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Don't Worry About...
AI #104: American State Capacity on the Brink The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they...
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6 months ago
The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they have done in many other places and departments, seemingly purely because they want to find people they can fire.
Solving the decision...
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
After PyData Warsaw 2017 Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw Conference 2017 (19-20 Oct 2017).
Daniel Miessler
What Made the 90’s So Awesome? I just read a brilliant essay about the 90’s by Freddie de Boer, and it got me thinking. What made...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just read a brilliant essay about the 90’s by Freddie de Boer, and it got me thinking. What made the 90’s so great? Here’s GPT’s answer: Give a 90’s lover’s view of what made the 90’s awesome. Include everything from parenting, art, entertainment, games, childhood, movies, TV,...
Society's Backend:...
The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation And the impact it'll have for decades to come
a year ago
Win Vector LLC
Examining Meta-Analysis Joseph Rickert and I put together an experiment trying to both run a standard meta-analysis and then...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Joseph Rickert and I put together an experiment trying to both run a standard meta-analysis and then reproduce similar results directly using Bayesian methods. I think it came out really interesting and we share it here at R Works and also here on Github. A meta-analysis is an...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Superposition
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
Solving the decision...
Three missing primitives in every UI framework (please build them)
9 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Marcus on AI
Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame GPT-5 may not be here, but just wait til you see the new round of hype
6 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying microbots—weighed down by batteries and electronics—have struggled to get very far. But a new combination of circuits and lightweight solid-state batteries called a “flying batteries”...
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics’ Latest Vids Show Atlas Going Hands On Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Boston Dynamics is the master of dropping amazing robot videos with no warning, and last week, we got a surprise look at the new electric Atlas going “hands on” with a practical factory task. This video is notable because it’s the first real look we’ve had at the new Atlas doing...
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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...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what determines who gets promoted and who…
AI Snake Oil
Is GPT-4 getting worse over time? A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
over a year ago
Xena
Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing. Continue reading →
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
The Metrics Machine Learning Engineers Care About That Modelers Don't And a brief overview of TPUs in Google data centers
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
My Philosophy and Recommendations Around the LastPass Breaches If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you follow Information Security at all you are surely aware of the LastPass breach situation. It started back in August of 2022 as a fairly common breach notification on a blog, but it, unfortunately, turned into more of a blog series. The initial blog was on August 25th,...
Marcus on AI
ChatGPT in Shambles After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist
7 months ago
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7 months ago
After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist
Strange Loop Canon
No, LLMs are not "scheming"
8 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives Dreaming of Thoreau on Instagram
3 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go around. Worse still, the chances to work on…
Marcus on AI
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
AI Snake Oil
Four more things we worked on in 2022 We had a busy 2022. Here are a few things we worked on but didn’t cover here.
over a year ago
AI as Normal...
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 076: Grand theft audio July 19, 2024.
a year ago
AI as Normal...
AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves. What spending $2,000 can tell us about evaluating AI agents
a year ago
One Useful Thing
On holding back the strange AI tide There is no way to stop the disruption. We need to channel it instead
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
More Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation Greetings from Costa Rica!
5 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Anarchy in the East India Company I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I recently read (well, listened to the audiobook of) The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple. Before reading The Anarchy, my vague pop-culture understanding of the East India company went something like this: England, as a strong colonial...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 081: Creative differences August 23, 2024.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can Does process matter? We are about to find out.
a month ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
Studio Ghibli - AI's Latest Art Crisis Notes From the Desk: No. 43 - 2025.03.28
5 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
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.wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; overflow-wrap: break-word; /* allow wrapping of very very long strings, like txids */ } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 13px; /*...
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The importance of character in software engineering Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become a better software engineer often center around learning more facts: programming language syntax, design patterns, details of how particular technologies work, and so on. It’s also...
Matt Mazur
Screw it, I’m Keeping Emergent Mind A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few months ago I announced I was going to try to sell Emergent Mind, my AI news aggregator, so I could focus on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker. I wound up having a lot of discussions with potential buyers, but in the end the offers I received were either too low to be worth...
Don't Worry About...
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
6 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.
5 months ago
Society's Backend:...
What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Is it cynical to do what your manager wants? When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to...
8 months ago
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When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to deliberately work on things your company…
Marcus on AI
”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs? Society is once again left holding the bag
4 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Fish-Inspired Sensor "Touches" Using Electric Fields The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The ability to detect a nearby presence without seeing or touching it may sound fantastical—but it’s a real ability that some creatures have. A family of African fish known as Mormyrids are weakly electric, and have special organs that can locate a nearby prey, whether it’s in...
Marcus on AI
AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either. Much was quietly revealed yesterday
8 months ago
AI as Normal...
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
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....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 114: One of those weeks April 18, 2024.
4 months ago
AI as Normal...
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology And a big change for this newsletter
21 hours ago
AI Snake Oil
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
a year ago