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Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
9th Dec 2016
1

Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products

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

9th Dec 2016
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
Idea Generation The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
28th May 2020
51

Idea Generation

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

28th May 2020
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
AI for Software Engineers: Looking Forward to 2026 Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
1st Jan 2026
1

AI for Software Engineers: Looking Forward to 2026

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

1st Jan 2026
Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
4th Oct 2024
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AI in organizations: Some tactics

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

4th Oct 2024
Meet the Lab and the Crowd
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
4th Oct 2024
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FAQ about the book and our writing process

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

4th Oct 2024
What's in the book and how we wrote it
AGI Is Not Multimodal "In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
4th Jun 2025
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AGI Is Not Multimodal

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

4th Jun 2025
"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
How I ship projects at big tech companies I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
9th Nov 2024
54

How I ship projects at big tech companies

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

9th Nov 2024
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6 Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its...
12th Jan 2025
1

Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6

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

12th Jan 2025
Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its various elements. We first learn about the different kinds of ‘documents’ that we can mimic with our prompts, then think about how to pick which pieces of context to include, and...
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
13

AGI is not a milestone

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

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
Freeing the chatbot Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
2nd May 2024
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Freeing the chatbot

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

2nd May 2024
Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
2nd Feb 2025
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Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense?

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

2nd Feb 2025
No, but yes—a micro and macro view
Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine...
29th Aug 2022
69

Reverse engineering the NTK: towards first-principles architecture design

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

29th Aug 2022
Deep neural networks have enabled technological wonders ranging from voice recognition to machine transition to protein engineering, but their design and application is nonetheless notoriously unprincipled. The development of tools and methods to guide this process is one of the...
Using Safetensors with Flax I'm porting my PyTorch LLM code to JAX, using Flax as the neural network layer. For various reasons...
4th Jun 2026
1

Using Safetensors with Flax

from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jun 2026
I'm porting my PyTorch LLM code to JAX, using Flax as the neural network layer. For various reasons I wanted to use Safetensors to store checkpoints of the model. It took a little while to get it working; here's the trick I learned. If you look at the Safetensors docs, you'll...
Blogs I’ve enjoyed in 2025 I wanted to share my favourite blogs in the AI space with a colleague today, and thought that others...
14th Oct 2025
1

Blogs I’ve enjoyed in 2025

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

14th Oct 2025
I wanted to share my favourite blogs in the AI space with a colleague today, and thought that others might enjoy that list, too!
LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025 From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for...
9th Feb 2025
1

LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025

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

9th Feb 2025
From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for document workflows, PDF processing, table understanding, SQL generation, and web automation
There’s no such thing as not a math person Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
15th Mar 2022
38

There’s no such thing as not a math person

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

15th Mar 2022
Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part five: data quality When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models...
2 weeks ago
1
2 weeks ago
When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models were not as good as OpenAI's original GPT-2 models, despite being based on the same architecture. My models all had 163M parameters, and followed the design from Sebastian...
AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
5th Feb 2023
23

AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory

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

5th Feb 2023
How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
AI And The Ship of Theseus Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned...
5th Mar 2026
1

AI And The Ship of Theseus

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

5th Mar 2026
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different design for that implementation. In many ways, the functionality was the...
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
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ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math

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

2nd Jun 2025
An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4 AI More Stories These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized...
25th Nov 2023
1

AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4

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

25th Nov 2023
AI More Stories These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized to 4 bits (20 GB total quantized instead of 70 GB natural width). It feels almost better than GPT-4 at some tasks. Also considering it costs nothing to run this model locally, the...
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
3rd Mar 2025
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Best Before Dates by Bass

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

3rd Mar 2025
I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
2nd Feb 2023
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2nd Feb 2023
Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
6th Feb 2026
1

Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening

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

6th Feb 2026
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
One Definite Sign of a Bad Startup Idea If you can’t tell anyone about your startup idea, it's not a good idea
10th Oct 2021
43

One Definite Sign of a Bad Startup Idea

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

10th Oct 2021
If you can’t tell anyone about your startup idea, it's not a good idea
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations...
24th Jul 2026
2

Becoming Skilled at Making Documents

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

24th Jul 2026
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly...
Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available....
10th Aug 2026
1
10th Aug 2026
Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available. Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local coding agents, and accelerated by Ollama's MLX engine with new native DFlash and...
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
1
13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
Evaluate LLM Apps in Go As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a bigger part of our apps, making sure they work reliably...
25th Feb 2025
1

Evaluate LLM Apps in Go

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

25th Feb 2025
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a bigger part of our apps, making sure they work reliably brings some challenges. Unlike traditional code with predictable outputs, LLMs are indeterministic and can output downright weird stuff. That’s where good evaluation tools come in! In...
RL without TD learning In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative”...
1st Nov 2025
2

RL without TD learning

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

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...
ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem 43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
1st Oct 2025
1
1st Oct 2025
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself) Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
19th Oct 2025
1

Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)

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

19th Oct 2025
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
How to Announce Your Actual AI How to Announce Your Actual AI To The World If you did make a non-gimmick Actual AI1, how would you...
6th Jul 2022
1

How to Announce Your Actual AI

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

6th Jul 2022
How to Announce Your Actual AI To The World If you did make a non-gimmick Actual AI1, how would you show the world? P1 Let’s run through the only possible introduction vectors plus some upcoming scenarios: grand public announcement / press release at first plausible result...
developer relations after the cheat code machine (corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these...
2nd Apr 2026
1

developer relations after the cheat code machine

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

2nd Apr 2026
(corollary- developer relations is becoming more about helping humans develop judgment around these systems)
Data science intro for math/phys background Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
15th Mar 2016
26

Data science intro for math/phys background

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

15th Mar 2016
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
2nd Dec 2024
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

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

2nd Dec 2024
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
1st Apr 2026
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Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust

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

1st Apr 2026
Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
AWS VPC: A Reintroduction (or, how to allocate 5 million IPs in 5 minutes) AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2...
24th Jan 2022
1
24th Jan 2022
AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2 commands, 5 minutes. A Starting Do you know how many services AWS has these days? In [1]: import boto3 ...: ...: s = boto3.session.Session() ...:...
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
7th Aug 2025
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GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff

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

7th Aug 2025
Putting the AI in Charge
Epicycles All The Way Down “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
26th Nov 2025
1

Epicycles All The Way Down

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

26th Nov 2025
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
3rd Sep 2021
31

Learning incident response with problem sets

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

3rd Sep 2021
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…
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I...
11th Dec 2023
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC

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

11th Dec 2023
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on gRPC to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
4th Jun 2025
34

How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI

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

4th Jun 2025
A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
2nd Nov 2024
72

8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia

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

2nd Nov 2024
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
26

“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

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

25th Oct 2019
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. ...
17th Oct 2025
1

Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code

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

17th Oct 2025
In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. In the time since I utilized that idea for exploring non-coding agents at Earendil. And I’m not alone! In the meantime, multiple people have explored this space and I felt it was...
Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
19th Jun 2024
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Seeing Like A Network

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

19th Jun 2024
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 21 -- perplexed by perplexity I'm continuing through chapter 5 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from...
7th Oct 2025
1

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 21 -- perplexed by perplexity

from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Oct 2025
I'm continuing through chapter 5 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", which covers training the LLM. Last time I wrote about cross entropy loss. Before moving on to the next section, I wanted to post about something that the book only...
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
4th Jun 2026
1

Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence

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

4th Jun 2026
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
The Fermi Paradox Just From Rarity Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds”...
22nd Nov 2025
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The Fermi Paradox Just From Rarity

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

22nd Nov 2025
Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds” recently pointed out a new paper on the Fermi paradox: Antal Veres “The solitude zone: A probabilistic window for singular lifeform existence”, Acta Astronautica Volume 238, Part...
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
3rd Sep 2019
1

OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) Review and Tips

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

3rd Sep 2019
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
25th May 2023
165

Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update

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

25th May 2023
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally...
10th May 2022
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AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com

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

10th May 2022
Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally building add-on software called progs (Revolution, Meridian), publishing code libraries called bas files (Alpha32), and later co-founding AOL-Files.com (where I went by the hacker...
Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
9th Oct 2023
73

Mind the Gap

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

9th Oct 2023
from empire to umpire
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
1

An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail

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

27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
12th Feb 2026
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AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper

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

12th Feb 2026
Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
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How AI companies get around data regulation

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

5th Feb 2025
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
14th Apr 2025
54

guitars and javascript - the case for jank

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

14th Apr 2025
worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
6th Apr 2022
56

DALL•E 2

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

6th Apr 2022
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...
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX...
29th Apr 2024
17

I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX

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

29th Apr 2024
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low...
9th Sep 2025
1

High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard

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

9th Sep 2025
Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low dimensional intuition that is holding progress back. I’d like to try and explain why that isn’t quite the case. The background Some of the rigorous work on the nature of stationary...
let the code do the talking (why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
13th Mar 2026
1

let the code do the talking

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

13th Mar 2026
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
12th Jul 2017
38

The United Slate

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

12th Jul 2017
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
3rd Oct 2023
175

The shape of the shadow of The Thing

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

3rd Oct 2023
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters...
15th Oct 2022
31

Perspective: capsaicin is a psychoactive substance

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

15th Oct 2022
Capsaicin, the active substance in chili peppers, acts on vanilloid receptors (TRPV1) and alters adrenaline and endorphine levels.
Nobody Knows Anything on living with ignorance
16th Aug 2026
1

Nobody Knows Anything

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

16th Aug 2026
on living with ignorance
Welcome to Moltbook Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
2nd Feb 2026
1

Welcome to Moltbook

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

2nd Feb 2026
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
OpenAI, in deep trouble Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
1st Mar 2025
54

OpenAI, in deep trouble

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

1st Mar 2025
Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
61

From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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

4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is it Truthful and Accurate? Notes From the Desk: No. 52 - 2025.11.02
3rd Nov 2025
1

Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is it Truthful and Accurate?

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

3rd Nov 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 52 - 2025.11.02
Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
8th Aug 2023
59

Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges

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

8th Aug 2023
A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
Modeling Uncertainty For Better Outcomes Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC...
8th Aug 2025
1

Modeling Uncertainty For Better Outcomes

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

8th Aug 2025
Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC sampler. It has allowed us to infer deep business factors, instead of being limited surface KPIs (key performance indicators). Modeling uncertainty requires stronger optimizers to...
An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
3rd Oct 2023
72

An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It

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

3rd Oct 2023
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
An LLM-as-Judge Won't Save The Product—Fixing Your Process Will Applying the scientific method, building via eval-driven development, and monitoring AI output.
20th Apr 2025
1
20th Apr 2025
Applying the scientific method, building via eval-driven development, and monitoring AI output.
How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
10th Jul 2025
1

How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

from Token for Token [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Jul 2025
A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
INSEAD Lunchtime Talks - How Lazada uses Data And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
25th Apr 2018
1

INSEAD Lunchtime Talks - How Lazada uses Data

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

25th Apr 2018
And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
iff On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
4th Jan 2021
22

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

4th Jan 2021
On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
14th Sep 2025
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14th Sep 2025
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
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Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You

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

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At...
22nd Jan 2024
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Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks

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

22nd Jan 2024
The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At the time, deep learning (the technique behind recent advances in AI) was the purview of a small and homogeneous handful of practitioners. The standard approach was to have...
Structured outputs Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a...
6th Dec 2024
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Structured outputs

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Dec 2024
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
1st Apr 2025
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Housing Roundup #11

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

1st Apr 2025
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
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
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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...
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
21st Jun 2021
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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

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

21st Jun 2021
.wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; overflow-wrap: break-word; /* allow wrapping of very very long strings, like txids */ } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 13px; /*...
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
7th Aug 2024
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Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet

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

7th Aug 2024
AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
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
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Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page

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

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...
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026) Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers...
2nd May 2026
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Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)

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

2nd May 2026
Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers next! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Colbert v GWB; Wallaby milk; Jay Rosen's journalism precepts; Radical Media(TM); What is carried interest? TCP...
LLMs can now identify public figures in images ChatGPT and Claude won’t, but Gemini will.
28th Jul 2025
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LLMs can now identify public figures in images

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

28th Jul 2025
ChatGPT and Claude won’t, but Gemini will.
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
17th Aug 2026
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My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

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

17th Aug 2026
Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
How to get started in Data Science Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
25th Jun 2017
1

How to get started in Data Science

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

25th Jun 2017
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
Communities of Not There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something:...
6th Jun 2026
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Communities of Not

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

6th Jun 2026
There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy, choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets...
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
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Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club)

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

7th Jan 2024
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to...
20th Jan 2026
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

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

20th Jan 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is one of our civilization’s oldest and most powerful technologies for trying to...
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
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Acing the design interview

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

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…
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
9th Jan 2025
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Review of AI in 2024 and Updates

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

9th Jan 2025
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
115

Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics A Growing Threat The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
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Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics

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

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...
AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing). A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
1st Mar 2023
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1st Mar 2023
A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
NVIDIA DGX Spark The latest NVIDIA DGX Spark is here! Ollama has partnered with NVIDIA to ensure it runs fast and...
13th Oct 2025
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NVIDIA DGX Spark

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Oct 2025
The latest NVIDIA DGX Spark is here! Ollama has partnered with NVIDIA to ensure it runs fast and efficiently out-of-the-box.
Trend of Agentic Coding Products 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
2nd Jun 2026
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Trend of Agentic Coding Products

from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Jun 2026
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
2017 YC Annual Letter Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual...
16th Feb 2017
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2017 YC Annual Letter

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

16th Feb 2017
Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.  We...
Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
21st Apr 2017
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Quora

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

21st Apr 2017
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other.  So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora. Quora is doing extremely well. They now...
Ten Years of AI in Review From 2015 to 2025
1st Jan 2026
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Ten Years of AI in Review

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

1st Jan 2026
From 2015 to 2025
Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are...
4th Feb 2025
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Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation

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

4th Feb 2025
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are my notes on the chapter. Overview and Core Philosophy “Data will be mostly just toil, tears and sweat.” This is how we start the chapter :) This candid assessment frames dataset...
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
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Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time

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

3rd Apr 2024
That’s what makes it worthwhile
htmx is a erlang htmx is a erlang htmx, a disciple of hypermedia, available only in hardcover do not look for...
23rd Jul 2023
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htmx is a erlang

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

23rd Jul 2023
htmx is a erlang htmx, a disciple of hypermedia, available only in hardcover do not look for alternatives, has been manifesting itself into existence recently (recently: after 10 years of work1) and has finally reached critical mass2. let’s look into it. universal server joe...
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true...
3rd Jun 2023
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button

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

3rd Jun 2023
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
2nd Aug 2023
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AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models?

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

2nd Aug 2023
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied...
27th Jun 2024
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27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
26th Aug 2021
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Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins

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

26th Aug 2021
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...
How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and...
11th Feb 2024
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How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning

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

11th Feb 2024
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
AI Automating: The Worksheet Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's...
18th Jun 2025
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AI Automating: The Worksheet

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Jun 2025
Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's going awfully. It's challenging. The post AI Automating: The Worksheet first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
16th Mar 2025
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Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs

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

16th Mar 2025
Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now What AI to use in late 2025
19th Oct 2025
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An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

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

19th Oct 2025
What AI to use in late 2025
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020 Reflecting on the Past Year
13th Jan 2021
42

What I got Right or Wrong in 2020

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

13th Jan 2021
Reflecting on the Past Year
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest “This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
2nd Sep 2024
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Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest

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

2nd Sep 2024
“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
3rd Jan 2024
178

The AI research tool that saves me hours every week

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

3rd Jan 2024
And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline? An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
1st Jul 2025
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ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline?

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

1st Jul 2025
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
Kelly Can’t Fail Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly...
19th Dec 2024
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Kelly Can’t Fail

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

19th Dec 2024
Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive or high variance strategy, in that betting more than the Kelly selection can be...
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
2nd Jan 2024
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Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option

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

2nd Jan 2024
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in the summer, but it...
14th Jan 2026
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Porting MiniJinja to Go With an Agent

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

14th Jan 2026
Turns out you can just port things now. I already attempted this experiment in the summer, but it turned out to be a bit too much for what I had time for. However, things have advanced since. Yesterday I ported MiniJinja (a Rust Jinja2 template engine) to native Go, and I used...
Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building agents somewhere. Everybody does it. Building...
3rd Nov 2025
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Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres

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

3rd Nov 2025
It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building agents somewhere. Everybody does it. Building a good agent, however, brings back some of the historic challenges involving durable execution. Entirely unsurprisingly, a lot of people are now building durable...
Giving your AI a Job Interview As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
12th Nov 2025
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Giving your AI a Job Interview

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

12th Nov 2025
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are...
4th Feb 2025
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Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation

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

4th Feb 2025
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are my notes on the chapter. Overview and Core Philosophy “Data will be mostly just toil, tears and sweat.” This is how we start the chapter :) This candid assessment frames dataset...
Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
11th Oct 2024
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Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI

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

11th Oct 2024
Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us “The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
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5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

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

11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.” I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon Is Google back?
2 weeks ago
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AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon

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

2 weeks ago
Is Google back?
Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
23rd Jul 2017
21

Dating for nerds (part 1): problem diagnosis

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

23rd Jul 2017
Heterosexual male nerd dating problem - does it exist? What are the main pain points?
How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
20th Jun 2025
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How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue

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

20th Jun 2025
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

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

3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
autoresearch and diary agent skills I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
26th Mar 2026
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autoresearch and diary agent skills

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

26th Mar 2026
I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit “The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe...
1st Jul 2026
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The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit

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

1st Jul 2026
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an...
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
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

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.
Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
13th Feb 2022
1

Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team

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

13th Feb 2022
What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
Ollama's new app Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
30th Jul 2025
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Ollama's new app

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Jul 2025
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
2nd Mar 2019
22

An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships

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

2nd Mar 2019
CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
Fear and Loathing in 7nm How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
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Fear and Loathing in 7nm

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

18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology But is AI different than other technologies?
8th Mar 2024
134

Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology

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

8th Mar 2024
But is AI different than other technologies?
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
23rd May 2023
131

GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Large Language Models

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

23rd May 2023
TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
12th Nov 2024
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Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

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

12th Nov 2024
Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for...
12th Dec 2024
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The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era

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

12th Dec 2024
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
7th Sep 2016
80

A Survival Guide to a PhD

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

7th Sep 2016
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming? Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
7th Mar 2024
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What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming?

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

7th Mar 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
Embedding models Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in...
8th Apr 2024
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Embedding models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

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.
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
7th Apr 2024
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What is Defensibility?

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

7th Apr 2024
Back to basics for AI startups and others
Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius The World Will Be Prompt
28th May 2026
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Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius

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

28th May 2026
The World Will Be Prompt
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
5th Apr 2020
1

Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

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

5th Apr 2020
Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
Shortages Create Opportunity Whether Real or From Export Controls
12th Oct 2025
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Shortages Create Opportunity

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

12th Oct 2025
Whether Real or From Export Controls
1st Mar 2024
143

AI Roundup 056: Data deals

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

1st Mar 2024
March 1, 2024.
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
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13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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
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Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025)

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

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...
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
13th Jan 2020
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How To Invest In Startups

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

13th Jan 2020
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
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
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US Digital Currency

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

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. ...
Is a CS Degree Still Worth It? The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
6th Nov 2025
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Is a CS Degree Still Worth It?

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

6th Nov 2025
The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o “You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
23rd Oct 2024
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Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o

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

23rd Oct 2024
“You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies
5th Aug 2026
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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research

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

5th Aug 2026
Early evidence from two case studies
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2nd Feb 2025
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Full Stack AI Agents

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

2nd Feb 2025
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
14th Apr 2023
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14th Apr 2023
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
19th Jan 2025
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Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents

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

19th Jan 2025
How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
OLX Prod Tech 2019 Keynote - Asia's Tech Giants & SuperApps Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
3rd Oct 2019
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OLX Prod Tech 2019 Keynote - Asia's Tech Giants & SuperApps

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

3rd Oct 2019
Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
New Painting: Roger Waters Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
1st Nov 2025
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New Painting: Roger Waters

from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Nov 2025
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
LLM councils show groupthink perils and problems of LLM peer review
15th Jun 2026
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LLM councils show groupthink

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

15th Jun 2026
perils and problems of LLM peer review
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
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Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything

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

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,...
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into...
10th Jan 2026
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Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

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

10th Jan 2026
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements...
The Political Preferences of LLMs Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
2nd Feb 2024
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The Political Preferences of LLMs

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

2nd Feb 2024
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 26 -- evaluating the fine-tuned model This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language...
3rd Nov 2025
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3rd Nov 2025
This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In the last post I covered the part of the chapter that covers instruction fine-tuning; this time round, we evaluate our model -- particularly interestingly, we...
20th Apr 2025
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
17th Nov 2022
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The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools

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

17th Nov 2022
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
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
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Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026)

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

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...
Agency and Agents From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
31st Aug 2026
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Agency and Agents

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

31st Aug 2026
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part...
6th May 2024
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The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby

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

6th May 2024
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part 1 here. A microbiome is the community of microorganisms found living together in a given habitat. The microbiome of the human gut can contribute to development of autoimmune...
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
1st Jul 2023
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The Homework Apocalypse

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

1st Jul 2023
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025 Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better...
4th May 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025

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

4th May 2025
Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better agent for coding tasks, Karpathy's LLM tips, and financial hallucination research
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
124

New paper: AI agents that matter

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

3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
6th Apr 2022
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6th Apr 2022
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
22nd Feb 2023
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why

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

22nd Feb 2023
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital”...
2nd Sep 2026
2
2nd Sep 2026
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore. There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a...
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
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What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie

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

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...
Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs --> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language...
13th Mar 2026
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Identifying Interactions at Scale for LLMs

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

13th Mar 2026
--> Understanding the behavior of complex machine learning systems, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), is a critical challenge in modern artificial intelligence. Interpretability research aims to make the decision-making process more transparent to model builders and...
11th Nov 2017
85

Software 2.0

from Stories by Andrej Karpathy on Medium [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Nov 2017
Why Coase needs Hayek sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
2nd May 2026
1

Why Coase needs Hayek

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

2nd May 2026
sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
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