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fast.ai
There’s no such thing as not a math person Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
What are logprobs? Something to do with logs and probabilities.
a year ago
Matt Mazur
The Kenya Quick Answer Goes Viral, Again On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Thursday evening Chris Ingraham, a journalist with 100k followers on Twitter, shared a screenshot of the now-famous “african country that starts with k” Google Quick Answer, which quickly went viral, garnering over 82k likes and 3 million views as of the time of this writing...
One Useful Thing
I hope you weren't getting too comfortable. I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just got access to the new Bing AI. My initial thoughts are that our assumptions about the limits of AI were wrong.
AI Snake Oil
Artists can now opt out of generative AI. It’s not enough. Opting out is the latest example of generative AI developers externalizing costs.
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Deep Learning, Deep Scandal Some of the big tech giants may be playing fast and loose with AI
5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 089: Adobe MAX October 18, 2024.
10 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On Writing #1 This isn’t primarily about how I write.
6 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever…
Made by Ollin
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
over a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Symposium: On Building God
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 076: Grand theft audio July 19, 2024.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
10 months ago
Society's Backend:...
If You Understand Bananas, You Can Understand Machine Learning A simplified high-level overview of primary machine learning algorithms for anyone to understand
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Are open foundation models actually more risky than closed ones? A policy brief on open foundation models
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Help me improve Society's Backend! Two simple questions to help make Society's Backend better
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman’s attitude problem What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their creations are used”?
Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Biases of GPT-4 Things are not always what they seem
over a year ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
Agent-Responsive Design: Rethinking the web for an agentic future How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
9 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 034: Meta Connect September 29, 2023
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
Daniel Miessler
Companies as Alaskan Fishing Boats What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest Catch. So you have this tiny crew of total badasses. Everyone is a superhero at their particular role because the crew needs to stay extremely small to protect profits. The...
Marcus on AI
Sora still appears to have trouble with physics Exactly as I warned in February
9 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
10 months ago
Sam Altman
Tech Workers' Values For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For good and bad, technology has become a central force in all our lives. As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights....
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 353
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 063: Llama 3 April 19, 2024.
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Games in which you walk (and get immersed) SOMA, The Path, Life Is Strange, The Stanley Parable, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Amnesia: The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
SOMA, The Path, Life Is Strange, The Stanley Parable, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dear Esther, Firewatch
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
11 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research? Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments with Advanced Sealing Systems This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing deployment of collaborative robots (cobots) in outdoor environments presents significant engineering challenges, requiring highly advanced sealing solutions to ensure reliability and...
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman’s very good TED Interview.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Prawdopodobieństwo a informacja
over a year ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
11 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Saving the world with AI and government grants Listen now | A conversation with Helena Merk, founder and CEO of Streamline Climate.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 062: Data is the new oil April 12, 2024.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Boxing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025,...
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: A weekend's worth of links (30 Aug 2025) Today's links A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend. Object permanence: Floppy...
a week ago
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a week ago
Today's links A weekend's worth of links: Short hits for a long weekend. Object permanence: Floppy disk CD sleeves; Rules for radicals; California's preventable fires; Muppet Haunted Mansion; Wells Fargo steals rescued Nazi loot; Texas abortion release. Upcoming appearances:...
Don't Worry About...
Economics Roundup #5 While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch up on the queue and look at various economics-related things.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025) Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you...
a month ago
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a month ago
Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you rely on the most. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Used books economics; Adbusters sf; Branson vs virgins; Shark knife; Protesters must pledge souls to...
Artificial Ignorance
States are racing ahead of Congress to regulate deepfakes Several states just banned deepfakes in political ads and porn.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 075: Levels of AGI July 12, 2024.
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels --> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
--> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have noticed that computers can now automatically learn to play ATARI games (from raw game pixels!), they are beating world champions at Go, simulated quadrupeds are learning to run and leap,...
One Useful Thing
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
6 months ago