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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...
3 months ago
Win Vector LLC
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble How Meta's messy launch overshadowed its latest flagship model.
5 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
China's AI Journey Talking to Jordan Schneider from ChinaTalk about China's technological ascent
a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
Grok 3 - Signs of Intelligence or Dementia? Notes From the Desk: No. 38 - 2025.02.21
6 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Aibo Foster Parents Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
7 months ago
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7 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...
Don't Worry About...
Time to Welcome Claude 3.7 Anthropic has reemerged from stealth and offers us Claude 3.7.
6 months ago
Marcus on AI
𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on... [Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025 And a review of last year's predictions.
8 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News, Analysis, and Discovery | NO. 356 SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SECURITY NEWS TikTok has now admitted, after denying last week, that Chinese staff can in fact read European TikTok data. Pressure is increasing across the US government to outright ban the app, but it's quickly becoming national infrastructure so many young people. MORE |...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster." (19 Aug 2025) Today's links Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster.": Families, they fuck you up...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Today's links Charlie Jane Anders' "Lessons in Magic and Disaster.": Families, they fuck you up (magically). Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: HST in space; It Plays Doom; Deserted Chinese themeparks; Banksy's Dismaland; Dollars are better than warrants;...
Rozado’s Visual...
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
7 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
There are no projects like side projects What Albert Einstein, John Carmack and John Romero have in common? They all started their great...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What Albert Einstein, John Carmack and John Romero have in common? They all started their great projects as side projects.
Society's Backend:...
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D Ideas come from the edges, not the center
a year ago
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
3 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On Google's Safety Plan Google Lays Out Its Safety Plans
4 months ago
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Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1) I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things have been going very well. The system scales and handles millions of users without breaking a sweat, the ScyllaDB-backed Data Plane service sits at under 5% DB load in the most...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 044: Google Gemini December 8, 2023.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
AI Art Just Opened The Threat to Human Work We Were Expecting from AGI Let me start with the punchline: Something like 80% of most “knowledge work” is about to get...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Artificial Ignorance
How a $2000/hour escort uses AI to automate sex work Listen now | A conversation with Adelyn Moore, an independent escort and adult content creator.
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask A guest post and an in-person panel
a year 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.
7 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Anarchy in the East India Company I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple. Before reading The Anarchy, my vague pop-culture understanding of the East India company went something like this: England, as a strong colonial...
Weighty Thoughts
CUDA is Still a Giant Moat for NVIDIA Despite everyone’s focus on hardware, the software of AI is what protects NVIDIA
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Which is the Wokest AI? A Wokeness Ranking of LLMs
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
11 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...
5 months ago
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5 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.’
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
Sam Altman
What I Heard From Trump Supporters After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country.  I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a surprisingly interesting and helpful experience—I highly recommend it.  With three exceptions,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 128: AI Action Plan July 25, 2025.
a month ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
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,...
a year ago
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a year 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…
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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 134: The young and the jobless September 5, 2025.
yesterday
Marcus on AI
Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
6 months ago
Sam Altman
The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
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...
6 months ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025) Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to...
a month ago
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a month ago
Today's links Good ideas are popular: But they're impolitic. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Slinky treadmill; Ovipositors; Peter Thiel was right. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep...
Machine Learning for...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
3 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Weekly Backend #7: 39 Resources and Updates GPT-4o, Google I/O, Fugaku LLM, Prep for Machine Learning Interviews, and more
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Meta Pivots on Content Moderation There’s going to be some changes made.
7 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Mafia, zdradziecka parzystość oraz pi
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
How to Survive and Thrive in a World Where AI Can Do Almost Everything Click for printable size. Here’s a quick list of things we can do to get ready for AI’s ascendance....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Click for printable size. Here’s a quick list of things we can do to get ready for AI’s ascendance. You can click it to get the full size to print out. This is UL Member Content Subscribe Already a member? Login
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025) Today's links Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex....
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a month ago
Today's links Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: David Byrne vs Spotify; India's porn ban; Qanon ARG; Contextual ads; Leveraged buyouts aren't mortgages. Upcoming...
Don't Worry About...
They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t.
5 months ago
Win Vector LLC
Reposting Partial Pooling Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to...
Mind Prison: Notes...
LLMs remain confidently unreliable and is the intelligence explosion near? Notes From the Desk: No. 34 - 2024.06.08
a year ago