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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...
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
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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...
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
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Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences

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

9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
Solving Thundering Herds with Request Coalescing in Go Caches are a wonderful way to make your most frequent operations cheaper. If you’ve got a resource...
28th Sep 2023
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Solving Thundering Herds with Request Coalescing in Go

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

28th Sep 2023
Caches are a wonderful way to make your most frequent operations cheaper. If you’ve got a resource somewhere on disk (or a network hop away) that is accessed often, changes infrequently, and fits in memory, you’ve got an excellent candidate for a cache! Caching Celebrity...
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.
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*.
I Told You So My quote from 2019 “I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very...
12th Feb 2026
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I Told You So

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

12th Feb 2026
My quote from 2019 “I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very close. Once we reach the singularity, If we have the same motivations we have now — primarily power over people — things are going to be horrific” – George Hotz How is everyone...
Modeling Uncertainty For Better Outcomes Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC...
8th Aug 2025
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Modeling Uncertainty For Better Outcomes

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

8th Aug 2025
Recently here at Win Vector LLC we have been delivering good client outcomes using the Stan MCMC sampler. It has allowed us to infer deep business factors, instead of being limited surface KPIs (key performance indicators). Modeling uncertainty requires stronger optimizers to...
Signs and Portents Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
6th Jan 2024
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Signs and Portents

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

6th Jan 2024
Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
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 Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
Acapella Extraction with ConvNets A working prototype
18th Apr 2017
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...
How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
10th Jul 2025
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How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

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

10th Jul 2025
A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
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
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...
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
8th Feb 2024
Data Science and Agile (Frameworks for Effectiveness) Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2).
2nd Feb 2019
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Data Science and Agile (Frameworks for Effectiveness)

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

2nd Feb 2019
Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2).
Speeding up Postgres Queries by 200x with Analyze I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a...
20th May 2023
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Speeding up Postgres Queries by 200x with Analyze

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

20th May 2023
I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network. Part of this process involves archiving every post on a social network, running Computer Vision models on every image posted to the network, and running sentiment...
'AI' just means LLMs now There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now...
2nd Aug 2025
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'AI' just means LLMs now

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

2nd Aug 2025
There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now there's only one.
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...
HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on...
1st Sep 2026
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HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions

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

1st Sep 2026
Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.
AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon Is Google back?
a week ago
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AI #188: Gemini Dot Argon

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

a week ago
Is Google back?
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
2nd Feb 2025
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
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How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy)

from AI 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
4th Nov 2025
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OpenAI: The Battle of the Board: Ilya's Testimony

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

4th Nov 2025
New Things Have Come To Light
!!con or doing inclusivity well Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
14th Aug 2017
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!!con or doing inclusivity well

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

14th Aug 2017
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
31st Mar 2024
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Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work

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

31st Mar 2024
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
2nd Feb 2023
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2nd Feb 2023
Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small...
a week ago
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Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)

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

a week ago
Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencils...
LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025 Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat...
2nd Mar 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025

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

2nd Mar 2025
Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat with multiple LLMs, and tips to improve the performance of GPT-4.5 and o3
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
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.
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add...
20th Dec 2018
1

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.
The Codex App Has Upended My Daily Workflow I haven't opened my IDE in days. I'm not sure I miss it.
2nd Feb 2026
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The Codex App Has Upended My Daily Workflow

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

2nd Feb 2026
I haven't opened my IDE in days. I'm not sure I miss it.
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
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
15th Oct 2024
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Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations

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

15th Oct 2024
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
How to Solve it With Code course now available An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
15th Oct 2025
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How to Solve it With Code course now available

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

15th Oct 2025
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks New York tries to take care of its own
a week ago
The Real Way to Make Agentic Development Faster (It Isn’t Tokenmaxxing) Dispelling the myth that more tokens = better productivity
7th May 2026
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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
Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
15th Sep 2018
25

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!
What To Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
8th Jan 2023
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What To Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help

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

8th Jan 2023
Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
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.
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...
How to get started in Data Science Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
25th Jun 2017
1

How to get started in Data Science

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

25th Jun 2017
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
Dyson CameraJet So when I saw Dyson had a $500 toothbrush, I was excited. Finally, advertising that targets me! I...
a week ago
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Dyson CameraJet

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

a week ago
So when I saw Dyson had a $500 toothbrush, I was excited. Finally, advertising that targets me! I love brushing my teeth, and I have more money than I know how to spend. Not because I’m particularly rich, but because most stuff doesn’t really appeal to me. Like if I owned a...
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

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

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
solving the jest.mock()+esmodules hoisting problem A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
6th Feb 2021
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solving the jest.mock()+esmodules hoisting problem

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

6th Feb 2021
A proposal to use jest.mock() with esmodules without babel shenanigans
A quick(ish) Chinchilla check I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models, training them both on 40 tokens per parameter...
7th Aug 2026
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A quick(ish) Chinchilla check

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

7th Aug 2026
I recently overtrained a couple of GPT-2 style models, training them both on 40 tokens per parameter rather than the 20 per parameter that is generally regarded as "Chinchilla-optimal". The normal heuristic is that instead of doing that, you should scale up the number of tokens...
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
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it...
3rd Dec 2025
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Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids

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

3rd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom causes stress, disengagement, and poor well-being in adults. So why do we glorify it for children?
Mechanisms for Effective Technical Teams End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
5th Feb 2023
1

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.
My coding philosophy Sharing my philosophy of software development and my hopes for the future of our craft.
13th Jan 2026
1

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.
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
3rd Jan 2024
178

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.
Why Doesn’t My Model Work? Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
24th Feb 2024
87

Why Doesn’t My Model Work?

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

24th Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
4th Oct 2024
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FAQ about the book and our writing process

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

4th Oct 2024
What's in the book and how we wrote it
LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025 Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better...
4th May 2025
1

LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025

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

4th May 2025
Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better agent for coding tasks, Karpathy's LLM tips, and financial hallucination research
RL without TD learning In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative”...
1st Nov 2025
2

RL without TD learning

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

1st Nov 2025
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to...
What I Did Not Learn About Writing In School Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
2nd Aug 2020
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What I Did Not Learn About Writing In School

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

2nd Aug 2020
Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
3rd Sep 2025
lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools...
23rd Jul 2018
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lematt is Matt's Let's Encrypt Automation

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

23rd Jul 2018
Matt’s Let’s Encrypt Automation Welcome to Infrastructure Week July 2018! New articles and tools every day this week. day 1: lematt day 2: netmatt day 3: email 2018 day 4: web 2018 day 5: local nets I made a kickass certificate automation platform called lematt and this page is...
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
12th Feb 2024
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Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

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

12th Feb 2024
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } .vimeo-player { position: relative; width: 444px; height: 444px; ...
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...
21st Feb 2011
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look...
1st Aug 2026
1

Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)

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

1st Aug 2026
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; David Byrne x WinXP; Furries...
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
Can LLMs learn from a single example? We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
4th Sep 2023
70

Can LLMs learn from a single example?

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

4th Sep 2023
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
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
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
2nd Jan 2024
178

Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option

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

2nd Jan 2024
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
Tool support Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to...
25th Jul 2024
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Tool support

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Jul 2024
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world.
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
21st Jun 2021
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A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

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

21st Jun 2021
.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; /*...
14th Dec 2024
Reinforcement Learning for Recommendations and Search Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item.
5th Sep 2021
1

Reinforcement Learning for Recommendations and Search

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

5th Sep 2021
Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item.
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...
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
9th Dec 2024
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15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to

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

9th Dec 2024
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
Security Rules for Email Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard...
5th Apr 2016
1

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...
Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
2nd Mar 2025
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Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes

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

2nd Mar 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
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
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...
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
17th Aug 2026
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My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

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

17th Aug 2026
Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
How to train the best embedding model in the world one PhD later, I'm giving my secrets away for free
9th Mar 2026
2

How to train the best embedding model in the world

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

9th Mar 2026
one PhD later, I'm giving my secrets away for free
OpenAI’s amazing — but vastly oversold — new model Astra Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
2nd Aug 2026
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Eight or nine misconceptions about Astra. See if you can spot the biggest fallacy.
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...
Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent...
4th Feb 2016
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Autistic traits, science and the nerd stereotype

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

4th Feb 2016
There is a stereotype of scientists and engineers being aloof and exhibiting autistic traits. Recent research shows that STEM students are indeed more autistic than the general population.
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield Annotated slides from a recent talk
4th Oct 2023
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Evaluating LLMs is a minefield

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

4th Oct 2023
Annotated slides from a recent talk
Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
10th Jan 2025
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Prophecies of the Flood

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

10th Jan 2025
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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
Singing Style Transfer Initial Experiments
22nd Mar 2017
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Singing Style Transfer

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

22nd Mar 2017
Initial Experiments
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...
Acing the design interview If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work...
1st Jan 2021
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Acing the design interview

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

1st Jan 2021
If you haven’t designed an actual system before, design interviews can be tough. Knowing how to work with a particular web service or…
The ‘Great Awokening' Preceded Trump. It May Continue Beyond Him Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse...
8th Sep 2021
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The ‘Great Awokening' Preceded Trump. It May Continue Beyond Him

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

8th Sep 2021
Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They’ve simultaneously become
14th Oct 2025
A Language For Agents Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like...
9th Feb 2026
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A Language For Agents

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

9th Feb 2026
Last year I first started thinking about what the future of programming languages might look like now that agentic engineering is a growing thing. Initially I felt that the enormous corpus of pre-existing code would cement existing languages in place but now I’m starting to think...
The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
4 weeks ago
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The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents

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

4 weeks ago
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
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?”
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020 Reflecting on the Past Year
13th Jan 2021
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What I got Right or Wrong in 2020

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

13th Jan 2021
Reflecting on the Past Year
Time to Take a Stand It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President...
28th Jan 2017
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Time to Take a Stand

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

28th Jan 2017
It is time for tech companies to start speaking up about some of the actions taken by President Trump’s administration. There are many actions from his first week that are objectionable.  In repeatedly invoking unsubstantiated conspiracy theories (like the 3 million...
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13th Feb 2017
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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.
Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land...
7th Sep 2026
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Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life

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

7th Sep 2026
Wendell Berry died last week at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he farmed his land using traditional techniques and wrote with ... Read more The post Wendell Berry and the Promise of the Deep Life appeared first on Cal Newport.
Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie...
30th Sep 2022
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Co chciałbym wiedzieć wcześniej o ADHD

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

30th Sep 2022
Wystarczy co jakiś czas wrzucić mem o ADHD i dostaję multum pytań, jakbym był jakimś ekspertem. Nie jestem — ale i tak staram się…
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.
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...
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
30th Jun 2025
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...
Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research? Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
2nd Mar 2023
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2nd Mar 2023
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
2nd Jan 2025
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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

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

2nd Jan 2025
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
The United Slate I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also...
12th Jul 2017
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The United Slate

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

12th Jul 2017
I would like to find and support a slate of candidates for the 2018 California elections, and also to find someone to run a ballot initiative focused on affordable housing in the state.  A team of aligned people has a chance to make a real change. I believe in creating prosperity...
A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium,...
23rd Dec 2021
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A Gentle Introduction to Vector Databases

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

23rd Dec 2021
Update: An earlier version of this post was cross-published to the Zilliz learning center, Medium, and DZone. If you have any feedback, feel free to connect with me on Twitter or Linkedin. If you enjoyed this post and want to learn a bit more about vector databases and embeddings...
Speaking things into existence Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
11th Mar 2025
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Speaking things into existence

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

11th Mar 2025
Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
5th Feb 2025
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Native Speakers

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

5th Feb 2025
How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
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...
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
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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...
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 { ...
Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
22nd Dec 2025
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Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats

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

22nd Dec 2025
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
20th Oct 2023
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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...
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 34b -- from bigrams to GPT-2, one component at a time (in JAX) This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I...
8th Jul 2026
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8th Jul 2026
This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I started reading Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", and worked through it carefully. Being who I am, despite trying to apply a strict "no side...
Ultrasound Makes Artificial Muscles Bubble to Life A soft gel filled with tiny bubbles might not look like much. But when pulsed with ultrasound waves,...
29th Oct 2025
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Ultrasound Makes Artificial Muscles Bubble to Life

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

29th Oct 2025
A soft gel filled with tiny bubbles might not look like much. But when pulsed with ultrasound waves, the material behaves like natural muscle: contracting, gripping, and lifting with surprising strength. The discovery, reported this week in Nature, introduces a new kind of...
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
27th Nov 2022
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27th Nov 2022
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
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
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes) Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
21st Jan 2023
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Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes)

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

21st Jan 2023
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
How to Work and Compound with AI Context as infra, taste as config, verification for autonomy, scale via delegation, closing the...
3rd May 2026
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How to Work and Compound with AI

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

3rd May 2026
Context as infra, taste as config, verification for autonomy, scale via delegation, closing the loop.
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark! Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving...
20th Jul 2024
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Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

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

20th Jul 2024
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer...
Replacing my MacBook I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7)...
28th Nov 2025
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Replacing my MacBook

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

28th Nov 2025
I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7) which went well, so I’ve been trying to do the same with my laptop. For phones, this was easier because the Samsung hardware is already better. Sadly, there’s no better laptop...
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker...
20th Sep 2024
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Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

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

20th Sep 2024
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons On digging AI shaped holes
7th May 2025
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Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons

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

7th May 2025
On digging AI shaped holes
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color:...
27th Mar 2021
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Short Story on AI: Forward Pass

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

27th Mar 2021
p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color: #eee; } The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of...
2nd Mar 2020
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests

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

2nd Mar 2020
On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of Python).
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.
2024 Year in Review At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
10th Jan 2025
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2024 Year in Review

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

10th Jan 2025
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
20th Apr 2021
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Blockchain explained simply

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

20th Apr 2021
A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
How I’m Reflecting on 2020 and Planning for 2021 Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
6th Dec 2020
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How I’m Reflecting on 2020 and Planning for 2021

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

6th Dec 2020
Time to clear the cache, evaluate existing processes, and start new threads.
10th Apr 2025
What I Love about Scrum for Data Science Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why.
7th Jun 2020
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What I Love about Scrum for Data Science

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

7th Jun 2020
Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why.
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
Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
3rd Sep 2021
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Learning incident response with problem sets

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

3rd Sep 2021
It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
Redis Quicklist - From a More Civilized Age Adventures in Encodings [Short attention span? Jump to graphs.] Redis is a data structure...
18th Nov 2014
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Redis Quicklist - From a More Civilized Age

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

18th Nov 2014
Adventures in Encodings [Short attention span? Jump to graphs.] Redis is a data structure server. One of the data structures it servers is a doubly linked list. The Redis lists have two representations: regular and and ziplist. Regular linked lists are CS 101 lists with each node...
A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why? What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
3rd May 2020
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A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why?

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

3rd May 2020
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
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...
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
5th Mar 2024
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A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming

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

5th Mar 2024
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
24th Feb 2025
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...
Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its...
15th Mar 2025
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Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs

from Alex Strick van Linschoten [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Mar 2025
I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its heart it’s an extension of what I worked on with my translation package tinbox. (The new project uses translated sources to bootstrap a knowledge database.) Building in an...
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest “This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
2nd Sep 2024
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Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest

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

2nd Sep 2024
“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
On AI Coding and Its Discontents Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described...
10th Aug 2026
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On AI Coding and Its Discontents

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

10th Aug 2026
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more The post On AI Coding and Its Discontents appeared first on Cal Newport.
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
9th Feb 2025
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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 →
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...
The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
20th Dec 2025
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The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients

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

20th Dec 2025
And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
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...
5th Jun 2026
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.
How LLMs work Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
26th Nov 2023
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How LLMs work

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

26th Nov 2023
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
Idle Thoughts On Programming and AI I've been thinking a lot lately about how coding is changing.
3rd Jul 2025
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Idle Thoughts On Programming and AI

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

3rd Jul 2025
I've been thinking a lot lately about how coding is changing.
我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
10th Aug 2025
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我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》

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

10th Aug 2025
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
15th Nov 2015
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CS183c Assignment #3

from Stories by Andrej Karpathy on Medium [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Nov 2015
3rd Jan 2025
Lay the cornerstone yourself As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful...
14th Jun 2026
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Lay the cornerstone yourself

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

14th Jun 2026
As starting projects becomes easier than ever, it's never been more important to pay careful attention to the foundations and not let the AI make all the decisions for you.
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4 "At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
31st May 2023
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Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4

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

31st May 2023
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
14th Apr 2023
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14th Apr 2023
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
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...
Jakub and Szymon AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for...
9th Sep 2025
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Jakub and Szymon

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

9th Sep 2025
AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted. This is as it should be, and is the story of human progress. But behind the blinking circle, nicely abstracted away, is the greatest story of human ingenuity I have ever seen....
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4 These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
1st May 2024
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Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4

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

1st May 2024
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
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.
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 Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part...
6th May 2024
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The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby

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

6th May 2024
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part 1 here. A microbiome is the community of microorganisms found living together in a given habitat. The microbiome of the human gut can contribute to development of autoimmune...
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics A Growing Threat The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
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Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics

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

2nd Apr 2024
A Growing Threat The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019 (“Antimicrobial Resistance” 2023). In the USA, AMR results annually in 8 million additional days spent in the hospital and over $20 billion in...
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...
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...
24th Nov 2024
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:
In Support Of Shitty Types You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. ...
4th Aug 2025
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In Support Of Shitty Types

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

4th Aug 2025
You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. One of the reasons I find them useful is that they enable autocomplete, which is generally a good feature. Having a well-integrated type system that makes sense and gives you...
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 28 -- training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from...
2nd Dec 2025
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2nd Dec 2025
Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", I wanted to try an experiment: is it possible to train a base model of my own, on my own hardware? The book shows you how to train your LLM, does a basic training run on...
Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
22nd Dec 2025
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Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats

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

22nd Dec 2025
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
My panel at Web Summit about how The Times newsroom uses AI Talking about how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times.
20th Feb 2025
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20th Feb 2025
Talking about how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times.
Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
4th Sep 2022
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry...
5th Jan 2026
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5th Jan 2026
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for...
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...
Let's Stay Human Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Aug 2026
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Let's Stay Human

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

1st Aug 2026
Reading by Tim Foley:
As an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don't Use Generative LLMs Often But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
5th May 2025
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5th May 2025
But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
29th Dec 2023
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Vision Transformers are Overrated

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

29th Dec 2023
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
The Strength of Being Misunderstood A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
1st Dec 2020
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The Strength of Being Misunderstood

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

1st Dec 2020
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
Choosing to Stay Human If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look...
26th May 2026
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Choosing to Stay Human

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

26th May 2026
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
7th Dec 2017
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The Merge

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

7th Dec 2017
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...
Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic...
2nd Dec 2025
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Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids

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

2nd Dec 2025
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic researchers have shown that boredom in the workplace can be just as damaging as burnout. But search for information about childhood boredom and you’ll find the opposite message:...
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.
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...
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
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
Towards Data Science - Author Spotlight with Eugene Yan My favourite project, how I write weekly and how you can start, and content I would like to see more...
2nd Jun 2021
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Towards Data Science - Author Spotlight with Eugene Yan

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

2nd Jun 2021
My favourite project, how I write weekly and how you can start, and content I would like to see more of.
AI Roundup 091: Search wars November 1, 2024.
1st Nov 2024
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AI Roundup 091: Search wars

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

1st Nov 2024
November 1, 2024.
Influencing without Authority for Data Scientists Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
4th Jul 2021
1

Influencing without Authority for Data Scientists

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

4th Jul 2021
Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is it Truthful and Accurate? Notes From the Desk: No. 52 - 2025.11.02
3rd Nov 2025
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
10th Sep 2023
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Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk

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

10th Sep 2023
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
Llama 3.2 Vision Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
6th Nov 2024
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Llama 3.2 Vision

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Nov 2024
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
Can We Run Data Centers in Space? An overview of the engineering reality of the moonshot and what's going on with energy consumption...
10th Jun 2026
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Can We Run Data Centers in Space?

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

10th Jun 2026
An overview of the engineering reality of the moonshot and what's going on with energy consumption on Earth
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...
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
10th Jun 2023
guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
14th Apr 2025
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guitars and javascript - the case for jank

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

14th Apr 2025
worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4 AI More Stories These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized...
25th Nov 2023
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AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4

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

25th Nov 2023
AI More Stories These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized to 4 bits (20 GB total quantized instead of 70 GB natural width). It feels almost better than GPT-4 at some tasks. Also considering it costs nothing to run this model locally, the...
Structured outputs Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a...
6th Dec 2024
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Structured outputs

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Dec 2024
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations...
24th Jul 2026
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Becoming Skilled at Making Documents

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

24th Jul 2026
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly...
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now What AI to use in late 2025
19th Oct 2025
I Built My Resume In Markdown Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
3rd Dec 2024
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I Built My Resume In Markdown

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

3rd Dec 2024
Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
20th Jan 2022
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The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers

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

20th Jan 2022
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has documented a pronounced increase in the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in American news media content. Some have referred to this shift in journalistic discourse and related...
Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
1st Dec 2025
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Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available

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

1st Dec 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
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.
1st Jul 2024
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 →
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2nd Feb 2025
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Full Stack AI Agents

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

2nd Feb 2025
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
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...
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us “The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
1

5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

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

11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.” I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025) Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
1st Sep 2025
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Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)

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

1st Sep 2025
Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We don't know why you don't want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been....
My first 100 days as Data Science Lead How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
25th Sep 2017
1

My first 100 days as Data Science Lead

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

25th Sep 2017
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
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
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1st Mar 2023
A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
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…
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.
OLX Prod Tech 2019 Keynote - Asia's Tech Giants & SuperApps Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
3rd Oct 2019
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3rd Oct 2019
Keynote on how Asia's tech giants scale and their SuperApp strategy.
Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026) Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this:...
2nd Feb 2026
1

Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026)

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

2nd Feb 2026
Today's links Stock swindles: A buyback is not just a dividend by another name. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Acme License-Plate Maker; IPV4 delenda est; Mandatory gun-ownership; Sukey; Ross and Carrie x LRH; Criti-hype. Upcoming appearances: Where...
VC Office Hours Talk to James Wang, author of Weighty Thoughts and General Partner of Creative Ventures
5th Feb 2024
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VC Office Hours

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

5th Feb 2024
Talk to James Wang, author of Weighty Thoughts and General Partner of Creative Ventures
Make Authenticity Great Again Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
2nd Aug 2025
1

Make Authenticity Great Again

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

2nd Aug 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
let the code do the talking (why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
13th Mar 2026
1

let the code do the talking

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

13th Mar 2026
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
How to Match LLM Patterns to Problems Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
13th Aug 2023
1

How to Match LLM Patterns to Problems

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

13th Aug 2023
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
IEEE President’s Note: Engineering a Modern Renaissance Consider a powerful parallel between the advancements made during the Renaissance and the...
1st Mar 2026
2

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,...
i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive”...
6th Feb 2022
1

i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

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

6th Feb 2022
Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive” thing treating you? perhaps, first understand certain kinds of dangerous ambition never grow again, ’cause killers linger evermore. depending on when this finds you, maybe we have...
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
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Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time

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

3rd Apr 2024
That’s what makes it worthwhile
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
13th Sep 2024
115

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
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record...
26th Jun 2023
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26th Jun 2023
A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record of innovation. The mechanization of agriculture, steam engines, electricity, modern medicine, computers, and the internet—these technologies radically changed the world. Still, the...
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...
Headless software How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
20th Apr 2026
1

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?
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
2nd Nov 2024
72

8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia

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

2nd Nov 2024
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
7th Feb 2021
1

DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes

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

7th Feb 2021
Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
19th Jan 2025
41

Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents

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

19th Jan 2025
How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
3rd Jan 2021
1

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.
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
1

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...
Autoencoders and Diffusers: A Brief Comparison A quick overview of variational and denoising autoencoders and comparing them to diffusers.
11th Dec 2022
1

Autoencoders and Diffusers: A Brief Comparison

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

11th Dec 2022
A quick overview of variational and denoising autoencoders and comparing them to diffusers.
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good. Turning models into products runs into five challenges
19th Aug 2024
9

AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.

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

19th Aug 2024
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
47

3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career

from Society's Backend: 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
drop that meet link just keep talking
17th Mar 2025
52

drop that meet link

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

17th Mar 2025
just keep talking
Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity. p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind...
14th Nov 2015
103

Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.

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

14th Nov 2015
p { text-align: justify; } The idea of writing a collection of short stories has been on my mind for a while. This post is my first ever half-serious attempt at a story, and what better way to kick things off than with a story on AI and what that might look like if you...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
My Notes From Spark+AI Summit 2020 (Application-Specific Talks) Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
5th Jul 2020
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5th Jul 2020
Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
29th Jul 2022
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29th Jul 2022
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
12th Jan 2025
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Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

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

12th Jan 2025
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
22nd Feb 2023
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People keep anthropomorphizing AI. Here’s why

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

22nd Feb 2023
Companies and journalists both contribute to the confusion
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
3rd Mar 2025
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On GPT-4.5

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

3rd Mar 2025
It’s happening.
Stephen Clark Seward My eulogy for Dad
19th Jun 2024
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...
Big Data & Analytics Summit - Data Science Challenges @ Lazada Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
21st Jun 2018
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21st Jun 2018
Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
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...
How to Write Design Docs for Machine Learning Systems Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
7th Mar 2021
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How to Write Design Docs for Machine Learning Systems

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

7th Mar 2021
Pointers to think through your methodology and implementation, and the review process.
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
6th Dec 2023
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The age of access

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

6th Dec 2023
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
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
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4th Aug 2019
OMSCS CS6440 (Intro to Health Informatics) - A primer on key tech and standards in healthtech.
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
Ollama's new app Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
30th Jul 2025
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Ollama's new app

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Jul 2025
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
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
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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
Automating starting Lambda Labs instances I've been trying to get an 8x A100 instance on Lambda Labs to do a training run for my LLM from...
2nd Apr 2026
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Automating starting Lambda Labs instances

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

2nd Apr 2026
I've been trying to get an 8x A100 instance on Lambda Labs to do a training run for my LLM from scratch series, but they're really busy at the moment, and it's rare to see anything. Thanks to the wonders of agentic coding, I spent an hour today getting something up and running to...
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
The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit “The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe...
1st Jul 2026
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The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit

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

1st Jul 2026
“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an...
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
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Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition

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

6th Jun 2024
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
AI Indulgence at your Convenience Now Available: AI Indulgences Good news, everyone! I’m selling AI indulgences so you can avoid...
11th Jun 2023
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AI Indulgence at your Convenience

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

11th Jun 2023
Now Available: AI Indulgences Good news, everyone! I’m selling AI indulgences so you can avoid AI-based retaliation for your past and future transgressions. 2023-06 Update: Due to accelerating AI advances, the rate is increased from 0.01% per day to 0.05% per day starting June...
Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr...
6th Oct 2025
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Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and… Everything

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

6th Oct 2025
Most people catch many viruses in their lives– for example, over 90% of adults have Epstein-Barr virus, and adults catch the flu about once every 5 years. For a long time, catching frequent viruses was considered both inevitable and harmless. But it turns out that common,...
Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
13th Jan 2025
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Zvi's 2024 In Movies

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

13th Jan 2025
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
14th Mar 2022
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Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now

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

14th Mar 2022
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some...
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.
The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
2nd May 2021
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The Metagame of Applying Machine Learning

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

2nd May 2021
How to go from knowing machine learning to applying it at work to drive impact.
What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately? I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
18th Jul 2026
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18th Jul 2026
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
Project Pages 2.0 I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more...
7th Aug 2024
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Project Pages 2.0

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

7th Aug 2024
I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more than a portfolio maker, this is for all indie makers! Let's go. The post Project Pages 2.0 first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Striving for Greatness in All You Do Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
8th Jul 2026
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Striving for Greatness in All You Do

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

8th Jul 2026
Why Dr. Richard W. Hamming's short essay applies to engineering just as much as it does to research
Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data...
3rd Apr 2023
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Koala: A Dialogue Model for Academic Research

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

3rd Apr 2023
In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically.
11th May 2019
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11th May 2019
OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically.
OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6460 (Education Technology) - How to scale education widely through technology.
25th Aug 2018
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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 Case for More Ambition why AI researchers should dream bigger and publish less
9th Jun 2025
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The Case for More Ambition

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

9th Jun 2025
why AI researchers should dream bigger and publish less
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...
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
3rd Sep 2019
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OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) Review and Tips

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

3rd Sep 2019
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
13th Dec 2024
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
Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling .apr-fig { text-align: center; margin: 1.35em 0; line-height: 1.4; } .apr-fig--wide img { display:...
8th May 2026
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Adaptive Parallel Reasoning: The Next Paradigm in Efficient Inference Scaling

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

8th May 2026
.apr-fig { text-align: center; margin: 1.35em 0; line-height: 1.4; } .apr-fig--wide img { display: inline-block; width: 100%; max-width: 100%; height: auto; vertical-align: middle; } .apr-fig--wide-0-8 { max-width: 80%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } .apr-fig--tall img...
Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on...
4th Jul 2022
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Masks for COVID: Updating the evidence

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

4th Jul 2022
Notes taken whilst preparing a paper on mask efficacy from Nov to Jan 2022. My previous paper on this was written in April 2020 and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
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