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When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
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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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 064: Big Tech's small models April 26, 2024.
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
Don't Worry About...
On Deliberative Alignment Not too long ago, OpenAI presented a paper on their new strategy of Deliberative Alignment.
7 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
a year ago
AI Tidbits: AI...
The rise of autonomous agents Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The intern and the coach A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it...
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A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it found that BCG consultants who used GPT-4 were up to 43% more effective at tasks vs. employees who didn’t.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
The valley of engineering despair I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very...
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I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very (perhaps unreasonably) confident that I will ship it successfully. Even so, in every single one of these projects there is a period - perhaps a day, or even a week - where it feels...
Weighty Thoughts
The AI Executive Order AKA: “We’ll do something about it later”
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Using AI Right Now: A Quick Guide Which AIs to use, and how to use them
2 months ago
Don't Worry About...
DeepSeek: Lemon, It's Wednesday It’s been another *checks notes* two days, so it’s time for all the latest DeepSeek news.
7 months ago
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
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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...
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs #2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
6 months ago
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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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.
Society's Backend:...
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
AI embraces its product arc fuzzy processors are entering mass production
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
AI Snake Oil
Three Ideas for Regulating Generative AI Policy input to the federal government from a Stanford-Princeton team
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2025) Big ideas from the 2025 World's Fair.
3 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Predicting AI I revisit past predictions
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
IEEE Spectrum
Just How Many Robots Can One Person Control at Once? This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these missions is still required. Which means...
Society's Backend:...
Open AI beats OpenAI, Understand Scaling Laws, Commerce in the Age of AI Agents, and More Society's Backend Reading List 01-24-2025
7 months ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python .wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ...
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.wrap { max-width: 900px; } p { font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300; overflow-wrap: break-word; /* allow wrapping of very very long strings, like txids */ } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fafafa; font-size: 13px; /*...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 060: Another CEO gone March 29, 2024.
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 038: Preparedness October 27, 2023.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mobile Robot Upgrades Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
10 months ago
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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. ROSCon 2024: 21–23 October 2024,...
Marcus on AI
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others And they knew perfectly well what they were doing
5 months ago
One Useful Thing
Thinking Like an AI A little intuition can help
10 months ago
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
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over a year ago
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
The Gradient
An Introduction to the Problems of AI Consciousness Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI...
a year ago
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a year ago
Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI consciousness are now taking center stage, marking a significant shift since the current AI resurgence began over a decade ago.
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
seangoedecke.com RSS...
From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
a year ago
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If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
Society's Backend:...
AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24] Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank...
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Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank you for supporting Society's Backend! Don't forget to also follow me on X. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
Weighty Thoughts
Open AI's Valuation and a Favor to Ask A guest post and an in-person panel
a year ago
Win Vector LLC
How About Pi ~ 31/32? At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 =...
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At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 = 3.1 is a worse approximation of pi than 22/7 ~ 3.142857.
AI Snake Oil
Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy? An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The Chatbot Trap Why AI products really need some better UX.
10 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
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...
7 months ago
Sam Altman
2017 YC Annual Letter Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual...
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Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.  We...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
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Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
Sam Altman
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
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I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion I’ve seen. David and Chris are two of the most impressive founders and builders (in the sense of building fusion machines, in addition to building companies!) I have ever met,...
Marcus on AI
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI With a review of last year’s predictions
8 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 132: The B-word August 22, 2025.
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history? In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’...
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In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico asked “15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators”, including me, “to provide some explosive potential...
Strange Loop Canon
No, LLMs are not "scheming"
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
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
10 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Scott Kuffer of Nucleus Security | SPONSORED INTERVIEW SERIES In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO...
over a year ago
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In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO of Nucleus Security. I was already excited by this vendor just based on the research I did to allow them to be a sponsor, but the conversation with them really made me think they’re...