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Artificial Ignorance
The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read The newest Claude, now with 84% more blackmail.
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Machine Learning for...
Introducing Machine Learning for Software Engineers! Get hands-on with machine learning engineering
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 119: I/O, io, Codex, Claude May 23, 2025
5 days ago
Strange Loop Canon
What to do when the AI blackmails you in questions we're all going to have to learn to ask
5 days ago
One Useful Thing
Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd A formula for AI in companies
6 days ago
Society's Backend:...
Everything developers should know about from Google I/O 2025 An overview of important updates and why they're important
a week ago
Machine Learning for...
Everything developers should know about from Google I/O 2025 An overview of important updates and why they're important
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Artificial Ignorance
SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization What happens when your customers come directly from ChatGPT?
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate... Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
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Strange Loop Canon
Betting on AI risk I. If you think the world will end because of AI, how do you bet on that?
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve May 16, 2025.
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Society's Backend:...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
2 weeks ago
Machine Learning for...
How to be an agentic engineer Everyone tells you to be an 'agentic engineer' but no one tells you how
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
The Pope gets it In age when few political leaders are engaging with AI, Pope Leo XIV gets it.
2 weeks ago
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The importance of character in software engineering Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become...
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Software engineers care a lot about being smart and knowledgeable. Conversations about how to become a better software engineer often center around learning more facts: programming language syntax, design patterns, details of how particular technologies work, and so on. It’s also...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robotic Hippotherapy Horse Riding Simulator Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 117: Google Killer May 9, 2025.
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
Cheaters Gonna Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheat Cheaters.
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Marcus on AI
”Everyone is cheating their way through college” with GenAI. Who should bear the costs? Society is once again left holding the bag
2 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
OpenAI's $3B Bet Unpacking OpenAI's latest acquisition of Windsurf.
2 weeks ago
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How projects fail at large tech companies How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I’ve said many times, failure means executives...
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How do projects fail at large tech companies? As I’ve said many times, failure means executives aren’t happy with how the project turned out. At healthy companies, that typically means that a sensible engineer wouldn’t be happy either, because the project didn’t work or users...
Society's Backend:...
Help me improve Society's Backend! Two simple questions to help make Society's Backend better
2 weeks ago
Machine Learning for...
Help me improve Society's Backend! Two simple questions to help make Society's Backend better
2 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI Claims Nonprofit Will Retain Nominal Control Your voice has been heard.
3 weeks ago
Win Vector LLC
How About Pi ~ 31/32? At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 =...
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At a quick glance: 32 is greater than 10. 31/32 is about 0.96875, not near pi ~ 3.141593. 31/10 = 3.1 is a worse approximation of pi than 22/7 ~ 3.142857.
Marcus on AI
All your data belong to us Surveillance shit is about to get real
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which...
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At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the...
Strange Loop Canon
Working with LLMs: A Few Lessons On digging AI shaped holes
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Technology Review jumps the shark The ultimate in nonsensical AI puff pieces, featuring the ubiquitous Bryan Johnson
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
Zuckerberg's Dystopian AI Vision You think it’s bad now?
3 weeks 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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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...
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Getting things "done" in large tech companies What does it mean to get things done? In the abstract, you can complete a mathematical proof or a...
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What does it mean to get things done? In the abstract, you can complete a mathematical proof or a problem set, but the real world is much fuzzier. Suppose I plant a tree in my backyard. Once the sapling is in the ground, is that done? Not really. There’s always more work to do:...
Marcus on AI
Why DO large language models hallucinate? The Henrietta Chronicles continue, guest starring Harry Shearer
3 weeks ago
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GPT-4o Sycophancy Post Mortem Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how...
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Last week I covered that GPT-4o was briefly an (even more than usually) absurd sycophant, and how OpenAI responded to that.
Society's Backend:...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
3 weeks ago
Machine Learning for...
Now is The Best Time to Be a Software Engineer (ML for SWEs 9) Machine learning for software engineers 5-5-25
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Marcus on AI
The latest AI scaling graph - and why it hardly makes sense Just a because a graph is intriguing doesn’t mean that it means very much
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robots for Extreme Environments Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 116: LlamaCon / Meta AI May 2, 2025.
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI Preparedness Framework 2.0 Right before releasing o3, OpenAI updated its Preparedness Framework to 2.0.
3 weeks ago
IEEE Spectrum
Bot Milk? I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy...
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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...
Don't Worry About...
AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking.
3 weeks ago
AI Snake Oil
AGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts
3 weeks ago
One Useful Thing
Personality and Persuasion Learning from Sycophants
3 weeks ago
Don't Worry About...
GPT-4o Responds to Negative Feedback Whoops.
4 weeks ago
Society's Backend:...
Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
4 weeks ago
Machine Learning for...
Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
4 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
Why I'm Skeptical of AGI Timelines (And You Should Be Too) AI 2027: Brilliant forecast or beautiful fiction?
4 weeks ago
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The valley of engineering despair I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very...
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I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very (perhaps unreasonably) confident that I will ship it successfully. Even so, in every single one of these projects there is a period - perhaps a day, or even a week - where it feels...
Win Vector LLC
Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis Isn’t I have a new “crazy theorists” article up: “Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis...
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I have a new “crazy theorists” article up: “Working Through A Trivial Algorithm Whose Analysis Isn’t.” It is my notes on reading through Jonassen and Knuth’s amazing 1978 article analyzing 2 to 3 node search trees. You would think there couldn’t be a lot to that. But there is! I...
Society's Backend:...
Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8) Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25
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Machine Learning for...
Creative AI Gaining Momentum is More Important Than You Think (ML for SWEs 8) Machine learning for software engineers 4-29-25
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Don't Worry About...
Dating Roundup #4: An App for That Previously: #1, #2, #3.
4 weeks ago
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Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern" People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even...
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People have been making fun of OpenAI models for being overly sycophantic for months now. I even wrote a post advising users to pretend that their work was written by someone else, to counteract the model’s natural desire to shower praise on the user. With the latest GPT-4o...
Strange Loop Canon
Deplatforming: AI edition “This would feel like getting stabbed in the heart.”
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
Worries About AI Are Usually Complements Not Substitutes A common claim is that concern about [X] ‘distracts’ from concern about [Y].
a month ago
Made by Ollin
World Emulation via Neural Network
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: High Mobility Robots for Logistics Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICUAS 2025: 14–17 May 2025,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 115: US v. Google April 25, 2025.
a month ago
Marcus on AI
New adventures in AI hype: “Our language models are so ‘conscious’ we need to give them rights” The return of nonsense on stilts, three years later
a month ago
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The OpenAI house style is exhausting I was reading this Reddit post when I noticed a pattern: a few times now I’ve seen a negative Reddit...
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I was reading this Reddit post when I noticed a pattern: a few times now I’ve seen a negative Reddit comment that to me just screamed “written by ChatGPT”. Here it is, in full: Yes, you’re the asshole. And not because you owe them money — let’s kill that fantasy right now — but...
Don't Worry About...
AI #113: The o3 Era Begins Enjoy it while it lasts.
a month ago
Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s dirty December o3 demo doesn’t readily replicate Don’t believe everything you see
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
o3 Is a Lying Liar I love o3.
a month ago
Rozado’s Visual...
New Results of State-of-the-art LLMs on 4 Political Orientation Tests One model appears closer to the center than the rest
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
You Better Mechanize Or you had better not.
a month ago
Weighty Thoughts
What LLMs Will Do To Jobs: All You Need is an Oracle LLMs are Mainly Tools That Enhance Experts
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
Crime and Punishment #1 This seemed like a good next topic to spin off from monthlies and make into its own occasional...
a month ago
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When you should lie to the language model Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was...
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Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else. The problem is that…
One Useful Thing
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after New models and new thresholds
a month ago
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Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments Some people really, really don’t like AI. Broadly speaking, being anti-AI is a popular left-wing...
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Some people really, really don’t like AI. Broadly speaking, being anti-AI is a popular left-wing position: AI is cringe, it’s plagiarism, it…
Don't Worry About...
o3 Will Use Its Tools For You OpenAI has finally introduced us to the full o3 along with o4-mini.
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Robot Boxing Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025,...
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 7: Eval-driven Model Development? Machine learning for software engineers 4-18-25
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 114: One of those weeks April 18, 2024.
a month ago
Marcus on AI
OpenAI’s o3 and Tyler Cowen’s Misguided AGI Fantasy AI can only improve if its limits as well as its strengths are faced honestly
a month ago
Artificial Ignorance
The MCP Revolution Why this open standard is becoming essential infrastructure for AI agents.
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #112: Release the Everything OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models.
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
The Future of AI and Robotics Is Being Led by Amazon’s Next-Gen Warehouses This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. The cutting edge of robotics and artificial...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Amazon. The cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) doesn’t occur just at NASA, or one of the top university labs, but instead is increasingly being developed in the warehouses of the e-commerce company Amazon. As...
Don't Worry About...
GPT-4.1 Is a Mini Upgrade Yesterday’s news alert, nevertheless: The verdict is in.
a month ago
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.
a month ago
Society's Backend:...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
a month ago
Machine Learning for...
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
a month ago
Marcus on AI
Altman vs Musk cage match Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
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Uh oh. Now Altman wants to build a social media company, to compete with X. Who should we root for?
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on...
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Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman’s very good TED Interview.
AI Snake Oil
AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
a month ago
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman’s attitude problem What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their...
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What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their creations are used”?
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A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often...
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Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #29: April 2025 In Monthly Roundup #28 I made clear I intend to leave the Trump administration out of my monthly...
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In Monthly Roundup #28 I made clear I intend to leave the Trump administration out of my monthly roundups, for both better and worse, outside of my focus areas.
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Why is lmarena.ai dominated by slop? When LMSYS (aka LMArena, aka Chatbot Arena) first blew up, I thought it was the best way possible of...
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When LMSYS (aka LMArena, aka Chatbot Arena) first blew up, I thought it was the best way possible of determining which LLM really was the…
Solving the decision...
guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
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Software engineering under the spotlight Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as...
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Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and…
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs 6: RAG Is Not Dead Machine learning for software engineers 4-11-25
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 6: RAG Is Not Dead Machine learning for software engineers 4-11-25
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Marcus on AI
One giant leap towards authoritarian rule in the United States In the midst of the tariffs, an even bigger story is brewing: Trump is attempting to take over...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day April 11, 2025.
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025,...
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On Google's Safety Plan Google Lays Out Its Safety Plans
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The Berkeley...
Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization... Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications....
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Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications. However, as LLMs have improved, so have the attacks against them. Prompt injection attack is listed as the #1 threat by OWASP to LLM-integrated applications, where an LLM input contains a...
Marcus on AI
Poor ROI for GenAI 61% in a recent survey report no ROI or disappointing ROI.
a month ago
Win Vector LLC
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
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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...
Don't Worry About...
AI #111: Giving Us Pause Events in AI don’t stop merely because of a trade war, partially paused or otherwise.
a month ago
Weighty Thoughts
AI's Endgame (How Foundational Model Companies Can “Win”) Playing monopoly in 2025
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Artificial Ignorance
Llama 4 is a technical triumph and a strategic stumble How Meta's messy launch overshadowed its latest flagship model.
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Don't Worry About...
Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active...
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Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday, look deeply disappointing.
Society's Backend:...
How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at...
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Machine Learning for...
How I Became a Machine Learning Engineer Without an Advanced Degree My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at...
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My path from knowing nothing about software engineering and machine learning to becoming an MLE at Google in 6 years without a master's degree or PhD
Mind Prison: Notes...
AI Creativity: 2 Types, One Possible, One Impossible Notes From the Desk: No. 44 - 2025.04.09
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Don't Worry About...
AI 2027: Responses Yesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and...
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Yesterday I covered Dwarkesh Patel’s excellent podcast coverage of AI 2027 with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander. Today covers the reactions of others.
The Berkeley...
Repurposing Protein Folding Models for Generation with Latent Diffusion PLAID is a multimodal generative model that simultaneously generates protein 1D sequence and 3D...
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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...
Marcus on AI
Deep Learning, Deep Scandal Some of the big tech giants may be playing fast and loose with AI
a month ago
Strange Loop Canon
Vibe Governing using llms to set policy
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
AI 2027: Dwarkesh's Podcast with Daniel Kokotajlo and Scott Alexander Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious...
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Daniel Kokotajlo has launched AI 2027, Scott Alexander introduces it here. AI 2027 is a serious attempt to write down what the future holds. His ‘What 2026 Looks Like’ was very concrete and specific, and has proved remarkably accurate given the difficulty level of such...
Marcus on AI
BREAKING: Bill that would have blocked OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit has mysteriously been... I hope the media will look into this
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: RIVR Delivers Your Package Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025,...
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AI CoT Reasoning Is Often Unfaithful A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They...
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A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this on o3 as well.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 112: OpenAI might be open again April 4, 2025.
a month ago
Society's Backend:...
ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
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Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs 5: AI for Education is Bigger Than You Think Machine learning for software engineers 4-4-25
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Marcus on AI
Did an LLM help write Trump’s trade plan? Probably yes
a month ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #110: Of Course You Know... Yeah.
a month ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Making Quantum Flytrap a polyglot with AI vibe translating Making quantum physics more accessible, thanks to with the power of Claude, DeepSeek, Cursor, and...
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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.
Marcus on AI
AI has (sort of) passed the Turing Test; here’s why that hardly matters Don’t panic
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
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,...
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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...
Don't Worry About...
Housing Roundup #11 The book of March 2025 was Abundance. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are making a noble attempt to...
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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...
IEEE Spectrum
Protecting Robots in Harsh Environments with Advanced Sealing Systems This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing...
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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Freudenberg Sealing Technologies. The increasing deployment of collaborative robots (cobots) in outdoor environments presents significant engineering challenges, requiring highly advanced sealing solutions to ensure reliability and...
Society's Backend:...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
a month ago
Machine Learning for...
3 Ways You Can Sabotage Your Own Tech Career What they are and what you need to understand to avoid them
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Marcus on AI
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...
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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.
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile...
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Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.
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In defense of ruthless managers There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are...
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There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…
Armin Ronacher's...
I'm Leaving Sentry Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years...
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Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years ago I took a leap into the unknown, today I take another. After a decade of working on Sentry I move on to start something new. Sentry has been more than just a job, it has been a...
One Useful Thing
No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation When Language Models Learn to See and Create
a month ago
Mind Prison: Notes...
Studio Ghibli - AI's Latest Art Crisis Notes From the Desk: No. 43 - 2025.03.28
2 months ago
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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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...
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Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google...
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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...
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More on Various AI Action Plans Last week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This...
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Last week I covered Anthropic’s relatively strong submission, and OpenAI’s toxic submission. This week I cover several other submissions, and do some follow-up on OpenAI’s entry.
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They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t.
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Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others And they knew perfectly well what they were doing
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AI #108: Straight Line on a Graph The x-axis of the graph is time.
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When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now) that they’re doing what birds and primates would do to stick the landing: just grabbing the branch and hanging on. But it turns out that squirrels, being squirrels, don’t actually...
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There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI looking to preserve its own existence, frequently called ‘Nova.’
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OpenAI #11: America Action Plan OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are
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I recently conducted a small time series workshop session for AI+ training hosted by ODSC. It went really well, and I’d be happy to offer longer interactive workshops going forward (please reach out if your team would like one!). One of the examples I shared was derived from the...
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On MAIM and Superintelligence Strategy Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence...
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Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence Strategy. There is also an op-ed in Time that summarizes.
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My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I went on my own to our organization’s GitHub administration page and a similar message lives there. We run a small group, so I am pretty sure nobody has in fact asked for […]
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AI #107: The Misplaced Hype Machine The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely...
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The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely hype, but there was very little there there in that Claude wrapper.
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Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI companies are introducing AI agents that can take care of web-based busywork for you, ordering your groceries or making your dinner reservation. Today, Google DeepMind announced two...
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The Most Forbidden Technique The Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques.
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Don’t think of a basketball player, or search engines don’t even support “not” In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a...
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In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a while. This may be a small part of why the newer Large Language Models (LLMs) / Generative AIs look so good. The large language models at least implement a usable approximation of...
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The Manus Marketing Madness While at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come.
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Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions
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After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to prevent future fires has gained renewed urgency in the state. While the exact cause of the fires remains under investigation, California utilities have spent years undergrounding power...
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AI Roundup 108: Vibecoding March 7, 2025.
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In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence under Biden, entitled, The Government knows A.G.I.
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Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
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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...
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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,...
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Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
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Decoding (and debunking) Hard Fork’s Kevin Roose His latest New York Times piece tells us a lot about what he doesn’t really understand
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AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5 February 28, 2025.
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On Emergent Misalignment One hell of a paper dropped this week.
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AI #105: Hey There Alexa It’s happening!
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an event bus for ai agents it is very professional yes
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Paths through the space of all possible solutions Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed...
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Elon Musk's inability to listen to others is torching almost everything he touches Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was...
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Last July, when I was still a regular user of X, I warned, not entirely in jest, that Elon Musk was taking a flamethrower to his own reputation.
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Advice for prompting reasoning models I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models...
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I’ve written about how prompting regular LLMs is not as important as people think. Reasoning models are different. When you’re using…
Win Vector LLC
The Statistics of Drawing Cards After the positive reception of my cards article “Kelly can’t fail” I decided to share more of the...
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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...
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Weak managers In a previous post I made the point that having a weak manager - a manager without political clout -...
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AI Roundup 106: Grok 3 February 21, 2024.
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Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which...
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On OpenAI's Model Spec 2.0 OpenAI made major revisions to their Model Spec.
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Using LLMs effectively isn't about prompting When people talk about using language models effectively they mainly talk about prompting: sharing...
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When people talk about using language models effectively they mainly talk about prompting: sharing great prompts, or lists of tips for…
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GenAI in two words: ”Success Theater” Success Theater
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AI #104: American State Capacity on the Brink The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they...
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The Trump Administration is on the verge of firing all ‘probationary’ employees in NIST, as they have done in many other places and departments, seemingly purely because they want to find people they can fire.
fast.ai
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Introducing fasttransform, a Python library that makes data transformations reversible and extensible through the power of multiple dispatch.
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Ugly Code and Dumb Things This week I had a conversation with one of our engineers about “shitty code” which lead me to...
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This week I had a conversation with one of our engineers about “shitty code” which lead me to sharing with him one of my more unusual inspirations: Flamework, a pseudo framework created at Flickr. Two Passions, Two Approaches There are two driving passions in my work. One is the...
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Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
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Grok 3 Beta in Shambles Maximal Truth still seems far away
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Medical Roundup #4 It seems like as other things drew our attention more, medical news slowed down.
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Grok 3 Hot Take Elon Musk promised that Grok 3 would be the smartest AI ever.
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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.
Mind Prison: Notes...
Why LLMs Don't Ask For Calculators? Notes From the Desk: No. 37 - 2025.02.15
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Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars have been spent to study how they think…
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AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
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The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
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