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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:...
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
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.
24th Feb 2025
Updates: Preceden Trends, Training Help Scout’s New Analytics Engineer, Don’t Look Up, and Ray... Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to...
28th Jan 2022
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28th Jan 2022
Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to Preceden. Prior to that the annual plans did not renew automatically which was an intentional (but bad) choice I had made because most users did not user Preceden for more than a...
New Painting: Roger Waters Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
1st Nov 2025
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New Painting: Roger Waters

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

1st Nov 2025
Painted Roger Waters in the middle of a furious tirade against the evils of the empire.
Spring Cleaning 2026 Day 6: kvestigate (investigate k*) Kvestigate - Investigate Kubernetes Clusters Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage...
6th Jun 2026
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6th Jun 2026
Kvestigate - Investigate Kubernetes Clusters Ever find yourself given access to a piece of garbage kubernetes cluster and you need need to audit it to figure out what the hell is going on? Say hello to kvestigate your kubernetes investigation and auditing toolkit with the ability...
The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models,...
1st Dec 2025
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The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data

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

1st Dec 2025
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); in just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which...
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.
39 Lessons on Building ML Systems, Scaling, Execution, and More ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference...
3rd Nov 2024
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3rd Nov 2024
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
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
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…
AI And The Ship of Theseus Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned...
5th Mar 2026
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AI And The Ship of Theseus

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

5th Mar 2026
Because code gets cheaper and cheaper to write, this includes re-implementations. I mentioned recently that I had an AI port one of my libraries to another language and it ended up choosing a different design for that implementation. In many ways, the functionality was the...
How to leverage long form content with AI Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
5th Jun 2024
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How to leverage long form content with AI

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

5th Jun 2024
Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
Building News Agents for Daily News Recaps with MCP, Q, and tmux Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
4th May 2025
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4th May 2025
Learning to automate simple agentic workflows with Amazon Q CLI, Anthropic MCP, and tmux.
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...
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...
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
5th Nov 2021
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Helion

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

5th Nov 2021
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,...
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.
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
23rd Sep 2024
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Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers

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

23rd Sep 2024
Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
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...
Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6 Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its...
12th Jan 2025
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Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6

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

12th Jan 2025
Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its various elements. We first learn about the different kinds of ‘documents’ that we can mimic with our prompts, then think about how to pick which pieces of context to include, and...
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
12th Sep 2024
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
ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get...
19th May 2020
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ADHD tech stack: auto time tracking

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

19th May 2020
A few tips on apps for automatic time tracking, especially for people with ADHD: how to get immediate feedback: for actions, not guilt.
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
11th Nov 2017
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Software 2.0

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

11th Nov 2017
First Month at the Jules Team 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
1st Feb 2026
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First Month at the Jules Team

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

1st Feb 2026
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations,...
10th Aug 2023
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I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives

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

10th Aug 2023
Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations, sometimes even devolving into vulgar opinions rather than objective facts.
21st Feb 2011
The Unexpected New Threat to Video Creators Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the...
7th Oct 2025
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The Unexpected New Threat to Video Creators

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

7th Oct 2025
Much of the conversation about video and content over the last few weeks has been about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmels's show and the fact that we're seeing a shockingly rapid move towards the type of censorious media control typical of most authoritarian regimes. But there's a...
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
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...
ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
10th Sep 2025
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ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement

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

10th Sep 2025
The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels --> This is a long overdue blog post on Reinforcement Learning (RL). RL is hot! You may have...
31st May 2016
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Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels

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

31st May 2016
--> 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,...
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
6th Apr 2022
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DALL•E 2

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

6th Apr 2022
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
30th Jun 2025
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.
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...
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.
The Destruction of Meaning by AI Notes From the Desk: No. 49 - 2025.09.11
12th Sep 2025
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The Destruction of Meaning by AI

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

12th Sep 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 49 - 2025.09.11
12th Apr 2026
What President Biden's AI executive order actually means I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
1st Nov 2023
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What President Biden's AI executive order actually means

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

1st Nov 2023
I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
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.
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
20th Jan 2025
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Think of a number.

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2025
My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
1st Aug 2024
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On speaking to AI

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

1st Aug 2024
Voice changes a lot of things
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
6th Jan 2017
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king - man + woman is queen; but why?

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

6th Jan 2017
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
New Results of State-of-the-art LLMs on 4 Political Orientation Tests One model appears closer to the center than the rest
22nd Apr 2025
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New Results of State-of-the-art LLMs on 4 Political Orientation Tests

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

22nd Apr 2025
One model appears closer to the center than the rest
You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server! I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can...
1st Aug 2025
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You're invited to the ML for SWEs Discord server!

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

1st Aug 2025
I’ve set up a Discord server for paid machine learning for software engineer subscribers, so you can have access to all of my curated feeds that I use to keep up with AI resources, news and jobs. This is also a private space for paid subscribers to chat, learn, network, and get...
Training an LLM-RecSys Hybrid for Steerable Recs with Semantic IDs An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
14th Sep 2025
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14th Sep 2025
An LLM that can converse in English & item IDs, and make recommendations w/o retrieval or tools.
Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
6th Feb 2026
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Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening

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

6th Feb 2026
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
Productivity I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me...
10th Apr 2018
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Productivity

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

10th Apr 2018
I think I am at least somewhat more productive than average, and people sometimes ask me for productivity tips.  So I decided to just write them all down in one place. Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic.  A...
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:
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX...
29th Apr 2024
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX

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

29th Apr 2024
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate... Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
19th May 2025
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19th May 2025
Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
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…
AI Is This Correct? AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
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AI Is This Correct?

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

15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct? One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output. The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
2nd Aug 2023
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AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models?

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

2nd Aug 2023
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
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....
Better Models: Worse Tools A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is...
4th Jul 2026
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Better Models: Worse Tools

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

4th Jul 2026
A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array. And not Haiku or some small model: Opus 4.8. The edit itself is...
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...
Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not only is it getting...
30th Jul 2025
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Agentic Coding Things That Didn’t Work

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

30th Jul 2025
Using Claude Code and other agentic coding tools has become all the rage. Not only is it getting millions of downloads, but these tools are also gaining features that help streamline workflows. As you know, I got very excited about agentic coding in May, and I’ve tried many of...
A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement? The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
a week ago
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A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

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

a week ago
The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of...
20th Jul 2026
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20th Jul 2026
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexamples. Unit distance Two months ago today (20th May 2026), … Continue reading →
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
6th Nov 2022
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6th Nov 2022
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to worse outcomes. This is true almost everywhere. We will name...
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:
AI Automating: The Worksheet Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's...
18th Jun 2025
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AI Automating: The Worksheet

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

18th Jun 2025
Not-so-secretly I've been building an automated business at ProfitSwarm.ai. It's going well. It's going awfully. It's challenging. The post AI Automating: The Worksheet first appeared on Woody Hayday.
- Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope....
10th Apr 2026
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from Sam Altman [alt+shift+b] in AI

10th Apr 2026
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no...
Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for...
20th Aug 2026
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20th Aug 2026
For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for my Mac, but without having to use an Apple keyboard. (I generally like their keyboards, but my daily driver keyboard these days is a big clicky mechanical beast.) I’d gone down...
1st Feb 2026
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
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...
Epicycles All The Way Down “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
26th Nov 2025
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Epicycles All The Way Down

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

26th Nov 2025
“All models are wrong, but some are useful.” — George E.
GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
13th May 2024
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GPT-4o

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

13th May 2024
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
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
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...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
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3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career

from 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
We have always been at war with Eastasia They take you and make you I’ve been watching this. Tech got inflitrated in such a way that you...
5th Oct 2025
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We have always been at war with Eastasia

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

5th Oct 2025
They take you and make you I’ve been watching this. Tech got inflitrated in such a way that you forgot that it was ever different, but watch that linked movie. It was different, and you don’t even really remember. A perfect capture by power. I also read Manna this weekend. It...
Building a Strong Baseline Recommender in PyTorch, on a Laptop Building a baseline recsys based on data scraped off Amazon. Warning - Lots of charts! (Part 1 of...
6th Jan 2020
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6th Jan 2020
Building a baseline recsys based on data scraped off Amazon. Warning - Lots of charts! (Part 1 of 2).
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
9th Feb 2025
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Three Observations

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

9th Feb 2025
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
Using Safetensors with Flax I'm porting my PyTorch LLM code to JAX, using Flax as the neural network layer. For various reasons...
4th Jun 2026
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Using Safetensors with Flax

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

4th Jun 2026
I'm porting my PyTorch LLM code to JAX, using Flax as the neural network layer. For various reasons I wanted to use Safetensors to store checkpoints of the model. It took a little while to get it working; here's the trick I learned. If you look at the Safetensors docs, you'll...
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...
AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular...
17th May 2022
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AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual

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

17th May 2022
In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
Giving your AI a Job Interview As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
12th Nov 2025
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Giving your AI a Job Interview

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

12th Nov 2025
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
5th Nov 2025
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Models Are Not Exponentially Growing in Size

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

5th Nov 2025
Stating the Obvious (for AI Experts) That's Non-Obvious To Everyone Else
iff On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
4th Jan 2021
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from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jan 2021
On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
5th Nov 2023
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5th Nov 2023
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
Exploring Chess Positions and Counts Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number...
11th Feb 2026
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Exploring Chess Positions and Counts

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

11th Feb 2026
Introduction In our earlier article “How Many Chess Games are Possible?” we derived that the number of typical short chess games is around 10151. This turned out to be much larger than the “Shannon number” 10120 side-note from Shanon’s remarkable 1950 paper “Programming a...
Push Notifications: What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
24th Dec 2023
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24th Dec 2023
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
Vision models New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models...
2nd Feb 2024
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Vision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

2nd Feb 2024
New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models support higher resolution images, improved text recognition and logical reasoning.
Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
10th Apr 2022
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Counterfactual Evaluation for Recommendation Systems

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

10th Apr 2022
Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring.
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text? 'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
5th Mar 2024
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Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?

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

5th Mar 2024
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
26th Aug 2021
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26th Aug 2021
Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
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Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You

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

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
Project Covalence Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
16th Jun 2020
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Project Covalence

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

16th Jun 2020
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.  Science remains the...
Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
4th Sep 2022
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...
Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are...
4th Feb 2025
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Dataset Engineering: The Art and Science of Data Preparation

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

4th Feb 2025
Finally back on track and reading the next chapter of Chip Huyen’s book, ‘AI Engineering’. Here are my notes on the chapter. Overview and Core Philosophy “Data will be mostly just toil, tears and sweat.” This is how we start the chapter :) This candid assessment frames dataset...
What exactly does word2vec learn? What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding...
1st Sep 2025
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What exactly does word2vec learn?

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

1st Sep 2025
What exactly does word2vec learn, and how? Answering this question amounts to understanding representation learning in a minimal yet interesting language modeling task. Despite the fact that word2vec is a well-known precursor to modern language models, for many years, researchers...
World Models Can Change Everything If they work, AI can finally conquer the real world… but that’s a big “if”
6th May 2026
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World Models Can Change Everything

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

6th May 2026
If they work, AI can finally conquer the real world… but that’s a big “if”
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
31st May 2023
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Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?

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

31st May 2023
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
RL without TD learning In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative”...
1st Nov 2025
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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...
Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026) Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers...
2nd May 2026
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Pluralistic: The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus (02 May 2026)

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

2nd May 2026
Today's links The prehistory of the Democratic Nuremberg Caucus: Do bounties for ICE whistleblowers next! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Colbert v GWB; Wallaby milk; Jay Rosen's journalism precepts; Radical Media(TM); What is carried interest? TCP...
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AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason

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

7th Oct 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
29th Mar 2022
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My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories

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

29th Mar 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
The Age of AI Flattery How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
5th Aug 2025
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The Age of AI Flattery

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

5th Aug 2025
How Wrong Incentives Can Undermine Honest AI-Human Dialogue
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
Evaluate LLM Apps in Go As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a bigger part of our apps, making sure they work reliably...
25th Feb 2025
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Evaluate LLM Apps in Go

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

25th Feb 2025
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a bigger part of our apps, making sure they work reliably brings some challenges. Unlike traditional code with predictable outputs, LLMs are indeterministic and can output downright weird stuff. That’s where good evaluation tools come in! In...
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?
OpenJarvis: a local-first personal AI is now available to run with Ollama OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run...
28th May 2026
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28th May 2026
OpenJarvis v1.0 is now available: an open-source framework for building personal AI agents that run on your own hardware, with Ollama support built-in.
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.
Turn the volume up. Today marked a completely new moment for New York City, and for America. There will be countless...
5th Nov 2025
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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...
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; ...
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
5th Dec 2024
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Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)

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

5th Dec 2024
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
I'm going back to school Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
2nd Nov 2016
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I'm going back to school

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

2nd Nov 2016
Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
Let’s Talk About AI Compute What really matters and why AI computing is exactly the same as all other large-scale computing
9th Oct 2023
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Let’s Talk About AI Compute

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

9th Oct 2023
What really matters and why AI computing is exactly the same as all other large-scale computing
Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026) Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it...
2nd Mar 2026
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Pluralistic: No one wants to read your AI slop (02 Mar 2026)

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

2nd Mar 2026
Today's links No one wants to read your AI slop: If you must do this, for god's sake, do it privately. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: AOL email tax; Ebook readers' bill of rights; Sanders media blackout. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent...
'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.
Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a...
3rd Jun 2025
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Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored

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

3rd Jun 2025
Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature Communications (a...
a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing … glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on...
20th Jun 2023
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a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing

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

20th Jun 2023
… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr: The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered...
14th Dec 2024
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
16th Aug 2023
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Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck

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

16th Aug 2023
You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
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...
3rd Sep 2025
My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
6th Sep 2022
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My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey

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

6th Sep 2022
Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
Mechanisms for Effective Technical Teams End of week debrief, weekly business review, monthly learning sessions, and quarter review.
5th Feb 2023
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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.
Helion Needs You Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q >...
13th Jul 2022
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Helion Needs You

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

13th Jul 2022
Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to design a mass-producible fusion generator. The goals of the company are quite ambitious—clean, continuous energy for 1...
The Reckoning So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial...
2nd Apr 2026
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The Reckoning

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

2nd Apr 2026
So go ask your Chomsky 10 years ago, when I started comma and discovered the Professional Managerial Class, I used to talk about the reckoning. It was a nebulous concept, but it mostly involved the abrupt fall from grace of these people at the hands of machines. It’s kind of...
Let's talk about AI power costs It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
6th Aug 2024
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Let's talk about AI power costs

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

6th Aug 2024
It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
13th Feb 2022
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Red Flags to Look Out for When Joining a Data Team

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

13th Feb 2022
What to consider for in terms of data, roadmap, role, manager, tooling, etc.
An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple...
1st Mar 2026
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An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep

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

1st Mar 2026
An Expert Review of A Fire Upon The Deep Over the years I’ve read A Fire Upon The Deep a couple times so here’s some stuff about it. I often see people get basic outright stated plot details wrong about it, so maybe this can be a cheat sheet if you believe it all. This page is in...
AI is Overturning the Military World Order Operation Spiderweb, Implications, and Impacts on Deep Tech Investing
4th Jun 2025
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AI is Overturning the Military World Order

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

4th Jun 2025
Operation Spiderweb, Implications, and Impacts on Deep Tech Investing
Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1) I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things...
15th Apr 2024
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Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1)

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

15th Apr 2024
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things have been going very well. The system scales and handles millions of users without breaking a sweat, the ScyllaDB-backed Data Plane service sits at under 5% DB load in the most...
Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. ...
17th Oct 2025
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Building an Agent That Leverages Throwaway Code

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

17th Oct 2025
In August I wrote about my experiments with replacing MCP (Model Context Protocol) with code. In the time since I utilized that idea for exploring non-coding agents at Earendil. And I’m not alone! In the meantime, multiple people have explored this space and I felt it was...
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI With a review of last year’s predictions
1st Jan 2025
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25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI

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

1st Jan 2025
With a review of last year’s predictions
LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the...
1st Feb 2026
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LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon

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

1st Feb 2026
As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the cathode-ray tube’s glow. The English band Pink Floyd blared through the speakers of my mom’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, beckoning us to the dark side of the moon. The far side of...
Is a CS Degree Still Worth It? The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
6th Nov 2025
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Is a CS Degree Still Worth It?

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

6th Nov 2025
The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
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...
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...
LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024 Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open...
2nd Jan 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024

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

2nd Jan 2025
Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open multimodal vision models from Meta, an open-source Perplexity alternative, and easy LLM fine-tuning
1st Mar 2024
143

AI Roundup 056: Data deals

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

1st Mar 2024
March 1, 2024.
US Digital Currency I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is...
10th May 2018
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US Digital Currency

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

10th May 2018
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).  There was possibly a time when governments could have totally stopped it, but it feels like that’s in the rearview mirror. ...
AI #149: 3 The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
1st Jan 2026
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AI #149: 3

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

1st Jan 2026
The Rationalist Project was our last best hope that we might not try to build it.
Headless software How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
20th Apr 2026
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Headless software

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

20th Apr 2026
How do we design software when users use it primarily through agents?
Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly...
5th Sep 2024
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Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build

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

5th Sep 2024
This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly uncomfortable. What to make? The post Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
1st Mar 2025
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff

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

1st Mar 2025
With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
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
How HLS Works Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The...
5th Jul 2024
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How HLS Works

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

5th Jul 2024
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky. The major aim of this feature is to support short (90 second max) video streaming at a quality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for us to provide for free. In order to stay within these...
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...
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...
2nd May 2025
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project...
3rd Mar 2025
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A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus

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

3rd Mar 2025
Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project out of Ron Fearing’s lab at UC Berkeley. The palm-sized spring-loaded jumping robot has gone from barely being able to chain together a few open-loop jumps to mastering landings,...
How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few...
7th Jul 2024
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How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

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

7th Jul 2024
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
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.
996 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The...
4th Sep 2025
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996

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

4th Sep 2025
“Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s really doing ‘007’ now—midnight to midnight, seven days a week […] if you want to build a $10...
Putting my JAX-trained models on the Hugging Face Hub I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because Transformers...
3rd Sep 2026
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Putting my JAX-trained models on the Hugging Face Hub

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

3rd Sep 2026
I hadn't uploaded the models that I trained using JAX to the Hugging Face Hub because Transformers has been PyTorch-only since version 5 (though they say they're working to add interoperability with JAX in the future), so it would have been tough to get them working natively with...
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
The Overhang Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
3 weeks ago
-1

The Overhang

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

3 weeks ago
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most...
8th Mar 2026
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The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment

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

8th Mar 2026
Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most attention across the industry was the $600 ($500 if you’re in education!) MacBook Neo, the brightly-colored low-end laptop that they launched to great fanfare. The conventional wisdom...
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
7th Dec 2023
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The Mystical Q

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

7th Dec 2023
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
Let’s Destroy The European Union! Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet...
9th Dec 2025
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Let’s Destroy The European Union!

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

9th Dec 2025
Elon Musk is not happy with the EU fining his X platform and is currently on a tweet rampage complaining about it. Among other things, he wants the whole EU to be abolished. He sadly is hardly the first wealthy American to share their opinions on European politics lately. I’m...
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 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
Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already...
11th Dec 2024
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Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Dec 2024
So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing. Continue reading →
Vibe Governing using llms to set policy
7th Apr 2025
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Vibe Governing

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

7th Apr 2025
using llms to set policy
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32e -- Interventions: the learning rate I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on...
10th Mar 2026
1
10th Mar 2026
I'm still working on improving the test loss for a from-scratch GPT-2 small base model, trained on code based on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In my training code, I have this code to create the optimiser: optimizer =...
Excess mortality during COVID pandemic, % of population vaccinated and Stringency Index of... Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence...
22nd Nov 2022
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22nd Nov 2022
Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence drift, herd immunity, etc.
What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal...
25th Oct 2015
93

What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie

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

25th Oct 2015
Convolutional Neural Networks are great: they recognize things, places and people in your personal photos, signs, people and lights in self-driving cars, crops, forests and traffic in aerial imagery, various anomalies in medical images and all kinds of other useful things. But...
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
25th Aug 2022
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The Jupyter+git problem is now solved

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

25th Aug 2022
Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You're Twelve Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
27th Oct 2025
1

You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You're Twelve

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

27th Oct 2025
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth? DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific...
12th May 2025
1

Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth?

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

12th May 2025
DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific leaders, journalists, and even Nobel laureates predicted that sequencing the human genome would revolutionize how we treat disease. And while the advances in DNA sequencing that have...
INSEAD Lunchtime Talks - How Lazada uses Data And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
25th Apr 2018
1

INSEAD Lunchtime Talks - How Lazada uses Data

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

25th Apr 2018
And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
25th Feb 2021
21

Don’t fight, flight (or freeze) your body and emotions

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

25th Feb 2021
Procrastination is a flight response, depression is freeze, anxious attachment is fight.
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
121

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...
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
1

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...
Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders'...
8th Sep 2024
1

Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks

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

8th Sep 2024
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
A Tale of Two Technologies: Why Large Language Models are the Future and the Metaverse Isn't In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the...
26th Mar 2023
21
26th Mar 2023
In the digital landscape of recent years, two major technologies have vied for the spotlight: the Metaverse and Large Language Models (LLMs). Though the Metaverse, a virtual reality-based universe, initially garnered significant attention and expectations, it ultimately failed to...
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
19th Jan 2023
86

El sesgo político de ChatGPT

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

19th Jan 2023
A la izquierda del centro político
Ten Years of AI in Review From 2015 to 2025
1st Jan 2026
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
127

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
Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox
16th Jul 2025
55

Could AI slow science?

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

16th Jul 2025
Confronting the production-progress paradox
Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's...
30th Mar 2026
1
30th Mar 2026
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.
After PyData Warsaw 2017 Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw...
15th Nov 2017
21

After PyData Warsaw 2017

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

15th Nov 2017
Links to talk and analysis of participants demographics and sign-up dynamics. From PyData Warsaw Conference 2017 (19-20 Oct 2017).
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
99

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...
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into...
10th Jan 2026
1

Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

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

10th Jan 2026
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements...
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