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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
Hard Startups The most counterintuitive secret about startups is that it’s often easier to succeed with a hard...
26th Feb 2020
40

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...
Open-LLMs - A list of LLMs for Commercial Use It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
7th May 2023
1

Open-LLMs - A list of LLMs for Commercial Use

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

7th May 2023
It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
8th Aug 2023
59

Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges

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

8th Aug 2023
A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour...
4th Sep 2026
1

FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Sep 2026
I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.me platform, has formalized a complete … Continue reading →
Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
1st Oct 2025
24

Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy

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

1st Oct 2025
A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
3rd Mar 2025
56

Best Before Dates by Bass

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

3rd Mar 2025
I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
5th Mar 2025
52

See Me at SXSW Next Week!

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

5th Mar 2025
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building agents somewhere. Everybody does it. Building...
3rd Nov 2025
1

Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres

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

3rd Nov 2025
It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building agents somewhere. Everybody does it. Building a good agent, however, brings back some of the historic challenges involving durable execution. Entirely unsurprisingly, a lot of people are now building durable...
Redis Quicklist: Do you even list? Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the...
19th Dec 2014
1

Redis Quicklist: Do you even list?

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

19th Dec 2014
Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the third and final major improvement to Redis Quicklist. Previously On Recap Before Quicklist, Redis Lists had two representations: ziplist stored small lists in a solid block of...
996 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The...
4th Sep 2025
1

996

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

4th Sep 2025
“Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s really doing ‘007’ now—midnight to midnight, seven days a week […] if you want to build a $10...
4th Mar 2024
Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
20th Oct 2023
160

Preceden’s Spam Problem

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

20th Oct 2023
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
9th Feb 2025
70

What is a quotient?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2025
Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean, because they have been taught a specific model for quotients in their classes, which is not the model that Lean uses. This post is an attempt to … Continue reading →
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
1

In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
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
1

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.
Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted...
3rd Jun 2025
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3rd Jun 2025
Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.
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
1

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
3rd Sep 2025
Turn the volume up. Today marked a completely new moment for New York City, and for America. There will be countless...
5th Nov 2025
1

Turn the volume up.

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

5th Nov 2025
Today marked a completely new moment for New York City, and for America. There will be countless attempts at analysis and reflection and what-does-it-all-mean in the days to come, along with an unimaginable number of hateful attacks. But what's worth reflecting on right now is...
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
40

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...
Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
20th Apr 2021
37

Blockchain explained simply

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

20th Apr 2021
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
25th Aug 2022
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The Jupyter+git problem is now solved

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

25th Aug 2022
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
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
64

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…
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
9th Nov 2023
83

The agent principal problem

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

9th Nov 2023
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
1st Jan 1970
1

No title

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

1st Jan 1970
Latent Powers A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay...
5th Sep 2026
0

Latent Powers

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

5th Sep 2026
A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, why not do something more interesting with them? They all work quite...
iff On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
4th Jan 2021
22

iff

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

4th Jan 2021
On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
Seeing Like A Network Dark Forests, Dense Networks
19th Jun 2024
132

Seeing Like A Network

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

19th Jun 2024
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
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
59

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...
AWS VPC: A Reintroduction (or, how to allocate 5 million IPs in 5 minutes) AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2...
24th Jan 2022
1
24th Jan 2022
AWS VPCs: A Reintroduction or, how to allocate 5 million private IPs in 17 regions, 10+ countries, 2 commands, 5 minutes. A Starting Do you know how many services AWS has these days? In [1]: import boto3 ...: ...: s = boto3.session.Session() ...:...
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
27th Nov 2022
1
27th Nov 2022
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
126

It is starting to get strange.

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

2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
The Overhang Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
3 weeks ago
-1

The Overhang

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

3 weeks ago
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
solving the jest.mock()+esmodules hoisting problem A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
6th Feb 2021
26

solving the jest.mock()+esmodules hoisting problem

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

6th Feb 2021
A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
17th Jan 2024
87

Evaluations are all we need

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

17th Jan 2024
On analysing talent in LLMs
a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing … glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on...
20th Jun 2023
67

a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing

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

20th Jun 2023
… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr: The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered...
Walter experiments in rlnvr
23rd Aug 2025
45

Walter

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

23rd Aug 2025
experiments in rlnvr
Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction .modal { display: none; position: fixed; z-index: 9999; padding-top: 50px; left: 0; top:...
1st Jul 2025
2

Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction

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

1st Jul 2025
.modal { display: none; position: fixed; z-index: 9999; padding-top: 50px; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; overflow: auto; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.9); } .modal-content { margin: auto; display: block; max-width: 90%; max-height:...
AI And The Ship of Theseus Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned...
5th Mar 2026
1

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...
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
7th Mar 2017
42

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...
The first post: why Jekyll? Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
2nd Dec 2015
20

The first post: why Jekyll?

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

2nd Dec 2015
Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
14th Dec 2024
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
19th Jan 2023
86

El sesgo político de ChatGPT

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

19th Jan 2023
A la izquierda del centro político
LLM councils show groupthink perils and problems of LLM peer review
15th Jun 2026
1

LLM councils show groupthink

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

15th Jun 2026
perils and problems of LLM peer review
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
25th May 2023
165

Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update

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

25th May 2023
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
I'm going back to school Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
2nd Nov 2016
1

I'm going back to school

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

2nd Nov 2016
Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
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
1

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.
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
7th Nov 2023
197

Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode

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

7th Nov 2023
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing...
20th Dec 2021
109

Nick Kolenda Reviews Preceden

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

20th Dec 2021
Nick Kolenda is an author, teacher, and consultant who specializes in the psychology of marketing and related topics like pricing optimization, sales psychology, and website behavior. He’s also happens to be a regular in a poker game I host each week. A few months back he...
Learning Deep Learning with Keras Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning...
30th Apr 2017
25

Learning Deep Learning with Keras

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

30th Apr 2017
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning with links to didactic materials.
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026) Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers...
2nd May 2026
1

Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)

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

2nd May 2026
Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers next! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Colbert v GWB; Wallaby milk; Jay Rosen's journalism precepts; Radical Media(TM); What is carried interest? TCP...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
44

Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

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

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing). A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
1st Mar 2023
58
1st Mar 2023
A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy) A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
11th Nov 2025
1

How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy)

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

11th Nov 2025
A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
one document, two hands the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
20th Jul 2026
2

one document, two hands

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

20th Jul 2026
the agent belongs beside you, not between you and the app
AI Skills and Job Market, Q3 2026 An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
12th Sep 2026
0

AI Skills and Job Market, Q3 2026

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

12th Sep 2026
An overview of the current state of the engineering market and the AI skills that are in demand
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
1

In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
28th Aug 2024
145

How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

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

28th Aug 2024
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
The Gentle Singularity We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital...
10th Jun 2025
1

The Gentle Singularity

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

10th Jun 2025
We are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots are not yet walking the streets, nor are most of us talking to AI all day. People...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline? An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
1st Jul 2025
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ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline?

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

1st Jul 2025
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
Epicycles All The Way Down “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
26th Nov 2025
1

Epicycles All The Way Down

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

26th Nov 2025
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
In the Iran war, it looks like AI helped with operations, not strategy A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
1st Apr 2026
1
1st Apr 2026
A hot take on how AI may have played out in the war so far
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
1st Jul 2023
95

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.
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
19th Apr 2023
23

How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster

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

19th Apr 2023
There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of people using tools like ChatGPT to draft Python scripts, Go code, and all sorts of other useful things. Okay, so how do I use ChatGPT effectively? How do I Use ChatGPT...
There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
9th Apr 2025
1

There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets

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

9th Apr 2025
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13th Feb 2017
1

Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API

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

13th Feb 2017
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
Project Covalence Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
16th Jun 2020
44

Project Covalence

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

16th Jun 2020
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.  Science remains the...
Fear and Loathing in 7nm How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
60

Fear and Loathing in 7nm

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

18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
4th Aug 2019
1
4th Aug 2019
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
Pessimism in News Media Headlines In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
1st Jun 2023
113

Pessimism in News Media Headlines

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

1st Jun 2023
In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
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
1
24th Dec 2023
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
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
1
22nd Mar 2026
How did unintelligent, hallucinating AI progress from nearly useless to writing entire, complex applications and at what cost?
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
1
27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
The Real Way to Make Agentic Development Faster (It Isn’t Tokenmaxxing) Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
7th May 2026
1

The Real Way to Make Agentic Development Faster (It Isn’t Tokenmaxxing)

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

7th May 2026
Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
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AGI is not a milestone

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

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it...
2nd Mar 2026
1

Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

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

2nd Mar 2026
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: AOL email tax; Ebook readers' bill of rights; Sanders media blackout. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
124

New paper: AI agents that matter

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

3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1) Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
2nd Oct 2024
99

How to build an AI search engine (Part 1)

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

2nd Oct 2024
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
3rd Jan 2024
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The AI research tool that saves me hours every week

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

3rd Jan 2024
And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
How HLS Works Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The...
5th Jul 2024
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How HLS Works

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

5th Jul 2024
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The major aim of this feature is to support short (90 second max) video streaming at a quality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for us to provide for free. In order to stay within these...
Let’s Destroy The European Union! Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet...
9th Dec 2025
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Let’s Destroy The European Union!

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

9th Dec 2025
Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be abolished. He sadly is hardly the first wealthy American to share their opinions on European politics lately. I’m...
Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab,...
25th Feb 2025
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Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Feb 2025
Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices by having small on-device models (such as...
The Political Preferences of LLMs Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
2nd Feb 2024
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The Political Preferences of LLMs

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

2nd Feb 2024
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
4th Jun 2025
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How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI

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

4th Jun 2025
A very serious guide to artificial ignorance.
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
3rd Aug 2024
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We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

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

3rd Aug 2024
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
3rd Feb 2025
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o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA

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

3rd Feb 2025
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
2nd Aug 2024
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How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems

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

2nd Aug 2024
And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
Stargate - The 100 billion dollar Hail Mary for AGI Notes From the Desk: No. 31 - 2024.04.13
13th Apr 2024
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Stargate - The 100 billion dollar Hail Mary for AGI

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

13th Apr 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 31 - 2024.04.13
The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for...
12th Dec 2024
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The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era

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

12th Dec 2024
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
25th Feb 2021
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Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions

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

25th Feb 2021
Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
21st May 2026
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Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

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

21st May 2026
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
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...
Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (aka LLM-as-Judge) Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
18th Aug 2024
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18th Aug 2024
Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
23rd Apr 2024
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It’s Time to Build

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

23rd Apr 2024
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
13th Sep 2024
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Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail?

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

13th Sep 2024
Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
A brief response to a reader regarding prejudice denoting terms in Swedish media Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a...
11th Dec 2024
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11th Dec 2024
Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a reader comments about it, several things to note:
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
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A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read

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

17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
The US Should Run Faster on AI Instead of Trying to Trip Up China Export Controls and Trump's New AI Action Plan
26th Jul 2025
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The US Should Run Faster on AI Instead of Trying to Trip Up China

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

26th Jul 2025
Export Controls and Trump's New AI Action Plan
AI Story 2 AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago. The initial story prompt...
12th Oct 2025
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AI Story 2

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

12th Oct 2025
AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago. The initial story prompt was just: I woke up in the cold. My Patronus stood in the corner. Since the incident, he doesn’t move. His eyes are vacant, but moving. Wherever I am in the world, his eyes follow...
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...
I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech...
16th Feb 2026
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I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child

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

16th Feb 2026
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
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
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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...
Security Rules for Email Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard...
5th Apr 2016
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Security Rules for Email

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

5th Apr 2016
Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard in the mail. Much like a postcard in the mail1, email is not guaranteed to be private or secure in any capacity. email is not secure You must assume: Anybody can read anything you...
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
27th Dec 2017
1

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.
You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server! I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can...
1st Aug 2025
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You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server!

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

1st Aug 2025
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can have access to all of my curated feeds that I use to keep up with AI resources, news and jobs. This is also a private space for paid subscribers to chat, learn, network, and get...
Aligning Anthropic The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
2nd Mar 2026
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Aligning Anthropic

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

2nd Mar 2026
The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
NVIDIA Internship (2017) Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
15th Dec 2017
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NVIDIA Internship (2017)

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

15th Dec 2017
Notes on my internship at NVIDIA Redmond.
10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025 A look back at the year in AI news.
4th Jan 2026
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10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025

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

4th Jan 2026
A look back at the year in AI news.
never waste a token durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with...
15th Jun 2026
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never waste a token

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

15th Jun 2026
durable inference: resumable streams, crash recovery, and why the LLM request shouldn't die with your process.
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
10th Apr 2022
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Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems

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

10th Apr 2022
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025 From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for...
9th Feb 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025

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

9th Feb 2025
From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for document workflows, PDF processing, table understanding, SQL generation, and web automation
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
10th Apr 2023
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Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review

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

10th Apr 2023
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
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
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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...
Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps...
29th Jul 2020
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Building multiplayer games with socket.io and HTML5 Canvas

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

29th Jul 2020
I’ve been building crappy hobby games on and off for my whole coding life. One of my very first apps was a Visual Basic game - I was in…
Exploring Chess Positions and Counts Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number...
11th Feb 2026
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Exploring Chess Positions and Counts

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

11th Feb 2026
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than the “Shannon number” 10120 side-note from Shanon’s remarkable 1950 paper “Programming a...
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one...
1st Feb 2025
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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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

1st Feb 2025
IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one place since the filming of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” Not a single entrant made it across the finish line. Some didn’t make it out of the parking lot. So it’s all the more...
Let's talk about AI power costs It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
6th Aug 2024
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Let's talk about AI power costs

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

6th Aug 2024
It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
12th Mar 2023
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How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines

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

12th Mar 2023
Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
DepolarizingGPT A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
28th Nov 2023
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DepolarizingGPT

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

28th Nov 2023
A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
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...
AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular...
17th May 2022
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AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual

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

17th May 2022
In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
Headless software How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
20th Apr 2026
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Headless software

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

20th Apr 2026
How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
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 { ...
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
3rd May 2024
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Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources

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

3rd May 2024
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
Vision models New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models...
2nd Feb 2024
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Vision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Feb 2024
New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models support higher resolution images, improved text recognition and logical reasoning.
Emergent Mind finally went viral Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
16th Aug 2023
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Emergent Mind finally went viral

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

16th Aug 2023
Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
OpenAI, in deep trouble Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
1st Mar 2025
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OpenAI, in deep trouble

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

1st Mar 2025
Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
Users prefer wrong answers when written by AI Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
26th May 2024
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Users prefer wrong answers when written by AI

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

26th May 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI With a review of last year’s predictions
1st Jan 2025
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25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI

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

1st Jan 2025
With a review of last year’s predictions
Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not only is it getting...
30th Jul 2025
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Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work

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

30th Jul 2025
Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not only is it getting millions of downloads, but these tools are also gaining features that help streamline workflows. As you know, I got very excited about agentic coding in May, and I’ve tried many of...
Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025) Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you...
28th Jul 2025
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Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025)

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

28th Jul 2025
Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you rely on the most. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Used books economics; Adbusters sf; Branson vs virgins; Shark knife; Protesters must pledge souls to...
2024 Year in Review 2024 was the year I realised the downside to selling your company, working 3 years in-purchaser, and...
6th Jan 2025
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2024 Year in Review

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

6th Jan 2025
2024 was the year I realised the downside to selling your company, working 3 years in-purchaser, and then taking a year out to heal. You can get totally out of the groove. I launched stuff, I pivoted, I embraced new tech; but I also saw where the landscape of software...
In defense of screen time Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
29th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

29th Oct 2024
Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
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...
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...
11th Dec 2024
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Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Dec 2024
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 →
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
3rd May 2022
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Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence

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

3rd May 2022
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
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
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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.
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
25th Sep 2020
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PG and Jessica

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

25th Sep 2020
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...
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
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers) This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
1st Apr 2025
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How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)

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

1st Apr 2025
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
31st May 2023
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Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?

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

31st May 2023
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not? Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
28th Oct 2018
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GovTech Conference - Data Science and Agile—Can or Not?

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

28th Oct 2018
Yes, Agile can be adopted by data science teams. Moderating a panel at GovTech STACK.
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
9th Jan 2025
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Review of AI in 2024 and Updates

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

9th Jan 2025
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.
25th Aug 2018
1

OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) Review and Tips

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

25th Aug 2018
OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.
The Dot and the Swarm Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
a week ago
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The Dot and the Swarm

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

a week ago
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
After PyData Warsaw 2017 Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw...
15th Nov 2017
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After PyData Warsaw 2017

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

15th Nov 2017
Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw Conference 2017 (19-20 Oct 2017).
AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally...
10th May 2022
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AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com

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

10th May 2022
Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally building add-on software called progs (Revolution, Meridian), publishing code libraries called bas files (Alpha32), and later co-founding AOL-Files.com (where I went by the hacker...
Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
11th Oct 2024
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Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI

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

11th Oct 2024
Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
15th Apr 2025
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AI as Normal Technology

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

15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015) Redis Architecture Diagram Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the...
2nd Apr 2015
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Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015)

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

2nd Apr 2015
Redis Architecture Diagram Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the diagram(s) below. The pictures on this page and all associated materials are released free to the public for inclusion in any other materials/presentations/teachings/learnings. The...
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.
It’s Been a Minute I’ve been meaning to write about *all of this*.
3 weeks ago
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It’s Been a Minute

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

3 weeks ago
I’ve been meaning to write about *all of this*.
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
5th Dec 2024
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Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)

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

5th Dec 2024
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
13th Sep 2024
Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
9th Dec 2016
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Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products

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

9th Dec 2016
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
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
Do you know about the best database ever? I Made The World’s Best In-Memory Database But Forgot to Tell Anybody What Now? I’ve spent the past...
22nd Jun 2020
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Do you know about the best database ever?

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

22nd Jun 2020
I Made The World’s Best In-Memory Database But Forgot to Tell Anybody What Now? I’ve spent the past half decade creating the world’s best in-memory database, but I forgot to tell many people about it. Whoops. Now here’s all the details of the best database ever. TOC Top...
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
a week ago
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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

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

a week ago
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
9th Apr 2023
1

Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan

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

9th Apr 2023
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
7th Nov 2023
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Ask Stupid Questions

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

7th Nov 2023
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
2nd Jan 2024
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Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder

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

2nd Jan 2024
At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders'...
8th Sep 2024
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Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks

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

8th Sep 2024
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
the appeal what does the creator owe you
7th Sep 2026
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the appeal

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

7th Sep 2026
what does the creator owe you
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.
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...
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...
24th Feb 2025
How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
20th Jun 2025
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How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue

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

20th Jun 2025
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
6th Feb 2024
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I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI

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

6th Feb 2024
And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
19th Aug 2024
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spatial compute

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

19th Aug 2024
Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
10th Jul 2023
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On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning

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

10th Jul 2023
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
Eighteen pitfalls to beware of in AI journalism A checklist for avoiding hype
30th Sep 2022
Anthropic is making a huge mistake For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try...
14th Jan 2026
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Anthropic is making a huge mistake

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

14th Jan 2026
For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try other models today, but now that’s all I’m going to be doing. I’m sure they have a massive influx of users on Claude Code since Opus 4.5, I’ve been recommending it to everyone. But...
AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard...
11th Jul 2026
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AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence

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

11th Jul 2026
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar complexity to a cell phone, and it’s really...
Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
13th Nov 2025
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13th Nov 2025
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
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From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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

4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
AI Hallucinations: Proven Unsolvable | Why They Exist | Why They Incentivize Nefarious AI Uses The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
17th Jun 2025
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17th Jun 2025
The numerous reasons that AI hallucinations can never be solved including a formal proof.
Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly...
5th Sep 2024
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Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build

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

5th Sep 2024
This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly uncomfortable. What to make? The post Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build first appeared on Woody Hayday.
My Notes From Spark+AI Summit 2020 (Application-Specific Talks) Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
5th Jul 2020
1
5th Jul 2020
Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the...
1st Feb 2026
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LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon

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

1st Feb 2026
As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the cathode-ray tube’s glow. The English band Pink Floyd blared through the speakers of my mom’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, beckoning us to the dark side of the moon. The far side of...
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I...
11th Dec 2023
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC

from Dylan Huang Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Dec 2023
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on gRPC to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
9th Oct 2022
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Maple Diffusion

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

9th Oct 2022
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
Idea Generation The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The...
28th May 2020
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Idea Generation

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

28th May 2020
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea almost always doesn’t work. Having ideas is among the most important qualities for...
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
1
21st Apr 2026
A new Heterodox Academy report documents a substantial decline in DEI statement requirements across faculty hiring between 2024 and 2025
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