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Friday Updates: Shipping AI Suggestions in Preceden, EmergentMind Growth and Brainstorming Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I...
3rd Feb 2023
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3rd Feb 2023
Preceden On Tuesday I shipped the v1 of Preceden’s new AI suggestions feature to 10% of new users: I had planned on slowly rolling it out to 100% of users over the course of a week or two, but my OpenAI costs were minimal on Tuesday so on Wednesday I said screw it and just […]
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add...
20th Dec 2018
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OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Dec 2018
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence.
How to Solve it With Code course now available An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
15th Oct 2025
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How to Solve it With Code course now available

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Oct 2025
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
Kelly Can’t Fail Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly...
19th Dec 2024
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Kelly Can’t Fail

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Dec 2024
Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive or high variance strategy, in that betting more than the Kelly selection can be...
Automating starting Lambda Labs instances I've been trying to get an 8x A100 instance on Lambda Labs to do a training run for my LLM from...
2nd Apr 2026
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Automating starting Lambda Labs instances

from Giles' blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Apr 2026
I've been trying to get an 8x A100 instance on Lambda Labs to do a training run for my LLM from scratch series, but they're really busy at the moment, and it's rare to see anything. Thanks to the wonders of agentic coding, I spent an hour today getting something up and running to...
Formal or not formal? That is the question in AI for theorem proving. So it’s an interesting time for computers-doing-mathematics. A couple of interesting things happened...
22nd Oct 2025
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22nd Oct 2025
So it’s an interesting time for computers-doing-mathematics. A couple of interesting things happened in the last few days, which have inspired me to write about the question more broadly. First there is the question on whether computers will ever prove … Continue reading →
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
9th Jan 2025
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Review of AI in 2024 and Updates

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Jan 2025
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic...
2nd Dec 2025
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Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic researchers have shown that boredom in the workplace can be just as damaging as burnout. But search for information about childhood boredom and you’ll find the opposite message:...
Vibe Governing using llms to set policy
7th Apr 2025
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Vibe Governing

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Apr 2025
using llms to set policy
AI Skills and Job Market, Q3 2026 An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
12th Sep 2026
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AI Skills and Job Market, Q3 2026

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Sep 2026
An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
New Painting: Roger Waters Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
1st Nov 2025
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New Painting: Roger Waters

from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Nov 2025
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
20th Apr 2021
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Blockchain explained simply

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Apr 2021
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
9th Dec 2016
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Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Dec 2016
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech...
16th Feb 2026
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I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Feb 2026
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
2nd Aug 2026
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2nd Aug 2026
Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
10th Sep 2025
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ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Sep 2025
The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
Influencing without Authority for Data Scientists Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
4th Jul 2021
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Influencing without Authority for Data Scientists

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jul 2021
Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
2024 Year in Review At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
10th Jan 2025
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2024 Year in Review

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Jan 2025
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
Project Pages 2.0 I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more...
7th Aug 2024
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Project Pages 2.0

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Aug 2024
I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more than a portfolio maker, this is for all indie makers! Let's go. The post Project Pages 2.0 first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 21 -- perplexed by perplexity I'm continuing through chapter 5 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from...
7th Oct 2025
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7th Oct 2025
I'm continuing through chapter 5 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", which covers training the LLM. Last time I wrote about cross entropy loss. Before moving on to the next section, I wanted to post about something that the book only...
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
5th Feb 2025
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Native Speakers

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Feb 2025
How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
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On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels --> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
31st May 2016
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

31st May 2016
--> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have noticed that computers can now automatically learn to play ATARI games (from raw game pixels!), they are beating world champions at Go, simulated quadrupeds are learning to run and leap,...
11th Jun 2026
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Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Jun 2026
Coding agents as normal technology
Pluralistic: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings... Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about...
1st Dec 2025
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1st Dec 2025
Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta: It's one thing to hire an ex-Meta lobbyist, another entirely if she's signed a non-disparagement contract. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Custom...
20th Apr 2025
i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive”...
6th Feb 2022
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i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Feb 2022
Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive” thing treating you? perhaps, first understand certain kinds of dangerous ambition never grow again, ’cause killers linger evermore. depending on when this finds you, maybe we have...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2nd Feb 2025
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Full Stack AI Agents

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Feb 2025
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
Think of a number: an update A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around...
16th Mar 2025
62

Think of a number: an update

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Mar 2025
A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around private datasets as a way of measuring the mathematical abilities of language models. More generally I was frustrated about the difficulty of being … Continue reading →
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now What AI to use in late 2025
19th Oct 2025
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
2nd Jan 2025
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2nd Jan 2025
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
8th Jun 2024
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LLMs remain confidently unreliable and is the intelligence explosion near?

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Jun 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 34 - 2024.06.08
Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons .grasp-results-table table { font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.35; width: 100%;...
20th Apr 2026
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Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Apr 2026
.grasp-results-table table { font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.35; width: 100%; } .grasp-results-table th, .grasp-results-table td { padding: 0.35rem 0.5rem; } /* Consistent whitespace between major sections (this post is long and hr-heavy) */ article.post-content h2 { ...
Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
9th Oct 2023
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Mind the Gap

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Oct 2023
from empire to umpire
every company needs a cassandra an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
9th Aug 2026
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every company needs a cassandra

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Aug 2026
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
3rd Sep 2024
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Sep 2024
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
21st Jan 2025
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The unfortunate truth of software for technologists

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Jan 2025
It's all about the money, baby
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
23rd Dec 2021
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A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases

from Frank’s Ramblings [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Dec 2021
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone. If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts The parade of made-up numbers never stops
30th Oct 2024
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An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Oct 2024
The parade of made-up numbers never stops
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
126

It is starting to get strange.

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
Big Data & Analytics Summit - Data Science Challenges @ Lazada Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
21st Jun 2018
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21st Jun 2018
Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
1st Apr 2025
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Housing Roundup #11

from Don't Worry About the Vase [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2025
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026) Today's links Trumpismo vs minilateralism: The enemy gets a vote. Hey look at this: Delights to...
1st Apr 2026
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Pluralistic: Trumpismo vs minilateralism (01 Apr 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2026
Today's links Trumpismo vs minilateralism: The enemy gets a vote. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: My new sigfile is unstoppable; TBL on the future of the web (2006); Wonder Woman sweater pattern; Unpatchable drug cabinets; 50-building mural; DRM v (the...
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
3rd May 2022
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Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd May 2022
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
Choose boring technology and LLMs I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed...
8th Nov 2024
1

Choose boring technology and LLMs

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Nov 2024
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming language. Throw...
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
22nd Feb 2023
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

22nd Feb 2023
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
My Notes From Spark+AI Summit 2020 (Application-Specific Talks) Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
5th Jul 2020
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5th Jul 2020
Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
Lean 2022 round-up A brief survey post containing some of the things which happened in the Lean community in 2022. The...
8th Jan 2023
36

Lean 2022 round-up

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Jan 2023
A brief survey post containing some of the things which happened in the Lean community in 2022. The Liquid Tensor Experiment In December 2020, Fields Medallist Peter Scholze challenged the formal computer proof community to verify one of his theorems … Continue reading →
let the code do the talking (why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
13th Mar 2026
1

let the code do the talking

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Mar 2026
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"? It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
12th Aug 2025
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Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Aug 2025
It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
drop that meet link just keep talking
17th Mar 2025
52

drop that meet link

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Mar 2025
just keep talking
microgpt .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
12th Feb 2026
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microgpt

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Feb 2026
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } This is a brief guide to my new art project microgpt, a single file of 200 lines of pure Python with no dependencies...
Signal Conversation Archive Backup Signal Conversation Archive Backup SCAB Welcome to Signal Conversation Archive Backup...
26th Dec 2018
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Signal Conversation Archive Backup

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

26th Dec 2018
Signal Conversation Archive Backup SCAB Welcome to Signal Conversation Archive Backup (SCAB)! (alternative title: Conversation Retrieval And Persistence) Why do we need SCAB? Well, Signal is hostile when it comes to letting users own their private conversations1. Just take a look...
LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025 From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for...
9th Feb 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025

from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2025
From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for document workflows, PDF processing, table understanding, SQL generation, and web automation
Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025) Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
1st Sep 2025
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Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Sep 2025
Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We don't know why you don't want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been....
What Is Reasoning A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight...
19th Aug 2026
1

What Is Reasoning

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Aug 2026
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and confusion...
The Reckoning So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial...
2nd Apr 2026
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The Reckoning

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Apr 2026
So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial Class, I used to talk about the reckoning. It was a nebulous concept, but it mostly involved the abrupt fall from grace of these people at the hands of machines. It’s kind of...
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
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13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
11th Oct 2024
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Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Oct 2024
Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
Choosing to Stay Human If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look...
26th May 2026
3

Choosing to Stay Human

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

26th May 2026
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
26th Aug 2021
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26th Aug 2021
Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Accelerating mathematics Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical...
9th Feb 2026
1

Accelerating mathematics

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2026
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical discovery. How might they go about doing this? The traditional approach Historically it has been governments who have been driving this agenda, … Continue reading →
The practical guide to using AI to do stuff A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
24th Jan 2023
111

The practical guide to using AI to do stuff

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

24th Jan 2023
A resource for students in my classes (and other interested people).
21st Apr 2025
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
3rd Mar 2025
56

Best Before Dates by Bass

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Mar 2025
I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
DepolarizingGPT A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
28th Nov 2023
128

DepolarizingGPT

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Nov 2023
A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
As an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don't Use Generative LLMs Often But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
5th May 2025
1
5th May 2025
But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
3rd Oct 2023
175

The shape of the shadow of The Thing

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Oct 2023
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
1

In defense of screen time

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
3rd Feb 2025
70

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Feb 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
4th May 2025
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4th May 2025
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
5th Jul 2024
143

The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66%

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Jul 2024
A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
HintBot Hinting icons automatically with a neural network
6th Feb 2017
38

HintBot

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Feb 2017
Hinting icons automatically with a neural network
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
10th Apr 2025
58

Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2025
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...
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it...
3rd Dec 2025
2

Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
OpenAI’s “Code Red” Maybe people should have seen this coming?
3rd Dec 2025
1

OpenAI’s “Code Red”

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Dec 2025
Maybe people should have seen this coming?
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a...
3rd Jun 2025
1

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
Reinforcement Learning for Recommendations and Search Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item.
5th Sep 2021
1

Reinforcement Learning for Recommendations and Search

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Sep 2021
Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item.
Turn the volume up. Today marked a completely new moment for New York City, and for America. There will be countless...
5th Nov 2025
1

Turn the volume up.

from Anil Dash [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Nov 2025
Today marked a completely new moment for New York City, and for America. There will be countless attempts at analysis and reflection and what-does-it-all-mean in the days to come, along with an unimaginable number of hateful attacks. But what's worth reflecting on right now is...
Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026) Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means...
2nd Sep 2026
1

Pluralistic: Unpermissioned research (02 Sep 2026)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Sep 2026
Today's links Unpermissioned research: Fighting Trump means preserving the internet, which means scraping. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Leaked advanced PalmOS device specs; Stalwart workers; "I, Rowboat"; SMS uprising; Facebook v switching costs;...
America Turns 250. Its Biggest Companies Never Do—And That's Great! AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
3rd Jul 2026
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3rd Jul 2026
AI is speeding up business turnover, which is exactly what the US is optimized for
Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"? It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
12th Aug 2025
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Can modern LLMs actually count the number of b's in "blueberry"?

from Max Woolf's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Aug 2025
It’s an adversarial question for LLMs, but it’s not unfair.
The Mistakes Most Entry-Level Candidates Make in Technical Interviews And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
12th Feb 2026
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The Mistakes Most Entry-Level Candidates Make in Technical Interviews

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Feb 2026
And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
25th Mar 2025
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Mar 2025
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...
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 1: hyperdjango hyperdjango Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning 2026. Welcome! To kick off spring...
20th May 2026
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Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 1: hyperdjango

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th May 2026
hyperdjango Following up from opsmas 2025 is spring cleaning 2026. Welcome! To kick off spring cleaning, the first project I’d like to release is: hyperdjango. What is hyperdjango you may ask? You could jump ahead into all docs at the hyperdjango hyperdocs hypersite and find...
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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
2nd Nov 2024
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8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Nov 2024
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
NVIDIA Internship (2017) Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
15th Dec 2017
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NVIDIA Internship (2017)

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Dec 2017
Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not? Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
28th Oct 2018
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GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not?

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Oct 2018
Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth? DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific...
12th May 2025
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Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth?

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th May 2025
DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific leaders, journalists, and even Nobel laureates predicted that sequencing the human genome would revolutionize how we treat disease. And while the advances in DNA sequencing that have...
lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools...
23rd Jul 2018
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lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

23rd Jul 2018
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools every day this week. day 1: lematt day 2: netmatt day 3: email 2018 day 4: web 2018 day 5: local nets I made a kickass certificate automation platform called lematt and this page is...
I was an AI researcher. Now, I am an immunology student. Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered...
7th Feb 2023
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7th Feb 2023
Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered machine learning
Striving for Greatness in All You Do Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
8th Jul 2026
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Striving for Greatness in All You Do

from AI for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Jul 2026
Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025 Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better...
4th May 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025

from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th May 2025
Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better agent for coding tasks, Karpathy's LLM tips, and financial hallucination research
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
4th Jun 2026
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jun 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
4th Mar 2025
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Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Mar 2025
Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
A Tale of Two Technologies: Why Large Language Models are the Future and the Metaverse Isn't In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the...
26th Mar 2023
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26th Mar 2023
In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the Metaverse and Large Language Models (LLMs). Though the Metaverse, a virtual reality-based universe, initially garnered significant attention and expectations, it ultimately failed to...
!!con or doing inclusivity well Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
14th Aug 2017
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!!con or doing inclusivity well

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Aug 2017
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
7th Apr 2024
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What is Defensibility?

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Apr 2024
Back to basics for AI startups and others
Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
1st Dec 2024
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Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Dec 2024
With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
Speeding Up Massive PostgreSQL Joins with Common Table Expressions I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent...
10th Aug 2023
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10th Aug 2023
I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network. This network creates text-based posts at a rate of around 400,000 posts per day, and I’ve been feeding the posts through different ML models to try and...
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
9th May 2024
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The Real Risks of AI

from Weighty Thoughts [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th May 2024
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
The jackpot is a lie Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
1st Aug 2023
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The jackpot is a lie

from Zach Seward [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Aug 2023
Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
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Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
How LLMs work Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
26th Nov 2023
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How LLMs work

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

26th Nov 2023
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
What does a Data Scientist really do? No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
30th Apr 2019
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What does a Data Scientist really do?

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Apr 2019
No, you don't need a PhD or 10+ years of experience.
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
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A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
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...
29th Jul 2020
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Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Jul 2020
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…
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...
2nd Aug 2022
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2nd Aug 2022
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...
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
13th Jan 2024
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13th Jan 2024
On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.
An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
2nd Mar 2019
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An edgy intro to graphs of interpersonal relationships

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2019
CW: human sexuality, maths, LaTeX, spoilers for the Game of Thrones
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
10th Sep 2023
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Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk

from Jascha’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Sep 2023
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to...
OpenAI Responses API is an attempt at lock-in OpenAI has a new Responses API, which, in contrast to the de facto standard Chat Completion API that...
17th Mar 2025
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OpenAI Responses API is an attempt at lock-in

from maragu’s blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Mar 2025
OpenAI has a new Responses API, which, in contrast to the de facto standard Chat Completion API that other providers have adopted as well, is stateful. The change makes sense from their business perspective.
Avoid Mini-frameworks 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
24th Dec 2025
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Avoid Mini-frameworks

from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

24th Dec 2025
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
On AI Coding and Its Discontents Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described...
10th Aug 2026
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On AI Coding and Its Discontents

from Cal Newport [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Aug 2026
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more The post On AI Coding and Its Discontents appeared first on Cal Newport.
a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing … glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on...
20th Jun 2023
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a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing

from Frank’s Ramblings [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jun 2023
… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr: The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered...
Your Immune System is Not a Muscle That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the...
12th Aug 2024
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Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Aug 2024
That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Who doesn’t love an analogy? But is this one accurate? We can see that not all obstacles make you stronger. Destroy the cartilage in your...
Redis Quicklist: Do you even list? Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the...
19th Dec 2014
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Redis Quicklist: Do you even list?

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

19th Dec 2014
Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the third and final major improvement to Redis Quicklist. Previously On Recap Before Quicklist, Redis Lists had two representations: ziplist stored small lists in a solid block of...
The Chatbot Wars Are Over. What Comes Next? Spoiler alert: ChatGPT won.
3rd Sep 2025
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The Chatbot Wars Are Over. What Comes Next?

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Sep 2025
Spoiler alert: ChatGPT won.
1st Jan 1970
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from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jan 1970
Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
1st Feb 2025
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Feb 2025
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem 43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
1st Oct 2025
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ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Oct 2025
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
29th Apr 2022
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Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Apr 2022
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to a technology with real-world applications. Notable examples include DeepMind’s work on controlling a nuclear reactor or on improving Youtube video compression, or Tesla attempting...
Make Authenticity Great Again Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
2nd Aug 2025
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Make Authenticity Great Again

from Mind Prison [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Aug 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random...
4th Dec 2022
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Napkin Ideas Around What Changes to Expect Post-ChatGPT

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Dec 2022
Work Replacement Talent Magnification Solopreneuers AI Specialists Idea Dominance Use Cases Random Thoughts If you’re reading this you already know the internet is on fire over the new  GPTChatBot from OpenAI. There are people using it to create full virtual machines, to be their...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
1st Jun 2023
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Pessimism in News Media Headlines

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jun 2023
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
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry...
5th Jan 2026
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5th Jan 2026
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for...
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
5th Apr 2020
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Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Apr 2020
Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
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Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and More

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Nov 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
2nd Feb 2023
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2nd Feb 2023
Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
a week ago
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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

a week ago
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
solving the jest.mock()+esmodules hoisting problem A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
6th Feb 2021
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solving the jest.mock()+esmodules hoisting problem

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Feb 2021
A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
6th Nov 2022
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6th Nov 2022
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to worse outcomes. This is true almost everywhere. We will name...
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
9th Oct 2022
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Maple Diffusion

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Oct 2022
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
1st Jul 2023
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The Homework Apocalypse

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Jul 2023
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true A true life moment for your correspondent
2nd Jun 2026
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Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Jun 2026
A true life moment for your correspondent
DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
17th Aug 2025
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DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Aug 2025
How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
Can LLMs learn from a single example? Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam...
3rd Sep 2023
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Can LLMs learn from a single example?

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Sep 2023
Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam questions, we observed some highly unusual training loss curves. In particular, it appeared the model was able to rapidly memorize examples from the dataset after seeing them just...
New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
29th Dec 2022
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New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome

from Piotr Migdał's Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Dec 2022
Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
What is Codemode More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into...
a week ago
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What is Codemode

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

a week ago
More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is All You Need and I wrote about that MCP needs code. With Pi 1.0 we now added...
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
27th Dec 2017
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OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th Dec 2017
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded...
15th Jul 2021
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Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media

from David Rozado Substack [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jul 2021
Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News and Opinion Articles from News Media Outlets”
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
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3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2025
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
21st Apr 2017
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Quora

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Apr 2017
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...
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
10th Apr 2023
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Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2023
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention --> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the...
29th Jun 2023
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Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

29th Jun 2023
--> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the fine-grained (FG) ground truth conformer $X$, RDKit approximate conformer $\mathcal{R}$ , and coarse-grained (CG) conformer $\mathcal{C}$ as inputs (derived from $X$ and a predefined...
Pluralistic: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025) Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a...
1st Nov 2025
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Pluralistic: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025)

from Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Nov 2025
Today's links There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: D2020; Sony rootkit; Public Enemy vs the internet; NYC plute Hallowe'en. Upcoming appearances: Where to...
Let's Stay Human Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Aug 2026
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Let's Stay Human

from Caitlin’s Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Aug 2026
Reading by Tim Foley:
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project...
3rd Mar 2025
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A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Mar 2025
Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project out of Ron Fearing’s lab at UC Berkeley. The palm-sized spring-loaded jumping robot has gone from barely being able to chain together a few open-loop jumps to mastering landings,...
Time to Take a Stand It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President...
28th Jan 2017
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Time to Take a Stand

from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Jan 2017
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable.  In repeatedly invoking unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million...
An LLM-as-Judge Won't Save The Product—Fixing Your Process Will Applying the scientific method, building via eval-driven development, and monitoring AI output.
20th Apr 2025
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20th Apr 2025
Applying the scientific method, building via eval-driven development, and monitoring AI output.
The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving? This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in...
16th Aug 2022
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The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Aug 2022
This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in computer science and mathematics. He completed this work while visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics. Introduction The history of interactive theorem...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her...
2nd Feb 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Feb 2025
This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her journey as an AI researcher returning to school for immunology.
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
2nd Jan 2024
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Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder

from Matt Mazur [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Jan 2024
At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
Communities of Not There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something:...
6th Jun 2026
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Communities of Not

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jun 2026
There is a strange thing that happens in communities that gather around abstinence from something: identity from opposition. At their best these communities are not just negative: childfree spaces can be about autonomy, choice and acceptance, anti-car spaces about safer streets...
Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
13th Feb 2022
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Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Feb 2022
What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
The next evolution of serverless is stateful (A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
6th Feb 2024
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The next evolution of serverless is stateful

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Feb 2024
(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
Run Llama 2 uncensored locally This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored...
1st Aug 2023
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Run Llama 2 uncensored locally

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Aug 2023
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a...
3rd Jun 2025
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
17th Jan 2024
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Evaluations are all we need

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

17th Jan 2024
On analysing talent in LLMs
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Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 34b -- from bigrams to GPT-2, one component at a time (in JAX) This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I...
8th Jul 2026
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This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I started reading Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", and worked through it carefully. Being who I am, despite trying to apply a strict "no side...
An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple...
1st Mar 2026
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An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep

from matt.sh [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Mar 2026
An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple times so here’s some stuff about it. I often see people get basic outright stated plot details wrong about it, so maybe this can be a cheat sheet if you believe it all. This page is in...
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...
20th Mar 2023
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GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Mar 2023
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
8th Apr 2024
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A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI

from The Gradient [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Apr 2024
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on...
4th Jul 2022
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Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence

from fast.ai [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jul 2022
Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on this was written in April 2020 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
1st Aug 2025
How Immune Cells Communicate This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here. A key obstacle hindering medical...
5th Feb 2024
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How Immune Cells Communicate

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Feb 2024
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here. A key obstacle hindering medical research for a range of diseases is our lack of understanding of the immune system. Harvard Professor Wayne Koff described his decades of HIV research, “slowly, over time, we began to...
Giving your AI a Job Interview As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
12th Nov 2025
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Giving your AI a Job Interview

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

12th Nov 2025
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
2nd Aug 2023
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AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models?

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Aug 2023
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
12th Sep 2024
Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
1st Oct 2025
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Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy

from Artificial Ignorance [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Oct 2025
A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
2nd Mar 2025
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Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
15th Jun 2026
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Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

from Token for Token [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Jun 2026
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
In Support Of Shitty Types You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. ...
4th Aug 2025
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In Support Of Shitty Types

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Aug 2025
You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. One of the reasons I find them useful is that they enable autocomplete, which is generally a good feature. Having a well-integrated type system that makes sense and gives you...
(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....
20th Jan 2018
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(started posting on Medium instead)

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2018
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...
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
27th Nov 2022
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27th Nov 2022
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
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Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jun 2024
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
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...
1st Mar 2024
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Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Mar 2024
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train models, and benchmark LLMs
我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
10th Aug 2025
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我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》

from laike9m's blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Aug 2025
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity. p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
14th Nov 2015
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Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Nov 2015
p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
28th Aug 2024
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How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

from The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

28th Aug 2024
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
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...
27th Mar 2023
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27th Mar 2023
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...
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
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Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
Structured outputs Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a...
6th Dec 2024
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Structured outputs

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Dec 2024
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025 Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat...
2nd Mar 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025

from AI Tidbits [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Mar 2025
Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat with multiple LLMs, and tips to improve the performance of GPT-4.5 and o3
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