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Sam Altman
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
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over a year ago
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
Rozado’s Visual...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
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In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
Piotr Migdał's Blog
DALL·E 2 and transcendence - generating esoteric images with AI Hint: end prompts with “religious art”, “stained glass”, “esoteric art”
over a year ago
Machine Learning for...
How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at...
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My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at Google in 6 years without a master's degree or PhD
Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
7 months ago
Society's Backend:...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
4 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Are Mastering Picking Packages As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy,...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some pseudorandom fabric bin the size of a...
AI as Normal...
AI safety is not a model property Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be...
a year ago
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a year ago
Trying to make an AI model that can’t be misused is like trying to make a computer that can’t be used for bad things
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
over a year ago
Armin Ronacher's...
Seeking Purity The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also...
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7 months ago
The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also found in passionate, technical discussions. By that I mean that purity in technology translates into adherence to a set of strict principles, whether it be functional programming,...
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
IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Marcus on AI
Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI July 12, 2024.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
The impeccable logic of Sam Altman From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
Marcus on AI
GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5 Investors should be worried
6 months ago
AI Snake Oil
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Mentions of Prejudice in Academic Papers: A Declining Trend Amidst Ongoing DEI Growth? Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
AI Snake Oil
AI scaling myths Scaling will run out. The question is when.
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Interactive Fleet Learning Figure 1: “Interactive Fleet Learning” (IFL) refers to robot fleets in industry and academia that...
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over a year ago
Figure 1: “Interactive Fleet Learning” (IFL) refers to robot fleets in industry and academia that fall back on human teleoperators when necessary and continually learn from them over time. In the last few years we have seen an exciting development in robotics and artificial...
Frank’s Ramblings
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Artificial Ignorance
The ideologies fighting for the soul (and future) of AI EAs, e/accs, decels, and doomers.
a year ago
Sam Altman
Researchers and Founders I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these groups are (including in some qualities that I had assumed were present in great...
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
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over a year ago
(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
Marcus on AI
“Nvidia could soon take a serious hit, too” The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent, but today might be the day.
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
The Manus Marketing Madness While at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come.
6 months ago
Marcus on AI
A new AI scaling law shell game? Scaling laws were supposed to be, well, laws.
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 102: The Stargate Project January 24, 2024.
7 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color:...
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over a year ago
p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color: #eee; } The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
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Acing the coding challenge How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How do you write a successful coding challenge? Unlike some nightmare whiteboard interview scenarios, typically a coding challenge is not a…
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
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum logic gates for a single qubit, interactively
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras or PyTorch as your first deep learning framework
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked...
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Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: All (antitrust) politics are local (02 Sep 2025) Today's links All (antitrust) politics are local: From data-centers to Ticketmaster. Hey look at...
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Today's links All (antitrust) politics are local: From data-centers to Ticketmaster. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Pokerbot back-channels; Little Robot; How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
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The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
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
Society's Backend:...
Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
The Dream AI Hardware
a year ago
Solving the decision...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
7 months ago
Made by Ollin
Bare-bones Diffusion Models
over a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Scott Kuffer of Nucleus Security | SPONSORED INTERVIEW SERIES In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO...
over a year ago
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In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO of Nucleus Security. I was already excited by this vendor just based on the research I did to allow them to be a sponsor, but the conversation with them really made me think they’re...
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...
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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;...
Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
6 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Starting deep learning hands-on: image classification on CIFAR-10
over a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what...
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How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what determines who gets promoted and who…
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Software engineering under the spotlight Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as...
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Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and…
PromptArmor Blog
Slack AI data exfiltration from private channels via indirect prompt injection Authors: PromptArmor
a year ago
Don't Worry About...
The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit It doesn’t look good.
6 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
a year ago