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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
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.
Building a Strong Data Science Team Culture Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
12th May 2018
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Building a Strong Data Science Team Culture

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

12th May 2018
Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face ​announced​ that they had discovered an intrusion...
27th Jul 2026
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Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”?

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

27th Jul 2026
A couple of weeks ago, the AI company Hugging Face ​announced​ that they had discovered an intrusion into their production infrastructure. They didn’t know the ... Read more The post Did OpenAI’s New Model “Go Rogue”? appeared first on Cal Newport.
2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
3rd Jan 2021
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2021 Roadmap: Sharing, Helping, and Living More

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

3rd Jan 2021
A public roadmap to track and share my progress; nothing mission or work-related.
Against "Brain Damage" AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
7th Jul 2025
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Against "Brain Damage"

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

7th Jul 2025
AI can help, or hurt, our thinking
Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
31st Mar 2024
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Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work

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

31st Mar 2024
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
5th Apr 2020
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Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

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

5th Apr 2020
Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
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
Reverse Chess This not is just a mention of a puzzle. I’ve been enjoying the Ludwig TV series. And in episode 4...
4th Jul 2025
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Reverse Chess

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

4th Jul 2025
This not is just a mention of a puzzle. I’ve been enjoying the Ludwig TV series. And in episode 4 they introduce a puzzle of “retrograde analysis” or “reverse chess.” Frederic Friedel shared a great writeup on reverse chess on Chess News. And there is some discussion of the...
"Flow" in software development is overrated Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the...
5th Nov 2025
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"Flow" in software development is overrated

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

5th Nov 2025
Tackling the myth that "flow" is critical for software development. Decided not to go with the obvious "Flow considered harmful" title. You're welcome.
What is Codemode More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into...
a week ago
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What is Codemode

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

a week ago
More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote that Code Is All You Need and I wrote about that MCP needs code. With Pi 1.0 we now added...
Small Bet Models 12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I...
22nd Jul 2024
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Small Bet Models

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

22nd Jul 2024
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I thought I’d explore a range of models rather than relying on my ‘known’ entrepreneurial mode (Freemium SaaS/WordPress plugin based business). Below I’ve collected together the...
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
12th Apr 2026
drop that meet link just keep talking
17th Mar 2025
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drop that meet link

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

17th Mar 2025
just keep talking
New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary...
4th Feb 2026
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New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads

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

4th Feb 2026
This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as “Silicon Alley”, the catch-all term for our greater collective of creators and collaborators, founders and funders, inventors and investors,...
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us “The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
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5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

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

11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.” I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
Please Stop Talking About AGI Why I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
21st Feb 2025
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Please Stop Talking About AGI

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

21st Feb 2025
Why I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
Stargate - The 100 billion dollar Hail Mary for AGI Notes From the Desk: No. 31 - 2024.04.13
13th Apr 2024
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Stargate - The 100 billion dollar Hail Mary for AGI

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

13th Apr 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 31 - 2024.04.13
Ollama is now available as an official Docker image Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU...
5th Oct 2023
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Ollama is now available as an official Docker image

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Oct 2023
Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU acceleration on Linux.
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building agents somewhere. Everybody does it. Building...
3rd Nov 2025
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Absurd Workflows: Durable Execution With Just Postgres

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

3rd Nov 2025
It’s probably no surprise to you that we’re building agents somewhere. Everybody does it. Building a good agent, however, brings back some of the historic challenges involving durable execution. Entirely unsurprisingly, a lot of people are now building durable...
Have we been measuring AI political bias wrong? A better approach is possible Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the...
22nd Jun 2026
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22nd Jun 2026
Why ideological preferences and epistemic failure in LLMs are not the same thing — and why the difference matters
AI Roundup 091: Search wars November 1, 2024.
1st Nov 2024
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AI Roundup 091: Search wars

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

1st Nov 2024
November 1, 2024.
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
17th Jan 2024
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Evaluations are all we need

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

17th Jan 2024
On analysing talent in LLMs
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
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...
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).
Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
30th Jul 2023
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Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products

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

30th Jul 2023
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
What was Quartz? 2012–2025
7th Apr 2025
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
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On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models

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

27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
Writing good technical explanations Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and...
25th Dec 2020
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Writing good technical explanations

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

25th Dec 2020
Software engineering is mainly learning. There is a great demand for technical explanations, and many thousands of books, talks and blog…
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
2nd Jan 2024
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Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option

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

2nd Jan 2024
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy) A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
11th Nov 2025
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How to Build Your First Recommendation System (Easy)

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

11th Nov 2025
A step-by-step guide to training and serving a collaborative filtering model to serve users content
Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
12th Jan 2025
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Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

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

12th Jan 2025
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
2nd Mar 2023
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Power and Weirdness: How to Use Bing AI

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

2nd Mar 2023
Bing AI is a huge leap over ChatGPT, but you have to learn its quirks
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
10th Sep 2023
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Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk

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

10th Sep 2023
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to...
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of...
30th Nov 2020
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Load Balancing Stock Market Trades Using WebSockets

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

30th Nov 2020
Load Balancing Stock Market Trades From A WebSocket Feed Did you know you can get a live feed of every trade in the stock market? Unlike other market APIs which tell you “don’t request too many symbols” or set hard caps on what you can request, here you can just ask for the...
I don't care about your magic prompts There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any...
6th May 2025
49

I don't care about your magic prompts

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

6th May 2025
There’s a brand of tech influencer now that’s all about sharing the perfect prompt for any situation. The tweets in question typically read something like “this prompt will make you superhuman”, or “this prompt will be a 20k growth consultant in your pocket”. There’s a kernel of...
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.
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
(started posting on Medium instead) The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared....
20th Jan 2018
72

(started posting on Medium instead)

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

20th Jan 2018
The current state of this blog (with the last post 2 years ago) makes it look like I’ve disappeared. I’ve certainly become less active on blogs since I’ve joined Tesla, but whenever I do get a chance to post something I have recently been defaulting to doing it on Medium because...
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...
Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026) Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small...
a week ago
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Pluralistic: Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts (01 Oct 2026)

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

a week ago
Today's links Voting is to politics as shopping is to boycotts: The big P only matters if the small p is in play. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Gilberto Gil v WIPO; Censored Apple wifi hacker talk; Wells Fargo crime-spree started in 1998; Stencils...
Ten Years of AI in Review From 2015 to 2025
1st Jan 2026
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
5th Mar 2025
30

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
Looking to sell Emergent Mind I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
10th Jul 2023
110

Looking to sell Emergent Mind

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

10th Jul 2023
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:...
Trying to instrument an agentic app with Arize Phoenix and litellm It’s important to instrument your AI applications! I hope this can more or less be taken as given...
3rd Jun 2025
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Trying to instrument an agentic app with Arize Phoenix and litellm

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

3rd Jun 2025
It’s important to instrument your AI applications! I hope this can more or less be taken as given just as you’d expect a non-AI-infused app to capture logs. When you’re evaluating your LLM-powered system, you need to have capture the inputs and outputs both at an end-to-end level...
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
24

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…
5 Lessons I Learned from Writing Online (Guest post by Susan Shu) Susan shares 5 lessons she gained from writing online in public over the past year.
7th Nov 2021
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7th Nov 2021
Susan shares 5 lessons she gained from writing online in public over the past year.
Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it...
3rd Oct 2022
77

Stadia is Google’s Product Strategy

from Daniel Miessler [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Oct 2022
Few things in tech were more predictable than Stadia shutting down. Here’s what I wrote the week it came out: Here’s what I said about it in 2021. And here’s my analysis of why this keeps happening: How I Knew Stadia Would Fail The overall reason for this is UI/UX in my opinion,...
Speaking things into existence Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
11th Mar 2025
57

Speaking things into existence

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

11th Mar 2025
Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
Coming soon This is PromptArmor Blog.
14th Dec 2023
48

Coming soon

from PromptArmor Blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Dec 2023
This is PromptArmor Blog.
MVP: AI Relationship Bot Next week I’ll be fully launching my latest project: CoupleFlow, (project page here). CoupleFlow is...
6th Dec 2024
1

MVP: AI Relationship Bot

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

6th Dec 2024
Next week I’ll be fully launching my latest project: CoupleFlow, (project page here). CoupleFlow is a Telegram Bot which (privately and securely) sits in the Telegram chat between you and your partner. It anonymously observes your DMs and collects together AI based insights on...
Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
7th Apr 2024
1

Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind

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

7th Apr 2024
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
1st Feb 2026
Nobody Knows Anything on living with ignorance
16th Aug 2026
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Nobody Knows Anything

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

16th Aug 2026
on living with ignorance
24th Nov 2024
Formalizing Fermat workshop I’m organizing a workshop in London on July 6th to 10th (2026) whose goal is to work on my...
15th May 2026
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Formalizing Fermat workshop

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th May 2026
I’m organizing a workshop in London on July 6th to 10th (2026) whose goal is to work on my EPSRC-funded project formalizing Fermat’s Last theorem in Lean. The initial aim of the project was to reduce FLT to theorems known … Continue reading →
Obsidian-Copilot: An Assistant for Writing & Reflecting Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
11th Jun 2023
1

Obsidian-Copilot: An Assistant for Writing & Reflecting

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

11th Jun 2023
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
DATAx - A Production ML system for SEA's Biggest Hospital Group How we built an ML system to predict hospitalization costs at admission; sharing at DATAx...
6th Mar 2019
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6th Mar 2019
How we built an ML system to predict hospitalization costs at admission; sharing at DATAx Conference.
6 Things I Would Improve About Dify.AI After using Dify.AI extensively for building a demo, here are six key improvements I'd like to see...
11th Nov 2024
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6 Things I Would Improve About Dify.AI

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

11th Nov 2024
After using Dify.AI extensively for building a demo, here are six key improvements I'd like to see in this powerful prompt engineering tool based on my hands-on experience.
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
19th Aug 2024
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spatial compute

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

19th Aug 2024
Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
The Homework Apocalypse Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
1st Jul 2023
95

The Homework Apocalypse

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

1st Jul 2023
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
Why Coase needs Hayek sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
2nd May 2026
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Why Coase needs Hayek

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

2nd May 2026
sometimes smart planners lose to simple markets
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
42

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.
let the code do the talking (why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
13th Mar 2026
1

let the code do the talking

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

13th Mar 2026
(why llms and safe sandboxes may change the basic contract between users and software)
Accelerating mathematics Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical...
9th Feb 2026
1

Accelerating mathematics

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2026
Let’s say that someone had a big pot of money, and wanted to use it to accelerate mathematical discovery. How might they go about doing this? The traditional approach Historically it has been governments who have been driving this agenda, … Continue reading →
Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
1st Dec 2025
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Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available

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

1st Dec 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
Avoiding worry driven development Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a...
11th Sep 2020
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Avoiding worry driven development

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

11th Sep 2020
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by anxiety, fear, worry and embarassment than it is by a lack of technical skill. Engineers…
13th Dec 2024
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13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid...
a week ago
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Electricity Theft Is Rampant, but Delhi Found a Fix

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

a week ago
It’s disheartening how much power gets generated and then promptly lost as it travels through grid networks. This leaking of electricity happens when it vanishes as heat as well as when it is pilfered by thieves and nonpaying customers. More than half of the countries that...
Coding with AI is getting even better ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
28th Feb 2025
24

Coding with AI is getting even better

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

28th Feb 2025
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to...
29th Apr 2022
97

Designing Societally Beneficial Reinforcement Learning Systems

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

29th Apr 2022
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is transitioning from a research field focused on game playing to a technology with real-world applications. Notable examples include DeepMind’s work on controlling a nuclear reactor or on improving Youtube video compression, or Tesla attempting...
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 Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Apr 2025
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
Do you actually like hard problems? I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for...
a week ago
2

Do you actually like hard problems?

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

a week ago
I spent years becoming the engineer people reached for. Now they still reach for me, but for different reasons.
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.
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
1

In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological...
19th Oct 2022
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The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines

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

19th Oct 2022
Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We used Transformer language models fine-tuned for...
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9th Apr 2024
144

What just happened, what is happening next

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

9th Apr 2024
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club) Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
7th Jan 2024
1

Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club)

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

7th Jan 2024
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
RL without TD learning In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative”...
1st Nov 2025
2

RL without TD learning

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

1st Nov 2025
In this post, I’ll introduce a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm based on an “alternative” paradigm: divide and conquer. Unlike traditional methods, this algorithm is not based on temporal difference (TD) learning (which has scalability challenges), and scales well to...
The Increasing Prominence of Prejudice and Social Justice Rhetoric in UK News Media I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice...
2nd Aug 2022
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2nd Aug 2022
I have recently published a report with Matthew Goodwin about the increasing prominence of prejudice and social justice rhetoric in UK news media. Recent years have seen considerable debate about the rise of political polarization in British society. Specifically, over the last...
Secure Minions: private collaboration between Ollama and frontier models Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted...
3rd Jun 2025
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Secure Minions is a secure protocol built by Stanford's Hazy Research lab to allow encrypted local-remote communication.
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AI for Software Engineers: Looking Forward to 2026 Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
1st Jan 2026
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AI for Software Engineers: Looking Forward to 2026

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

1st Jan 2026
Plus, help me improve the newsletter!
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...
Fear and Loathing in 7nm How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
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Fear and Loathing in 7nm

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

18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
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Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and More

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

4th Nov 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
What happened in the 2010s? decoding a mystery
2nd Jun 2025
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What happened in the 2010s?

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

2nd Jun 2025
decoding a mystery
24th Feb 2025
The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for...
12th Dec 2024
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The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era

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

12th Dec 2024
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time) To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions,...
15th Jul 2019
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Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time)

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

15th Jul 2019
To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions, hallucinations, Freudian slips, etc.
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
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Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
Why now? What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
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Why now?

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

4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
APFS Object Map Recovery (free) APFS Object Map Recovery I spent a day figuring out how to look into a corrupt encrypted APFS...
19th Nov 2019
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APFS Object Map Recovery (free)

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

19th Nov 2019
APFS Object Map Recovery I spent a day figuring out how to look into a corrupt encrypted APFS partition. Here’s the notes. If you only care about the answer, jump to the last section. Kernel Panic macOS hard panicked on me with a graphics driver corruption error...
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...
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...
Think of a number: an update A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around...
16th Mar 2025
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Think of a number: an update

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Mar 2025
A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around private datasets as a way of measuring the mathematical abilities of language models. More generally I was frustrated about the difficulty of being … Continue reading →
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.
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
20th Jan 2023
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Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation

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

20th Jan 2023
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...
Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
9th Oct 2023
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Mind the Gap

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

9th Oct 2023
from empire to umpire
New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
29th Dec 2022
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New blog - moving from Medium to Gridsome

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

29th Dec 2022
Why and how I moved from Jekyll and Medium to Gridsome.
Signal Conversation Archive Backup Signal Conversation Archive Backup SCAB Welcome to Signal Conversation Archive Backup...
26th Dec 2018
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Signal Conversation Archive Backup

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

26th Dec 2018
Signal Conversation Archive Backup SCAB Welcome to Signal Conversation Archive Backup (SCAB)! (alternative title: Conversation Retrieval And Persistence) Why do we need SCAB? Well, Signal is hostile when it comes to letting users own their private conversations1. Just take a look...
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
12th Sep 2024
21st Apr 2025
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
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...
What Is Reasoning A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight...
19th Aug 2026
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What Is Reasoning

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

19th Aug 2026
A few weeks ago a paper was shared that showed how to extract reasoning traces from closed-weight models. Together with online discussions about tricking models into leaking them, it made me investigate it more out of curiosity. Twitter seems full of half-truths and confusion...
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...
10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025 A look back at the year in AI news.
4th Jan 2026
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10 AI Stories That Shaped 2025

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

4th Jan 2026
A look back at the year in AI news.
Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
4th Oct 2024
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Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model

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

4th Oct 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
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...
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...
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
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AGI is not a milestone

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

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
How to think about evals Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first...
19th May 2025
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How to think about evals

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

19th May 2025
Today was the first session of Hamel + Shreya’s course, “AI Evals for Engineers and PMs”. The first session was all about mental models for thinking about the topic as a whole, mixed in with some teasers of practical examples and advice. I’ll try to keep up with blogging about...
Blogs I’ve enjoyed in 2025 I wanted to share my favourite blogs in the AI space with a colleague today, and thought that others...
14th Oct 2025
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Blogs I’ve enjoyed in 2025

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

14th Oct 2025
I wanted to share my favourite blogs in the AI space with a colleague today, and thought that others might enjoy that list, too!
My Journey from Psych Grad to Leading Data Science at Lazada How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
27th Feb 2020
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27th Feb 2020
How hard work, many failures, and a bit of luck got me into the field and up the ladder.
TIL: HTTP middleware for custom Go module paths I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing...
5th Sep 2024
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TIL: HTTP middleware for custom Go module paths

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

5th Sep 2024
I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing github.com/maragudk/example, I can import maragu.dev/example. Turns out it’s pretty easy.
Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99% Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a...
24th Sep 2024
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Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99%

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

24th Sep 2024
Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by...
Decoding T cells with AI I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s...
8th Jul 2024
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Decoding T cells with AI

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

8th Jul 2024
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s important that scientists share their work with a broader audience. This 3-part series is an experiment: an accessible introduction to AI immunology concepts. This post is part 1 in...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of...
2nd Mar 2020
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests

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

2nd Mar 2020
On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of Python).
Do we still have time for human code review? I’m increasingly convinced that in the near future, we software developers won’t be looking at our...
5th Jan 2026
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Do we still have time for human code review?

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

5th Jan 2026
I’m increasingly convinced that in the near future, we software developers won’t be looking at our production code anymore.
ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
2nd Jun 2025
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ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math

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

2nd Jun 2025
An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
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.
A guide to understanding AI as normal technology And a big change for this newsletter
9th Sep 2025
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A guide to understanding AI as normal technology

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

9th Sep 2025
And a big change for this newsletter
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
NVIDIA DGX Spark The latest NVIDIA DGX Spark is here! Ollama has partnered with NVIDIA to ensure it runs fast and...
13th Oct 2025
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NVIDIA DGX Spark

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

13th Oct 2025
The latest NVIDIA DGX Spark is here! Ollama has partnered with NVIDIA to ensure it runs fast and efficiently out-of-the-box.
OpenAI’s “Code Red” Maybe people should have seen this coming?
3rd Dec 2025
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OpenAI’s “Code Red”

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

3rd Dec 2025
Maybe people should have seen this coming?
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
9th Sep 2024
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

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

9th Sep 2024
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
2nd Feb 2024
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AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA

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

2nd Feb 2024
February 2, 2024.
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
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AGI is not a milestone

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

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
3rd Feb 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

3rd Feb 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why? What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
3rd May 2020
1

A Hackathon Where the Dinkiest Idea Won. Why?

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

3rd May 2020
What I Learnt about evaluating ideas from first-hand participation in a hackathon.
Data Science and Agile (Frameworks for Effectiveness) Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2).
2nd Feb 2019
1

Data Science and Agile (Frameworks for Effectiveness)

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

2nd Feb 2019
Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2).
Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At...
22nd Jan 2024
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Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks

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

22nd Jan 2024
The value of domain expertise Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At the time, deep learning (the technique behind recent advances in AI) was the purview of a small and homogeneous handful of practitioners. The standard approach was to have...
22nd Jan 2024
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...
Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics...
9th Sep 2024
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Gaps and Risks of AI in the Life Sciences

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

9th Sep 2024
AI is being used to tackle high-impact scientific problems, including searching for new antibiotics to combat antibiotic-resistance and predicting what foreign substances the immune system can recognize as invaders. Amidst the excitement, it is important to keep in mind the gaps...
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
2nd Sep 2026
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Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline.

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

2nd Sep 2026
Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
Progress on TimelineGPT, Emergent Mind missteps, finding balance Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s...
27th Mar 2023
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Hey all 👋! It’s been a minute since my last post (for reasons I’ll get into below) so here’s periodic update on what I’ve been up to: TimelineGPT About two months ago I launched an in-app tool for Preceden that provides GPT-powered event suggestions to users to help them build...
Quora I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and...
21st Apr 2017
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Quora

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

21st Apr 2017
I'm a strong believer in the importance of the internet in helping people to share knowledge and learn from each other.  So I’m delighted to share, on behalf of YC Continuity, that we’re investing alongside Collaborative Fund in Quora. Quora is doing extremely well. They now...
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 Machine Learning 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.
Fridays With Bob When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which...
1st Aug 2026
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Fridays With Bob

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

1st Aug 2026
When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions. I didn’t find one right away. Then in 2005 we decided to do a special report,...
Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded...
15th Jul 2021
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Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News Media

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

15th Jul 2021
Summary of manuscript “Using Word Embeddings to Probe Sentiment Associations of Politically Loaded Terms in News and Opinion Articles from News Media Outlets”
The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
5th Feb 2025
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The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible

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

5th Feb 2025
How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
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.
Text-to-Image: Diffusion, Text Conditioning, Guidance, Latent Space The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
27th Nov 2022
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27th Nov 2022
The fundamentals of text-to-image generation, relevant papers, and experimenting with DDPM.
My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016 Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
25th May 2016
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My impressions from PyData Berlin 2016

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

25th May 2016
Was it worth it? (Yes.) Links to the best talks.
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot has recently taken the software engineering world by storm, hitting a milestone of...
10th Oct 2023
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on GitHub Copilot

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

10th Oct 2023
GitHub Copilot has recently taken the software engineering world by storm, hitting a milestone of $100M ARR. This achievement alone qualifies it to be a publicly listed company. Meanwhile, funding continues to flow into code-focused LLM use cases. But what do developers actually...
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,...
A Survival Guide to a PhD This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on...
7th Sep 2016
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A Survival Guide to a PhD

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

7th Sep 2016
This guide is patterned after my “Doing well in your courses”, a post I wrote a long time ago on some of the tips/tricks I’ve developed during my undergrad. I’ve received nice comments about that guide, so in the same spirit, now that my PhD has come to an end I wanted to compile...
Getting the most out of Claude Code How to successfully on board Claude as a new engineer on your team
3rd Dec 2025
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Getting the most out of Claude Code

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

3rd Dec 2025
How to successfully on board Claude as a new engineer on your team
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...
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 Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
Reinforcement Learning for Recommendations and Search Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item.
5th Sep 2021
1

Reinforcement Learning for Recommendations and Search

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

5th Sep 2021
Focusing on long-term rewards, exploration, and frequently updated item.
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...
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama...
14th Mar 2024
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Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Mar 2024
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.
Evaluation & Hallucination Detection for Abstractive Summaries Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations.
3rd Sep 2023
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3rd Sep 2023
Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations.
My first 100 days as Data Science Lead How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
25th Sep 2017
1

My first 100 days as Data Science Lead

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

25th Sep 2017
How being a Lead / Manager is different from being an individual contributor.
AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your...
27th Oct 2024
1
27th Oct 2024
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab,...
25th Feb 2025
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Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Feb 2025
Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices by having small on-device models (such as...
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.
People want competence, seemingly over everything else All elections are about state capacity
11th Nov 2024
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People want competence, seemingly over everything else

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

11th Nov 2024
All elections are about state capacity
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...
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…
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
9th Apr 2023
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Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan

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

9th Apr 2023
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski “Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when...
25th Oct 2019
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“The Statues” by Jacek Kaczmarski

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

25th Oct 2019
“Posągi” (1989) translated from Polish to English by Anna Karpiuk and Piotr Migdał: “What bliss when a tyrant’s tall statues are shattered”
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
Formalising modern research mathematics in real time (This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and...
4th Nov 2023
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4th Nov 2023
(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and Sahasrabudhe appeared on the arXiv, announcing an exponential improvement to the upper bound on Ramsey numbers, an open problem since 1935. … Continue reading →
On AI Coding and Its Discontents Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described...
10th Aug 2026
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On AI Coding and Its Discontents

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

10th Aug 2026
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more The post On AI Coding and Its Discontents appeared first on Cal Newport.
smol party: Hello Wololo! Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
22nd May 2023
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smol party: Hello Wololo!

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

22nd May 2023
Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
9th May 2024
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The Real Risks of AI

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

9th May 2024
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025 Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better...
4th May 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Apr 2025

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

4th May 2025
Control your computer with an open-source library, a structured multi-agent framework, a better agent for coding tasks, Karpathy's LLM tips, and financial hallucination research
11 Amazing Engineering Events in 2026 This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2026. Brain Chip Helps Blind People See Elon...
1st Jan 2026
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11 Amazing Engineering Events in 2026

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

1st Jan 2026
This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2026. Brain Chip Helps Blind People See Elon Musk says his company Neuralink is aiming to restore partial sight to fully blind patients in 2026. The company plans to test its newest and most powerful implant, Blindsight, in...
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...
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
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...
Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
7th Nov 2023
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Ask Stupid Questions

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

7th Nov 2023
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
6th Oct 2025
The jackpot is a lie Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
1st Aug 2023
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The jackpot is a lie

from Zach Seward [alt+shift+b] in AI

1st Aug 2023
Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
Jakub and Szymon AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for...
9th Sep 2025
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Jakub and Szymon

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

9th Sep 2025
AI has gotten remarkably better in recent years; ChatGPT can do amazing things that we take for granted. This is as it should be, and is the story of human progress. But behind the blinking circle, nicely abstracted away, is the greatest story of human ingenuity I have ever seen....
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