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Marcus on AI
Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
5 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Is AI hitting a wall?
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 058: Devin and SIMA March 15, 2023.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
With Gemini Robotics, Google Aims for Smarter Robots Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI companies are introducing AI agents that can take care of web-based busywork for you, ordering your groceries or making your dinner reservation. Today, Google DeepMind announced two...
Matt Mazur
Is the ChatGPT API Refusing to Summarize Academic Papers? Not so fast. Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API...
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a year ago
Yesterday on X, I shared a post about some responses I was getting from the ChatGPT 3.5 API indicating that it was refusing to summarize arXiv papers: There has been a lot of discussion recently about the perceived decrease in the quality of ChatGPT’s responses and seeing...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Flytrap - Shaping the Future of Quantum DevTools
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 027: Challenge accepted August 11, 2023
a year ago
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
Rozado’s Visual...
RightWingGPT – An AI Manifesting the Opposite Political Biases of ChatGPT The Dangers of Politically Aligned AIs and their Negative Effects on Societal Polarization
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
AI embraces its product arc fuzzy processors are entering mass production
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Zuckerberg's Dystopian AI Vision You think it’s bad now?
2 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI's Endgame (How Foundational Model Companies Can “Win”) Playing monopoly in 2025
3 months ago
Marcus on AI
Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
IEEE Spectrum
Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now)...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now) that they’re doing what birds and primates would do to stick the landing: just grabbing the branch and hanging on. But it turns out that squirrels, being squirrels, don’t actually...
Marcus on AI
Poor ROI for GenAI 61% in a recent survey report no ROI or disappointing ROI.
3 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
(started posting on Medium instead) The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared. I’ve certainly become less active on blogs since I’ve joined Tesla, but whenever I do get a chance to post something I have recently been defaulting to doing it on Medium because...
AI Snake Oil
Can AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
5 months ago
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI Preparedness Framework 2.0 Right before releasing o3, OpenAI updated its Preparedness Framework to 2.0.
2 months ago
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
5 months ago
AI Snake Oil
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
What AI can do with a toolbox... Getting started with Code Interpreter Democratizing data analysis with AI
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Why Rust Isn't Killing C++ And a consideration for choosing a language
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
a year ago
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple…
Weighty Thoughts
Scaling is a Choice Progress in tech is rarely “inevitable.” Looking at semiconductors and AI.
6 months ago
One Useful Thing
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
7 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
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over a year ago
In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Writing good technical explanations Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and many thousands of books, talks and blog…
AI Snake Oil
Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
6 months ago
Armin Ronacher's...
Fat Rand: How Many Lines Do You Need To Generate A Random Number? I recently wrote about dependencies in Rust. The feedback, both within and outside the Rust...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I recently wrote about dependencies in Rust. The feedback, both within and outside the Rust community, was very different. A lot of people, particularly some of those I greatly admire expressed support. The Rust community, on the other hand, was very dismissive on on Reddit...
AI Tidbits: AI...
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
5 months ago
Stories by Andrej...
A Peek at Trends in Machine Learning
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons On digging AI shaped holes
2 months ago
Society's Backend:...
What it's Like to Work in AI and Advice from 10 AI Professionals I asked 10 AI professionals 4 questions about their work in AI and the qualifications required for...
8 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Power, money and human nature Thoughts on OpenAI, a tragedy
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of GPT-4 Things are not always what they seem
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
What is the role of the logarithm in Shannon entropy?
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Why DO large language models hallucinate? The Henrietta Chronicles continue, guest starring Harry Shearer
2 months ago
Marcus on AI
Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history? In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico asked “15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators”, including me, “to provide some explosive potential...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
over a year ago
Armin Ronacher's...
Build It Yourself Another day, another rant about dependencies. from me. This time I will ask you that we start and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Another day, another rant about dependencies. from me. This time I will ask you that we start and support a vibe shift when it comes to dependencies. You're probably familiar with the concept of “dependency churn.” It's that never-ending treadmill of updates, patches, audits,...
Society's Backend:...
Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
6 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
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What kind of work I want This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of places I’d like to work. The short version…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
fast.ai
Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022 A complete from-scratch rewrite of fast.ai’s most popular course, that’s been 2 years in the making.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A complete from-scratch rewrite of fast.ai’s most popular course, that’s been 2 years in the making.
Society's Backend:...
Google AI Essentials, A New LLM Benchmark, Washington's AI Task Force, and More [Top 10 ML Resource... Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and...
a year ago
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I share more frequent ML updates on X so don’t forget to follow me there. Support Society's Backend for just $1/mo
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 350
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus says AI must be regulated. He has a plan. Fantastic writeup of my views today at The Wall Street Journal:
7 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #101: The Shallow End The avalanche of DeepSeek news continues.
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 076: Grand theft audio July 19, 2024.
12 months ago
One Useful Thing
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven…
Weighty Thoughts
Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask A guest post and an in-person panel
11 months ago
One Useful Thing
Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful Here are five strategies and prompts that work for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
over a year ago
Sam Altman
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
One Useful Thing
The recent history of AI in 32 otters Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
Lessons from 139 YC AI startups (S23) The evolution of the AI landscape, and YC's Copilot era.
a year ago
Solving the decision...
Chatting with Jason Lengstorf about esbuild An hour and a half discussion about why esbuild is a big deal.
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Political Extremism in English Wikipedia A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
Strange Loop Canon
Soul nullius in verba
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Preferences of DeepSeek AI Models Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to their American counterparts.
Artificial Ignorance
Getting to the top of the GPT Store (and building an AI-native search engine, too) Listen now | A conversation with Christian Salem, founder and CPO of Consensus.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Humiliation is Deadly
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at...
3 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Twitter’s Blue Checkmark Strategy Reduces Trust in Pursuit of Revenue When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I heard that Twitter was going to open the blue checkmark up to anyone willing to pay $8/month, I was happy. As a legacy holder of the checkmark there’s a slight band-aid-sting of the check indicating specialness—who doesn’t want to feel special?—but I’d much rather see a...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Bias of ChatGPT – Extended Analysis On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in...
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On December 6th I published a preliminary analysis showing a left-leaning political bias embedded in the first release of ChatGPT from November 30. After the December 15th update of ChatGPT, I replicated my analysis and it appeared as if the political bias had been partially...
Marcus on AI
Hard-forked! Casey Newton’s distorted portrait of Gary Marcus and AI skepticism What Casey Newton’s new essay skewering AI skepticism does—and does not—get right
7 months ago
Sam Altman
Tech Workers' Values For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights....
The Berkeley...
2024 BAIR Graduate Directory Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most talented and innovative minds in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our Ph.D. graduates have each expanded the frontiers of AI research and are now ready to embark on new...
Solving the decision...
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking.
2 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
over a year ago
The Gradient
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 093: Diminishing returns November 15, 2024.
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions
4 months ago
Machine Learning for...
How to explain complex machine learning topics Why it's so incredible important not only for explaining scientific concepts, but also for everyday...
a month ago
Society's Backend:...
Pelosi opposes SB 1047, New LLM Training Paradigms, Prompt Caching to Save 90% of API Costs, and... Machine learning resources and updates 8/19/2024
10 months ago
Society's Backend:...
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
One giant leap towards authoritarian rule in the United States In the midst of the tariffs, an even bigger story is brewing: Trump is attempting to take over...
3 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
over a year ago
Sam Altman
Productivity I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic.  A...
PromptArmor Blog
Slack AI data exfiltration from private channels via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
10 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Going Nova There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI looking to preserve its own existence, frequently called ‘Nova.’
Marcus on AI
AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters Don’t panic
3 months ago
Sam Altman
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get...
a year ago
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a year ago
Optimism, obsession, self-belief, raw horsepower and personal connections are how things get started. Cohesive teams, the right combination of calmness and urgency, and unreasonable commitment are how things get finished. Long-term orientation is in short supply; try not to worry...
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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. ...
Artificial Ignorance
Bridging AI and human creativity A conversation with Harrison Telyan, co-founder of NUMI.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
2 months ago
Win Vector LLC
Is GitHub Lying Here? My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I went on my own to our organization’s GitHub administration page and a similar message lives there. We run a small group, so I am pretty sure nobody has in fact asked for […]
IEEE Spectrum
Worm-like Robots Install Power Lines Underground After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to...
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After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to prevent future fires has gained renewed urgency in the state. While the exact cause of the fires remains under investigation, California utilities have spent years undergrounding power...
Armin Ronacher's...
Ugly Code and Dumb Things This week I had a conversation with one of our engineers about “shitty code” which lead me to...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This week I had a conversation with one of our engineers about “shitty code” which lead me to sharing with him one of my more unusual inspirations: Flamework, a pseudo framework created at Flickr. Two Passions, Two Approaches There are two driving passions in my work. One is the...
Marcus on AI
OpenAI, in deep trouble Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
4 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
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...
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Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
4 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Startup Valuation Made Simple(r) - Working Backwards Counterintuitively, start from how much money you need
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
MatMul-free Machine Learning Can Improve Efficiency, Excellent Foundational Learning Resources, SSMs... The top 10 most important updates of last week: 7/8/24
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Hinton vs Musk Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
4 months ago
Society's Backend:...
A Fundamental Overview of Machine Learning Experimentation [Part 1] And how it differs from the software development you're familiar with
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI's invisible instructions What meme prompts can teach us about better interface design.
8 months ago
One Useful Thing
"Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat." What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
a month ago
Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
5 months ago
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...
4 months ago
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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,...
AI Snake Oil
AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
11 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Embodiment for nerds Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The Self-Made AI Engineer From writing about ChatGPT to becoming a professional AI engineer.
3 months ago
Sam Altman
Helion Needs You Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q >...
over a year ago
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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...
Matt Mazur
The Kenya Quick Answer Goes Viral, Again On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot of the now-famous “african country that starts with k” Google Quick Answer, which quickly went viral, garnering over 82k likes and 3 million views as of the time of this writing...
Weighty Thoughts
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
7 months ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 358 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY 🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But that's a Friday, so I'm going to enable the discount link earlier. How early, and how much of a discount? You'll have to find out. If the link works before the date, then it's...
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why. Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.
AI Tidbits: AI...
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents Curated frameworks, tools, and libraries every developer needs to build functional and efficient AI...
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
4 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
The first post: why Jekyll? Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
AI is About to Feel Like AGI, and You Need to Get Ready I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just wrote a piece similar to this last week, but this one drives the point home even more. Basically, the current trajectory of AI, with all the art generation, the language models, etc., are about to become a whole lot more instruction and response based. What does that mean?...
Marcus on AI
Generative AI’s Continuing Copyright Problems, an Essay in Memory of Suchir Balaji, 1998 - 2024 In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate...
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7 months ago
In early November, I had a stimulating Zoom call with a former OpenAI employee and Berkeley graduate named Suchir Balaji, who had just left OpenAI.
Don't Worry About...
More on Various AI Action Plans Last week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Last week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This week I cover several other submissions, and do some follow-up on OpenAI’s entry.
Don't Worry About...
Dating Roundup #4: An App for That Previously: #1, #2, #3.
2 months ago
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...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
3 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.
3 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Godmother of AI Warns Against Regulation, Apple Intelligence System Prompts, Faster and Cheaper AI,... Machine learning resources and updates 8/12/2024
11 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Building your sense of what's important at a tech company One of the most important career skills in tech is learning to recognize what work actually matters....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
One of the most important career skills in tech is learning to recognize what work actually matters. Many engineers go through their careers…
Society's Backend:...
The Attention Thief: Machine Learning as a Monetization Weapon How your greatest asset is silently stolen by technology every day
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Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data...
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In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
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What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
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Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się…
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Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to Preceden. Prior to that the annual plans did not renew automatically which was an intentional (but bad) choice I had made because most users did not user Preceden for more than a...
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Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
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I just camped for the new lineup of Apple products, as I have every year since 2007, and I am pretty impressed. As many have said, this year was an incremental update. The iPhones look nearly identical. And so do the AirPods Pro 2. The exception was the Apple Watch Ultra, which...
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The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
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Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
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As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
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DALL·E 2 and transcendence - generating esoteric images with AI Hint: end prompts with “religious art”, “stained glass”, “esoteric art”
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I’ve been thinking for a couple of weeks about making and hanging some AI art in my house. But I immediately faced some internal resistance. Like, I wasn’t (and still am not) sure whether this is the right way to “do” art. And that got me thinking what that really means. What...
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Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports The debate about the harms of AI is happening in a data vacuum
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How strong engineers break the rules and get away with it At every large tech company, some engineers get rewarded for visibly breaking the rules. This can be...
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At every large tech company, some engineers get rewarded for visibly breaking the rules. This can be really frustrating for a certain kind…
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If You Understand Bananas, You Can Understand Machine Learning A simplified high-level overview of primary machine learning algorithms for anyone to understand
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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
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Prawdopodobieństwo a informacja
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
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AI Roundup 073: Music make you lose control June 28, 2024.
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Sleep, Diet, Exercise and GLP-1 Drugs As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are...
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As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are all different and our motivations are different, so figuring out the best things to do is difficult.
IEEE Spectrum
This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
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Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
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Things Everyone Should Understand About the Stanford AI Index Report And my notes on why they’re important
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LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
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Why Gemini's Struggles Aren't Straightforward And an overview of LLM security issues
a year ago
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
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With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
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AI Roundup 061: The AI innovator's dilemma April 5, 2024.
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10 AI predictions for 2024 Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
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AI Reading List 2: Mathematical Limitations of LLMs, A SQL Roadmap for Data Science, and... Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
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AI Roundup 054: Ten million tokens February 16, 2024.
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Stop begging for JSON How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
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Saunowe ukojenie w lesie
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Weighty Thoughts
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
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Weighty Thoughts
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Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
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A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
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Artificial Ignorance
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
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Strange Loop Canon
OpenAI's Strawberry models can reason like an expert When models can think
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Matt Mazur
Sharing small, incremental updates with users I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway...
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I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway provides a widget I have installed on Preceden to let users know when there have been updates. Users will see a bell with a count of unread items (which Headway keeps track of in...
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...
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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.
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Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
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DepolarizingGPT A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
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IEEE Spectrum
Detachable Robotic Hand Crawls Around on Finger-Legs When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some...
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When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we do—that’s how (most of us) are built, and that’s the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things...
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
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Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down. I have shown before some preliminary evidence from Twitter content about how Great Awokening terminology with negative connotations are indeed down but those with positive...
Marcus on AI
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The Best Available Human Standard What are the imperatives of the upside?
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
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Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
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Armin Ronacher's...
Seeking Purity The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also...
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The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also found in passionate, technical discussions. By that I mean that purity in technology translates into adherence to a set of strict principles, whether it be functional programming,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use October 25, 2024.
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How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
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What makes strong engineers strong? As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
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As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
Marcus on AI
Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger Pure scaling in shambles
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Solving the decision...
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over a year ago
One Useful Thing
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
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Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity. p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
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p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
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GPT-4o Responds to Negative Feedback Whoops.
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Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator recognition with transfer learning
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Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Marcus on AI
Elon Musk's inability to listen to others is torching almost everything he touches Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was...
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Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was taking a flamethrower to his own reputation.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again April 4, 2025.
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On Google's Safety Plan Google Lays Out Its Safety Plans
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AI's massive cash needs are Big Tech's chance to own the future Over the past year, AI startups have raised some impressive amounts of money. OpenAI raised $10...
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Over the past year, AI startups have raised some impressive amounts of money. OpenAI raised $10 billion, Anthropic did $6 billion, Inflection AI raised $1.3 billion, and dozens of companies closed rounds in the hundreds of millions.
Marcus on AI
Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated What happens when you minimize the chance of data leakage?
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Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Meet Mech, a Superhumanoid Robot Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. European Robotics Forum: 25–27...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
An independent camp for high school geeks
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Marcus on AI
Five things most people don't seem to understand about DeepSeek DeepSeek r1 is not smarter than earlier models, just trained more cheaply
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Artificial Ignorance
How Shopify is making AI Magic A case study on turning competitive advantages into useful AI.
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 083: Bioacoustics September 6, 2024.
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Daniel Miessler
What Made the 90’s So Awesome? I just read a brilliant essay about the 90’s by Freddie de Boer, and it got me thinking. What made...
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I just read a brilliant essay about the 90’s by Freddie de Boer, and it got me thinking. What made the 90’s so great? Here’s GPT’s answer: Give a 90’s lover’s view of what made the 90’s awesome. Include everything from parenting, art, entertainment, games, childhood, movies, TV,...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
The valley of engineering despair I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very...
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I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very (perhaps unreasonably) confident that I will ship it successfully. Even so, in every single one of these projects there is a period - perhaps a day, or even a week - where it feels...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
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Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
One Useful Thing
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
11 months ago
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
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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…
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...
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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...
fast.ai
Deep Learning Foundations Signup, Open Source Scholarships, & More Signups are now open for Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022. Scholarships are available...
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Signups are now open for Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022. Scholarships are available for fast.ai community contributors, open source developers, and diversity scholars.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
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“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone March 29, 2024.
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AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
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Discovery is the original sin of the modern age technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want
a year ago
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Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
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It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
Win Vector LLC
How About Pi ~ 31/32? At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 =...
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At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 = 3.1 is a worse approximation of pi than 22/7 ~ 3.142857.
Solving the decision...
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
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Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 053: Bye bye Bard February 9, 2024.
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The lost civics lesson Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 035: Me or your lying eyes October 6, 2023.
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fast.ai
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Matt Mazur
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...
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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...
AI Snake Oil
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
over a year ago
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Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Karpathy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) This is member content. Thank you for being a subscriber. This is UL Member Content Subscribe...
over a year ago
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JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
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Sam Altman
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
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A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
The Berkeley...
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
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Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
6 months ago
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ML for SWEs #2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
4 months ago
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I don't care about your magic prompts There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any...
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There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any situation. The tweets in question typically read something like “this prompt will make you superhuman”, or “this prompt will be a 20k growth consultant in your pocket”. There’s a kernel of...
Win Vector LLC
ODSC West 2024 I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus...
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I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus McGovern again! Thank you ODSC for putting together a great conference and being wonderful hosts at ODSCWest. I had a great time, and was very energized by all of the […]
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Cloak & dagger creativity camp “You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
After PyData Warsaw 2017 Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw...
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Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw Conference 2017 (19-20 Oct 2017).
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological...
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Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We used Transformer language models fine-tuned for...
One Useful Thing
Now is the time for grimoires It isn't data that will unlock AI, it is human expertise
a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
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AI 2027: Responses Yesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and...
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Yesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander. Today covers the reactions of others.
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The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation And the impact it'll have for decades to come
a year ago
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Building LLM-driven agents If you want a large language model like GPT-3 to perform a task for you, the simplest way is to just...
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If you want a large language model like GPT-3 to perform a task for you, the simplest way is to just ask it. Writing out a single prompt…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Swiss-Mile Robot vs. Humans Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Artificial Ignorance
Inside Pulley's AI-Native Engineering Team Lessons from a year of daily AI coding at a fast-growing startup (and why "Cursor wrote it" is not a...
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Lessons from a year of daily AI coding at a fast-growing startup (and why "Cursor wrote it" is not a valid excuse).
PromptArmor Blog
Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
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The Most Forbidden Technique The Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques.
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AI Roundup 029: Hug all the faces August 25, 2023
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In defense of screen time Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
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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...
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Boston Dynamics’ Latest Vids Show Atlas Going Hands On Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we...
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Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going “hands on” with a practical factory task. This video is notable because it’s the first real look we’ve had at the new Atlas doing...
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After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the methods used to characterize card counting. So, I’d like to share my new article on the statistics of drawing cards. This note relates the distribution of draw cards (which can seem...
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A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
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Avoiding worry driven development Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a...
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Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
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Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
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One Useful Thing
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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,...
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Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
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AI Roundup 040: GPTs November 10, 2023.
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Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
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I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
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Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
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exist
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over a year ago
As discussed in my previous post, LLMs such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GPT-4, Google’s Bard, and Meta’s LLaMA have risen seemingly out of nowhere, poised to disrupt the future of computing. Cloud Compute changed the landscape drastically when it was introduced by Amazon in the mid...
The Berkeley...
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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...
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The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked...
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Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
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