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Marcus on AI
The Pope gets it In age when few political leaders are engaging with AI, Pope Leo XIV gets it.
3 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Using Custom Searches in Safari (in 2022) I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss...
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I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss most from Chrome is custom searches. There you can search Amazon directly from the address bar by doing: You can change the search prompts to be single letters like ‘a’ for...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Exploring human vs machine learning (one blogpost at a time) To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions,...
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over a year ago
To err is human... and machine, alike. Overfitting, adversarial examples, optical illusions, hallucinations, Freudian slips, etc.
The Gradient
Financial Market Applications of LLMs The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the...
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a year ago
The AI revolution drove frenzied investment in both private and public companies and captured the public’s imagination in 2023. Transformational consumer products like ChatGPT are powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) that excel at modeling sequences of tokens that represent...
Daniel Miessler
Your Experience is Your Creativity Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something...
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Creativity is usually described as an external force that graces you with inspiration. Something that you have to open yourself to—that you have to allow in. But creativity is more like an inner forge of your past, perspectives, and passions. It’s not something you let in; it’s...
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Learning incident response with problem sets It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production...
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It’s hard to teach good incident response. A good understanding of how the system runs in production is essential, but how do you build that…
Piotr Migdał's Blog
D3.js workshop at ICM for KFnrD Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials,...
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over a year ago
Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials, results.
Stories by Andrej...
Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
How to improve myself as a lecturer?
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
AI won’t make artists redundant - thanks to information theory How many bits are there in a prompt? How many bits are needed to create an image? In short: a lot!
over a year ago
AI Snake Oil
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
over a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
7 months ago
Made by Ollin
Mac Replacement Icons A standardized, simplified, and beautiful icon set
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
A quick and sobering guide to cloning yourself It took me a few minutes to create a fake me giving a fake lecture.
over a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Artificial Intelligence and Portraits of 17th Century Physicists The case for customizable AI systems as an alternative to one-size-fits-all AI systems
a year ago
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What kind of work I want This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This article is to help recruiters, hiring managers and myself have a better idea of the kind of places I’d like to work. The short version…
IEEE Spectrum
The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars Thanks to Magnets A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less...
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5 months ago
A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly powered robot is currently very limited in how far it can travel away from the magnetic fields that drive its flight. However, the...
IEEE Spectrum
How Amazon Is Changing the Future of Robotics and Logistics This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you...
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8 months ago
This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. “Innovation doesn’t just happen because you have a good idea,” said Valerie Samzun, a leader in Amazon’s Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics (FTR) division. “It happens because you have the right team, the right...
Matt Mazur
Friday Updates: Smart Icons, Automatic Suggestions, Dealing with Spammers, Better Icon Colors Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we...
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over a year ago
Preceden Lots of updates to Preceden this week: Improving the UX for the AI Suggestions When we rolled out the AI Suggestions feature last week, the typical experience for the user would go something like this: Lots of UX issues there though: To remedy this, I updated Preceden to...
Artificial Ignorance
Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too) AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?
4 months ago
Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
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6 months ago
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
Weighty Thoughts
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
11 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #27: February 2025 I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the...
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I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the various machinations of DOGE.
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange. Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
over a year ago
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read? I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I don’t like reading obviously AI-generated content on Twitter. There’s a derogatory term for it: AI “slop”, which means something like “AI…
Society's Backend:...
Why Machine Learning Terminology is So Confusing And definitions for the most important terms you should know
a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025 And a review of last year's predictions.
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
YC is now 80% AI startups (S24) Analyzing the latest companies out of "AI Combinator"
11 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
VC Office Hours Talk to James Wang, author of Weighty Thoughts and General Partner of Creative Ventures
a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Starting deep learning hands-on: image classification on CIFAR-10
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
5 months ago
Xena
Lean in 2024 A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at...
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A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a … Continue reading →
Marcus on AI
”Those claiming we’re mere months away from AI agents replacing most programmers” should think again AI agents will change the world. But not this year.
4 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
6 months ago
One Useful Thing
How to Get an AI to Lie to You in Three Simple Steps I keep getting fooled by AI, and it seems like others are, too.
over a year ago
Win Vector LLC
Don’t Let a Data Leak Sink Your Project One of the bigger risks of iterative statistical or machine learning fitting procedures is over-fit...
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4 months ago
One of the bigger risks of iterative statistical or machine learning fitting procedures is over-fit or the dreaded data leak. Over-fit is when: a model performs better on training data than on future data. Some degree of over-fit is expected. A data leak is when: the model learns...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
5 months ago
Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
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About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
The Berkeley...
Keeping Learning-Based Control Safe by Regulating Distributional Shift To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for...
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To regulate the distribution shift experience by learning-based controllers, we seek a mechanism for constraining the agent to regions of high data density throughout its trajectory (left). Here, we present an approach which achieves this goal by combining features of density...
fast.ai
AI Harms are Societal, Not Just Individual In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular...
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In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 085: You win some, you Newsom September 20, 2024.
11 months ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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over a year ago
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What's next after the AI bubble bursts? In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five...
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In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five year period. This was all largely…
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
Rozado’s Visual...
Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post...
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Frecuencia de términos en el periódico generalista más leído de España: El País Twitter post Verification of integrity of frequency counts: https://zenodo.org/record/5674590
The Berkeley...
The Berkeley Crossword Solver We recently published the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS), the current state of the art for solving...
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We recently published the Berkeley Crossword Solver (BCS), the current state of the art for solving American-style crossword puzzles. The BCS combines neural question answering and probabilistic inference to achieve near-perfect performance on most American-style crossword...
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part I In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
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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...
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...
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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...
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
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Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways