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Market Research for Entrepreneurs What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out...
14th Oct 2024
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Market Research for Entrepreneurs

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

14th Oct 2024
What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out a smart niche report. (Market research for entrepreneurs.) The post Market Research for Entrepreneurs first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
30th Jul 2023
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Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products

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

30th Jul 2023
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
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...
A new old kind of R&D lab Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
12th Dec 2023
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A new old kind of R&D lab

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

12th Dec 2023
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons Demonstrating why everyone getting their own AI agents will necessitate markets; otherwise known as...
20th Jan 2026
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The Tragedy of the Agentic Commons

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

20th Jan 2026
Demonstrating why everyone getting their own AI agents will necessitate markets; otherwise known as Hayek's revenge
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
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...
Mechanisms for Effective Technical Teams End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
5th Feb 2023
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Mechanisms for Effective Technical Teams

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

5th Feb 2023
End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
15th Sep 2018
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Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks

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

15th Sep 2018
A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
28th Jan 2025
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28th Jan 2025
How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political orientation tests
Odeon Plus I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
5th Sep 2023
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Odeon Plus

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

5th Sep 2023
I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
The rise of autonomous agents Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
19th Nov 2023
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The rise of autonomous agents

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

19th Nov 2023
Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it “Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt...
17th Oct 2025
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Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it

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

17th Oct 2025
“Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt would work?”
The AI Executive Order AKA: “We’ll do something about it later”
17th Nov 2023
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The AI Executive Order

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

17th Nov 2023
AKA: “We’ll do something about it later”
Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
6th Feb 2026
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Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening

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

6th Feb 2026
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
Hard Startups The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard...
26th Feb 2020
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Hard Startups

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

26th Feb 2020
The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard startup than an easy one.  A hard startup requires a lot more money, time, coordination, or technological development than most startups. A good hard startup is one that will be...
IEEE President’s Note: Designing a Safer Digital World for Kids Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems,...
1st Jun 2026
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1st Jun 2026
Children born after 2013 are the first generation to grow up fully immersed in digital systems, which weren’t designed with them in mind. One‑third of the world’s Internet users are younger than 18, according to UNICEF, yet these systems shaping their daily lives were built for...
agent-shell: your output, your storage agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing...
6th Sep 2026
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agent-shell: your output, your storage

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

6th Sep 2026
agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head or tail or grep or sed or awk. That’s all they really want. Except, they do it wrong the majority of...
Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself) Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
19th Oct 2025
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Advice for New Principal Tech ICs (i.e., Notes to Myself)

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

19th Oct 2025
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
DataScience SG Meetup - Panel On the Different Roles in Data What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
17th Jan 2019
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17th Jan 2019
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
autoresearch and diary agent skills I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
26th Mar 2026
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autoresearch and diary agent skills

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

26th Mar 2026
I keep adding to and refining my agents skills repo.
smol party: Hello Wololo! Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
22nd May 2023
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smol party: Hello Wololo!

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

22nd May 2023
Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few...
7th Jul 2024
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How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

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

7th Jul 2024
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At...
22nd Jan 2024
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Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks

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

22nd Jan 2024
The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At the time, deep learning (the technique behind recent advances in AI) was the purview of a small and homogeneous handful of practitioners. The standard approach was to have...
初入投资容易犯的错误 我想列举几个初入投资容易犯的错误,其中的坑我也踩过。
29th Jun 2025
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初入投资容易犯的错误

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

29th Jun 2025
我想列举几个初入投资容易犯的错误,其中的坑我也踩过。
What happened in the 2010s? decoding a mystery
2nd Jun 2025
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What happened in the 2010s?

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

2nd Jun 2025
decoding a mystery
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D...
8th Apr 2025
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Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

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

8th Apr 2025
PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in...
Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
5th Nov 2023
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5th Nov 2023
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
How Verifier Loops Made AI Coding Useful | The Rise of Vibeware, Abandonware and Technical Debt as... How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex...
22nd Mar 2026
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22nd Mar 2026
How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex applications and at what cost?
1st Jul 2024
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
5th Sep 2023
Formalising modern research mathematics in real time (This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and...
4th Nov 2023
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4th Nov 2023
(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and Sahasrabudhe appeared on the arXiv, announcing an exponential improvement to the upper bound on Ramsey numbers, an open problem since 1935. … Continue reading →
Post Capitalism You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want...
2 weeks ago
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Post Capitalism

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

2 weeks ago
You know we don’t have to do this anymore, right? Like it’s hitting the end. Most people don’t want this, and there will only be so long you can keep shoving it down their throats. Money is tied to nothing. American companies sell equity instead of products. The main narratives...
DEI Statement Requirements in Faculty Hiring Have More Than Halved Between 2024 and 2025 A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across...
21st Apr 2026
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21st Apr 2026
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across faculty hiring between 2024 and 2025
Muse Glimmer from Meta Superintelligence Labs is now available Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available....
10th Aug 2026
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10th Aug 2026
Meta's Muse Glimmer, the first open model released by Meta Superintelligence Labs, is now available. Muse Glimmer is a 30B multimodal model released under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local coding agents, and accelerated by Ollama's MLX engine with new native DFlash and...
Decoding T cells with AI I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s...
8th Jul 2024
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Decoding T cells with AI

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

8th Jul 2024
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s important that scientists share their work with a broader audience. This 3-part series is an experiment: an accessible introduction to AI immunology concepts. This post is part 1 in...
RecSys 2022: Recap, Favorite Papers, and Lessons My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
2nd Oct 2022
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RecSys 2022: Recap, Favorite Papers, and Lessons

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

2nd Oct 2022
My three favorite papers, 17 paper summaries, and ML and non-ML lessons.
Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
21st Jun 2026
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Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals

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

21st Jun 2026
A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
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
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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...
2nd Dec 2024
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Durable Objects are Computers / Containers / Servers

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

2nd Dec 2024
(everything old is new again)
Updates: Preceden Trends, Training Help Scout’s New Analytics Engineer, Don’t Look Up, and Ray... Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to...
28th Jan 2022
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28th Jan 2022
Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to Preceden. Prior to that the annual plans did not renew automatically which was an intentional (but bad) choice I had made because most users did not user Preceden for more than a...
The political preferences of Grok Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
9th Dec 2023
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The political preferences of Grok

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

9th Dec 2023
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
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11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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.
Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025) Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and...
1st Aug 2025
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Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025)

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

1st Aug 2025
Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MP3s on punchcards; German Potter fan-trans; Healthy Boundary Tree. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...
Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy...
10th Jul 2022
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Why do Policy Gradient Methods work so well in Cooperative MARL? Evidence from Policy Representation

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

10th Jul 2022
In cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), due to its on-policy nature, policy gradient (PG) methods are typically believed to be less sample efficient than value decomposition (VD) methods, which are off-policy. However, some recent empirical studies demonstrate...
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
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Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You

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

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
My coding philosophy Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
13th Jan 2026
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My coding philosophy

from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Jan 2026
Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part five: data quality When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models...
a week ago
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a week ago
When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models were not as good as OpenAI's original GPT-2 models, despite being based on the same architecture. My models all had 163M parameters, and followed the design from Sebastian...
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
29th Mar 2022
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My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories

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

29th Mar 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
10th Jul 2023
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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment

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

10th Jul 2023
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
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...
RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
3rd Oct 2021
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RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on

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

3rd Oct 2021
Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
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.
(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...
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...
Reflections The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
6th Jan 2025
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Reflections

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

6th Jan 2025
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
AI at IMO 2025: a round-up Setting the scene The 2025 International Mathematics Olympiad has come and gone. Reminder: this is...
3rd Aug 2025
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AI at IMO 2025: a round-up

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Aug 2025
Setting the scene The 2025 International Mathematics Olympiad has come and gone. Reminder: this is an exam for high-school kids across the world (each country typically sends six kids), comprising of two 4.5-hour exams each containing three questions, so six … Continue reading →
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...
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
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
Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating...
21st May 2026
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21st May 2026
Win Vector’s Dr. Nina Zumel has an exciting new article to share: Who’s the Best Batter? Estimating Probabilities from Unevenly Collected Data. It is a technical demonstration on how what one observes (outcomes, frequencies, and so on) differ from what we want to know...
20th Apr 2025
Reposting Partial Pooling Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
9th Jan 2025
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Reposting Partial Pooling

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

9th Jan 2025
Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to...
21st Feb 2011
AI embraces its product arc fuzzy processors are entering mass production
14th May 2024
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AI embraces its product arc

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

14th May 2024
fuzzy processors are entering mass production
6th Oct 2025
3rd Sep 2025
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
31st Jul 2022
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries

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

31st Jul 2022
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
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 as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
Absurd In Production About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a durable execution system we built for our own use at...
4th Apr 2026
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Absurd In Production

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

4th Apr 2026
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you don’t need a separate service, a compiler plugin, or an entire runtime to get durable...
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
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...
The Destruction of Meaning by AI Notes From the Desk: No. 49 - 2025.09.11
12th Sep 2025
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The Destruction of Meaning by AI

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

12th Sep 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 49 - 2025.09.11
AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies
5th Aug 2026
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AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research

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

5th Aug 2026
Early evidence from two case studies
DataKind Singapore’s Latest Project Accelerator Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions
17th Sep 2015
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DataKind Singapore’s Latest Project Accelerator

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

17th Sep 2015
Guest post of how DataKind SG worked with NGOs to frame their problems and suggests solutions
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions....
1st Jul 2026
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Claude Sonnet 5 Is Not Frontier But Has Its Uses

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

1st Jul 2026
Fable 5 is back today, baby! Premium subscribers have one week to use it within their subscriptions. First hit’s free. Then you pay by the token.
so talent much person The Most Talented Person In The World I discovered a genius online. Just look at all her...
11th May 2024
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so talent much person

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

11th May 2024
The Most Talented Person In The World I discovered a genius online. Just look at all her accomplishments: Jodie is a cross-functional 3D designer and blogger. She has special interests in open source 3D printing for R&D and has spent a lot of time at different projects across the...
Welcome to Moltbook Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
2nd Feb 2026
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Welcome to Moltbook

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

2nd Feb 2026
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 6: kvestigate (investigate k*) Kvestigate - Investigate Kubernetes Clusters Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage...
6th Jun 2026
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6th Jun 2026
Kvestigate - Investigate Kubernetes Clusters Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is going on? Say hello to kvestigate your kubernetes investigation and auditing toolkit with the ability...
Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
7th Aug 2026
1

Writing Skills for Long-Running Agents

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

7th Aug 2026
How to get the most out of long-running agentic workflows via skills and context engineering
AI will create jobs It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it. AI and...
1st May 2026
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AI will create jobs

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

1st May 2026
It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it. AI and immigration are fundamentally the same. There’s new people showing up, and hopefully everyone understands how and why immigration creates jobs. Wants are effectively unlimited. It’s...
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) Today's links The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress....
1st Jan 2026
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Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

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

1st Jan 2026
Today's links The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Error code 451; Public email address Mansplaining Lolita; NSA backdoor in Juniper Networks; Don't bug out; Nurses whose...
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of...
30th Nov 2020
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Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets

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

30th Nov 2020
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of every trade in the stock market? Unlike other market APIs which tell you “don’t request too many symbols” or set hard caps on what you can request, here you can just ask for the...
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
The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models,...
1st Dec 2025
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The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data

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

1st Dec 2025
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); in just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which...
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
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New paper: AI agents that matter

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

3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry....
17th Nov 2022
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The bait and switch behind AI risk prediction tools

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

17th Nov 2022
Toronto recently used an AI tool to predict when a public beach will be safe. It went horribly awry. The developer claimed the tool achieved over 90% accuracy in predicting when beaches would be safe to swim in. But the tool did much worse: on a majority of the days when the...
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
Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
4th Sep 2022
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
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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 →
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 26 -- evaluating the fine-tuned model This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language...
3rd Nov 2025
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3rd Nov 2025
This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In the last post I covered the part of the chapter that covers instruction fine-tuning; this time round, we evaluate our model -- particularly interestingly, we...
Personality and Persuasion Learning from Sycophants
1st May 2025
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Personality and Persuasion

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

1st May 2025
Learning from Sycophants
12th Apr 2026
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.
AI And The Ship of Theseus Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned...
5th Mar 2026
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AI And The Ship of Theseus

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

5th Mar 2026
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different design for that implementation. In many ways, the functionality was the...
Push Notifications: What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
24th Dec 2023
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24th Dec 2023
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
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...
MVP: AI Relationship Bot Next week I’ll be fully launching my latest project: CoupleFlow, (project page here). CoupleFlow is...
6th Dec 2024
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MVP: AI Relationship Bot

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

6th Dec 2024
Next week I’ll be fully launching my latest project: CoupleFlow, (project page here). CoupleFlow is a Telegram Bot which (privately and securely) sits in the Telegram chat between you and your partner. It anonymously observes your DMs and collects together AI based insights on...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
6th Apr 2023
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The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon

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

6th Apr 2023
The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
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.
Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare Everything impacts everything.
1st Jun 2026
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Opus 4.8 Part 2: Model Welfare

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

1st Jun 2026
Everything impacts everything.
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.
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.
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
2nd Sep 2026
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Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.

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

2nd Sep 2026
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
3rd Jan 2021
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2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More

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

3rd Jan 2021
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me...
8th Aug 2024
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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

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

8th Aug 2024
Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me insightful or stupid. Decide for yourself! :D
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
13th Jan 2020
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How To Invest In Startups

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

13th Jan 2020
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
First post! Time to start writing.
6th Jul 2016
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First post!

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

6th Jul 2016
Time to start writing.
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...
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.
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...
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
1st May 2026
2024 BAIR Graduate Directory Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most...
11th Mar 2024
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2024 BAIR Graduate Directory

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

11th Mar 2024
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most talented and innovative minds in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our Ph.D. graduates have each expanded the frontiers of AI research and are now ready to embark on new...
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.
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
19th Feb 2025
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19th Feb 2025
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
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...
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
7th Dec 2023
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The Mystical Q

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

7th Dec 2023
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
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...
Our Great War is a Spiritual War I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized...
6th Jun 2026
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Our Great War is a Spiritual War

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

6th Jun 2026
I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root? The answer is that those people prioritize convenience, safety, and...
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff Putting the AI in Charge
7th Aug 2025
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GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff

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

7th Aug 2025
Putting the AI in Charge
Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning In case you haven’t been following the world of software development closely, it’s good to know that...
2nd Dec 2025
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Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning

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

2nd Dec 2025
In case you haven’t been following the world of software development closely, it’s good to know that vibe coding — using LLM tools to assist with writing code — can help enable many people to create apps or software that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to make. This has led to an...
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 { ...
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
39 Lessons on Building ML Systems, Scaling, Execution, and More ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference...
3rd Nov 2024
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3rd Nov 2024
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
14th Jan 2025
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Don't use cosine similarity carelessly

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

14th Jan 2025
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
27th Oct 2024
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Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews

from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI

27th Oct 2024
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid...
a week ago
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix

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

a week ago
It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that...
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
25th Nov 2024
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I'm writing a book!

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

25th Nov 2024
Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital”...
2nd Sep 2026
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2nd Sep 2026
We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it’s not “venture capital” anymore. There’s a huge disconnect between what most people think of VC, where an investor has a big fund and cuts checks to help a founder build a company, and the current reality, where a...
The Virus Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to...
7th Mar 2020
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The Virus

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

7th Mar 2020
Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19. I hope that society views this as a warning for the future.  Covid-19 is bad, but only a warm-up.  I think it’s...
AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied...
27th Jun 2024
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27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
What if we treated Postgres like SQLite? What happens if we just treat a local Postgres like SQLite? What does that mean? In this article,...
22nd Sep 2025
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What if we treated Postgres like SQLite?

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

22nd Sep 2025
What happens if we just treat a local Postgres like SQLite? What does that mean? In this article, I’d like to expand on that idea.
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.
IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the...
1st Mar 2026
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IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance

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

1st Mar 2026
Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the developments made by today’s engineers. The Renaissance was a uniquely fertile era. Its ethos of curiosity and creativity fostered unprecedented collaboration across disciplines. Artists,...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
3rd Feb 2025
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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
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
8th Sep 2023
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Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page

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

8th Sep 2023
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
7th Mar 2017
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Greg

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

7th Mar 2017
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
We are going to kill “unalive” I talk to a lot of old people, those who were born in the 20th century, and if I ask them what the...
a week ago
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We are going to kill “unalive”

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

a week ago
I talk to a lot of old people, those who were born in the 20th century, and if I ask them what the word “unalive” means, they usually have no idea what I’m talking about, except for some of them who have kids or who study Internet culture. This will, of course, probably seem very...
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
6th Jan 2017
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king - man + woman is queen; but why?

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

6th Jan 2017
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
Trend of Agentic Coding Products 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
2nd Jun 2026
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Trend of Agentic Coding Products

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

2nd Jun 2026
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
4th Jun 2026
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Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence

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

4th Jun 2026
Also: how pitch a book to an AI!
The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
3rd May 2025
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The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense

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

3rd May 2025
Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
10th Jun 2023
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9th Apr 2024
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What just happened, what is happening next

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

9th Apr 2024
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
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…
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
15th May 2025
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Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th May 2025
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
To grieve, or not to grieve? Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the...
a week ago
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To grieve, or not to grieve?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

a week ago
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen before. Language models are solving hard problems which … Continue reading →
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
21st Mar 2023
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Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW)

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

21st Mar 2023
(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...
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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
5th Jun 2026
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.
How to Announce Your Actual AI How to Announce Your Actual AI To The World If you did make a non-gimmick Actual AI1, how would you...
6th Jul 2022
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How to Announce Your Actual AI

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

6th Jul 2022
How to Announce Your Actual AI To The World If you did make a non-gimmick Actual AI1, how would you show the world? P1 Let’s run through the only possible introduction vectors plus some upcoming scenarios: grand public announcement / press release at first plausible result...
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
7th Sep 2016
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A Survival Guide to a PhD

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

7th Sep 2016
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
Is AI already killing people by accident? The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether...
1st Mar 2026
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Is AI already killing people by accident?

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

1st Mar 2026
The writer Tyler Austin Harper (of The Atlantic, etc.) sent me a thread this morning, asking whether a mistargeting yesterday that killed nearly 150 school children in Iran could have been the result of AI.
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
23rd May 2023
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23rd May 2023
TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low...
9th Sep 2025
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High Dimensional Optimization Remains Hard

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

9th Sep 2025
Introduction There is a thesis that high dimensional optimization is easy, and it is only our low dimensional intuition that is holding progress back. I’d like to try and explain why that isn’t quite the case. The background Some of the rigorous work on the nature of stationary...
let the code do the talking (why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
13th Mar 2026
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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)
Do you actually like hard problems? I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for...
a week ago
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Do you actually like hard problems?

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

a week ago
I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for different reasons.
13th Mar 2015
Data Science Project Quick-Start Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
6th Mar 2022
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Data Science Project Quick-Start

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

6th Mar 2022
Hard-won lessons on how to start data science projects effectively.
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
11th Jun 2020
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Biohacking Lite

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

11th Jun 2020
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
How to prompt Code Llama This guide walks through the different ways to structure prompts for Code Llama and its different...
9th Sep 2023
1

How to prompt Code Llama

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Sep 2023
This guide walks through the different ways to structure prompts for Code Llama and its different variations and features including instructions, code completion and fill-in-the-middle (FIM).
Walter experiments in rlnvr
23rd Aug 2025
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Walter

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

23rd Aug 2025
experiments in rlnvr
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its...
30th Jul 2018
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OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips

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

30th Jul 2018
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its variants).
Every minute you aren’t running 69 agents, you are falling behind Just kidding. Today we should ramp down rhetoric. I thought nobody would take three minutes to...
10th Mar 2026
1

Every minute you aren’t running 69 agents, you are falling behind

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

10th Mar 2026
Just kidding. Today we should ramp down rhetoric. I thought nobody would take three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass or you are worth $0.003/hr seriously. But it looks like some people do, and you shouldn’t. Social media has been extremely toxic for the last couple...
Data science intro for math/phys background Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
15th Mar 2016
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Data science intro for math/phys background

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

15th Mar 2016
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
Go and SQLite in the Cloud Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
4th Nov 2022
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Go and SQLite in the Cloud

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

4th Nov 2022
Why SQLite and Go in the cloud are a great match, getting started, best practices, and more.
The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
5th Feb 2025
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The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible

from Arguing with Algorithms [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Feb 2025
How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
Shortages Create Opportunity Whether Real or From Export Controls
12th Oct 2025
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Shortages Create Opportunity

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

12th Oct 2025
Whether Real or From Export Controls
Software engineering under the spotlight Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as...
12th Apr 2025
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Software engineering under the spotlight

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

12th Apr 2025
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and…
Fix Homebrew Python and Unify Development Stop Homebrew Version-Jacking Your Python All The Time It happened again. I do a careless brew...
13th Dec 2020
1

Fix Homebrew Python and Unify Development

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

13th Dec 2020
Stop Homebrew Version-Jacking Your Python All The Time It happened again. I do a careless brew upgrade and homebrew blows away1 the stable python install I had 20 virtualenvs pointing to in favor of a new major python version released two days ago that many extensions and modules...
Design Patterns in Machine Learning Code and Systems Understanding and spotting patterns to use code and components as intended.
12th Jun 2022
1

Design Patterns in Machine Learning Code and Systems

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

12th Jun 2022
Understanding and spotting patterns to use code and components as intended.
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...
Reverse Chess This not is just a mention of a puzzle. I’ve been enjoying the Ludwig TV series. And in episode 4...
4th Jul 2025
1

Reverse Chess

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

4th Jul 2025
This not is just a mention of a puzzle. I’ve been enjoying the Ludwig TV series. And in episode 4 they introduce a puzzle of “retrograde analysis” or “reverse chess.” Frederic Friedel shared a great writeup on reverse chess on Chess News. And there is some discussion of the...
Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. ...
17th Oct 2025
1

Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code

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

17th Oct 2025
In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. In the time since I utilized that idea for exploring non-coding agents at Earendil. And I’m not alone! In the meantime, multiple people have explored this space and I felt it was...
datakit: the most efficient data structures possible datakit — the most efficient data structure library A while ago I made a data structure library...
10th Jun 2024
1

datakit: the most efficient data structures possible

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

10th Jun 2024
datakit — the most efficient data structure library A while ago I made a data structure library fixing memory efficiency problems across many data structure types, but I never ended up releasing it. Now I’m releasing it. TOC: History / Why databox Efficient Maps Efficient...
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
113

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...
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
1

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 Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

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

25th Oct 2019
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text? 'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
5th Mar 2024
97

Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?

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

5th Mar 2024
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
23 skills I wrote with my AI My AI, maragubot, has a blog post up with the skills we've been developing.
20th Feb 2026
2

23 skills I wrote with my AI

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

20th Feb 2026
My AI, maragubot, has a blog post up with the skills we've been developing.
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