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My panel at Web Summit about how The Times newsroom uses AI Talking about how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times.
20th Feb 2025
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20th Feb 2025
Talking about how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times.
Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples are not Rare The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a...
23rd Jul 2026
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Maybe Jacobian Conjecture Counterexamples are not Rare

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

23rd Jul 2026
The (now falsified) Jacobian conjecture was a well known conjecture expressing the hope that a family of functions had nice properties. In July 2026 Levent Alpöge exhibited a simple counter-example that he said was found by Claude Fable 5. Fields medalist Terence Tao wrote on...
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 to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few...
7th Jul 2024
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How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers

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

7th Jul 2024
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
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6th Nov 2022
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); Increased efficiency can sometimes, counterintuitively, lead to worse outcomes. This is true almost everywhere. We will name...
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2nd Feb 2025
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Full Stack AI Agents

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

2nd Feb 2025
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
How to get started in Data Science Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
25th Jun 2017
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How to get started in Data Science

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

25th Jun 2017
Tools and skills to pick up, and how to practice them.
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 →
Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons On digging AI shaped holes
7th May 2025
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Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons

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

7th May 2025
On digging AI shaped holes
LinkedIn Highlights, June 2025 - AI Agents Edition Build smarter AI agents with six open-source tools and a bonus toolkit that optimizes Llama prompts...
13th Jul 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, June 2025 - AI Agents Edition

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

13th Jul 2025
Build smarter AI agents with six open-source tools and a bonus toolkit that optimizes Llama prompts by 45%
Freeing the chatbot Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
2nd May 2024
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Freeing the chatbot

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

2nd May 2024
Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
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...
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.
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
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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...
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.
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
9th Nov 2023
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The agent principal problem

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

9th Nov 2023
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its...
30th Jul 2018
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OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips

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

30th Jul 2018
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its variants).
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…
I am Tired of Praise of Byproduct I’ve been worrying a bit over the philosophy of creation and dissemination in the era of LLMs (large...
10th Jan 2026
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I am Tired of Praise of Byproduct

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

10th Jan 2026
I’ve been worrying a bit over the philosophy of creation and dissemination in the era of LLMs (large language models). I feel we are overly impressed with the byproduct or even the bycatch. LLMs do complete some tasks, write code, and produce superficially convincing texts. In my...
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
12th Feb 2024
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Neural network training makes beautiful fractals

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

12th Feb 2024
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } .vimeo-player { position: relative; width: 444px; height: 444px; ...
LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024 Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open...
2nd Jan 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024

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

2nd Jan 2025
Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open multimodal vision models from Meta, an open-source Perplexity alternative, and easy LLM fine-tuning
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...
INSEAD Lunchtime Talks - How Lazada uses Data And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
25th Apr 2018
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INSEAD Lunchtime Talks - How Lazada uses Data

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

25th Apr 2018
And my idiosyncratic journey to VP of Data Science at Lazada (Alibaba). A Lunchtime chat at INSEAD.
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,...
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
27th Feb 2026
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27th Feb 2026
No vagueposting here, just look at the Estimated Read Time.
Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
5th Dec 2023
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Always Be Networking

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

5th Dec 2023
The things you should know about effective networking
13th Sep 2024
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 26 -- evaluating the fine-tuned model This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language...
3rd Nov 2025
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3rd Nov 2025
This post is on the second half of chapter 7 of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". In the last post I covered the part of the chapter that covers instruction fine-tuning; this time round, we evaluate our model -- particularly interestingly, we...
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...
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
29th Mar 2022
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My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories

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

29th Mar 2022
In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
Absurd In Production About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a durable execution system we built for our own use at...
4th Apr 2026
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Absurd In Production

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

4th Apr 2026
About five months ago I wrote about Absurd, a durable execution system we built for our own use at Earendil, sitting entirely on top of Postgres and Postgres alone. The pitch was simple: you don’t need a separate service, a compiler plugin, or an entire runtime to get durable...
Ollama's new app Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
30th Jul 2025
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Ollama's new app

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

30th Jul 2025
Ollama's new app is now available for macOS and Windows.
5th Mar 2025
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
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How AI companies get around data regulation

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

5th Feb 2025
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You're Twelve Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
27th Oct 2025
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You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You're Twelve

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

27th Oct 2025
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Bot Milk? I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy...
1st May 2025
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Bot Milk?

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

1st May 2025
I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy cows and a creamery in Louisville, Ky., that bore the family name. One fateful day in early April 1944, Harry was milking his cows when a heavy metallic part of his homemade...
The lost civics lesson Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
13th Feb 2024
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The lost civics lesson

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

13th Feb 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
1st Sep 2023
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 32a -- Interventions: training a baseline model I'm rounding out my series of posts on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from...
4th Feb 2026
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4th Feb 2026
I'm rounding out my series of posts on Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)" by seeing how I could train the best base model I can from scratch on my own hardware. I started by training one in two days on my RTX 3090, and found that while it was a...
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
Planning Your Career: Values and Superpowers What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
4th Apr 2021
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Planning Your Career: Values and Superpowers

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

4th Apr 2021
What do you deeply care about? What do you excel at? Build a career out of that.
Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
1st Apr 2026
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Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy v3: A Matter of Trust

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

1st Apr 2026
Anthropic has revised its Responsible Scaling Policy to v3.
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
7th Aug 2024
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Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet

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

7th Aug 2024
AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the...
1st Feb 2026
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LuSEE-Night: See You on the Far Side of the Moon

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

1st Feb 2026
As a kid in the 1970s, I watched the Apollo moon missions on TV, drawn like a curious moth to the cathode-ray tube’s glow. The English band Pink Floyd blared through the speakers of my mom’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, beckoning us to the dark side of the moon. The far side of...
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...
Claude Code and What Comes Next With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
7th Jan 2026
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Claude Code and What Comes Next

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

7th Jan 2026
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately? I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
18th Jul 2026
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18th Jul 2026
I’m going to be the weirdo who complains about literally getting free stuff.
US Digital Currency I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is...
10th May 2018
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US Digital Currency

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

10th May 2018
I am pretty sure cryptocurrency is here to stay in some form (at least as a store of value, which is the only use case we have seen work at scale so far).  There was possibly a time when governments could have totally stopped it, but it feels like that’s in the rearview mirror. ...
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

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

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
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.
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9th Apr 2024
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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
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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
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
4th Jun 2026
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

4th Jun 2026
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is built for high-throughput reasoning and long-running agent workflows.
The Rise of Cloud Coding Agents What it’s actually like to work with today’s leading agents such as Devin, Codex, and Cursor
4th Sep 2025
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The Rise of Cloud Coding Agents

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

4th Sep 2025
What it’s actually like to work with today’s leading agents such as Devin, Codex, and Cursor
6th Oct 2025
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.
Overcoming the legacy roadblock Legacy codebases are the bane of AI tools. How can we overcome this?
8th Apr 2025
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Overcoming the legacy roadblock

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

8th Apr 2025
Legacy codebases are the bane of AI tools. How can we overcome this?
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...
Let's Stay Human Reading by Tim Foley:
1st Aug 2026
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Let's Stay Human

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

1st Aug 2026
Reading by Tim Foley:
24th Feb 2025
Spotify ML Case Study: AI Has Fundamentally Changed the Music Industry A case study of Spotify's algorithm, including how it works and the impact it has
11th Jul 2025
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Spotify ML Case Study: AI Has Fundamentally Changed the Music Industry

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

11th Jul 2025
A case study of Spotify's algorithm, including how it works and the impact it has
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,...
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...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
12th Nov 2024
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Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

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

12th Nov 2024
Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
5th Dec 2024
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Which CEO will be the last to see it?

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

5th Dec 2024
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
13th Jan 2024
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13th Jan 2024
On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
3rd Mar 2025
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On GPT-4.5

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

3rd Mar 2025
It’s happening.
It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
23rd Apr 2024
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It’s Time to Build

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

23rd Apr 2024
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
25th Jun 2018
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Reinforcement Learning Progress

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

25th Jun 2018
Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general reinforcement learning algorithm invented by OpenAI, to train a team of 5 agents to play Dota and beat semi-pros. This is the game that to me feels closest to the real world and complex...
DataScience SG Meetup - Panel On the Different Roles in Data What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
17th Jan 2019
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17th Jan 2019
What's the difference between a data scientist, data engineer, and ML engineer? A panel at Google.
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
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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
1st Aug 2025
AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
15th Apr 2025
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AI as Normal Technology

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

15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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.
Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
27th Oct 2024
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Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews

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

27th Oct 2024
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
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
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...
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
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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...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
30th Jun 2022
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FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART

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

30th Jun 2022
FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another. Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
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...
Image search is now live! A web app to find similar products based on image.
14th Jan 2017
1

Image search is now live!

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

14th Jan 2017
A web app to find similar products based on image.
Red Alert: OpenAI is poised to cross an AI safety redline. Making models harder to monitor is not what we need
2nd Sep 2026
1

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
Agentic Primitives 101 Inside the harnesses that let AI carry a job across hours, days, and conversations.
5 days ago
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Agentic Primitives 101

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

5 days ago
Inside the harnesses that let AI carry a job across hours, days, and conversations.
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.
How to train the best embedding model in the world one PhD later, I'm giving my secrets away for free
9th Mar 2026
2

How to train the best embedding model in the world

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

9th Mar 2026
one PhD later, I'm giving my secrets away for free
24th Feb 2025
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
1

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.
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
14th Apr 2023
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14th Apr 2023
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
AI cannot predict the future. But companies keep trying (and failing). A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
1st Mar 2023
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1st Mar 2023
A new paper on how AI companies make false promises and how we can challenge them
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.
Redis Architecure Diagram (April 2015) Redis Architecture Diagram Ever wonder what Redis internals look like? They look something like the...
2nd Apr 2015
1

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...
My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
17th Aug 2026
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My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup

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

17th Aug 2026
Over a decade after co-founding fast.ai, I am returning to the field
Anthropic is making a huge mistake For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try...
14th Jan 2026
1

Anthropic is making a huge mistake

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

14th Jan 2026
For context, Anthropic again blocked opencode from the Claude Code API. I wasn’t planning to try other models today, but now that’s all I’m going to be doing. I’m sure they have a massive influx of users on Claude Code since Opus 4.5, I’ve been recommending it to everyone. But...
Trend of Agentic Coding Products 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
2nd Jun 2026
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Trend of Agentic Coding Products

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

2nd Jun 2026
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we...
9th Sep 2023
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Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities

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

9th Sep 2023
In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we steer this technology towards better outcomes?
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.
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
20

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.
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
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
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New paper: AI agents that matter

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

3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth? DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific...
12th May 2025
1

Will gene sequencing finally prove its worth?

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

12th May 2025
DNA sequencing hasn’t lived up to the hype Twenty to thirty years ago, politicians, scientific leaders, journalists, and even Nobel laureates predicted that sequencing the human genome would revolutionize how we treat disease. And while the advances in DNA sequencing that have...
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...
The first post: why Jekyll? Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
2nd Dec 2015
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The first post: why Jekyll?

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

2nd Dec 2015
Why Jekyll (and not Wordpress)? Markdown, GitHub, simplicity, LaTeX.
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 Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Mar 2024
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
9th Jan 2025
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Review of AI in 2024 and Updates

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

9th Jan 2025
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
6th Sep 2022
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My family’s unlikely homeschooling journey

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

6th Sep 2022
Prior to 2020, we never expected to homeschool, and now we have committed to it long-term.
Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
21st Jun 2026
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Patterns for Building Cybersecurity Evals

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

21st Jun 2026
A sandboxed target, inputs that influence task difficulty, tools, and a grader.
Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
22nd Dec 2025
1

Nano Banana Pro is the best AI image generator, with caveats

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

22nd Dec 2025
The problem with Nano Banana Pro is that it’s too good.
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
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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
My Notes From Spark+AI Summit 2020 (Application-Specific Talks) Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
5th Jul 2020
1
5th Jul 2020
Part II of the previous write-up, this time on applications and frameworks of Spark in production
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...
1st Dec 2023
AI Vibe Coding, Is It Working? No Notes From the Desk: No. 53 - 2025.12.18
18th Dec 2025
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AI Vibe Coding, Is It Working? No

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

18th Dec 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 53 - 2025.12.18
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
1

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...
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
1

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.
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...
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.
Speaking things into existence Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
11th Mar 2025
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Speaking things into existence

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

11th Mar 2025
Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
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...
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
1

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
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
26th Aug 2021
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26th Aug 2021
Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
16th Aug 2023
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Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck

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

16th Aug 2023
You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
124

New paper: AI agents that matter

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

3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
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
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
15th Oct 2024
101

Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations

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

15th Oct 2024
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
1st Dec 2024
1

Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing

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

1st Dec 2024
With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
DataTalksClub - Building an ML System; Behind the Scenes Design and architecture, tech stack, methodology, results, and lessons learned.
7th Feb 2021
1

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.
Choosing what to keep human A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
27th May 2026
1

Choosing what to keep human

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

27th May 2026
A quote from Ethan Mollick on figuring out what to keep human using AI.
Replacing my MacBook I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7)...
28th Nov 2025
1

Replacing my MacBook

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

28th Nov 2025
I’ve been trying to replace my MacBook. I switched from an iPhone to a Z Fold 5 (and now a Z Fold 7) which went well, so I’ve been trying to do the same with my laptop. For phones, this was easier because the Samsung hardware is already better. Sadly, there’s no better laptop...
Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
11th Oct 2016
1

Product Classification API Part 1: Data Acquisition

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

11th Oct 2016
Parsing json and formatting product titles and categories.
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now What AI to use in late 2025
19th Oct 2025
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
1

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...
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.
the appeal what does the creator owe you
7th Sep 2026
1

the appeal

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

7th Sep 2026
what does the creator owe you
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
I'm going back to school Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
2nd Nov 2016
1

I'm going back to school

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

2nd Nov 2016
Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Computer Science Masters!
Programming Errors at Project Scale Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects...
12th Aug 2014
1

Programming Errors at Project Scale

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

12th Aug 2014
Programming Errors at Project Scale Errors in Multi-Person Projects Errors in multi-person projects involve typical programming errors1 and, more annoyingly, interpersonal errors. This article is a quick overview of both technical and interpersonal errors we encounter when trying...
Writing Robust Tests for Data & Machine Learning Pipelines Or why I should write fewer integration tests.
4th Sep 2022
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
99

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...
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
6th Dec 2023
85

The age of access

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

6th Dec 2023
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius The World Will Be Prompt
28th May 2026
1

Tlön, Uqbar, LLMs, Tertius

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

28th May 2026
The World Will Be Prompt
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D...
8th Apr 2025
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Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

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

8th Apr 2025
PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in...
The art of being an indie software consultant: a chat with John Berryman You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just...
13th Dec 2024
1
13th Dec 2024
You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just about writing code, it’s about building a whole persona, finding the right clients, while somehow simultaneously also making sense of the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
HintBot Hinting icons automatically with a neural network
6th Feb 2017
38

HintBot

from Made by Ollin [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Feb 2017
Hinting icons automatically with a neural network
3rd Sep 2024
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More

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

3rd Sep 2024
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
2nd Jan 2025
85

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

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

2nd Jan 2025
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
The Virus Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to...
7th Mar 2020
45

The Virus

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

7th Mar 2020
Although I still hope things will go differently, the experts I’ve spoken to think we are likely to face a global tragedy—hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19. I hope that society views this as a warning for the future.  Covid-19 is bad, but only a warm-up.  I think it’s...
How to Write Data Labeling/Annotation Guidelines Writing good instructions to achieve high precision and throughput.
12th Mar 2023
1

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.
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
Agency and Agents From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
31st Aug 2026
1

Agency and Agents

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

31st Aug 2026
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
The Business of Building God a look at the changing economics of AI labs
3 weeks ago
1

The Business of Building God

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

3 weeks ago
a look at the changing economics of AI labs
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes) Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
21st Jan 2023
27

Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes)

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

21st Jan 2023
Metal bands bring happiness (as chocolate brings Nobel Prizes). But correlation is not causation.
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
How to Solve it With Code course now available An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
15th Oct 2025
27

How to Solve it With Code course now available

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

15th Oct 2025
An email sent to all fast.ai forum users.
'AI' just means LLMs now There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now...
2nd Aug 2025
1

'AI' just means LLMs now

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

2nd Aug 2025
There used to be many possible candidates for how humans might build intelligent systems. Now there's only one.
What’s coming next for AI in 2024 A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
5th Jan 2024
128

What’s coming next for AI in 2024

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

5th Jan 2024
A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
25th Mar 2025
76

Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

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

25th Mar 2025
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those...
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
1
26th Jul 2017
Sharing about why data science, data science myths, a typical day, and more with TIA.
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
12th Sep 2024
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations...
24th Jul 2026
2

Becoming Skilled at Making Documents

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

24th Jul 2026
The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or unclear, and all kinds of artifacts that say more about how they were created than whatever message they were ostensibly...
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
74

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...
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
1

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 →
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
19th Jan 2023
86

El sesgo político de ChatGPT

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

19th Jan 2023
A la izquierda del centro político
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
1

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.
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of...
20th Jul 2026
1
20th Jul 2026
It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular, counterexamples. Unit distance Two months ago today (20th May 2026), … Continue reading →
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
Product Evals in Three Simple Steps Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.
23rd Nov 2025
1

Product Evals in Three Simple Steps

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

23rd Nov 2025
Label some data, align LLM-evaluators, and run the eval harness with each change.
OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7641 (Machine Learning) - Revisiting the fundamentals and learning new techniques.
27th Dec 2017
1

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.
Is a CS Degree Still Worth It? The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
6th Nov 2025
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Is a CS Degree Still Worth It?

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

6th Nov 2025
The junior developer crisis and the value of CS fundamentals.
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era It's not just chatbots anymore
18th Feb 2026
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 Machine Learning 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
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...
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
2nd Jan 2024
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Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder

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

2nd Jan 2024
At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
Redis Quicklist: Do you even list? Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the...
19th Dec 2014
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Redis Quicklist: Do you even list?

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

19th Dec 2014
Quicklist Final (Still have a short attention span? See graphs at the bottom.) This describes the third and final major improvement to Redis Quicklist. Previously On Recap Before Quicklist, Redis Lists had two representations: ziplist stored small lists in a solid block of...
The Dot and the Swarm Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
a week ago
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The Dot and the Swarm

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

a week ago
Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson
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
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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...
every company needs a cassandra an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
9th Aug 2026
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every company needs a cassandra

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

9th Aug 2026
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
5th Feb 2025
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Native Speakers

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

5th Feb 2025
How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
19th Feb 2025
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19th Feb 2025
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
5th Jul 2024
1st Feb 2026
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.
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