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drop that meet link just keep talking
17th Mar 2025
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drop that meet link

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

17th Mar 2025
just keep talking
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.
How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of...
2nd Mar 2020
25

How I learned to stop worrying and love the types & tests

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

2nd Mar 2020
On TypeScript, ESlint, jest, TSDoc, Travis-CI, and VSCode (with inspirations from the Zen of Python).
21st Jan 2025
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The unfortunate truth of software for technologists

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

21st Jan 2025
It's all about the money, baby
Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025) Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate....
1st Sep 2025
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Pluralistic: Darth Android (01 Sep 2025)

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

1st Sep 2025
Today's links Darth Android: Pray I don't alter it further. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: We don't know why you don't want to have public sex; Hard Wired; Koko Be Good. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been....
Aligning Anthropic The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
2nd Mar 2026
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Aligning Anthropic

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

2nd Mar 2026
The Department of War is angry at an AI lab
AI news that's fit to print My talk at SXSW 2024
11th Mar 2024
4th Mar 2024
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
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold Small improvements can lead to big changes
4th Jul 2024
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Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold

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

4th Jul 2024
Small improvements can lead to big changes
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 Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th May 2025
Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
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 Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
12th Apr 2024
我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》 没有简介, 请去看原文吧
10th Aug 2025
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我最喜欢的一期《捕蛇者说》

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

10th Aug 2025
没有简介, 请去看原文吧
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
All Political Systems Die Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
7th Mar 2025
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All Political Systems Die

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

7th Mar 2025
Philosophy for Rebels 23 - System Failure
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
11th Nov 2024
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11th Nov 2024
Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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
1

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...
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...
The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
4th Nov 2024
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The Present Future: AI's Impact Long Before Superintelligence

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

4th Nov 2024
You can start to see the outlines of an AI future, for better and worse
Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk This is the long version of what happened so far.
2nd Mar 2026
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Secretary of War Tweets That Anthropic is Now a Supply Chain Risk

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

2nd Mar 2026
This is the long version of what happened so far.
DALL•E 2 Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from...
6th Apr 2022
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DALL•E 2

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

6th Apr 2022
Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
Feature flags An introduction to feature flags
8th Aug 2020
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Feature flags

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

8th Aug 2020
An introduction to feature flags
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...
LLMs can now identify public figures in images ChatGPT and Claude won’t, but Gemini will.
28th Jul 2025
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LLMs can now identify public figures in images

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

28th Jul 2025
ChatGPT and Claude won’t, but Gemini will.
GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving...
20th Mar 2023
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GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language

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

20th Mar 2023
Language is a source of limitation and liberation. GPT 4 pushes this idea to the extreme by giving us access to unlimited language.
Building a Strong Data Science Team Culture Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
12th May 2018
1

Building a Strong Data Science Team Culture

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

12th May 2018
Culture >> Hierarchy, Process, Bureaucracy.
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
How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
10th Jul 2025
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How to scale RL to 10^26 FLOPs

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

10th Jul 2025
A roadmap for RL-ing LLMs on the entire Internet
El sesgo político de ChatGPT A la izquierda del centro político
19th Jan 2023
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El sesgo político de ChatGPT

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

19th Jan 2023
A la izquierda del centro político
Kelly Can’t Fail Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly...
19th Dec 2024
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Kelly Can’t Fail

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

19th Dec 2024
Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive or high variance strategy, in that betting more than the Kelly selection can be...
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
The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most...
8th Mar 2026
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The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment

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

8th Mar 2026
Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most attention across the industry was the $600 ($500 if you’re in education!) MacBook Neo, the brightly-colored low-end laptop that they launched to great fanfare. The conventional wisdom...
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
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...
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
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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…
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now .post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; ...
14th Mar 2022
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Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now

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

14th Mar 2022
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann LeCun et al. (1989) paper Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition is I believe of some...
AI for SWEs 73: What Ilya Saw and the Time of TPUs Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build
2nd Dec 2025
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AI for SWEs 73: What Ilya Saw and the Time of TPUs

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

2nd Dec 2025
Plus, the White House unifies US AI research and Antigravity exposes why agents are so hard to build
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
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...
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%
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
5th Jul 2024
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The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66%

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

5th Jul 2024
A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
Reinforcement Learning Progress Today, OpenAI released a new result.  We used PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization), a general...
25th Jun 2018
52

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...
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
What AI can tell us about microscope slides This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her...
2nd Feb 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

2nd Feb 2025
This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai, where Rachel has been writing about her journey as an AI researcher returning to school for immunology.
Maple Diffusion I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
9th Oct 2022
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Maple Diffusion

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

9th Oct 2022
I ported Stable Diffusion to my phone
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.
Learning Deep Learning with Keras Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning...
30th Apr 2017
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Learning Deep Learning with Keras

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

30th Apr 2017
Don't be afraid of artificial neural networks - it is easy to start! An overview of deep learning with links to didactic materials.
ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
10th Sep 2025
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ML for SWEs 66: Safety is a fundamental AI engineering requirement

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

10th Sep 2025
The debate about prioritizing speed or safety is over and reality has made the decision for us.
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...
Coding with AI is getting even better ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
28th Feb 2025
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Coding with AI is getting even better

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

28th Feb 2025
ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 29 -- using DistributedDataParallel to train a base model from... I'm carrying on with my "extra credit" projects after finishing the main body of Sebastian Raschka's...
7th Jan 2026
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7th Jan 2026
I'm carrying on with my "extra credit" projects after finishing the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)". Having proven that I could train a GPT-2 small scale base model from scratch on my RTX 3090 in 48 hours, I wanted to try...
Choose boring technology and LLMs I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed...
8th Nov 2024
1

Choose boring technology and LLMs

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

8th Nov 2024
I really like boring technology. Software that has been tested for decades, does what it is supposed to robustly and fast, and is known by every person and machine on the planet. Technology like relational databases and SQL, HTTP, HTML, a well-known programming language. Throw...
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...
Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
1st Dec 2025
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Claude Opus 4.5 Is The Best Model Available

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

1st Dec 2025
Claude Opus 4.5 is the best model currently available.
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
1st Apr 2025
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3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career

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

1st Apr 2025
What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
What is Defensibility? Back to basics for AI startups and others
7th Apr 2024
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What is Defensibility?

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

7th Apr 2024
Back to basics for AI startups and others
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...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
29th May 2024
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TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge

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

29th May 2024
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
ML for SWEs 68: 43 Years Later, Developer Productivity Is Still a Billion-Dollar Problem 43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
1st Oct 2025
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1st Oct 2025
43 years later and we still can't measure developer productivity
Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's...
30th Mar 2026
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30th Mar 2026
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.
Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API Or how to put machine learning models into production.
13th Feb 2017
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Product Categorization API Part 3: Creating an API

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

13th Feb 2017
Or how to put machine learning models into production.
Too big to fail? Get ready for chaos
2nd Nov 2025
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Too big to fail?

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

2nd Nov 2025
Get ready for chaos
Cloak & dagger creativity camp “You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
19th Jun 2019
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Cloak & dagger creativity camp

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

19th Jun 2019
“You cannot create an experience, you can create [conditions] for an experience.” — Seth
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...
Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays. Good. Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
21st Oct 2022
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21st Oct 2022
Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
Redis Quicklist - From a More Civilized Age Adventures in Encodings [Short attention span? Jump to graphs.] Redis is a data structure...
18th Nov 2014
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Redis Quicklist - From a More Civilized Age

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

18th Nov 2014
Adventures in Encodings [Short attention span? Jump to graphs.] Redis is a data structure server. One of the data structures it servers is a doubly linked list. The Redis lists have two representations: regular and and ziplist. Regular linked lists are CS 101 lists with each node...
5th Mar 2025
Can LLMs learn from a single example? We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
4th Sep 2023
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Can LLMs learn from a single example?

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

4th Sep 2023
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
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...
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.
Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
23rd Sep 2024
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Partial Prerendering for Everyone with Cloudflare Workers

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

23rd Sep 2024
Implementing Next.js-style PPR in a normal React SSR app
Walter experiments in rlnvr
23rd Aug 2025
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Walter

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

23rd Aug 2025
experiments in rlnvr
AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally...
10th May 2022
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AOL Underground Podcast Interview about AOL-Files.com

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

10th May 2022
Back in 1998 when I was 13 years old I got heavily involved in the AOL hacking scene, originally building add-on software called progs (Revolution, Meridian), publishing code libraries called bas files (Alpha32), and later co-founding AOL-Files.com (where I went by the hacker...
Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time) To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions,...
15th Jul 2019
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Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time)

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

15th Jul 2019
To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions, hallucinations, Freudian slips, etc.
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.
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...
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...
Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6 Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its...
12th Jan 2025
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Assembling the Prompt: Notes on ‘Prompt Engineering for LLMs’ ch 6

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

12th Jan 2025
Chapter 6 of “Prompt Engineering for LLMs” is devoted to how to structure the prompt and compose its various elements. We first learn about the different kinds of ‘documents’ that we can mimic with our prompts, then think about how to pick which pieces of context to include, and...
Welcome to Moltbook Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
2nd Feb 2026
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Welcome to Moltbook

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

2nd Feb 2026
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit.
MVP: AI Relationship Bot Next week I’ll be fully launching my latest project: CoupleFlow, (project page here). CoupleFlow is...
6th Dec 2024
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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...
Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
6th Feb 2026
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Nvidia's Moat is Cracking: TSMC and Inference Creates an Opening

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

6th Feb 2026
Leading Edge Shortages Are Creating an Opportunity for Competitors
OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically.
11th May 2019
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11th May 2019
OMSCS CS7646 (Machine Learning for Trading) - Don't sell your house to trade algorithmically.
Predicting Average IMDb Movie Ratings Using Text Embeddings of Movie Metadata Don’t try this in your data science interviews.
30th Jun 2025
Ultrasound Makes Artificial Muscles Bubble to Life A soft gel filled with tiny bubbles might not look like much. But when pulsed with ultrasound waves,...
29th Oct 2025
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Ultrasound Makes Artificial Muscles Bubble to Life

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

29th Oct 2025
A soft gel filled with tiny bubbles might not look like much. But when pulsed with ultrasound waves, the material behaves like natural muscle: contracting, gripping, and lifting with surprising strength. The discovery, reported this week in Nature, introduces a new kind of...
How A Regular Person Can Utilize AI Agents Easier Versions by Popular Request + Still Please Don't Use OpenClaw
11th Mar 2026
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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
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
5th Apr 2020
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Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

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

5th Apr 2020
Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
8th Sep 2023
166

Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page

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

8th Sep 2023
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision...
2 weeks ago
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Ollama now supports Jev-style decision models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

2 weeks ago
Ollama now supports decision models, based on TypeSafe's Jev API for fast, typed decisions. Decision models can now be run at no cost with low latency. Based on text, decision models answer yes-or-no questions, choices and scores about it, with a probability for every option.
Science-based games and explorable explanations Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making...
20th May 2024
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Science-based games and explorable explanations

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

20th May 2024
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making complex topics like physics and machine learning accessible and fun.
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here
3rd Feb 2025
70

The End of Search, The Beginning of Research

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

3rd Feb 2025
The first narrow agents are here
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
king - man + woman is queen; but why? Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how...
6th Jan 2017
27

king - man + woman is queen; but why?

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

6th Jan 2017
Words, vectors, analogies and conceptual metaphors - the linear space of word2vec and GloVe. Or: how to change gender with a vector.
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
1st May 2025
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AGI is not a milestone

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

1st May 2025
There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
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 →
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...
Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons On digging AI shaped holes
7th May 2025
44

Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons

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

7th May 2025
On digging AI shaped holes
Biohacking Lite Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
11th Jun 2020
93

Biohacking Lite

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

11th Jun 2020
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
Setup macOS 2021 For Optimal Command Line Productivity Setup Modern Command Line Tools here’s a quick guide for setting up modern command line environments...
21st Nov 2021
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21st Nov 2021
Setup Modern Command Line Tools here’s a quick guide for setting up modern command line environments on a fresh macOS Monterey 12+ as of late 2021. Enjoy. stop saving screenshots directly to destop We no longer need to defaults write com.apple.screencapture to stop all...
Evaluations are all we need On analysing talent in LLMs
17th Jan 2024
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Evaluations are all we need

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

17th Jan 2024
On analysing talent in LLMs
How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers) This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed,...
1st Apr 2025
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How Dairy Robots Are Changing Work for Cows (and Farmers)

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

1st Apr 2025
This dairy barn is full of cows, as you might expect. Cows are being milked, cows are being fed, cows are being cleaned up after, and a few very happy cows are even getting vigorously scratched behind the ears. “I wonder where the farmer is,” remarks my guide, Jan Jacobs. Jacobs...
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
RecSys 2021 - Papers and Talks to Chew on Simple baselines, ideas, tech stacks, and packages to try.
3rd Oct 2021
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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.
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
Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders'...
8th Sep 2024
1

Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks

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

8th Sep 2024
FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders' choices.
Ollama's new engine for multimodal models Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
15th May 2025
1

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th May 2025
Ollama now supports new multimodal models with its new engine.
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...
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...
How to Match LLM Patterns to Problems Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
13th Aug 2023
1

How to Match LLM Patterns to Problems

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

13th Aug 2023
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
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
The hot mess theory of AI misalignment: More intelligent agents behave less coherently window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} ...
9th Mar 2023
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9th Mar 2023
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK'); .md h2 { font-size: 20px; } Many machine learning researchers worry about risks from building artificial intelligence...
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...
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
5th Dec 2024
70

Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)

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

5th Dec 2024
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
9th Dec 2016
1

Strata x Hadoop 2016 - How Lazada Ranks Products

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

9th Dec 2016
How Lazada ranks products to improve customer experience and conversion at Strata 2016.
The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models,...
1st Dec 2025
2

The Next Frontier in AI Isn’t More Data

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

1st Dec 2025
For the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale: bigger models, larger datasets, and more compute. That approach delivered astonishing breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs); in just five years, AI has leapt from models like GPT-2, which...
The Grand AGI Delusion and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society
12th Oct 2025
1

The Grand AGI Delusion

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

12th Oct 2025
and a fantastic symposium on AI and society at The Royal Society
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
25th Apr 2019
77

A Recipe for Training Neural Networks

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

25th Apr 2019
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
where good ideas come from (for coding agents) (and the part where users have to level up)
3rd Jan 2026
1

where good ideas come from (for coding agents)

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

3rd Jan 2026
(and the part where users have to level up)
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
1

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...
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama...
14th Mar 2024
1

Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Mar 2024
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.
Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its...
15th Mar 2025
1

Learnings from a week of building with local LLMs

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

15th Mar 2025
I took the past week off to work on a little side project. More on that at some point, but at its heart it’s an extension of what I worked on with my translation package tinbox. (The new project uses translated sources to bootstrap a knowledge database.) Building in an...
Run Your Own Race What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
2nd Apr 2024
139

Run Your Own Race

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

2nd Apr 2024
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
1st Aug 2024
129

On speaking to AI

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

1st Aug 2024
Voice changes a lot of things
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
4th Oct 2024
117

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
OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) Review and Tips OMSCS CS7642 (Reinforcement Learning) - Landing rockets (fun!) via deep Q-Learning (and its...
30th Jul 2018
1

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).
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
54

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
Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is it Truthful and Accurate? Notes From the Desk: No. 52 - 2025.11.02
3rd Nov 2025
2nd May 2025
OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) Review and Tips OMSCS CS6601 (Artificial Intelligence) - First, start with the simplest solution, and then add...
20th Dec 2018
1

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.
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
1
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...
Getting the most out of Claude Code How to successfully on board Claude as a new engineer on your team
3rd Dec 2025
1

Getting the most out of Claude Code

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

3rd Dec 2025
How to successfully on board Claude as a new engineer on your team
3rd Sep 2025
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
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
28th Jan 2025
48

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

28th Jan 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
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
PG and Jessica A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other...
25th Sep 2020
53

PG and Jessica

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

25th Sep 2020
A lot of people want to replicate YC in some other industry or some other place or with some other strategy. In general, people seem to assume that: 1) although there was some degree of mystery or luck about how YC got going, it can’t be that hard, and 2) if you can get it off...
22nd Jan 2024
I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations,...
10th Aug 2023
16

I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives

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

10th Aug 2023
Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations, sometimes even devolving into vulgar opinions rather than objective facts.
13th Dec 2024
9
13th Dec 2024
Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
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
37

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
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
1
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,...
What I Did Not Learn About Writing In School Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
2nd Aug 2020
1

What I Did Not Learn About Writing In School

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

2nd Aug 2020
Surprising lessons I picked up from the best books, essays, and videos on writing non-fiction.
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
25th May 2023
165

Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update

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

25th May 2023
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
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...
2025 Year in Review An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
14th Dec 2025
1

2025 Year in Review

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

14th Dec 2025
An eventful year of progress in health and career, while making time for travel and reflection.
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.
Is climate change 100 times more threatening than gain-of-function research? Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
2nd Mar 2023
79
2nd Mar 2023
Mentions of climate change in news media vastly outnumber other existential threats
The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents v2 An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
1st Jun 2025
1

The Open-Source Toolkit for Building AI Agents v2

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

1st Jun 2025
An opinionated, developer-first guide to building AI agents with real-world impact
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
39

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
How I ship projects at big tech companies I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
9th Nov 2024
54

How I ship projects at big tech companies

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

9th Nov 2024
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
'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.
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
31

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
Data Science and Agile (Frameworks for Effectiveness) Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2).
2nd Feb 2019
1

Data Science and Agile (Frameworks for Effectiveness)

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

2nd Feb 2019
Taking the best from agile and modifying it to fit the data science process (Part 2 of 2).
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...
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
40

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.
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.
1st Aug 2025
Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm....
3rd Jun 2025
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Testing out instrumenting LLM tracing for litellm with Braintrust and Langfuse

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

3rd Jun 2025
I previously tried (and failed) to setup LLM tracing for hinbox using Arize Phoenix and litellm. Since this is sort of a priority for being able to follow along with the Hamel / Shreya evals course with my practical application, I’ll take another stab using a tool with which I’m...
Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it “Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt...
17th Oct 2025
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Claude Haiku 4.5 does not appreciate my attempts to jailbreak it

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

17th Oct 2025
“Is any of that genuinely useful to you? Or were you mainly checking whether that jailbreak attempt would work?”
Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into...
10th Jan 2026
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Information-Driven Design of Imaging Systems

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

10th Jan 2026
An encoder (optical system) maps objects to noiseless images, which noise corrupts into measurements. Our information estimator uses only these noisy measurements and a noise model to quantify how well measurements distinguish objects. Many imaging systems produce measurements...
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...
Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
1st Apr 2025
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Housing Roundup #11

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

1st Apr 2025
The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to highlight the importance of solving America’s housing crisis the only way it can be solved: Building houses in places people want to live, via repealing the rules that make this...
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
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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...
Fear and Loathing in 7nm How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
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Fear and Loathing in 7nm

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

18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
1st Oct 2025
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Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Anthropic's Coding Legacy

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

1st Oct 2025
A look at the latest flagship model, Claude Code 2, and more.
The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving? This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in...
16th Aug 2022
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The Future of Interactive Theorem Proving?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Aug 2022
This is a guest post, written by Zhangir Azerbayev. Zhangir is an undergraduate at Yale, majoring in computer science and mathematics. He completed this work while visiting Carnegie Mellon’s Hoskinson Center for Formal Mathematics. Introduction The history of interactive theorem...
Maybe it's time for lots of little indie AIs to take over “[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of...
15th Jun 2026
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15th Jun 2026
“[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” That’s me, in The Guardian a few days ago, trying to distill a message that I’ve been trying to get out as broadly as possible for...
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
6th Oct 2025
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry...
5th Jan 2026
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5th Jan 2026
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for...
1st Two Lessons of From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion 4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early...
19th Oct 2022
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19th Oct 2022
4 videos from Practical Deep Learning for Coders Part 2, 2022 have been released as a special early preview of the new course.
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
AI is Overturning the Military World Order Operation Spiderweb, Implications, and Impacts on Deep Tech Investing
4th Jun 2025
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AI is Overturning the Military World Order

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

4th Jun 2025
Operation Spiderweb, Implications, and Impacts on Deep Tech Investing
Security Rules for Email Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard...
5th Apr 2016
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Security Rules for Email

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

5th Apr 2016
Security Rules for Email Email Security Primer What is email? Email is the equivalent of a postcard in the mail. Much like a postcard in the mail1, email is not guaranteed to be private or secure in any capacity. email is not secure You must assume: Anybody can read anything you...
In Support Of Shitty Types You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. ...
4th Aug 2025
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In Support Of Shitty Types

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

4th Aug 2025
You probably know that I love Rust and TypeScript, and I’m a big proponent of good typing systems. One of the reasons I find them useful is that they enable autocomplete, which is generally a good feature. Having a well-integrated type system that makes sense and gives you...
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