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One Useful Thing
Automating creativity There is now strong evidence that AI can help make us more innovative.
over a year ago
Marcus on AI
Poor ROI for GenAI 61% in a recent survey report no ROI or disappointing ROI.
4 months ago
Solving the decision...
Durable Objects are Computers / Containers / Servers (everything old is new again)
9 months ago
The Gradient
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically principled architectures result in only marginal improvements while...
The Berkeley...
Fully Autonomous Real-World Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Mobile Manipulation Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Reinforcement learning provides a conceptual framework for autonomous agents to learn from experience, analogously to how one might train a pet with treats. But practical applications of reinforcement learning are often far from natural: instead of using RL to learn through trial...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Why are papers without code but with results accepted?
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
The Most Forbidden Technique The Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques.
5 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms "global warming" and "climate change" in news... I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I will drop this here as a simple curiosity without much further comment: The decreasing/increasing prevalence of the terms global warming and climate change in news media discourse. For some reason, peak usage of the term global warming happened in 2007 and it has been dropping...
AI Snake Oil
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
AI Snake Oil
Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias? A new paper making this claim has many flaws. But the question merits research
over a year ago
Win Vector LLC
Kelly Betting With Discrete Stakes In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s Mathematical Puzzles. Our observation is the amazing zero variance strategy shown is in fact the Kelly criteria. Which means, this is a surprising situation where the Kelly strategy...
Society's Backend:...
Updates to Society's Backend New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
a year ago
Marcus on AI
Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
6 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 079: Don't call it an acquisition August 9, 2024.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble How Meta's messy launch overshadowed its latest flagship model.
4 months ago
Marcus on AI
One giant leap towards authoritarian rule in the United States In the midst of the tariffs, an even bigger story is brewing: Trump is attempting to take over...
4 months ago
AI Snake Oil
New paper: AI agents that matter Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
7 months ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Northern Awokening: Social-justice and prejudice-signifying language in Canadian news media I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have recently published a report with Aaron Wudrick from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute about changes in the language that the news media in Canada use. I have documented previously how in American news media mentions of terms that signify distinct forms of prejudice have...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Dangerous advice for software engineers I’m a big fan of “sharp tools”. These are tools that are powerful enough to be hugely helpful or...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
I’m a big fan of “sharp tools”. These are tools that are powerful enough to be hugely helpful or harmful, depending on how they’re used…
Society's Backend:...
AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
10 months ago
Marcus on AI
Scaling is over, the bubble may be deflating, LLMs still can’t reason, and you can’t trust Sam New evidence that confirms so much of what I have been saying
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Why Claude 3 is a big upgrade On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks,...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Monday, Anthropic released Claude 3, a family of models that hit new highs on various benchmarks, add multi-modal capabilities, and are a real competitor to GPT-4.
Marcus on AI
Update re: Microsoft and training data Relevant to the post I sent earlier today,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Relevant to the post I sent earlier today, https://www.howtogeek.com/is-microsoft-using-your-word-documents-to-train-ai/says that an unnamed spokesperson at Microsoft claims that “Microsoft does not use customer data from Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications to...
Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
Weighty Thoughts
Software Engineering is Doomed Or is it?
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
OpenAI’s Purpose is to Build AGI, and What That Means Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has said multiple times that, He says it in this video as well. >...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has said multiple times that, He says it in this video as well. > We’re very much here to build AGI. Sam Altman I am not sure how many people realize this about the company. They’re not like playing with other AI-related tech and AGI might come out...
Don't Worry About...
AI CoT Reasoning Is Often Unfaithful A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this on o3 as well.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Software engineering under the spotlight Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and…
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 087: DevDay SF October 4, 2024.
10 months ago
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 350
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
Latent Expertise: Everyone is in R&D Ideas come from the edges, not the center
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Kaparthy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022) 9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
9/10 This is a summary of Andrej Kaparthy’s appearance on Lex Fridman’s podcast in late 2022. My One-Sentence Summary/Highlight The future of programming is not humans writing code, but neural nets creating weights. Capture Neural networks are mathematical expressions with many...
Strange Loop Canon
OpenAI's Strawberry models can reason like an expert When models can think
11 months ago
Society's Backend:...
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 088: Movie magic October 11, 2024.
10 months ago
Society's Backend:...
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
Is AI-generated disinformation a threat to democracy? An essay on the future of generative AI on social media
over a year ago
Don't Worry About...
Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday, look deeply disappointing.
Pluralistic: Daily...
Pluralistic: Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause... Today's links Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration...
a week ago
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a week ago
Today's links Bluesky creates the world's weirdest, hardest-to-understand binding arbitration clause: What, and I cannot stress this enough, the FUCK does this mean?! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: No-fly babies; Stephen Harper's Red Dawn; DHS...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Keras or PyTorch as your first deep learning framework
over a year ago
Frank’s Ramblings
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Society's Backend:...
A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
On the necessity of a sin Why treating AI like a person is the future
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
RightWingGPT – An AI Manifesting the Opposite Political Biases of ChatGPT The Dangers of Politically Aligned AIs and their Negative Effects on Societal Polarization
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 2) VC funding, here we come.
10 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The intern and the coach A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it...
a year ago
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a year ago
A recent post from Wharton professor Ethan Mollick shared an impressive new study. In a nutshell, it found that BCG consultants who used GPT-4 were up to 43% more effective at tasks vs. employees who didn’t.
Machine Learning for...
Coding with AI is getting even better ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
6 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments accusing me of trying to get ahead at the…
Strange Loop Canon
State of the Canon Onwards
a year ago