Neural Network
5th Sep 2022
Dylan Huang Blog
I Built My Resume In Markdown
Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
3rd Dec 2024
Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
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...
2nd Jan 2024
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...
Don't Worry About...
Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare
Everything impacts everything.
1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 29 -- using DistributedDataParallel to train a base model from...
I'm carrying on with my "extra credit" projects after finishing the main body of
Sebastian Raschka's...
7th Jan 2026
I'm carrying on with my "extra credit" projects after finishing the main body of
Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)".
Having proven that I could train a GPT-2 small scale base model from scratch
on my RTX 3090
in 48 hours, I wanted to try...
One Useful Thing
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI
Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
2nd Mar 2023
Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
fast.ai
A Guide to Solveit Features
An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and...
7th Nov 2025
An overview of the features of the Solveit platform, which is designed to make exploration and iterative development easier and faster.
Sam Altman
Time to Take a Stand
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about
some of the actions taken by President...
28th Jan 2017
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...
Rozado’s Visual...
Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? A better approach is possible
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the...
22nd Jun 2026
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the difference matters
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...
3rd Oct 2022
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,...
Ollama
Llama 3.2 Vision
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
6th Nov 2024
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
Sam Altman
US Digital Currency
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is...
10th May 2018
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far). There was possibly a time when governments could have totally stopped it, but it feels like that’s in the rearview mirror.
...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025)
Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and...
1st Aug 2025
Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MP3s on punchcards; German Potter fan-trans; Healthy Boundary Tree. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum logic gates for a single qubit, interactively
10th Apr 2021
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent...
4th Feb 2016
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent research shows that STEM students are indeed more autistic than the general population.
One Useful Thing
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
New models and new thresholds
20th Apr 2025
New models and new thresholds
Rozado’s Visual...
The ‘Great Awokening' Preceded Trump. It May Continue Beyond Him
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse...
8th Sep 2021
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They’ve simultaneously become
Rachel Thomas, PhD
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.”
I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
Solving the decision...
iff
On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
4th Jan 2021
On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
Anil Dash
Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for...
3 weeks ago
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for my Mac, but without having to use an Apple keyboard. (I generally like their keyboards, but my daily driver keyboard these days is a big clicky mechanical beast.) I’d gone down...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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
17th Feb 2025
Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Learning Deep Learning with Keras
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning...
30th Apr 2017
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning with links to didactic materials.
Giles' blog
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 28 -- training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090
Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from...
2nd Dec 2025
Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book
"Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)",
I wanted to try an experiment: is it possible to train a base model of my
own, on my own hardware?
The book shows you how to train your LLM, does a basic training run
on...
Arguing with...
Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
27th Oct 2024
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
Giles' blog
Putting my JAX-trained models on the Hugging Face Hub
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers...
a week ago
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because
Transformers has been PyTorch-only since version 5
(though they say they're working to add interoperability with JAX in the future), so it
would have been tough to get them working natively with...
Weighty Thoughts
Knowledge Agents: Beat Frontier Models with Better Structure
No Mythos, No Problem
21st Jun 2026
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
9th May 2024
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Embodiment for nerds
Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
18th Sep 2021
Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025)
Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a...
1st Nov 2025
Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: D2020; Sony rootkit; Public Enemy vs the internet; NYC plute Hallowe'en. Upcoming appearances: Where to...
Ollama
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama...
14th Mar 2024
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.
One Useful Thing
On Working with Wizards
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
11th Sep 2025
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
Max Woolf's Blog
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
2nd Jan 2025
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
Strange Loop Canon
Strange Loop Canon Commencement Address
24th Jul 2024
Sam Altman
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
6th Jan 2025
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 147: OpenAI's Code Red
December 5, 2025.
5th Dec 2025
Max Woolf's Blog
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
22nd Feb 2023
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
29th Mar 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
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Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter
2nd Jan 2026
Eugene Yan
Is Writing as Important as Coding?
As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders.
4th Oct 2020
As careers grow, how does the balance between writing & coding change? Hear from 4 tech leaders.
Mind Prison
Cancel Culture and the Lawful Limits of Speech | When Is the Embrace of Violence to Stop Speech...
How to defend the free society when speech turns to violence
6th Oct 2025
How to defend the free society when speech turns to violence
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again
April 4, 2025.
4th Apr 2025
Weighty Thoughts
Is AI in Writing a Problem?
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
3rd Apr 2026
Mechanical Skills Change, But the Fundamental Art Doesn't
Xena
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of...
20th Jul 2026
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexamples. Unit distance Two months ago today (20th May 2026), … Continue reading →
AI as Normal...
Fact checking Moravec's paradox
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
29th Jan 2026
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
Eugene Yan
OMSCS CS6476 (Computer Vision) Review and Tips
OMSCS CS6476 Computer Vision - Performing computer vision tasks with ONLY numpy.
15th May 2017
OMSCS CS6476 Computer Vision - Performing computer vision tasks with ONLY numpy.
Arguing with...
My coding philosophy
Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
13th Jan 2026
Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts
Output similarity is a distraction
22nd Jan 2024
Output similarity is a distraction
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
1st May 2024
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
AI for Software...
AI for SWEs 73: What Ilya Saw and the Time of TPUs
Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build
2nd Dec 2025
Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build
Eugene Yan
DataScience SG Meetup - Panel On the Different Roles in Data
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
17th Jan 2019
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Getting the main thing right
5th Feb 2026
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Building Grafana dashboards with AI, CLI and a bit of pragmatism
16th Jul 2025
Machine Learning for...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
AI as Normal...
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Xena
Beyond the Liquid Tensor Experiment
The liquid tensor experiment is now fully completed. Continue reading →
12th Sep 2022
The liquid tensor experiment is now fully completed. Continue reading →
seangoedecke.com RSS...
AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated
5th Dec 2025
Weighty Thoughts
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense?
No, but yes—a micro and macro view
2nd Feb 2025
No, but yes—a micro and macro view
Rozado’s Visual...
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...
10th Sep 2024
Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
Eugene Yan
Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (aka LLM-as-Judge)
Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
18th Aug 2024
Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
Society's Backend:...
Run Your Own Race
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
2nd Apr 2024
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
Eugene Yan
How to Match LLM Patterns to Problems
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
13th Aug 2023
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
Caitlin’s Newsletter
There Are No Good Zionists, And Other Notes
Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Apr 2026
Marcus on AI
Breaking GPT-5 news
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
9th Nov 2023
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
maragu’s blog
The art of being an indie software consultant: a chat with John Berryman
You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just...
13th Dec 2024
You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just about writing code, it’s about building a whole persona, finding the right clients, while somehow simultaneously also making sense of the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
fast.ai
A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code
fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To...
7th Nov 2024
fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To Solve It With Code’
One Useful Thing
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning
Solving hard problems in new ways
12th Sep 2024
Solving hard problems in new ways
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Weird projects I shipped with AI
1st Jun 2026
Jaz's Blog
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster
There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
19th Apr 2023
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...
Eugene Yan
Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club)
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
7th Jan 2024
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
Rachel Thomas, PhD
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Data science intro for math/phys background
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
15th Mar 2016
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
Strange Loop Canon
Seeing Like A Network
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
19th Jun 2024
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
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?
23rd Jul 2017
Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
Piotr Migdał's Blog
To make a cool game, you first have to play other cool games
26th Aug 2019
Token for Token
How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs
A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
10th Jul 2025
A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
Solving the decision...
Feature flags
An introduction to feature flags
8th Aug 2020
An introduction to feature flags
AI Tidbits
Chatbot Arena - The community-driven leaderboard you need to know
Choose the right AI model for your task
24th Nov 2024
Choose the right AI model for your task
Armin Ronacher's...
A Language For Agents
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming
languages might look like...
9th Feb 2026
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming
languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing.
Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement
existing languages in place but now I’m starting to think...
Eugene Yan
How I’m Reflecting on 2020 and Planning for 2021
Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
6th Dec 2020
Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
maragu’s blog
Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail
Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me...
8th Aug 2024
Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me insightful or stupid. Decide for yourself! :D
Strange Loop Canon
Walter
experiments in rlnvr
23rd Aug 2025
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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...
28th Oct 2024
There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50 responses. Here are some randomly-chosen…
Marcus on AI
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI
With a review of last year’s predictions
1st Jan 2025
With a review of last year’s predictions
Arguing with...
How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
20th Jun 2025
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Your Immune System is Not a Muscle
That which doesn’t kill you…
Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the...
12th Aug 2024
That which doesn’t kill you…
Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Who doesn’t love an analogy? But is this one accurate?
We can see that not all obstacles make you stronger. Destroy the cartilage in your...
Sam Altman
Project Covalence
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
16th Jun 2020
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.
Science remains the...
Eugene Yan
Image search is now live!
A web app to find similar products based on image.
14th Jan 2017
A web app to find similar products based on image.
Matt Mazur
2024 Year in Review
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
10th Jan 2025
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
The Gradient
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing
Introduction
Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
3rd Aug 2024
Introduction
Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
Weighty Thoughts
The Boring Phase of AI
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
4th Dec 2025
Advancements Will Become Less Visible—But More Impactful
matt.sh
AI Is This Correct?
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output.
The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
Weighty Thoughts
Startup Valuation Made Simple(r) - Working Backwards
Counterintuitively, start from how much money you need
30th Aug 2021
Counterintuitively, start from how much money you need
Max Woolf's Blog
Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it
“Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt...
17th Oct 2025
“Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt would work?”
Win Vector LLC
The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm
I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts:...
1st Nov 2024
I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm Photo by Judgefloro – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43063034 Toying with the idea of...
IEEE Spectrum
Fridays With Bob
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which...
1st Aug 2026
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions.
I didn’t find one right away. Then in 2005 we decided to do a special report,...
Eugene Yan
Data Science Project Quick-Start
Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
6th Mar 2022
Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
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