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Society's Backend
Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
4 months ago
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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5 months ago
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...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Sleepy Robot Baby Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
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2 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...
AI Snake Oil
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias? A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #104: American State Capacity on the Brink The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they have done in many other places and departments, seemingly purely because they want to find people they can fire.
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Weak managers In a previous post I made the point that having a weak manager - a manager without political clout -...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
In a previous post I made the point that having a weak manager - a manager without political clout - is really bad news if you’re an…
Marcus on AI
Five ways in which the last 3 months — and especially the DeepSeek era — have vindicated “Deep... A demonized paper from three years ago that has stood the test of time
a month ago
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...
Strange Loop Canon
Discovery is the original sin of the modern age technology, living post scarcity, and how to find what you want
a year ago
One Useful Thing
What OpenAI did A new model opens up new possibilities
10 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Childhood and Education #9: School is Hell This complication of tales from the world of school isn’t all negative.
6 days ago
Society's Backend
The Slow, Painful Death of the Free Content Creator It's happening as you read this
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
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over a year ago
I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
IEEE Spectrum
Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species...
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a month ago
Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality data that can be fed into...
Daniel Miessler
Sponsored Interview: Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne. So...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Erkang Zheng of JupiterOne. So Jupiter One is a special company to me. I just built a vuln management program at Robinhood based around them, and I believe so much in their vision that I’m looking to actually...
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From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
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Good engineers are right, a lot Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s...
a month ago
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a month ago
Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
a year ago
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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over a year ago
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...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 367 | Hive Ransom, Anti-Google, Software 2.0… 🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
🎙️If you’re not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it using with your favorite client! APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI infiltrated the HIVE ransomware group, stopping over $130 million in ransomware attacks. HIVE is known for going...
fast.ai
Can LLMs learn from a single example? We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
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a year ago
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
Society's Backend
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
3 weeks ago
The Berkeley...
Training Diffusion Models with <br> Reinforcement Learning function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); ...
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function reveal() { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.style.display = 'flex'; } window.onload = () => { const replay = document.querySelector('.ddpo-replay'); replay.addEventListener('click', () => { ...
Made by Ollin
Emojin An infinite kaomoji generator
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...
Rozado’s Visual...
What is the IQ of ChatGPT? Making an AI model take an IQ test
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones” also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
a month ago
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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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 051: The Taylor Swift thing January 26, 2024.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Polacy walczą o „cyfrowego Oskara”
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
On the OpenAI Economic Blueprint Table of Contents
a month ago
Xena
Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician. So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's start by explaining what this means. Continue reading →
Society's Backend
LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
7 months ago
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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...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts Output similarity is a distraction
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough. Opting out is the latest example of generative AI developers externalizing costs.
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
On OpenAI's Safety and Alignment Philosophy OpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and...
a week ago
Strange Loop Canon
OpenAI's Strawberry models can reason like an expert When models can think
6 months ago
fast.ai
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
a year ago
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a year ago
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
Artificial Ignorance
Dealing with AI fatigue Notes for myself, and maybe you too.
a year ago
Jascha’s blog
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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Marcus on AI
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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.
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
Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my Macbook (with its Apple M2 chip and 24 GB of memory). Here’s a great overview of the model for anyone interested in learning more. Short version: The Mistral “Mixtral” 8x7B 32k...
Artificial Ignorance
How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Google had a very bad week Gemini's paradox
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
My Prediction For Twitter I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m a bit Elon and Twittered out, but I want to capture a basic prediction about all the shenanigans. As for my take on things, I will just say that Elon miscalculated a number of things in his handling of the transition. I think he thought his actions would be better received....
Society's Backend
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 056: Data deals March 1, 2024.
a year ago
Matt Mazur
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
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Model Context Protocol explained as simply as possible Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks,...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks, interest in it seems to have really picked…
Piotr Migdał's Blog
What's new in Virtual Lab by Quantum Flytrap - Oct 2022
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
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
4 months ago
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek Panic at the App Store DeepSeek released v3.
a month ago
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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…
Matt Mazur
Progress on TimelineGPT, Emergent Mind missteps, finding balance Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s...
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a year ago
Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s periodic update on what I’ve been up to: TimelineGPT About two months ago I launched an in-app tool for Preceden that provides GPT-powered event suggestions to users to help them build...
Artificial Ignorance
Workshop: Enough GPT To Be Dangerous with Sairam Sundaresan Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers”...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Have you ever wondered what’s actually happening inside ChatGPT and Claude, but found “explainers” too complex or technical?
Weighty Thoughts
My Book's Pre-Sale is Live! Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
a month ago
Solving the decision...
The problem with importing css On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of Wales and England. There, the ocean-exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the seafloor at depths up to 200 meters for weeks,...
One Useful Thing
What Apple's AI Tells Us: Experimental Models⁴ Siri versus the machine god?
9 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Satya Nadella and the three stages of scientific truth A textbook case in how good ideas are often initially throttled
3 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
a week ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 096: Happy Shipmas December 6, 2024.
3 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking December 20, 2024.
2 months ago
fast.ai
A new old kind of R&D lab Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
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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over a year ago
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
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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over a year ago
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
The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny This post isn’t about AI; it’s about our future
2 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI July 12, 2024.
8 months ago
Society's Backend
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
a month ago
Society's Backend
A Privacy Review: TikTok You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting Don't make this hard
3 months ago
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Artificial Ignorance
The Industrial Content Revolution A fundamental change in the structure the internet.
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Is The Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part II: Evidence from News Media Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down....
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spot’s joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this API unlocked some significant...
One Useful Thing
I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Dating for nerds (part 2): gender differences This part of dating for nerds series is focused on the differences between genders that may affect...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This part of dating for nerds series is focused on the differences between genders that may affect dating: social expectations, safety, choosiness, taking initiative.
One Useful Thing
Almost an Agent: What GPTs can do Also, my book has a cover (also I have a book coming out)
a year ago
Sam Altman
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Rozado’s Visual...
Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded...
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over a year ago
Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News and Opinion Articles from News Media Outlets”
The Gradient
Car-GPT: Could LLMs finally make self-driving cars happen? Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Exploring the utility of large language models in autonomous driving: Can they be trusted for self-driving cars, and what are the key challenges?
Society's Backend
AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
4 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Is AI hitting a wall?
2 months ago
AI Snake Oil
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks Misinformation, labor impact, and safety are all risks. But not in the way the letter implies.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Humanoids Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month 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...
PromptArmor Blog
Data exfiltration from Writer.com with indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor and Kai Greshake
a year ago
Society's Backend
Coming soon! Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts...
a year ago
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a year ago
Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month 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...
Society's Backend
Why Rust Isn't Killing C++ And a consideration for choosing a language
10 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....
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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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
D3.js workshop at ICM for KFnrD Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials, results.
Don't Worry About...
AI #102: Made in America I remember that week I used r1 a lot, and everyone was obsessed with DeepSeek.
a month ago
Society's Backend
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
2 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Whither Utopia? The mystery of why we don't dream of building perfect societies anymore
9 months ago
One Useful Thing
Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI Technological change brings organizational change.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mars Chopper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
2 months ago
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2 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. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
8 months ago
One Useful Thing
Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes? AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re...
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a month ago
Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever…
Sam Altman
How To Be Successful I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter. Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier...
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Writing a tech blog people want to read My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing...
2 months ago
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My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have…
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation? The bottleneck isn't the cost of producing disinfo, which is already very low.
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
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a month ago
In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
One Useful Thing
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without...
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over a year ago
The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
Society's Backend
A Privacy Review: Google I read Google's privacy policy for you
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 042: sama drama November 24, 2023.
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
The Dream AI Hardware
a year ago
Solving the decision...
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
5 months 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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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
One Useful Thing
What people ask me most. Also, some answers. A FAQ of sorts
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one...
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a month ago
IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one place since the filming of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” Not a single entrant made it across the finish line. Some didn’t make it out of the parking lot. So it’s all the more...
Society's Backend
Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
11 months ago
Matt Mazur
Sharing small, incremental updates with users I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway...
a year ago
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'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
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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...
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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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From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
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I’ve been reviewing robot vacuums for more than a decade, and robot mops for just as long. It’s been astonishing how the technology has evolved, from the original iRobot Roomba bouncing off of walls and furniture to robots that use lidar and vision to map your entire house and...
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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...
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On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
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Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
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There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
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Your Experience is Your Creativity Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something...
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Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something that you have to open yourself to—that you have to allow in. But creativity is more like an inner forge of your past, perspectives, and passions. It’s not something you let in; it’s...
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OpenAI’s new model was revealed yesterday; its most fervent believers think AGI has already arrived. Here’s what you should pay attention to in the coming year.
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I have funding to run an undergraduate workshop! When? 26th to 30th September 2022 (the week before term starts for many people in the UK). What? A week-long in person workshop including a bunch of working on group projects in … Continue reading →
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AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
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Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
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Apple Wins Apple Intelligence and aggregation puts Apple in a dominant AI position
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Pitfalls of building with large language models Dealing with more than just hallucinations.
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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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How to reverse engineer the Substack (or any!) web API Building an unauthorized Substack client with Claude.
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Trying to Describe 2024 AI Premises I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025...
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I can’t resist adding yet another commentary on the state of 2024 AI (and, yes I know it is now 2025 and DeepSeek is relevant!). The 2024 AI money machine appears to have depended on several premises: The product would be valuable. The product would be very expensive to...
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Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.  We...
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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...
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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.
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Using Custom Searches in Safari (in 2022) I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss...
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I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss most from Chrome is custom searches. There you can search Amazon directly from the address bar by doing: You can change the search prompts to be single letters like ‘a’ for...
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AI #100: Meet the New Boss Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.
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AI is not good software. It is pretty good people. A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI
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(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and Sahasrabudhe appeared on the arXiv, announcing an exponential improvement to the upper bound on Ramsey numbers, an open problem since 1935. … Continue reading →
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Naturalność nagości - sesja i wywiad
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Weighty Thoughts
Consider the Llama Are closed source AI models doomed?
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AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
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AI Roundup 040: GPTs November 10, 2023.
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When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
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Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
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OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
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Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
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Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
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If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. The initial blog was on August 25th,...
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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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The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
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Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get replaced by artificial intelligence. I’m not professionally educated or trained in AI, but I’ve read probably 30 books and spent thousands of hours thinking about it. I am not talking...
Don't Worry About...
NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
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On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks This week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s...
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Piotr Migdał's Blog
Embodiment for nerds Or how you can learn to get in touch with your body and emotions.
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Weighty Thoughts
Scaling is a Choice Progress in tech is rarely “inevitable.” Looking at semiconductors and AI.
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AI Roundup 083: Bioacoustics September 6, 2024.
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What Fraction of Containerization is Just Working Around Dynamic Linking? Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average...
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Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average systems engineer wouldn’t dream of running something on an actual computer. Instead they would use Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, or who knows what else. These indirections or...
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How I know I'm working with a strong engineer There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE,...
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There are many ways to judge engineers (lines of code written, how smart they sound, choice of IDE, what projects they’ve worked on). I…
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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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Value over replacement in software engineering There are two ways of assessing how much value you’re providing as an engineer. The first way is to...
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There are two ways of assessing how much value you’re providing as an engineer. The first way is to total up all of the code you’ve shipped…
The Gradient
Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we...
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In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we steer this technology towards better outcomes?
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ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
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Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
Made by Ollin
NVIDIA Internship (2017) Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
over a year ago
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AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
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Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
over a year ago
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
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
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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...
Marcus on AI
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him
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AI existential risk probabilities are too unreliable to inform policy How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
7 months ago
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...
Marcus on AI
Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality It brings me no joy to say that
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Advice for prompting reasoning models I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models...
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I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models are different. When you’re using…
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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...
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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…
Jaz's Blog
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
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There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of people using tools like ChatGPT to draft Python scripts, Go code, and all sorts of other useful things. Okay, so how do I use ChatGPT effectively? How do I Use ChatGPT...
Artificial Ignorance
Why Claude 3 is a big upgrade On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks,...
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On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks, add multi-modal capabilities, and are a real competitor to GPT-4.
The Berkeley...
Goal Representations for Instruction Following Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is...
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Goal Representations for Instruction Following Figure title. Figure caption. This image is centered and set to 50% page width. --> A longstanding goal of the field of robot learning has been to create generalist agents that can perform tasks for humans. Natural language has...
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
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Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
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To avoid being replaced by LLMs, do what they can't It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code...
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It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 039: The governance issue November 3, 2023.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Acceleration. 7 days of new AI technologies shows us that everything is happening very fast.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024 2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
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2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 079: Don't call it an acquisition August 9, 2024.
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Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
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Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
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Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments...
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When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments accusing me of trying to get ahead at the…
IEEE Spectrum
"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying...
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Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying microbots—weighed down by batteries and electronics—have struggled to get very far. But a new combination of circuits and lightweight solid-state batteries called a “flying batteries”...
Strange Loop Canon
What can LLMs never do? On goal drift and lower reliability. Or, why can't LLMs play Conway's Game Of Life?
10 months ago
Sam Altman
Reflections The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
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The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
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Society's Backend
Why Medical AI is Garbage, Realistic Perspectives on DeepSeek Models, Understanding Reasoning... An AI engineer's must-reads for 1/31/25
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Sam Altman
Researchers and Founders I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always...
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I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these groups are (including in some qualities that I had assumed were present in great...
Solving the decision...
A list of reasons why you should be using Cloudflare Workers for building your AI agent... (It's only shilling if it's posted during working hours. I'm on my lunch break.)
3 months ago
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Why AI labs offer so many different models Major AI labs these days (i.e. early 2025) offer a wide variety of models. Some are faster and...
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Major AI labs these days (i.e. early 2025) offer a wide variety of models. Some are faster and cheaper, some are smarter, and now some are…
Sam Altman
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
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Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros. This is the game that to me feels closest to the real world and complex...
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
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Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
Sam Altman
The Virus Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to...
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Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19. I hope that society views this as a warning for the future.  Covid-19 is bad, but only a warm-up.  I think it’s...
Sam Altman
Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
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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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 067: GPT-4o and Google I/O May 17, 2024.
9 months ago
Don't Worry About...
The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more...
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The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more dramatic goes wrong first and even we successfully ‘solve alignment’ of AI to a given user and developer, is the ‘gradual’ disempowerment of humanity by AIs, as we voluntarily...
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
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Society's Backend
Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The subscriptionization of AI Navigating the paid AI landscape.
12 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
Society's Backend
Why Gemini's Struggles Aren't Straightforward And an overview of LLM security issues
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The Gradient
Neural algorithmic reasoning In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found...
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In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms and Data Structures [1]. Think shortest path-finding, sorting, clever ways to break problems down into simpler problems,...
IEEE Spectrum
Where’s My Robot? See the interactive version of this story on our site →
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Win Vector LLC
The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts:...
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I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm Photo by Judgefloro – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43063034 Toying with the idea of...
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In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
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Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks as their complexity grows. Despite advancements, existing testing frameworks fall short in addressing end-to-end security, resilience, and safety in zero-trust environments. The...
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The Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework is the ultimate solution for hardware teams seeking the benefits of Agile without the pitfalls of applying software-centric methods. Traditional development approaches, like waterfall, often result in delayed timelines,...
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