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Piotr Migdał's Blog
What is the role of the logarithm in Shannon entropy?
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
VC Office Hours Talk to James Wang, author of Weighty Thoughts and General Partner of Creative Ventures
a year ago
One Useful Thing
When you give a Claude a mouse Some quick impressions of an actual agent
10 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Kyiv Start-Up Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming could turn the tide in the war against Russia. They are developing an intelligent operating system to enable a single controller to remotely operate swarms of interconnected drones...
Don't Worry About...
The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit It doesn’t look good.
6 months ago
exist
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Why are papers without code but with results accepted?
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
6 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask A guest post and an in-person panel
a year 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...
over a year ago
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over 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
What President Biden's AI executive order actually means I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 029: Hug all the faces August 25, 2023
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 361 | GPT++, Apple Security, CISA Cuba… SECURITY NEWS South Korean authorities are warning that North Koreans are disguising themselves and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS South Korean authorities are warning that North Koreans are disguising themselves and getting jobs in South Korea. The saddest part is that it appears to be just another income generation scheme, meaning they use the salaries to fund the North Korean nuclear...
Don't Worry About...
Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
6 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras vs. PyTorch: Alien vs. Predator recognition with transfer learning
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 128: AI Action Plan July 25, 2025.
a month ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
The Berkeley...
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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...
Stories by Andrej...
ICLR 2017 vs arxiv-sanity
over a year ago
fast.ai
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if software to rate loan applicants is racially biased or evaluating YouTube’s recommendation system) quickly leads to a host of qualitative questions. Unfortunately, there is often a large...
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's o1 is a misunderstood model Are the latest "reasoning" breakthroughs all they're hyped up to be?
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
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...
6 months ago
Made by Ollin
World Emulation via Neural Network
4 months ago
Society's Backend:...
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
a year ago
Solving the decision...
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Secret Cyborgs: The Present Disruption in Three Papers The future is already here, we just need to figure out a few details.
over a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
AI Still Failing At Simple Tasks Notes From the Desk: No. 41 - 2025.03.13
5 months ago
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Update re: Microsoft and training data Relevant to the post I sent earlier today,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Relevant to the post I sent earlier today, https://www.howtogeek.com/is-microsoft-using-your-word-documents-to-train-ai/says that an unnamed spokesperson at Microsoft claims that “Microsoft does not use customer data from Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications to...
Armin Ronacher's...
Bridging the Efficiency Gap Between FromStr and String Sometimes in Rust, you need to convert a string into a value of a specific type (for example,...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Sometimes in Rust, you need to convert a string into a value of a specific type (for example, converting a string to an integer). For this, the standard library provides the rather useful FromStr trait. In short, FromStr can convert from a &str into a value of any...
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...
8 months ago
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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,...
Xena
2022 Xena Project undergraduate workshop I have funding to run an undergraduate workshop! When? 26th to 30th September 2022 (the week before...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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 →
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence” The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
7 months ago
Machine Learning for...
If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here How to get started and make the best use of Machine Learning for Software Engineers
5 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Weak managers In a previous post I made the point that having a weak manager - a manager without political clout -...
6 months ago
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6 months 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…
AI Snake Oil
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield Annotated slides from a recent talk
a year ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: A weekend's worth of links (30 Aug 2025) Today's links A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend. Object permanence: Floppy...
5 days ago
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Today's links A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend. Object permanence: Floppy disk CD sleeves; Rules for radicals; California's preventable fires; Muppet Haunted Mansion; Wells Fargo steals rescued Nazi loot; Texas abortion release. Upcoming appearances:...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Advice for prompting reasoning models I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models...
6 months ago
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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…
Weighty Thoughts
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum mechanics for high-school students Outlines and materials related to my basics courses, with light polarization as the quantum...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Outlines and materials related to my basics courses, with light polarization as the quantum information carrier.
The Gradient
What Do LLMs Know About Linguistics? It Depends on How You Ask On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and categorize how specific prompting choices can affect the model's behavior.
AI Snake Oil
How Transparent Are Foundation Model Developers? Introducing the Foundation Model Transparency Index
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Data science intro for math/phys background Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
over a year 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...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 63: Engineers just got a whole lot more important Welcome to machine learning for software engineers.
3 weeks 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...
9 months ago
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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...
Don't Worry About...
On Google's Safety Plan Google Lays Out Its Safety Plans
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
a year ago