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Solving the decision...
let's talk about a task tracking system for ai agents AI agents need tracking software, and we need to build it.
7 months ago
One Useful Thing
Automating creativity There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative.
over a year ago
fast.ai
nbdev+Quarto: A new secret weapon for productivity Our favorite tool for software engineering productivity–nbdev, now re-written with Quarto
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes) Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
over a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI Winters and The Third Wave of Today A sneak preview from my upcoming book "What You Need To Know About AI"
7 months ago
AI Snake Oil
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
over a year ago
Sam Altman
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
Sam Altman
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
One Useful Thing
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
12 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The hidden side of Apple Intelligence More than just another keynote recap.
a year ago
Strange Loop Canon
Predicting AI I revisit past predictions
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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.
Armin Ronacher's...
I'm Leaving Sentry Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years ago I took a leap into the unknown, today I take another. After a decade of working on Sentry I move on to start something new. Sentry has been more than just a job, it has been a...
Society's Backend:...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions Share this with your friends and family.
7 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Quantum Superposition
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
LearnGPT is for sale. Contact me if you’re interested. On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On Friday I announced that I intended to shut down LearnGPT to focus on Preceden, my main business. I didn’t plan to sell LearnGPT because I didn’t think a month-old, pre-revenue project like this would be able to sell for enough to warrant going through a sale. It’s been three...
AI Snake Oil
How Transparent Are Foundation Model Developers? Introducing the Foundation Model Transparency Index
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 029: Hug all the faces August 25, 2023
over a year ago
AI as Normal...
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50 responses. Here are some randomly-chosen…
IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Win Vector LLC
ODSC West 2024 I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I had a great time at ODSC West 2024. And it was really wonderful to get to talk with Sheamus McGovern again! Thank you ODSC for putting together a great conference and being wonderful hosts at ODSCWest. I had a great time, and was very energized by all of the […]
Weighty Thoughts
Why we need AI as a society We’re aging too fast (AKA my entire AI/robotics investment thesis)
a year 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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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.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 048: The Robot Constitution January 5, 2024.
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality It brings me no joy to say that
7 months ago
Matt Mazur
Sharing small, incremental updates with users I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway...
a year ago
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a year ago
I use a service called Headway to keep Preceden users informed about updates to the product. Headway provides a widget I have installed on Preceden to let users know when there have been updates. Users will see a bell with a count of unread items (which Headway keeps track of in...
Don't Worry About...
On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
7 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down to specific regional accents. And with just a few seconds of audio, AI can now clone someone’s specific voice. AI agents will make calls on our behalf, conversing with others in natural language....
Society's Backend:...
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
8 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
Walter experiments in rlnvr
2 weeks ago
Matt Mazur
Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
Marcus on AI
An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts The parade of made-up numbers never stops
10 months ago
Frank’s Ramblings
Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds (HNSW) (Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
(Note: A version of this post has been cross-published to the Zilliz blog) In a previous blog, we took a look at scalar quantization and product quantization - two indexing strategies which are used to reduce the overall size of the database without reducing the scope of a...
AI as Normal...
Is AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims
8 months ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Stock buybacks are stock swindles (06 Sep 2025) Today's links Stock buybacks are stock swindles: Raising the value of a stock without raising the...
5 days ago
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5 days ago
Today's links Stock buybacks are stock swindles: Raising the value of a stock without raising the value of the company. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Marshmellow longtermism; Physicists are not epidemiologists; CO asphyxiation accounts for half of...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 028: Sunak's Safety Summit August 18, 2023
over a year ago
Machine Learning for...
Help me improve Society's Backend! Two simple questions to help make Society's Backend better
4 months ago
One Useful Thing
Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful Here are five strategies and prompts that work for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.
Solving the decision...
Odeon Plus I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
over a year ago
fast.ai
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
7 months ago
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) Today's links AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned...
a month ago
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a month ago
Today's links AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned to be statistically indistinguishable from correct code. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: A universal remote for killing people; Win10 spies out of the...
Strange Loop Canon
Soul nullius in verba
a year ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
The good times in tech are over For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were…
Xena
Lean in 2024 A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at...
a year ago
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a year ago
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a … Continue reading →
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 106: Grok 3 February 21, 2024.
6 months ago
Machine Learning for...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
5 months ago