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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me...
8th Aug 2024
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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

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

8th Aug 2024
Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me insightful or stupid. Decide for yourself! :D
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
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 →
Coming soon: New York City’s hearing on AI risks New York tries to take care of its own
a week ago
Lean in 2024 A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at...
20th Jan 2024
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Lean in 2024

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2024
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a … Continue reading →
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 28 -- training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from...
2nd Dec 2025
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2nd Dec 2025
Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", I wanted to try an experiment: is it possible to train a base model of my own, on my own hardware? The book shows you how to train your LLM, does a basic training run on...
ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline? An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
1st Jul 2025
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ML Jobs, Resources, and Content for Software Engineers #14: How do we combat cognitive decline?

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

1st Jul 2025
An AI reading list curated to make you a better engineer: 7-1-25
A Mostly Incorrect Analysis of X Social Media Algorithms and Reach An analysis of the X social media algorithm
12th Aug 2026
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....
The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
3rd May 2025
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The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense

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

3rd May 2025
Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
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
5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024 The top 5 articles and resources
1st Jan 2025
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5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024

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

1st Jan 2025
The top 5 articles and resources
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
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.
Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026) Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look...
1st Aug 2026
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Pluralistic: Why businesses lie about AI (01 Aug 2026)

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

1st Aug 2026
Today's links Why businesses lie about AI: Humoring the boss all the way into bankruptcy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Vinge x NYT; Syklarov x publishers; Human hair castles; Gingrich's bot army; Accessibility v Web DRM; David Byrne x WinXP; Furries...
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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27th Mar 2023
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...
Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025) Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you...
28th Jul 2025
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Pluralistic: How twiddling enshittifies your brain (28 Jul 2025)

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

28th Jul 2025
Today's links How twiddling enshittifies your brain: They preferentially mess with the stuff you rely on the most. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Used books economics; Adbusters sf; Branson vs virgins; Shark knife; Protesters must pledge souls to...
2nd Dec 2024
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Durable Objects are Computers / Containers / Servers

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

2nd Dec 2024
(everything old is new again)
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
29th Dec 2023
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Vision Transformers are Overrated

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

29th Dec 2023
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
15th Nov 2015
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CS183c Assignment #3

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

15th Nov 2015
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...
What To Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
8th Jan 2023
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What To Do If Dependency Teams Can’t Help

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

8th Jan 2023
Seeking first to understand, earning trust, and preparing for away team work.
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
10th Apr 2025
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Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips

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

10th Apr 2025
I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
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?
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,...
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
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Breaking GPT-5 news

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

1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
- 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...
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...
Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015) Redis Architecture Diagram Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the...
2nd Apr 2015
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Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015)

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

2nd Apr 2015
Redis Architecture Diagram Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the diagram(s) below. The pictures on this page and all associated materials are released free to the public for inclusion in any other materials/presentations/teachings/learnings. The...
Tech in Asia - My Journey in Data Science and Advice for others Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
26th Jul 2017
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26th Jul 2017
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
AI and Existential Dread There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think...
4 weeks ago
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AI and Existential Dread

from Seán Barry [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 weeks ago
There's a lot of polarising discourse right now about the threat AI poses to humanity. Some think it's a farce and others think we face extinction. Here are my thoughts.
Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen...
1st Sep 2026
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Cash in on the AI Boom by Renting Out Your Spare Compute

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

1st Sep 2026
If you own an at-home server, a gaming computer, or just a laptop that doesn’t get much love, listen up. You can now put that spare computing power to use and earn some passive income in the process. AI companies are hungry for more compute to run AI inference—the process of...
Five for 50 Today I’m 50 years old! That feels absurd, because it’s a big number, the kind of round number that...
5th Sep 2025
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Five for 50

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

5th Sep 2025
Today I’m 50 years old! That feels absurd, because it’s a big number, the kind of round number that people usually obscure by saying “I’m celebrating a big birthday” or something vague like that. But, since you only get so many of these to celebrate, I’m using this chance to ask...
Open-LLMs - A list of LLMs for Commercial Use It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
7th May 2023
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Open-LLMs - A list of LLMs for Commercial Use

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

7th May 2023
It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
Thinking companion, companion for thinking Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
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Thinking companion, companion for thinking

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

5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
31st Jul 2022
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Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries

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

31st Jul 2022
Some off-the-beaten uses of Python learned from reading libraries.
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...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
5th May 2025
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Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9)

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

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
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...
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
1st Aug 2024
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The SearchGPT Paradigm

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

1st Aug 2024
What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
Embedding models Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in...
8th Apr 2024
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Embedding models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

8th Apr 2024
Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications.
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
agent-shell: your output, your storage agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing...
6th Sep 2026
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agent-shell: your output, your storage

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

6th Sep 2026
agent-shell: stop spilling your outputs since the beginning of time, ai agents have wanted one thing at one thing only: redirecting stderr to stdout then piping the output to head or tail or grep or sed or awk. That’s all they really want. Except, they do it wrong the majority of...
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...
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...
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…
The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has...
20th Jan 2022
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The Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Terms in Spanish Newspapers

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

20th Jan 2022
Published paper Twitter summary Introduction Previous scholarly literature here and here has documented a pronounced increase in the prevalence of prejudice-denoting terms in American news media content. Some have referred to this shift in journalistic discourse and related...
What I Love about Scrum for Data Science Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why.
7th Jun 2020
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What I Love about Scrum for Data Science

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

7th Jun 2020
Initially, I didn't like it. But over time, it grew on me. Here's why.
Mantra Gajatri po polsku Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
9th Mar 2025
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Mantra Gajatri po polsku

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

9th Mar 2025
Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
Pluralistic: Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from hurting Meta's feelings... Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about...
1st Dec 2025
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1st Dec 2025
Today's links Meta's new top EU regulator is contractually prohibited from saying mean things about Meta: It's one thing to hire an ex-Meta lobbyist, another entirely if she's signed a non-disparagement contract. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Custom...
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
2025 State of AI Report and Predictions The 2025 State of AI Report is out, with lots of fun slides and a full video presentation.
10th Oct 2025
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2025 State of AI Report and Predictions

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

10th Oct 2025
The 2025 State of AI Report is out, with lots of fun slides and a full video presentation.
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...
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...
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 if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming? Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
7th Mar 2024
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What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming?

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

7th Mar 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
!!con or doing inclusivity well Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and...
14th Aug 2017
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!!con or doing inclusivity well

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

14th Aug 2017
Inclusive-inclusivity, or an awesome programming conference, attracting diverse participants and accommodating for various needs.
iff On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
4th Jan 2021
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iff

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

4th Jan 2021
On implementing a client for feature flags in your UI codebase
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...
Prediction is hard, especially about the future more reinforcement learning, this time on the future
16th Sep 2025
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Prediction is hard, especially about the future

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

16th Sep 2025
more reinforcement learning, this time on the future
Big Data & Analytics Summit - Data Science Challenges @ Lazada Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
21st Jun 2018
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21st Jun 2018
Technical challenges easy compared to business and people issues. Sharing at the BDA Summit.
Why do OpenAI's GPT-2 weights beat mine? Part five: data quality When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models...
a week ago
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a week ago
When I finished learning how to build an LLM from scratch, I was left with a mystery: my own models were not as good as OpenAI's original GPT-2 models, despite being based on the same architecture. My models all had 163M parameters, and followed the design from Sebastian...
How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
12th Mar 2023
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How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines

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

12th Mar 2023
Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
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...
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
29th Jul 2022
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29th Jul 2022
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
Self-driving as a case study for AGI Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI,...
21st Jan 2024
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Self-driving as a case study for AGI

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

21st Jan 2024
Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI, its timelines, and what it might look like. Some of it is hopeful and optimistic, but a lot of it is fearful and doomy, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, a lot of it is also very...
AI will create jobs It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it. AI and...
1st May 2026
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AI will create jobs

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

1st May 2026
It’s nice to see Jensen talk about this, and it’s super obvious when you think about it. AI and immigration are fundamentally the same. There’s new people showing up, and hopefully everyone understands how and why immigration creates jobs. Wants are effectively unlimited. It’s...
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...
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
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add...
20th Dec 2018
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OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips

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

20th Dec 2018
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add intelligence.
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
27th Dec 2017
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OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips

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

27th Dec 2017
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
7th Feb 2021
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DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes

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

7th Feb 2021
Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
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
There’s no such thing as not a math person Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
15th Mar 2022
38

There’s no such thing as not a math person

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

15th Mar 2022
Many cultural factors, misconceptions, stereotypes, and obstacles turn people off to math.
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.
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

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

3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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
5th Jul 2024
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
25th Nov 2024
104

I'm writing a book!

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

25th Nov 2024
Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
8th Apr 2024
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A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI

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

8th Apr 2024
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
2nd Jan 2024
178

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
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
15th Dec 2019
1

OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) Review and Tips

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

15th Dec 2019
OMSCS CS6200 (Introduction to OS) - Moving data from one process to another, multi-threaded.
Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true A true life moment for your correspondent
2nd Jun 2026
1

Breaking: When dreams for AI sanity come true

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

2nd Jun 2026
A true life moment for your correspondent
A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging...
17th Nov 2025
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A Decade of Writing Stuff That People, To My Surprise, Actually Read

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

17th Nov 2025
As a former mathematician, I was used to nobody reading what I wrote. So when I first began blogging in 2015, I never expected that several of my blog posts would go viral or to have multiple journalists contact me (including from NPR, Wired, and Fortune), make the front page of...
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
14th Jan 2025
46

Don't use cosine similarity carelessly

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

14th Jan 2025
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
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...
Helion I’m delighted to be investing more in Helion. Helion is by far the most promising approach to fusion...
5th Nov 2021
42

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,...
How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
11th Mar 2026
1

How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents

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

11th Mar 2026
Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
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
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27th Oct 2024
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
6th Oct 2025
14th Oct 2025
How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to...
20th Jan 2026
1

How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading

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

20th Jan 2026
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the text. As Eric Ries described it,“close reading is one of our civilization’s oldest and most powerful technologies for trying to...
Influencing without Authority for Data Scientists Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
4th Jul 2021
1

Influencing without Authority for Data Scientists

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

4th Jul 2021
Show them the data, the Socratic method, earning trust, and more.
i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive”...
6th Feb 2022
1

i, for one, welcome our new insect overlords

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

6th Feb 2022
Hello AI Hello AI / AGI / Computational Consciousness, how’s it going? how’s the whole “being alive” thing treating you? perhaps, first understand certain kinds of dangerous ambition never grow again, ’cause killers linger evermore. depending on when this finds you, maybe we have...
I Told You So My quote from 2019 “I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very...
12th Feb 2026
1

I Told You So

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

12th Feb 2026
My quote from 2019 “I don’t know how close you guys think the singularity, but I think it’s very close. Once we reach the singularity, If we have the same motivations we have now — primarily power over people — things are going to be horrific” – George Hotz How is everyone...
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
5th Apr 2020
1

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.
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...
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
11th Aug 2023
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
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
How To Invest In Startups There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about...
13th Jan 2020
44

How To Invest In Startups

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

13th Jan 2020
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a particularly hard time to invest in startups—it’s easier right now to be a...
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 →
Salmon in the Loop On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
16th Dec 2023
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Salmon in the Loop

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

16th Dec 2023
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
Do you know about the best database ever? I Made The World’s Best In-Memory Database But Forgot to Tell Anybody What Now? I’ve spent the past...
22nd Jun 2020
1

Do you know about the best database ever?

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

22nd Jun 2020
I Made The World’s Best In-Memory Database But Forgot to Tell Anybody What Now? I’ve spent the past half decade creating the world’s best in-memory database, but I forgot to tell many people about it. Whoops. Now here’s all the details of the best database ever. TOC Top...
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
1
5th May 2025
But for what I do use LLMs for, it’s invaluable.
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...
Dyson CameraJet So when I saw Dyson had a $500 toothbrush, I was excited. Finally, advertising that targets me! I...
a week ago
2

Dyson CameraJet

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

a week ago
So when I saw Dyson had a $500 toothbrush, I was excited. Finally, advertising that targets me! I love brushing my teeth, and I have more money than I know how to spend. Not because I’m particularly rich, but because most stuff doesn’t really appeal to me. Like if I owned a...
OpenAI gpt-oss Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring gpt-oss to Ollama and its community.
5th Aug 2025
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OpenAI gpt-oss

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Aug 2025
Ollama partners with OpenAI to bring gpt-oss to Ollama and its community.
The Reasonable Effectiveness of Virtue Ethics in AI Alignment Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t...
18th Feb 2026
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18th Feb 2026
Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of actions, action-dispositions,...
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.
Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
16th Apr 2026
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Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities

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

16th Apr 2026
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
2026 Important Updated Perspectives on AI Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
1st Feb 2026
1

2026 Important Updated Perspectives on AI

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

1st Feb 2026
Notes From the Desk: No. 54 - 2026.02.01
Uniform Thought Machines: Global Competition for Attention How social media is a failed experiment of a global socialization space that became a competition...
1st Jul 2025
1

Uniform Thought Machines: Global Competition for Attention

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

1st Jul 2025
How social media is a failed experiment of a global socialization space that became a competition battleground for attention
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
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...
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
1

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...
AI news that's fit to print My talk at SXSW 2024
11th Mar 2024
DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
17th Aug 2025
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DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase

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

17th Aug 2025
How I use DeepWiki to speed up real coding work
The Mistakes Most Entry-Level Candidates Make in Technical Interviews And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
12th Feb 2026
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The Mistakes Most Entry-Level Candidates Make in Technical Interviews

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

12th Feb 2026
And how to set yourself apart from the other entry-level candidates
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
Understanding Open Model Licenses And what to look for in custom licenses
15th Apr 2026
1

Understanding Open Model Licenses

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

15th Apr 2026
And what to look for in custom licenses
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
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
Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
30th Jun 2025
What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
12th May 2024
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What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs

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

12th May 2024
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
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.
Too big to fail? Get ready for chaos
2nd Nov 2025
1

Too big to fail?

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

2nd Nov 2025
Get ready for chaos
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
126

It is starting to get strange.

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

2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
What Do LLMs Know About Linguistics? It Depends on How You Ask On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and...
9th Jul 2023
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9th Jul 2023
On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and categorize how specific prompting choices can affect the model's behavior.
Simpler Experimentation with Jupyter, Papermill, and MLflow Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
15th Mar 2020
1
15th Mar 2020
Automate your experimentation workflow to minimize effort and iterate faster.
Make Authenticity Great Again Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
2nd Aug 2025
1

Make Authenticity Great Again

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

2nd Aug 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 48 - 2025.08.02
The Mystical Q OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
7th Dec 2023
131

The Mystical Q

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

7th Dec 2023
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
The Codex App Has Upended My Daily Workflow I haven't opened my IDE in days. I'm not sure I miss it.
2nd Feb 2026
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The Codex App Has Upended My Daily Workflow

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

2nd Feb 2026
I haven't opened my IDE in days. I'm not sure I miss it.
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
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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:...
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
2nd Jan 2025
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2nd Jan 2025
Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
On Working with Wizards Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
11th Sep 2025
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On Working with Wizards

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

11th Sep 2025
Verifying magic on the jagged frontier
AI Story 2 AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago. The initial story prompt...
12th Oct 2025
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AI Story 2

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

12th Oct 2025
AI Story 2: The Song of Broken Wings Another one Claude did a while ago. The initial story prompt was just: I woke up in the cold. My Patronus stood in the corner. Since the incident, he doesn’t move. His eyes are vacant, but moving. Wherever I am in the world, his eyes follow...
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 34b -- from bigrams to GPT-2, one component at a time (in JAX) This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I...
8th Jul 2026
2
8th Jul 2026
This post is the capstone of the most long-running series on my blog. In December 2024 (!), I started reading Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", and worked through it carefully. Being who I am, despite trying to apply a strict "no side...
The jackpot is a lie Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
1st Aug 2023
1

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?
Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025) Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and...
1st Aug 2025
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Pluralistic: Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity' (01 Aug 2025)

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

1st Aug 2025
Today's links Mattie Lubchansky's 'Simplicity': A tale of walled cities, omnisexual communes, and Cthulhoid horrors. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MP3s on punchcards; German Potter fan-trans; Healthy Boundary Tree. Upcoming appearances: Where to find...
RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
3rd Oct 2021
1

RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on

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

3rd Oct 2021
Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
20th Jun 2025
1

How to keep your AI coding agent from going rogue

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

20th Jun 2025
Complete agentic LLM coding projects reliably with this proven workflow.
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
4th Jun 2024
139

Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning

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

4th Jun 2024
And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
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...
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
3rd Sep 2019
1

OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) Review and Tips

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

3rd Sep 2019
OMSCS CS6750 (Human Computer Interaction) - You are not your user! Or how to build great products.
Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
8th Aug 2023
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Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges

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

8th Aug 2023
A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025 Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat...
2nd Mar 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025

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

2nd Mar 2025
Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat with multiple LLMs, and tips to improve the performance of GPT-4.5 and o3
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
1

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...
Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (aka LLM-as-Judge) Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
18th Aug 2024
1
18th Aug 2024
Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
AI Apocalypse Update #33 AI Apocalypse Terminality Update #33 it is a fearful thing, to fall into the hands of the living...
4th Dec 2022
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AI Apocalypse Update #33

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

4th Dec 2022
AI Apocalypse Terminality Update #33 it is a fearful thing, to fall into the hands of the living god The war on individual self-owned computing is accelerating. dead reckoning indicates imminent social and economic criticality. In the near future, your computer will only be a...
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
Data science intro for math/phys background Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
15th Mar 2016
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Data science intro for math/phys background

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

15th Mar 2016
Academia to data science? Learn Python (or R), machine learning and other stuff.
MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal? Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree...
17th Jun 2024
37

MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal?

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

17th Jun 2024
Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree search. Going back months, the “Q*” leak…
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass p { text-align: justify; } .post pre, .post code { border: none; background-color:...
27th Mar 2021
85

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...
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
5th Mar 2024
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A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming

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

5th Mar 2024
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
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
First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro) Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model....
8th Apr 2025
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First impressions of the new Gemini Deep Research (with 2.5 Pro)

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

8th Apr 2025
Google released an updated iteration of their Deep Research tool that uses the new 2.5 Pro model. This was taken from a post originally made on Twitter, so please excuse the terseness. First impressions: a bit too eager to jump into a deep research task even when I just ask a...
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.
Developer Shapes of the 2020s The Developer Shapes of Tomorrow, Today You’ve probably heard of T-Shaped developers, but have you...
12th Jul 2021
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Developer Shapes of the 2020s

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

12th Jul 2021
The Developer Shapes of Tomorrow, Today You’ve probably heard of T-Shaped developers, but have you heard of all the other shapes we can be? trigger warning: page may be hazardous to vampires or entities known to have intersecting right angle visual processing defects. Wikipedia...
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...
Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons .grasp-results-table table { font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.35; width: 100%;...
20th Apr 2026
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Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

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

20th Apr 2026
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The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
5th Dec 2022
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The political orientation of the ChatGPT AI system

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

5th Dec 2022
Applying the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz to a state-of-the-art AI Language model
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
28th Aug 2024
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How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

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

28th Aug 2024
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
AI in organizations: Some tactics Meet the Lab and the Crowd
4th Oct 2024
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AI in organizations: Some tactics

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

4th Oct 2024
Meet the Lab and the Crowd
Reverse Transcription There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have...
2nd Nov 2022
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Reverse Transcription

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

2nd Nov 2022
There are dozens of reasons to be bullish on AI right now, especially in the GPT space where we have AIs producing so much extraordinary art. But I’m excited about something else that we’re naturally evolving GPT into, which I’m calling Reverse Transcription. A bit of background...
The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
1st Dec 2025
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The Craziest Thing In The World Is That We Could End Poverty, But We Don't

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

1st Dec 2025
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
Database Overhead: Just Say No Database Overhead and You Your battle cry is more data! Your budget’s battle cry is more...
20th Dec 2017
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Database Overhead: Just Say No

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

20th Dec 2017
Database Overhead and You Your battle cry is more data! Your budget’s battle cry is more efficiency! Do you know how bloated your data storage is right now? Let’s talk about your data overhead. A paradox of data storage is: the more data you have, the less space you have to...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
6th Apr 2022
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6th Apr 2022
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
14th Feb 2025
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2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI

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

14th Feb 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
Choose by Probability, not by Expectation A lot of financial thinking and intuition attempts to phrase decisions and choices in terms of...
4th Aug 2026
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Choose by Probability, not by Expectation

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

4th Aug 2026
A lot of financial thinking and intuition attempts to phrase decisions and choices in terms of claimed returns or in terms of expected values. For example: An ultra greedy gambler may pick the highest claimed winning payoff, independent of win or success probabilities. A greedy...
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
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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.
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.
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield Annotated slides from a recent talk
4th Oct 2023
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Evaluating LLMs is a minefield

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

4th Oct 2023
Annotated slides from a recent talk
The Fermi Paradox Just From Rarity Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds”...
22nd Nov 2025
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The Fermi Paradox Just From Rarity

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

22nd Nov 2025
Sabine Hossenfelder’s video “Odds Are The Universe is Full Of Intelligent Life, Mathematician Finds” recently pointed out a new paper on the Fermi paradox: Antal Veres “The solitude zone: A probabilistic window for singular lifeform existence”, Acta Astronautica Volume 238, Part...
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...
Shortages Create Opportunity Whether Real or From Export Controls
12th Oct 2025
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Shortages Create Opportunity

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

12th Oct 2025
Whether Real or From Export Controls
Running LLM evals right next to your code One of the first things you learn when going down the path of building applications with LLMs is...
15th Jan 2025
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Running LLM evals right next to your code

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

15th Jan 2025
One of the first things you learn when going down the path of building applications with LLMs is that you need evals. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could live in your existing test system, and be run and displayed in CI, just like your tests?
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...
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...
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
10th Jul 2023
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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment

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

10th Jul 2023
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
15th Sep 2018
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Simple diagrams of convoluted neural networks

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

15th Sep 2018
A good diagram is worth a thousand equations - let's create more of these!
The Strength of Being Misunderstood A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and...
1st Dec 2020
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The Strength of Being Misunderstood

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

1st Dec 2020
A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
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