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AI #109: Google Fails Marketing Forever What if they released the new best LLM, and almost no one noticed?
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Marcus on AI
GenAI’s day of reckoning may have come It’s not just the stock price
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Artificial Ignorance
GPT-4o is the new face of AI image generation The technical evolution reshaping AI's creative capabilities.
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Strange Loop Canon
If AGI is the future, vibe coding is what we should all be doing ...plus the changing definitions of work
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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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Google dropped Gemini Flash Image Generation and then Gemini 2.5 Pro, so of course to ensure Google continues to Fail Marketing Forever, OpenAI suddenly dropped GPT-4o Image Generation.
Marcus on AI
Musk, Grok, and “rigorous adherence to truth“ Elon Musk, yesterday: “Rigorous adherence to truth is the only way to build safe Al.”
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On (Not) Feeling the AGI Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the...
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Ben Thompson interviewed Sam Altman recently about building a consumer tech company, and about the history of OpenAI.
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement...
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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.
Win Vector LLC
Is There a Difference Between Calculation and Computation? Recently I’ve been producing (for my own amusement) example Curta calculations. One motivation was...
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Recently I’ve been producing (for my own amusement) example Curta calculations. One motivation was arguing if a proposed solution method for Dudeney’s digits problem was something that could in fact have been easily executed in 1924. This got me thinking, is there an actual...
One Useful Thing
The Cybernetic Teammate Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Meet Mech, a Superhumanoid Robot 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. European Robotics Forum: 25–27...
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs 3: AI Can't Be copyrighted, Don't Fall for Misinformation, and Stay Safe Online Machine learning for software engineers 3-21-25
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 110: Siri stumbles March 21, 2025.
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They Took MY Job? No, they didn’t.
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Marcus on AI
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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Engineers should state the obvious One surprising thing I’ve learned from writing this blog is that I should worry a lot less about...
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One surprising thing I’ve learned from writing this blog is that I should worry a lot less about saying things that seem obvious. A lot of…
IEEE Spectrum
Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now)...
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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...
Artificial Ignorance
The Self-Made AI Engineer From writing about ChatGPT to becoming a professional AI engineer.
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Going Nova There is an attractor state where LLMs exhibit the persona of an autonomous and self-aware AI...
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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.’
Society's Backend
If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here How to get started and make the best use of Society's Backend
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OpenAI #11: America Action Plan OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are
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Solving the decision...
drop that meet link just keep talking
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Xena
Think of a number: an update A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around...
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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 →
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The good times in tech are over For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered...
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For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were…
Win Vector LLC
Changing Forecasts for Python Questions on Stack Overflow I recently conducted a small time series workshop session for AI+ training hosted by ODSC. It went...
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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...
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs #2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Exploring Phobos 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. European Robotics Forum: 25–27...
Marcus on AI
Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary... Real journalists do due diligence
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 109: Manus Manus Late last week, a new Chinese AI debuted to massive buzz: Manus, a general-purpose AI agent.
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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.
Win Vector LLC
Is GitHub Lying Here? My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I...
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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.
IEEE Spectrum
Kyiv Start-Up Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming...
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Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming could turn the tide in the war against Russia. They are developing an intelligent operating system to enable a single controller to remotely operate swarms of interconnected drones...
Marcus on AI
AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man Guess who won?
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IEEE Spectrum
With Gemini Robotics, Google Aims for Smarter Robots Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI...
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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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Weighty Thoughts
What Mattered in GenAI in 2024 Despite the Noise, The Big Narratives from January are Still the Big Narratives
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Response to Scott Alexander on Imprisonment Back in November 2024, Scott Alexander asked: Do longer prison sentences reduce crime?
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One Useful Thing
Speaking things into existence Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work
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Win Vector LLC
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.
2 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
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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IEEE Spectrum
Worm-like Robots Install Power Lines Underground After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to...
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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...
Marcus on AI
Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame GPT-5 may not be here, but just wait til you see the new round of hype
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Model Context Protocol explained as simply as possible Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks,...
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Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks, interest in it seems to have really picked…
Society's Backend
Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab 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. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 108: Vibecoding March 7, 2025.
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Childhood and Education #9: School is Hell This complication of tales from the world of school isn’t all negative.
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Great software design looks underwhelming Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very...
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Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward - building a CLI tool that hit an…
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AI #106: Not so Fast This was GPT-4.5 week.
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IEEE Spectrum
"Flying Batteries" Could Help Microdrones Take Off Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying...
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Although they’re a staple of sci-fi movies and conspiracy theories, in real life, tiny flying microbots—weighed down by batteries and electronics—have struggled to get very far. But a new combination of circuits and lightweight solid-state batteries called a “flying batteries”...
Artificial Ignorance
Introducing the Model Memo Welcome to a new experiment - the first ever Model Memo!
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Society's Backend
Why You Should Never Let AI Debug for You And 3 ways you should be using AI to code
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Marcus on AI
Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong In a new episode of his podcast with Ben Buchanan former special adviser for artificial intelligence...
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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.
Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
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Strange Loop Canon
In defense of Gemini a kvetch
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On OpenAI's Safety and Alignment Philosophy OpenAI’s recent transparency on safety and alignment strategies has been extremely helpful and...
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Is Elon Musk “dumb”? Maybe not, but there’s something systematically wrong
3 weeks ago
Artificial Ignorance
Hallucinations Are Fine, Actually Why I changed my mind about AI's imperfections
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On Writing #1 This isn’t primarily about how I write.
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IEEE Spectrum
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,...
Marcus on AI
Hinton vs Musk Standing with my long-term nemesis, standing with science
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On GPT-4.5 It’s happening.
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Win Vector LLC
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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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...
Marcus on AI
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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Refactoring won't save you from a layoff With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the...
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With the recent flurry of US federal firings, many people are pointing and laughing at the Trump-voting federal employees who are just now…
Society's Backend
Code with AI but do it correctly ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Good Over All Terrains 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. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5 February 28, 2025.
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On Emergent Misalignment One hell of a paper dropped this week.
3 weeks ago
Marcus on AI
Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger Pure scaling in shambles
4 weeks ago
Strange Loop Canon
How would you interview an AI, to give it a job? from puzzles to poker
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Don't Worry About...
AI #105: Hey There Alexa It’s happening!
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Solving the decision...
an event bus for ai agents it is very professional yes
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Marcus on AI
GPT 4.5 is no GPT-5 Investors should be worried
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Time to Welcome Claude 3.7 Anthropic has reemerged from stealth and offers us Claude 3.7.
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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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Some things you can’t do because they’re impossible. For instance, if you’re designing a distributed system, you can’t violate the CAP…
Marcus on AI
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.
Artificial Ignorance
Claude 3.7 and the banality of reasoning Plus Claude Code and notes on our rapidly converging AI future
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Don't Worry About...
Economics Roundup #5 While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch...
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While we wait for the verdict on Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.7, today seems like a good day to catch up on the queue and look at various economics-related things.
One Useful Thing
A new generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3 Yes, AI suddenly got better... again
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Grok Grok This is a post in two parts.
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Marcus on AI
The United States was founded on speaking up against tyranny This post isn’t about AI; it’s about our future
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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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In a previous post I made the point that having a weak manager - a manager without political clout - is really bad news if you’re an…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Helix 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. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 106: Grok 3 February 21, 2024.
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Society's Backend
Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
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IEEE Spectrum
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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About a year ago, Boston Dynamics released a research version of its Spot quadruped robot, which comes with a low-level application programming interface (API) that allows direct control of Spot’s joints. Even back then, the rumor was that this API unlocked some significant...
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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…
Marcus on AI
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
fasttransform: Reversible Pipelines Made Simple Introducing fasttransform, a Python library that makes data transformations reversible and...
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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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Go Grok Yourself That title is Elon Musk’s fault, not mine, I mean, sorry not sorry:
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Marcus on AI
Grok 3 Beta in Shambles Maximal Truth still seems far away
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Jaz's Blog
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines Often when designing systems, we aim for perfection in things like consistency of data,...
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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...
Society's Backend
AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
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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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Marcus on AI
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.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
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
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Marcus on AI
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI All your thoughts belong to him
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Solving the decision...
ai agents are local first clients sync engines finally have a killer app
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Lessons on thinking from large language models Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars...
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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…
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: PARTNR 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. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 105: AI Action Summit February 14, 2025.
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Don't Worry About...
The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
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Society's Backend
Are LLMs the Future?, OpenAI's Model Spec, How AI Will Impact Law Firms, and More Important resources for 2-14-25
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Don't Worry About...
AI #103: Show Me the Money The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build...
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The main event this week was the disastrous Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit. Not only did we not build upon the promise of the Bletchley and Seoul Summits, the French and Americans did their best to actively destroy what hope remained, transforming the event into a push for a mix of...
Marcus on AI
Breaking: OpenAI's efforts at pure scaling have hit a wall — There is no wall
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The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit It doesn’t look good.
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IEEE Spectrum
Dual-Arm HyQReal Puts Powerful Telepresence Anywhere In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for...
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In theory, one of the main applications for robots should be operating in environments that (for whatever reason) are too dangerous for humans. I say “in theory” because in practice it’s difficult to get robots to do useful stuff in semi-structured or unstructured environments...
Marcus on AI
Everything I warned about in Taming Silicon Valley is rapidly becoming our reality It brings me no joy to say that
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Don't Worry About...
On Deliberative Alignment Not too long ago, OpenAI presented a paper on their new strategy of Deliberative Alignment.
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Marcus on AI
Did Elon Musk just Mu$k Sam Altman? With some bonus eye candy to lighten the mood
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Artificial Ignorance
Two years of Artificial Ignorance A belated 2024 year in review.
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Marcus on AI
Paris AI Summit Train Wreck Almost nobody seems happy
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Levels of Friction Scott Alexander famously warned us to Beware Trivial Inconveniences.
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Solving the decision...
call me maybe AI agents should be addressable
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Engineers who won’t commit force bad decisions Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team...
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Some engineers think it’s a virtue to remain non-committal in technical discussions. Should our team build a new feature in an event-driven…
Marcus on AI
Shame on Google, twice A very, very brief Super Bowl special
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Xena
What is a quotient? Undergraduate mathematicians usually have a hard time defining functions from quotients in Lean,...
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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 →
Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
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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...
Marcus on AI
WARNING: Elon Musk is crippling the future of the United States And I am not sure he even understands the consequences of his own actions
a month ago
Weighty Thoughts
How Will AI Impact Law Firms? An interview with Devansh from Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Humanoids 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. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 104: Deep Research February 7, 2025.
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Society's Backend
Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
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Don't Worry About...
On the Meta and DeepMind Safety Frameworks This week we got a revision of DeepMind’s safety framework, and the first version of Meta’s...
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Marcus on AI
Irony too funny for words Oops
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Good engineers are right, a lot Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s...
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Amazon infamously has a leadership principle where they say “good leaders are right, a lot”. It’s unclear to me how useful it is about…
Society's Backend
How AI companies get around data regulation An overview of federated machine learning, why it exists, and why it's important
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Artificial Ignorance
Native Speakers How AI is evolving for our digital world, and vice versa.
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The Risk of Gradual Disempowerment from AI The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more...
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AI Roundup 103: The DeepSeek edition January 31, 2025.
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𝗔𝗜 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲! My conversation with China’s Victor Gao plus a hot take on... [Sorry to swamp your mailboxes today, but there is a lot of important AI stuff happening.]
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Playing politics is how senior engineers protect their team When I write about doing politically valuable work in big tech companies, I often get comments...
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Hot take on an AI catfight Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
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On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
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Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species...
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The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
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Introduction Theoretical computer scientists tend to love a class of problems I call “hat color” puzzles. There seem to be only a few of these puzzles, yet they feel like examples or tests for a large and important class of methodologies. I’d like to introduce a few of these...
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AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux The contrast couldn’t be starker
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Asimov's Laws of Robotics Need an Update for AI In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in...
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In 1942, the legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics in his short story “Runaround.” The laws were later popularized in his seminal story collection I, Robot. First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow...
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NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
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Crushing JIRA tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did...
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From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
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This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
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Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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What it's like working for American companies as an Australian For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia....
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AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either. Much was quietly revealed yesterday
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Reposting Partial Pooling Nina Zumel had some good articles on partial pooling estimators that I want to return to. It is a...
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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...
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What makes strong engineers strong? As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker...
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AI predictions for 2025 And a review of last year's predictions.
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Is it cynical to do what your manager wants? When I suggest doing what your management chain wants, people call me cynical. Is it cynical to...
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And a look at how people keep trying to redefine (or even revoke) the goalposts of what Artificial General Intelligence means.
IEEE Spectrum
Ensuring the Security and Resilience of Autonomous Fleets with Advanced Testing Frameworks Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks...
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Autonomous systems, particularly fleets of drones and other unmanned vehicles, face increasing risks as their complexity grows. Despite advancements, existing testing frameworks fall short in addressing end-to-end security, resilience, and safety in zero-trust environments. The...
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why. Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...
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Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.
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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,...
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AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
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SwitchBot Introduces Modular Mobile Home Robot Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a...
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Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something...
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Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what...
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IEEE Spectrum
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Could 2025 see the largest cyberattack in history? In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’...
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In a just-published series of very brief essays called “The Incredible, World-Altering ‘Black Swan’ Events That Could Upend Life in 2025”, Politico asked “15 futurists, foreign policy analysts and other prognosticators”, including me, “to provide some explosive potential...
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AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not January 3, 2025.
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3 Key Principles for AI at Scale [Part 2] The key to how large AI companies outcompete
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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases Working in large established codebases is one of the hardest things to learn as a software engineer....
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In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of...
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The future of human habitation in the sea is taking shape in an abandoned quarry on the border of Wales and England. There, the ocean-exploration organization Deep has embarked on a multiyear quest to enable scientists to live on the seafloor at depths up to 200 meters for weeks,...
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Where will AI be at the end of 2027? A bet We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI...
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We, Gary Marcus, author, scientist, and noted AI skeptic, and Miles Brundage, an independent AI policy researcher who recently left OpenAI and is bullish on AI progress, have agreed to the following bet, at 10:1 odds, with criteria drawn from two earlier Substack essays by Gary...
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From 6 Weeks to 600 Seconds (or Less) The revolutionary potential of utilizing AI for electronic hardware design
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What Fraction of Containerization is Just Working Around Dynamic Linking? Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average...
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Quick uniformed rant time. We live in a world of containerization and virtualization. Your average systems engineer wouldn’t dream of running something on an actual computer. Instead they would use Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, or who knows what else. These indirections or...
IEEE Spectrum
The Top 7 Robotics Stories of 2024 2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said...
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2024 was the best year ever for robotics, which I’m pretty sure is not something that I’ve ever said before. But that’s the great thing about robotics—it’s always new, and it’s always exciting. What may be different about this year is the real sense that not only is AI going to...
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How I got promoted to staff engineer twice At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I...
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At the beginning of 2021, Zendesk promoted me to staff software engineer. At the end of 2021 I switched jobs from Zendesk to GitHub. In…
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What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't? Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from...
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Right now people are blowing up on Twitter about whether the USA needs to import top talent from other countries, and if that means that…
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Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
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o3 is important, but not because of benchmarks OpenAI's new model offers a peek at the future of AI investment.
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Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician. So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's...
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So the big news this week is that o3, OpenAI's new language model, got 25% on FrontierMath. Let's start by explaining what this means. Continue reading →
Marcus on AI
𝗼𝟯 “𝗔𝗥𝗖 𝗔𝗚𝗜” 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱: 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝘁... Kevin Roose, of Hard Fork and NYT, was so impressed with OpenAI’s rollout that he joked “of course...
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Why some engineers get trusted with high-impact work It’s fun and rewarding to work on critical tasks. But there’s only so much important work to go...
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In our note “Kelly Can’t Fail” we shared the “Next Card Bet” game as described in Peter Winkler’s Mathematical Puzzles. Our observation is the amazing zero variance strategy shown is in fact the Kelly criteria. Which means, this is a surprising situation where the Kelly strategy...
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Kelly Can’t Fail Introduction You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly...
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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...
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