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Society's Backend:...
New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,... Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
7 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI, fizyka kwantowa, relacje, ludzie, przyszłość
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 081: Creative differences August 23, 2024.
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
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 for beginners Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making...
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Introduction This is a guide for developers who kinda sorta know what blockchains are for (making distributed crypto-currencies like Bitcoin…
IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
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9 months ago
“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Marcus on AI
Scaling is over, the bubble may be deflating, LLMs still can’t reason, and you can’t trust Sam New evidence that confirms so much of what I have been saying
5 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Quadruped Ladder Climbing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
11 months ago
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11 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...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Science-based games and explorable explanations Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making...
a year ago
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a year ago
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making complex topics like physics and machine learning accessible and fun.
Society's Backend:...
Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
8 months 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...
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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:...
Society's Backend:...
Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
7 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Cloak & dagger creativity camp “You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
over a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
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...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
At every large tech company, some engineers get rewarded for visibly breaking the rules. This can be really frustrating for a certain kind…
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs #2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
5 months ago
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Updates to Society's Backend New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Lessons from 139 YC AI startups (S23) The evolution of the AI landscape, and YC's Copilot era.
over a year ago
Sam Altman
Idea Generation The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
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over a year ago
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...
fast.ai
GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
The Berkeley...
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
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5 months ago
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those...
Made by Ollin
A Video History of Self-Driving Cars
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 089: Adobe MAX October 18, 2024.
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 130: GPT-5 August 8, 2025.
a month ago
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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 031: Think of the children September 8, 2023
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of Google Bard It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system designed to advance government interests
Daniel Miessler
Generate AI Art Using Your Own Writing One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art...
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over a year ago
One of the most challenging parts of finishing a post is coming up with a good image. The AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are cool, but a lot of the magic comes down to prompt engineering, which is non-trivial. Prompt Engineering is almost equal parts...
Society's Backend:...
Coming soon! Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
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
Sam Altman
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
Mind Prison: Notes...
The lost civics lesson Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
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...
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8 months ago
A data-driven exploration uncovers disparities. Are they shaped by editorial choices or broader societal/historical dynamics?
Society's Backend:...
A Privacy Review: TikTok You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI's invisible instructions What meme prompts can teach us about better interface design.
10 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less) The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 077: A good week for open-source July 26, 2024.
a year ago
Win Vector LLC
Calculating at Pencil and Paper Scale Introduction It can be fun to drive a problem all the way into the ground. I don’t always get to do...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Introduction It can be fun to drive a problem all the way into the ground. I don’t always get to do that on paying projects, however sometimes I can do it with hobby projects. In this case I am going to re-solve Dudeney’s Remainder Problem again and again to argue […]
Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
6 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Prominence of Prejudice and Social Justice Rhetoric in UK News Media I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice...
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I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice and social justice rhetoric in UK news media. Recent years have seen considerable debate about the rise of political polarization in British society. Specifically, over the last...
Society's Backend:...
AI Reading List 2: Mathematical Limitations of LLMs, A SQL Roadmap for Data Science, and... Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
10 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
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.)
9 months 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...
8 months ago
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8 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 →
Artificial Ignorance
Introducing the Model Memo Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 114: One of those weeks April 18, 2024.
4 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
a year ago
The Gradient
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
a year ago