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AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
15th Apr 2025
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AI as Normal Technology

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

15th Apr 2025
A new paper that we will expand into our next book
guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
14th Apr 2025
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guitars and javascript - the case for jank

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

14th Apr 2025
worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
Software engineering under the spotlight Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as...
12th Apr 2025
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Software engineering under the spotlight

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

12th Apr 2025
Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and…
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
10th Apr 2025
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Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips

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

10th Apr 2025
I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
10th Apr 2025
There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
9th Apr 2025
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There Are No New Ideas in AI… Only New Datasets

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

9th Apr 2025
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
AI Creativity: 2 Types, One Possible, One Impossible Notes From the Desk: No. 44 - 2025.04.09
9th Apr 2025
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AI Creativity: 2 Types, One Possible, One Impossible

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

9th Apr 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 44 - 2025.04.09
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...
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...
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D...
8th Apr 2025
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Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion

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

8th Apr 2025
PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D structure, by learning the latent space of protein folding models. The awarding of the 2024 Nobel Prize to AlphaFold2 marks an important moment of recognition for the of AI role in...
Overcoming the legacy roadblock Legacy codebases are the bane of AI tools. How can we overcome this?
8th Apr 2025
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Overcoming the legacy roadblock

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

8th Apr 2025
Legacy codebases are the bane of AI tools. How can we overcome this?
What was Quartz? 2012–2025
7th Apr 2025
Vibe Governing using llms to set policy
7th Apr 2025
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Vibe Governing

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

7th Apr 2025
using llms to set policy
LinkedIn Highlights, Mar 2025 Document AI breakthroughs from GOT-OCR, Maestro, and Mistral, Vellum's agent autonomy framework,...
6th Apr 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Mar 2025

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

6th Apr 2025
Document AI breakthroughs from GOT-OCR, Maestro, and Mistral, Vellum's agent autonomy framework, Skyvern's visual web automation, plus performance tips for ChatGPT and reasoning models
4th Apr 2025
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
3rd Apr 2025
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Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating

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

3rd Apr 2025
Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and i18n. Virtual Lab now speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, French, and German.
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...
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...
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
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 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
Breaking GPT-5 news To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5...
1st Apr 2025
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Breaking GPT-5 news

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

1st Apr 2025
To my amazement, I just came back from a trip to Europe only to find an invite to a private GPT-5 demo, and I tried it.
Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
25th Mar 2025
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment

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

25th Mar 2025
Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those...
OpenAI Responses API is an attempt at lock-in OpenAI has a new Responses API, which, in contrast to the de facto standard Chat Completion API that...
17th Mar 2025
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OpenAI Responses API is an attempt at lock-in

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

17th Mar 2025
OpenAI has a new Responses API, which, in contrast to the de facto standard Chat Completion API that other providers have adopted as well, is stateful. The change makes sense from their business perspective.
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
Think of a number: an update A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around...
16th Mar 2025
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Think of a number: an update

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Mar 2025
A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around private datasets as a way of measuring the mathematical abilities of language models. More generally I was frustrated about the difficulty of being … Continue reading →
Improving Recommendation Systems & Search in the Age of LLMs Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
16th Mar 2025
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16th Mar 2025
Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
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
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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...
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
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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...
Speaking things into existence Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
11th Mar 2025
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Speaking things into existence

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

11th Mar 2025
Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
Mantra Gajatri po polsku Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
9th Mar 2025
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Mantra Gajatri po polsku

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

9th Mar 2025
Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.
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
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
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 Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Mar 2025
And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
5th Mar 2025
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See Me at SXSW Next Week!

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

5th Mar 2025
Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
5th Mar 2025
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
4th Mar 2025
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Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually

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

4th Mar 2025
Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project...
3rd Mar 2025
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A Tiny Jumping Robot for Exploring Enceladus

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

3rd Mar 2025
Salto has been one of our favorite robots since we were first introduced to it in 2016 as a project out of Ron Fearing’s lab at UC Berkeley. The palm-sized spring-loaded jumping robot has gone from barely being able to chain together a few open-loop jumps to mastering landings,...
On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
3rd Mar 2025
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On GPT-4.5

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

3rd Mar 2025
It’s happening.
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
3rd Mar 2025
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Best Before Dates by Bass

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

3rd Mar 2025
I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
2nd Mar 2025
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Every LLM Is Jailbroken In Minutes

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

2nd Mar 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 40 - 2025.03.02
LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025 Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat...
2nd Mar 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Feb 2025

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

2nd Mar 2025
Anthropic's tip for long context prompts, a curated list of agents for computer use, an app to chat with multiple LLMs, and tips to improve the performance of GPT-4.5 and o3
OpenAI, in deep trouble Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
1st Mar 2025
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OpenAI, in deep trouble

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

1st Mar 2025
Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
1st Mar 2025
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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff

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

1st Mar 2025
With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
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
27th Feb 2025
Evaluate LLM Apps in Go As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a bigger part of our apps, making sure they work reliably...
25th Feb 2025
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Evaluate LLM Apps in Go

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

25th Feb 2025
As Large Language Models (LLMs) become a bigger part of our apps, making sure they work reliably brings some challenges. Unlike traditional code with predictable outputs, LLMs are indeterministic and can output downright weird stuff. That’s where good evaluation tools come in! In...
Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab,...
25th Feb 2025
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Minions: where local and cloud LLMs meet

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Feb 2025
Avanika Narayan, Dan Biderman, and Sabri Eyuboglu from Christopher Ré's Stanford Hazy Research lab, along with Avner May, Scott Linderman, James Zou, have developed a way to shift a substantial portion of LLM workloads to consumer devices by having small on-device models (such as...
24th Feb 2025
24th Feb 2025
The Statistics of Drawing Cards After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the...
22nd Feb 2025
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The Statistics of Drawing Cards

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

22nd Feb 2025
After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the methods used to characterize card counting. So, I’d like to share my new article on the statistics of drawing cards. This note relates the distribution of draw cards (which can seem...
Please Stop Talking About AGI Why I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
21st Feb 2025
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Please Stop Talking About AGI

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

21st Feb 2025
Why I think Yann Lecun was right about LLMs (but perhaps only by accident)
My panel at Web Summit about how The Times newsroom uses AI Talking about how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times.
20th Feb 2025
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20th Feb 2025
Talking about how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times.
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
19th Feb 2025
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19th Feb 2025
Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data, availability, latency, and more. The hardest part of system design is that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to design systems that have perfect consistency, perfect availability, incredibly...
If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
17th Feb 2025
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If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

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

17th Feb 2025
Why and how to preserve digital content in plaintext format for long-term accessibility and reuse
2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
14th Feb 2025
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2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI

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

14th Feb 2025
Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
9th Feb 2025
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What is a quotient?

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Feb 2025
Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean, because they have been taught a specific model for quotients in their classes, which is not the model that Lean uses. This post is an attempt to … Continue reading →
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
9th Feb 2025
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Three Observations

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

9th Feb 2025
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...
LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025 From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for...
9th Feb 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Jan 2025

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

9th Feb 2025
From Anthropic's agent patterns to DeepSeek's reasoning breakthroughs, plus innovative tools for document workflows, PDF processing, table understanding, SQL generation, and web automation
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
5th Feb 2025
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How AI companies get around data regulation

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

5th Feb 2025
An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
5th Feb 2025
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Native Speakers

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

5th Feb 2025
How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
5th Feb 2025
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The eighteen hour application: The project AI made possible

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

5th Feb 2025
How I used AI tools to write a personal application from scratch in 18 hours.
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...
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...
Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
3rd Feb 2025
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3rd Feb 2025
Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
3rd Feb 2025
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o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA

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

3rd Feb 2025
New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
The End of Search, The Beginning of Research The first narrow agents are here
3rd Feb 2025
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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
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
3rd Feb 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

3rd Feb 2025
A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
Does DeepSeek Wiping out $1T of Market Value Make Sense? No, but yes—a micro and macro view
2nd Feb 2025
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.
Full Stack AI Agents a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
2nd Feb 2025
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Full Stack AI Agents

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

2nd Feb 2025
a UI for every man, woman, child, and ai agent
The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one...
1st Feb 2025
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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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

1st Feb 2025
IEEE Spectrum reported at the time, it was “the motleyest assortment of vehicles assembled in one place since the filming of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.” Not a single entrant made it across the finish line. Some didn’t make it out of the parking lot. So it’s all the more...
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...
1st Feb 2025
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Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?

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

1st Feb 2025
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…
Do OpenAI's New Reasoning Models (o1 Series) Differ Politically from Their Predecessors? How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political...
28th Jan 2025
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28th Jan 2025
How the o1 models that leverage inference time compute compares to GPT-4o and GPT-3.5 on political orientation tests
What AI can tell us about microscope slides A friendly introduction to Foundation Models for Computational Pathology
28th Jan 2025
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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
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
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
20th Jan 2025
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Think of a number.

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

20th Jan 2025
My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
19th Jan 2025
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Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents

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

19th Jan 2025
How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
What AI can tell us about microscope slides The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer...
15th Jan 2025
1

What AI can tell us about microscope slides

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

15th Jan 2025
The lavender images below show breast tissue. There are many questions doctors could want to answer using these images: They could want to know whether there are tumors present or not. If there is a tumor, doctors would want to classify its stage, make predictions about how...
Running LLM evals right next to your code One of the first things you learn when going down the path of building applications with LLMs is...
15th Jan 2025
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Running LLM evals right next to your code

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

15th Jan 2025
One of the first things you learn when going down the path of building applications with LLMs is that you need evals. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could live in your existing test system, and be run and displayed in CI, just like your tests?
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
14th Jan 2025
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Don't use cosine similarity carelessly

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

14th Jan 2025
Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it better.
Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
13th Jan 2025
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Zvi's 2024 In Movies

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

13th Jan 2025
Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
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...
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...
Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
12th Jan 2025
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Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

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

12th Jan 2025
Exploring how an AI-powered reading experience could look like.
2024 Year in Review At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
10th Jan 2025
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2024 Year in Review

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

10th Jan 2025
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
10th Jan 2025
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Prophecies of the Flood

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

10th Jan 2025
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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
Reposting Partial Pooling Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
9th Jan 2025
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Reposting Partial Pooling

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

9th Jan 2025
Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a great technique to get more reliable models when using categorical variables. I wrote an introduction to them here some time ago. More importantly Nina has now repaired the damage to...
2024 Year in Review 2024 was the year I realised the downside to selling your company, working 3 years in-purchaser, and...
6th Jan 2025
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2024 Year in Review

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Jan 2025
2024 was the year I realised the downside to selling your company, working 3 years in-purchaser, and then taking a year out to heal. You can get totally out of the groove. I launched stuff, I pivoted, I embraced new tech; but I also saw where the landscape of software...
Reflections The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
6th Jan 2025
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Reflections

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

6th Jan 2025
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
3rd Jan 2025
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.
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.
LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024 Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open...
2nd Jan 2025
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LinkedIn Highlights, Dec 2024

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

2nd Jan 2025
Claude’s new PDF API, a playground to build with the new Gemini Realtime Multimodal API, open multimodal vision models from Meta, an open-source Perplexity alternative, and easy LLM fine-tuning
Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
2nd Jan 2025
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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases

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

2nd Jan 2025
Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer. You can’t practice it beforehand (no…
25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI With a review of last year’s predictions
1st Jan 2025
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25 AI Predictions for 2025, from Marcus on AI

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

1st Jan 2025
With a review of last year’s predictions
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
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...
14th Dec 2024
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Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.
The art of being an indie software consultant: a chat with John Berryman You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just...
13th Dec 2024
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13th Dec 2024
You know what’s both intriguing and challenging about the developer consulting world? It’s not just about writing code, it’s about building a whole persona, finding the right clients, while somehow simultaneously also making sense of the rapidly evolving tech landscape.
The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for...
12th Dec 2024
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The Great Web Rebuild: Infrastructure for the AI Agent era

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

12th Dec 2024
How core internet components will transform for an agent-driven web and the new opportunities for startup founders
A brief response to a reader regarding prejudice denoting terms in Swedish media Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a...
11th Dec 2024
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11th Dec 2024
Regarding when Swedish media started to increase mentions of prejudice denoting terminology and a reader comments about it, several things to note:
Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already...
11th Dec 2024
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Fermat’s Last Theorem — how it’s going

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

11th Dec 2024
So I'm two months into trying to teach a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem to a computer. We already have one interesting story, which I felt was worth sharing. Continue reading →
15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
9th Dec 2024
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15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to

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

9th Dec 2024
Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use
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...
Structured outputs Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a...
6th Dec 2024
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Structured outputs

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Dec 2024
Ollama now supports structured outputs making it possible to constrain a model's output to a specific format defined by a JSON schema. The Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries have been updated to support structured outputs.
Which CEO will be the last to see it? What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped...
5th Dec 2024
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Which CEO will be the last to see it?

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

5th Dec 2024
What kept me going during the dark years of 2022 and 2023 when Generative AI was wildly overhyped and I was constantly ridiculed was the secure knowledge that the truth would eventually come out.
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24) The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
5th Dec 2024
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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.
I Built My Resume In Markdown Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
3rd Dec 2024
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I Built My Resume In Markdown

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

3rd Dec 2024
Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
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Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and More

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

2nd Dec 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out...
2nd Dec 2024
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Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters

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

2nd Dec 2024
Why do engineers get mad at each other so often? I think a lot of programmer arguments bottom out in a cultural clash between different…
2nd Dec 2024
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Durable Objects are Computers / Containers / Servers

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

2nd Dec 2024
(everything old is new again)
Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
1st Dec 2024
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Seemingly Paradoxical Rules of Writing

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

1st Dec 2024
With regard to writing, there are many rules and also no rules at all.
I'm writing a book! Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
25th Nov 2024
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I'm writing a book!

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

25th Nov 2024
Why I've been gone over a month, and how you can help
24th Nov 2024
Agent-Responsive Design: Rethinking the web for an agentic future How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
17th Nov 2024
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Agent-Responsive Design: Rethinking the web for an agentic future

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

17th Nov 2024
How AI agents will give birth to a new internet
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...
16th Nov 2024
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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...
Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual...
12th Nov 2024
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Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

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

12th Nov 2024
Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to representative, consistent, and diverse virtual personas by generating and utilizing naturalistic backstories with rich details of individual values and experience. --> We introduce Anthology, a method for conditioning LLMs to...
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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Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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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Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
People want competence, seemingly over everything else All elections are about state capacity
11th Nov 2024
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People want competence, seemingly over everything else

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

11th Nov 2024
All elections are about state capacity
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us “The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
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5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

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

11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.” I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us “The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against...
11th Nov 2024
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5 Devious Tricks Pathogens Use Against Us

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

11th Nov 2024
“The human immune system is amazing, with an impressive range of techniques to protect against invaders.” I see this sentiment expressed frequently by everyone from doctors quoted in newspaper articles to online commentators in parenting groups. And I share it– I loved learning...
6 Things I Would Improve About Dify.AI After using Dify.AI extensively for building a demo, here are six key improvements I'd like to see...
11th Nov 2024
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6 Things I Would Improve About Dify.AI

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

11th Nov 2024
After using Dify.AI extensively for building a demo, here are six key improvements I'd like to see in this powerful prompt engineering tool based on my hands-on experience.
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
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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…
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
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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...
A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To...
7th Nov 2024
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A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code

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

7th Nov 2024
fast.ai is joining Answer.AI, and we’re announcing a new kind of educational experience, ‘How To Solve It With Code’
Llama 3.2 Vision Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
6th Nov 2024
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Llama 3.2 Vision

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

6th Nov 2024
Llama 3.2 Vision 11B and 90B models are now available in Ollama.
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Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and More

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

4th Nov 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
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
39 Lessons on Building ML Systems, Scaling, Execution, and More ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference...
3rd Nov 2024
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3rd Nov 2024
ML systems, production & scaling, execution & collaboration, building for users, conference etiquette.
8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
2nd Nov 2024
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8 signs that Donald Trump has a progressive form of dementia

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

2nd Nov 2024
And how our media is failing, wildly, in one of the most important stories in US history
The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts:...
1st Nov 2024
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1st Nov 2024
I have a fun new puzzle and matching algorithm demonstration to share. The Monkey and the Coconuts: An Introduction to the Extended Euclidean Algorithm Photo by Judgefloro – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43063034 Toying with the idea of...
AI Roundup 091: Search wars November 1, 2024.
1st Nov 2024
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AI Roundup 091: Search wars

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

1st Nov 2024
November 1, 2024.
An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts The parade of made-up numbers never stops
30th Oct 2024
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An epidemic of weirdly precise AI butt facts

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

30th Oct 2024
The parade of made-up numbers never stops
In defense of screen time Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
29th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

29th Oct 2024
Pundits say my husband and I are parenting wrong.
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
In defense of screen time My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding...
28th Oct 2024
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In defense of screen time

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

28th Oct 2024
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and media pundits suggesting that my husband and I are doing things all wrong. The reason for these claims? My...
Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50...
28th Oct 2024
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Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml

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

28th Oct 2024
There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50 responses. Here are some randomly-chosen…
Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
27th Oct 2024
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Architecture vs. Implementation Reviews

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

27th Oct 2024
Differentiating between two different flavors of code reviews.
AlignEval: Building an App to Make Evals Easy, Fun, and Automated Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your...
27th Oct 2024
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27th Oct 2024
Look at and label your data, build and evaluate your LLM-evaluator, and optimize it against your labels.
I own my LLM chat history, and so should you Like the rest of the world, I’ve embraced chatting to large language models (LLMs) as part of my...
24th Oct 2024
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I own my LLM chat history, and so should you

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

24th Oct 2024
Like the rest of the world, I’ve embraced chatting to large language models (LLMs) as part of my professional and personal life. These thoughts-in-writing are important to me, and that’s why I keep a history of them on my own machine. And so should you.
Generating Distinct AI Voice Performances By Prompt Engineering GPT-4o “You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
23rd Oct 2024
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23rd Oct 2024
“You are an expert voice actor specializing in silly voices.”
IBM Granite 3.0 models Ollama partners with IBM to bring Granite 3.0 models to Ollama.
21st Oct 2024
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IBM Granite 3.0 models

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Oct 2024
Ollama partners with IBM to bring Granite 3.0 models to Ollama.
Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
15th Oct 2024
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Life in India is a series of bilateral negotiations

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

15th Oct 2024
finding the new equilibrium for the next superpower
Market Research for Entrepreneurs What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out...
14th Oct 2024
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Market Research for Entrepreneurs

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

14th Oct 2024
What every entrepreneur should start with: Niche Report crunches thousands of signals and spits out a smart niche report. (Market research for entrepreneurs.) The post Market Research for Entrepreneurs first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
11th Oct 2024
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Overcoming writer's block — lessons from AI

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

11th Oct 2024
Let's learn from AI and overcome writer's block one token at a time.
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AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason

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

7th Oct 2024
Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
4th Oct 2024
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FAQ about the book and our writing process

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

4th Oct 2024
What's in the book and how we wrote it
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
4th Oct 2024
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FAQ about the book and our writing process

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

4th Oct 2024
What's in the book and how we wrote it
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
Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
4th Oct 2024
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Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model

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

4th Oct 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1) Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
2nd Oct 2024
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How to build an AI search engine (Part 1)

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

2nd Oct 2024
Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99% Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a...
24th Sep 2024
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Jetstream: Shrinking the AT Proto Firehose by >99%

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

24th Sep 2024
Bluesky recently saw a massive spike in activity in response to Brazil’s ban of Twitter. As a result, the AT Proto event firehose provided by Bluesky’s Relay at bsky.network has increased in volume by a huge amount. The average event rate during this surge increased by...
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
Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker...
20th Sep 2024
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Linguistic Bias in ChatGPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination

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

20th Sep 2024
Sample language model responses to different varieties of English and native speaker reactions. ChatGPT does amazingly well at communicating with people in English. But whose English? Only 15% of ChatGPT users are from the US, where Standard American English is the default. But...
Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now...
18th Sep 2024
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Reduce hallucinations with Bespoke-Minicheck

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

18th Sep 2024
Bespoke-Minicheck is a new grounded factuality checking model developed by Bespoke Labs that is now available in Ollama. It can fact-check responses generated by other models to detect and reduce hallucinations.
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail? Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
13th Sep 2024
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Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail?

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

13th Sep 2024
Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
13th Sep 2024
Something New: On OpenAI's "Strawberry" and Reasoning Solving hard problems in new ways
12th Sep 2024
Mentions of Prejudice in Academic Papers: A Declining Trend Amidst Ongoing DEI Growth? Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms...
10th Sep 2024
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Prejudice-denoting terms in academic research have recently decreased while some DEI-related terms continue to rise—what does this shift reveal?
Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Starting reading the AI Snake Oil book online today

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book will be published on September 24
10th Sep 2024
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Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online

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

10th Sep 2024
The book will be published on September 24
What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly...
9th Sep 2024
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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

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

9th Sep 2024
LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
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...
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...
Building the Same App Using Various Web Frameworks FastAPI, FastHTML, Next.js, SvelteKit, and thoughts on how coding assistants influence builders'...
8th Sep 2024
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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.
TIL: HTTP middleware for custom Go module paths I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing...
5th Sep 2024
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TIL: HTTP middleware for custom Go module paths

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

5th Sep 2024
I want to have my Go modules under my own domain, so instead of importing github.com/maragudk/example, I can import maragu.dev/example. Turns out it’s pretty easy.
Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly...
5th Sep 2024
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Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Sep 2024
This space between ‘vehicles’ of work—between gigs, ideas, or businesses—is profoundly uncomfortable. What to make? The post Uncomfortable Entrepreneur: What to build first appeared on Woody Hayday.
3rd Sep 2024
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More

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

3rd Sep 2024
Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest “This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time,...
2nd Sep 2024
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Workshop: Midjourney Masterclass with Daniel Nest

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

2nd Sep 2024
“This is one of the only webinars where I've actually been glued to my screen for the entire time, not distracted by passing whimsies...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
28th Aug 2024
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How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark

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

28th Aug 2024
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good. Turning models into products runs into five challenges
19th Aug 2024
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19th Aug 2024
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good. Turning models into products runs into five challenges
19th Aug 2024
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AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products. Good.

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

19th Aug 2024
Turning models into products runs into five challenges
spatial compute Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
19th Aug 2024
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spatial compute

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

19th Aug 2024
Let the network decide where in the world to run your code
Evaluating the Effectiveness of LLM-Evaluators (aka LLM-as-Judge) Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
18th Aug 2024
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18th Aug 2024
Use cases, techniques, alignment, finetuning, and critiques against LLM-evaluators.
13th Aug 2024
Your Immune System is Not a Muscle That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the...
12th Aug 2024
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Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

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

12th Aug 2024
That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Who doesn’t love an analogy? But is this one accurate? We can see that not all obstacles make you stronger. Destroy the cartilage in your...
Your Immune System is Not a Muscle That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the...
12th Aug 2024
1

Your Immune System is Not a Muscle

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

12th Aug 2024
That which doesn’t kill you… Some people compare the immune system to a muscle, suggesting that the more you use it, the stronger it gets. Who doesn’t love an analogy? But is this one accurate? We can see that not all obstacles make you stronger. Destroy the cartilage in your...
Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me...
8th Aug 2024
1

Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail

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

8th Aug 2024
Always choose the right tool for the job? Nah. I use Go basically everywhere, which either makes me insightful or stupid. Decide for yourself! :D
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
7th Aug 2024
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Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet

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

7th Aug 2024
AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
Project Pages 2.0 I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more...
7th Aug 2024
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Project Pages 2.0

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Aug 2024
I'm excited to announce Project Pages 2.0 is now available on ProjectPages.io. This is much more than a portfolio maker, this is for all indie makers! Let's go. The post Project Pages 2.0 first appeared on Woody Hayday.
Let's talk about AI power costs It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
6th Aug 2024
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Let's talk about AI power costs

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

6th Aug 2024
It's important, but a lot of recent attention has been concern-trolling
We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing...
3rd Aug 2024
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We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

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

3rd Aug 2024
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this technology almost certainly transform society — and hasn’t AI’s impact on us so...
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
2nd Aug 2024
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How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems

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

2nd Aug 2024
And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
The SearchGPT Paradigm What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
1st Aug 2024
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The SearchGPT Paradigm

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

1st Aug 2024
What people (still) fundamentally misunderstand about AI search.
On speaking to AI Voice changes a lot of things
1st Aug 2024
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On speaking to AI

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

1st Aug 2024
Voice changes a lot of things
Tool support Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to...
25th Jul 2024
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Tool support

from Ollama [alt+shift+b] in AI

25th Jul 2024
Ollama now supports tool calling with popular models such as Llama 3.1. This enables a model to answer a given prompt using tool(s) it knows about, making it possible for models to perform more complex tasks or interact with the outside world.
Small Bet Models 12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I...
22nd Jul 2024
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Small Bet Models

from Woody Hayday [alt+shift+b] in AI

22nd Jul 2024
12 Different approaches to small bets As part of this years experimental entrepreneurship process I thought I’d explore a range of models rather than relying on my ‘known’ entrepreneurial mode (Freemium SaaS/WordPress plugin based business). Below I’ve collected together the...
Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark! Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving...
20th Jul 2024
139

Are We Ready for Multi-Image Reasoning? Launching VHs: The Visual Haystacks Benchmark!

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

20th Jul 2024
Humans excel at processing vast arrays of visual information, a skill that is crucial for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). Over the decades, AI researchers have developed Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems to interpret scenes within single images and answer...
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