Rachel Thomas, PhD
Decoding T cells with AI
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s...
8th Jul 2024
I’m studying the intersection of AI and immunology, two notoriously jargon-heavy fields – but it’s important that scientists share their work with a broader audience. This 3-part series is an experiment: an accessible introduction to AI immunology concepts. This post is part 1 in...
Eugene Yan
How to Interview and Hire ML/AI Engineers
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few...
7th Jul 2024
What to interview for, how to structure the phone screen, interview loop, and debrief, and a few tips.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition
July 5, 2024.
5th Jul 2024
Society's Backend:...
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66%
A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
5th Jul 2024
A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
Jaz's Blog
How HLS Works
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky.
The...
5th Jul 2024
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building out server-side short video support for Bluesky.
The major aim of this feature is to support short (90 second max) video streaming at a quality that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg for us to provide for free.
In order to stay within these...
One Useful Thing
Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold
Small improvements can lead to big changes
4th Jul 2024
Small improvements can lead to big changes
AI Snake Oil
New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
AI as Normal...
New paper: AI agents that matter
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
3rd Jul 2024
Rethinking AI agent benchmarking and evaluation
Weighty Thoughts
Software Engineering is Doomed
Or is it?
1st Jul 2024
Eugene Yan
AI Engineer 2024 Keynote - What We Learned from a Year of LLMs
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied...
27th Jun 2024
Special double-feature closing keynote from the 6 authors of the hit O'Reilly article on Applied LLMs.
Max Woolf's Blog
The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Images
Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
26th Jun 2024
Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
Strange Loop Canon
Seeing Like A Network
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
19th Jun 2024
Dark Forests, Dense Networks
Zach Seward
Stephen Clark Seward
My eulogy for Dad
19th Jun 2024
seangoedecke.com RSS...
MCTS and LLMs: what's the big deal?
Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree...
17th Jun 2024
Everyone on the internet is recently very excited about large language models and Monte Carlo tree search. Going back months, the “Q*” leak…
matt.sh
datakit: the most efficient data structures possible
datakit — the most efficient data structure library
A while ago I made a data structure library...
10th Jun 2024
datakit — the most efficient data structure library
A while ago I made a data structure library fixing memory efficiency problems across many data structure types, but I never ended up releasing it.
Now I’m releasing it.
TOC:
History / Why
databox
Efficient Maps
Efficient...
Mind Prison: Notes...
LLMs remain confidently unreliable and is the intelligence explosion near?
Notes From the Desk: No. 34 - 2024.06.08
8th Jun 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 34 - 2024.06.08
One Useful Thing
Doing Stuff with AI: Opinionated Midyear Edition
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
6th Jun 2024
AI systems have gotten more capable and easier to use
Artificial Ignorance
How to leverage long form content with AI
Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
5th Jun 2024
Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
Society's Backend:...
Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning
And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
4th Jun 2024
And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
AI Snake Oil
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
AI as Normal...
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
The Berkeley...
TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
29th May 2024
The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
Mind Prison: Notes...
Users prefer wrong answers when written by AI
Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
26th May 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 33 - 2024.05.24
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Science-based games and explorable explanations
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making...
20th May 2024
Science-based games and interactive explorable explanations are revolutionizing education, making complex topics like physics and machine learning accessible and fun.
Strange Loop Canon
AI embraces its product arc
fuzzy processors are entering mass production
14th May 2024
fuzzy processors are entering mass production
Sam Altman
GPT-4o
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
First, a key part of our...
13th May 2024
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
Eugene Yan
What We've Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
12th May 2024
From the tactical nuts & bolts to the operational day-to-day to the long-term business strategy.
matt.sh
so talent much person
The Most Talented Person In The World
I discovered a genius online. Just look at all her...
11th May 2024
The Most Talented Person In The World
I discovered a genius online. Just look at all her accomplishments:
Jodie is a cross-functional 3D designer and blogger. She has special interests in open source 3D printing for R&D and has spent a lot of time at different projects across the...
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
9th May 2024
Humans are really the ones to be scared of
Rachel Thomas, PhD
The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part...
6th May 2024
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part 1 here. A microbiome is the community of microorganisms found living together in a given habitat. The microbiome of the human gut can contribute to development of autoimmune...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
The microbiomes of wildfires, nanoplastics, and roller derby
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part...
6th May 2024
This is part 2 in a series covering surprising facts about the microbiome. Be sure to check out part 1 here. A microbiome is the community of microorganisms found living together in a given habitat. The microbiome of the human gut can contribute to development of autoimmune...
Society's Backend:...
Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
3rd May 2024
The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
Zach Seward
AI is not like you and me
My talk at an Aspen Institute event
2nd May 2024
My talk at an Aspen Institute event
One Useful Thing
Freeing the chatbot
Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
2nd May 2024
Intelligence, of a sort, is going to be all around us
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to streamline your writing process with Whisper and GPT-4
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
1st May 2024
These Python scripts help me write 3x faster and go from loose ideas to first draft in minutes.
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on HTMX
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX...
29th Apr 2024
HTMX is a new technology that is causing a lot of controversy. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on HTMX to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
From hours to seconds: AI tools to detect animal calls
If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises,...
25th Apr 2024
If you’re currently spending time listening to long audio recordings of birdcalls or animal noises, it’s likely that the last four years of…
Matt Mazur
It’s Time to Build
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
23rd Apr 2024
It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Jaz's Blog
Your Data Fits in Memory (GraphD Part 1)
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things...
15th Apr 2024
I recently shipped a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView at the start of February and things have been going very well. The system scales and handles millions of users without breaking a sweat, the ScyllaDB-backed Data Plane service sits at under 5% DB load in the most...
Mind Prison: Notes...
Stargate - The 100 billion dollar Hail Mary for AGI
Notes From the Desk: No. 31 - 2024.04.13
13th Apr 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 31 - 2024.04.13
Zach Seward
Creating structure with generative AI
My talk at ISOJ 2024
12th Apr 2024
One Useful Thing
What just happened, what is happening next
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9th Apr 2024
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
The Gradient
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
8th Apr 2024
A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
Ollama
Embedding models
Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in...
8th Apr 2024
Embedding models are available in Ollama, making it easy to generate vector embeddings for use in search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications.
Weighty Thoughts
What is Defensibility?
Back to basics for AI startups and others
7th Apr 2024
Back to basics for AI startups and others
Eugene Yan
Building an AI Coach to Help Tame My Monkey Mind
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
7th Apr 2024
Building an AI coach with speech-to-text, text-to-speech, an LLM, and a virtual number.
AI Snake Oil
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time
That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
That’s what makes it worthwhile
AI as Normal...
Tech policy is only frustrating 90% of the time
That’s what makes it worthwhile
3rd Apr 2024
That’s what makes it worthwhile
Artificial Ignorance
YCombinator's AI boom is still going strong (W24)
Combing through all 158 YC AI startups (65% of the batch).
3rd Apr 2024
Combing through all 158 YC AI startups (65% of the batch).
Strange Loop Canon
We all live on a knife's edge, and it's fine
Or: How we weaponised serendipity
2nd Apr 2024
Or: How we weaponised serendipity
Society's Backend:...
Run Your Own Race
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
2nd Apr 2024
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019 (“Antimicrobial Resistance” 2023). In the USA, AMR results annually in 8 million additional days spent in the hospital and over $20 billion in...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Using AI to Discover New Antibiotics
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately...
2nd Apr 2024
A Growing Threat
The WHO estimates that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) contributed to approximately 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019 (“Antimicrobial Resistance” 2023). In the USA, AMR results annually in 8 million additional days spent in the hospital and over $20 billion in...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Masuję powięź, by uwolnić napięcia
1st Apr 2024
Eugene Yan
Task-Specific LLM Evals that Do & Don't Work
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
31st Mar 2024
Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
PromptArmor Blog
Announcing LASEC: LLM Application Security Executive Certification
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
20th Mar 2024
Including a never before seen exploit from PromptArmor's cutting edge threat intelligence team.
Ollama
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama...
14th Mar 2024
Ollama now supports AMD graphics cards in preview on Windows and Linux. All the features of Ollama can now be accelerated by AMD graphics cards on Ollama for Linux and Windows.
Strange Loop Canon
LLMs have special intelligence, not general, and that's plenty.
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
13th Mar 2024
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
Zach Seward
AI news that's fit to print
My talk at SXSW 2024
11th Mar 2024
The Berkeley...
2024 BAIR Graduate Directory
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most...
11th Mar 2024
Every year, the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab graduates some of the most talented and innovative minds in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our Ph.D. graduates have each expanded the frontiers of AI research and are now ready to embark on new...
Weighty Thoughts
Today’s AI critics don’t understand the history of technology
But is AI different than other technologies?
8th Mar 2024
But is AI different than other technologies?
Mind Prison: Notes...
What if it isn't happening, AGI is not coming?
Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
7th Mar 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 28 - 2024.03.06
The Gradient
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text?
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
5th Mar 2024
'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
AI Snake Oil
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
5th Mar 2024
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
AI as Normal...
A safe harbor for AI evaluation and red teaming
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
5th Mar 2024
An argument for legal and technical safe harbors for AI safety and trustworthiness research
One Useful Thing
Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs
Also, we have a prompt library!
4th Mar 2024
Also, we have a prompt library!
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 056: Data deals
March 1, 2024.
1st Mar 2024
Society's Backend:...
Backend Biweekly #1: Important AI Developments and ML Learning Resources
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train...
1st Mar 2024
Updates on Apple, Mistral, and Microsoft and resources to build the GPT tokenizer, use MLX to train models, and benchmark LLMs
AI Snake Oil
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
AI as Normal...
On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
27th Feb 2024
Adding precision to the debate on openness in AI
The Gradient
Why Doesn’t My Model Work?
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to...
24th Feb 2024
Have you ever trained a model you thought was good, but then it failed miserably when applied to real world data? If so, you’re in good company.
The Berkeley...
The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to...
18th Feb 2024
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development,...
Mind Prison: Notes...
The lost civics lesson
Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
13th Feb 2024
Notes From the Desk: No. 25 - 2024.02.12
Jascha’s blog
Neural network training makes beautiful fractals
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
...
12th Feb 2024
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK');
.md h2 {
font-size: 20px;
}
.vimeo-player {
position: relative;
width: 444px;
height: 444px;
...
Eugene Yan
How to Generate and Use Synthetic Data for Finetuning
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and...
11th Feb 2024
Overcoming the bottleneck of human annotations in instruction-tuning, preference-tuning, and pretraining.
One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications
And then there were two.
8th Feb 2024
Society's Backend:...
I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI
And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
6th Feb 2024
And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
Solving the decision...
The next evolution of serverless is stateful
(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
6th Feb 2024
(A lot of words about where I think serverless computing is going.)
Weighty Thoughts
VC Office Hours
Talk to James Wang, author of Weighty Thoughts and General Partner of Creative Ventures
5th Feb 2024
Talk to James Wang, author of Weighty Thoughts and General Partner of Creative Ventures
Rachel Thomas, PhD
How Immune Cells Communicate
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here.
A key obstacle hindering medical...
5th Feb 2024
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here.
A key obstacle hindering medical research for a range of diseases is our lack of understanding of the immune system. Harvard Professor Wayne Koff described his decades of HIV research, “slowly, over time, we began to...
Rachel Thomas, PhD
How Immune Cells Communicate
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here.
A key obstacle hindering medical...
5th Feb 2024
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here.
A key obstacle hindering medical research for a range of diseases is our lack of understanding of the immune system. Harvard Professor Wayne Koff described his decades of HIV research, “slowly, over time, we began to...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA
February 2, 2024.
2nd Feb 2024
David Rozado...
The Political Preferences of LLMs
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with...
2nd Feb 2024
Substantial political homogeneity in Large Language Models (LLMs) responses to questions with political connotations
Ollama
Vision models
New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models...
2nd Feb 2024
New vision models are now available: LLaVA 1.6, in 7B, 13B and 34B parameter sizes. These models support higher resolution images, improved text recognition and logical reasoning.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Can AI diagnose mental conditions within a single conversation?
30th Jan 2024
Ollama
Python & JavaScript Libraries
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy...
23rd Jan 2024
The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in...
AI Snake Oil
Generative AI’s end-run around copyright won’t be resolved by the courts
Output similarity is a distraction
22nd Jan 2024
Output similarity is a distraction
Rachel Thomas, PhD
Applying AI to Immune Cell Networks
The value of domain expertise
Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At...
22nd Jan 2024
The value of domain expertise
Back in 2016, Jeremy Howard and I founded the research lab fast.ai. At the time, deep learning (the technique behind recent advances in AI) was the purview of a small and homogeneous handful of practitioners. The standard approach was to have...
Andrej Karpathy blog
Self-driving as a case study for AGI
Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI,...
21st Jan 2024
Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI, its timelines, and what it might look like. Some of it is hopeful and optimistic, but a lot of it is fearful and doomy, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, a lot of it is also very...
Xena
Lean in 2024
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at...
20th Jan 2024
A huge amount happened in the Lean theorem prover community in 2023; this blog post looks back at some of these events, plus some of what we have to look forward to in 2024. Modern mathematics I personally am a … Continue reading →
Strange Loop Canon
Evaluations are all we need
On analysing talent in LLMs
17th Jan 2024
On analysing talent in LLMs
The Gradient
Deep learning for single-cell sequencing: a microscope to see the diversity of cells
On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell...
13th Jan 2024
On the the pivotal role that Deep Learning has played as a key enabler for advancing single-cell sequencing technologies.
Jaz's Blog
Scaling Go to 192 Cores with Heavy I/O
For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of...
10th Jan 2024
For the past few months I’ve been working alongside Why, Jacob, Dan, and Divy on a new revision of Bluesky’s global AppView.
The AppView is a piece of infrastructure that aggregates posts, likes, follows, etc. from all across ATProto and merges them into a consistent view of the...
Eugene Yan
Language Modeling Reading List (to Start Your Paper Club)
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
7th Jan 2024
Some fundamental papers and a one-sentence summary for each; start your own paper club!
One Useful Thing
Signs and Portents
Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
6th Jan 2024
Some hints about what the next year of AI looks like
Weighty Thoughts
What’s coming next for AI in 2024
A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
5th Jan 2024
A long overdue VC apocalypse and the birth of the first real AI companies
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week
And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
3rd Jan 2024
And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
Society's Backend:...
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
2nd Jan 2024
Why everyone should learn about machine learning
Matt Mazur
Reflecting on My First Year as a Full Time Indie Founder
At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13...
2nd Jan 2024
At the beginning of 2023 I went full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker business, after 13 years of working on it on the side. A year has passed, so I wanted to share an update on how things are going and some lessons learned. Preceden My main focus in 2023 was building AI...
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
29th Dec 2023
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
Eugene Yan
Push Notifications: What to Push, What Not to Push, and How Often
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
24th Dec 2023
Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
The Gradient
Salmon in the Loop
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of...
16th Dec 2023
On fish counting – a complex sociotechnical problem in a field that is going through the process of digital transformation.
PromptArmor Blog
Coming soon
This is PromptArmor Blog.
14th Dec 2023
This is PromptArmor Blog.
Matt Mazur
Running Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts on a Macbook
Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my...
13th Dec 2023
Below are the steps I used to get Mistral 8x7Bs Mixture of Experts (MOE) model running locally on my Macbook (with its Apple M2 chip and 24 GB of memory). Here’s a great overview of the model for anyone interested in learning more. Short version: The Mistral “Mixtral” 8x7B 32k...
fast.ai
A new old kind of R&D lab
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on...
12th Dec 2023
Answer.AI is a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs.
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I...
11th Dec 2023
gRPC is a high-performance RPC framework that is widely adopted in large software companies. I reviewed 1,000s of opinions on gRPC to understand what developers think about it. Here is what I found.
David Rozado...
The political preferences of Grok
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
9th Dec 2023
Elon Musk's response to ChatGPT
Weighty Thoughts
The Mystical Q
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
7th Dec 2023
OpenAI Q*, Primer on Reinforcement Learning, and Implications
One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
7th Dec 2023
A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
Strange Loop Canon
The age of access
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
6th Dec 2023
the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
Society's Backend:...
Always Be Networking
The things you should know about effective networking
5th Dec 2023
The things you should know about effective networking
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 043: Happy birthday, ChatGPT
December 1, 2023.
1st Dec 2023
AI Snake Oil
Model alignment protects against accidental harms, not intentional ones
The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
1st Dec 2023
The hand wringing about failures of model alignment is misguided
David Rozado...
DepolarizingGPT
A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
28th Nov 2023
A Political Chatbot that Gives 3 Politically Diverse Answers to Every Prompt
seangoedecke.com RSS...
How LLMs work
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
26th Nov 2023
Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
matt.sh
AI More Stories from Local Yi 34Bq4
AI More Stories
These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized...
25th Nov 2023
AI More Stories
These were all generated locally using the 34 billion parameter Yi model quantized to 4 bits (20 GB total quantized instead of 70 GB natural width).
It feels almost better than GPT-4 at some tasks. Also considering it costs nothing to run this model locally, the...
AI Tidbits: AI...
The rise of autonomous agents
Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
19th Nov 2023
Did recent trends and OpenAI's GPTs announcement unlock autonomous agents?
Weighty Thoughts
The AI Executive Order
AKA: “We’ll do something about it later”
17th Nov 2023
AKA: “We’ll do something about it later”
The Berkeley...
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks
TLDR: We propose the asymmetric...
14th Nov 2023
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks
TLDR: We propose the asymmetric certified robustness problem, which requires certified robustness for only one class and reflects real-world adversarial scenarios. This focused setting allows us to introduce...
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
9th Nov 2023
"Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
Matt Mazur
Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
7th Nov 2023
One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
Society's Backend:...
Ask Stupid Questions
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
7th Nov 2023
I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term memory ceases to function properly. I’ve become victim to this and I’ve started taking very detailed notes during meetings. If my brain won’t store the information, something else...
Eugene Yan
Out-of-Domain Finetuning to Bootstrap Hallucination Detection
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
5th Nov 2023
How to use open-source, permissive-use data and collect less labeled samples for our tasks.
Xena
Formalising modern research mathematics in real time
(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and...
4th Nov 2023
(This is a guest post by Bhavik Mehta) On March 16, 2023, a paper by Campos, Griffiths, Morris, and Sahasrabudhe appeared on the arXiv, announcing an exponential improvement to the upper bound on Ramsey numbers, an open problem since 1935. … Continue reading →
Artificial Ignorance
What President Biden's AI executive order actually means
I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
1st Nov 2023
I read all 111 pages so you don't have to.
One Useful Thing
Working with AI: Two paths to prompting
Don't overcomplicate things
1st Nov 2023
Don't overcomplicate things
Matt Mazur
Preceden’s Spam Problem
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
20th Oct 2023
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
16th Oct 2023
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot has recently taken the software engineering world by storm, hitting a milestone of...
10th Oct 2023
GitHub Copilot has recently taken the software engineering world by storm, hitting a milestone of $100M ARR. This achievement alone qualifies it to be a publicly listed company. Meanwhile, funding continues to flow into code-focused LLM use cases. But what do developers actually...
Weighty Thoughts
Let’s Talk About AI Compute
What really matters and why AI computing is exactly the same as all other large-scale computing
9th Oct 2023
What really matters and why AI computing is exactly the same as all other large-scale computing
Strange Loop Canon
Mind the Gap
from empire to umpire
9th Oct 2023
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment
This essay first appeared in Reboot.
Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
7th Oct 2023
This essay first appeared in Reboot.
Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Ollama
Ollama is now available as an official Docker image
Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU...
5th Oct 2023
Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU acceleration on Linux.
Artificial Ignorance
Why now?
What's behind our current AI boom?
4th Oct 2023
What's behind our current AI boom?
AI Snake Oil
Evaluating LLMs is a minefield
Annotated slides from a recent talk
4th Oct 2023
Annotated slides from a recent talk
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
3rd Oct 2023
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
Society's Backend:...
An AI Revolution Isn't Coming - We're Already In It
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
3rd Oct 2023
A small showcase of companies using AI in ways that will change your life
Strange Loop Canon
Symposium: On Building God
29th Sep 2023
Jaz's Blog
Solving Thundering Herds with Request Coalescing in Go
Caches are a wonderful way to make your most frequent operations cheaper.
If you’ve got a resource...
28th Sep 2023
Caches are a wonderful way to make your most frequent operations cheaper.
If you’ve got a resource somewhere on disk (or a network hop away) that is accessed often, changes infrequently, and fits in memory, you’ve got an excellent candidate for a cache!
Caching Celebrity...
Weighty Thoughts
Fear and Loathing in 7nm
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
18th Sep 2023
How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
Jascha’s blog
Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
...
10th Sep 2023
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'G-1XJMTJ5KCK');
.md h2 {
font-size: 20px;
}
AI has the power to change the world in both wonderful and terrible ways. We should try to...
The Gradient
Text-to-CAD: Risks and Opportunities
In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we...
9th Sep 2023
In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we steer this technology towards better outcomes?
Ollama
How to prompt Code Llama
This guide walks through the different ways to structure prompts for Code Llama and its different...
9th Sep 2023
This guide walks through the different ways to structure prompts for Code Llama and its different variations and features including instructions, code completion and fill-in-the-middle (FIM).
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
8th Sep 2023
Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
AI Snake Oil
One year update: book submitted; TIME 100; Sep 21 online workshop
It's been an eventful year
8th Sep 2023
It's been an eventful year
Society's Backend:...
How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
5th Sep 2023
The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool
AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
5th Sep 2023
AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
Solving the decision...
Odeon Plus
I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
5th Sep 2023
I bought a membership to the movies and it's awesome
fast.ai
Can LLMs learn from a single example?
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but...
4th Sep 2023
We’ve noticed an unusual training pattern in fine-tuning LLMs. At first we thought it’s a bug, but now we think it shows LLMs can learn effectively from a single example.
fast.ai
Can LLMs learn from a single example?
Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam...
3rd Sep 2023
Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam questions, we observed some highly unusual training loss curves. In particular, it appeared the model was able to rapidly memorize examples from the dataset after seeing them just...
Eugene Yan
Evaluation & Hallucination Detection for Abstractive Summaries
Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations.
3rd Sep 2023
Reference, context, and preference-based metrics, self-consistency, and catching hallucinations.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue
September 1, 2023
1st Sep 2023
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind finally went viral
Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s...
16th Aug 2023
Last week, the Twitter account Everything Out of Context posted a screenshot showing Google’s incorrect response to the search query “country in africa that starts with k”: The tweet went viral, garnering over 133k likes, 6k retweets, and 1k replies. Someone eventually tagged me...
Weighty Thoughts
Compute is Overrated as AI’s Bottleneck
You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
16th Aug 2023
You can’t just blindly extrapolate compute requirements
matt.sh
AI Is This Correct?
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is...
15th Aug 2023
AI Is This Correct?
One of the most useful interactions I have with the chatbots is just asking “is this correct?” after an output.
The chat model doesn’t involve a code interperter or require running anything, but often the robot can re-evalute its previous output to find its...
Eugene Yan
How to Match LLM Patterns to Problems
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
13th Aug 2023
Distinguishing problems with external vs. internal LLMs, and data vs non-data patterns
AI Snake Oil
ML is useful for many things, but not for predicting scientific replicability
How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
11th Aug 2023
How the veneer of AI is used to legitimize awful ideas
Jaz's Blog
Speeding Up Massive PostgreSQL Joins with Common Table Expressions
I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent...
10th Aug 2023
I’ve been continuing to work on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network.
This network creates text-based posts at a rate of around 400,000 posts per day, and I’ve been feeding the posts through different ML models to try and...
Dylan Huang Blog
I Reviewed 1,000s of GraphQL vs. REST perspectives
Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations,...
10th Aug 2023
Ask any developer: do you prefer GraphQL or REST? This often leads to opinionated conversations, sometimes even devolving into vulgar opinions rather than objective facts.
Society's Backend:...
Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges
A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
8th Aug 2023
A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
Artificial Ignorance
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models?
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
2nd Aug 2023
Inside the emerging model menagerie.
One Useful Thing
In Praise of Boring AI
Automation has always been about killing tedious work. AI can do the same.
2nd Aug 2023
Automation has always been about killing tedious work. AI can do the same.
Zach Seward
The jackpot is a lie
Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
1st Aug 2023
Lotteries are obviously a scam, but did you know the scam is getting worse?
Ollama
Run Llama 2 uncensored locally
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored...
1st Aug 2023
This post will give some example comparisons running Llama 2 uncensored model versus its censored model.
Eugene Yan
Patterns for Building LLM-based Systems & Products
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
30th Jul 2023
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
fast.ai
The real risk of AI is how it concentrates power
Friends with no previous interest in AI ethics have begun asking me questions in the wake of the...
28th Jul 2023
Friends with no previous interest in AI ethics have begun asking me questions in the wake of the release of ChatGPT4, Bard, and Bing Chat. This new generation of large language models has made headlines and sparked widespread debate. To consider the risks posed by new AI...
matt.sh
htmx is a erlang
htmx is a erlang
htmx, a disciple of hypermedia, available only in hardcover do not look for...
23rd Jul 2023
htmx is a erlang
htmx, a disciple of hypermedia, available only in hardcover do not look for alternatives, has been manifesting itself into existence recently (recently: after 10 years of work1) and has finally reached critical mass2.
let’s look into it.
universal server
joe...
Zach Seward
Feast your eyes on these delicious charts
Here are today's specials.
19th Jul 2023
Here are today's specials.
AI Snake Oil
Is GPT-4 getting worse over time?
A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
19th Jul 2023
A new paper going viral has been widely misinterpreted
Matt Mazur
Looking to sell Emergent Mind
I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site...
10th Jul 2023
I currently have two products: Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker, and Emergent Mind, an AI news site and newsletter. Emergent Mind began last December as LearnGPT, a ChatGPT examples site, and I later renamed it to Emergent Mind and transitioned it the news site that it is today:...
The Berkeley...
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
10th Jul 2023
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
fast.ai
AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in...
10th Jul 2023
Model licensing & surveillance will likely be counterproductive by concentrating power in unsustainable ways
The Gradient
What Do LLMs Know About Linguistics? It Depends on How You Ask
On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and...
9th Jul 2023
On the phenomenon of LLM sensitivity to prompting choices through two core linguistic tasks and categorize how specific prompting choices can affect the model's behavior.
One Useful Thing
The Homework Apocalypse
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
1st Jul 2023
Fall is going to be very different this year. Educators need to be ready.
The Berkeley...
Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention
-->
Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture.
(I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the...
29th Jun 2023
-->
Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture.
(I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the fine-grained (FG) ground truth conformer $X$, RDKit approximate conformer $\mathcal{R}$ , and coarse-grained (CG) conformer $\mathcal{C}$ as inputs (derived from $X$ and a predefined...
The Gradient
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve
A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments
Humans have a good track record...
26th Jun 2023
A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments
Humans have a good track record of innovation. The mechanization of agriculture, steam engines, electricity, modern medicine, computers, and the internet—these technologies radically changed the world. Still, the...
Frank’s Ramblings
a16z Blogs Are Just Glorified Marketing
… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is
I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on...
20th Jun 2023
… glorified marketing for portfolio companies, that is
I came across one of a16z’s blog posts on Hacker News today, titled Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications. For folks who didn’t catch it, here’s the tl;dr:
The emerging LLM stack is composed of several elements centered...
matt.sh
AI Indulgence at your Convenience
Now Available: AI Indulgences
Good news, everyone! I’m selling AI indulgences so you can avoid...
11th Jun 2023
Now Available: AI Indulgences
Good news, everyone! I’m selling AI indulgences so you can avoid AI-based retaliation for your past and future transgressions.
2023-06 Update: Due to accelerating AI advances, the rate is increased from 0.01% per day to 0.05% per day starting June...
Eugene Yan
Obsidian-Copilot: An Assistant for Writing & Reflecting
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
11th Jun 2023
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
AI Snake Oil
Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks
Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
10th Jun 2023
Non-proliferation only benefits incumbents
One Useful Thing
Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true...
3rd Jun 2023
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.
David Rozado...
Pessimism in News Media Headlines
In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of...
1st Jun 2023
In previous work, I documented the growing emotional negativity (anger, fear, sadness, etc) of American news media headlines between the years 2000 and 2019. Here, I extend that work by examining the attitudinal tone (pessimism, optimism or neutrality
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Genesis 1 but every word begins with 'A' - with GPT4
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
31st May 2023
"At arrival, Almighty assembled above and abyss." Can GPT4 write constrained poetry?
AI Snake Oil
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
31st May 2023
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
25th May 2023
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
The Berkeley...
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with...
TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
23rd May 2023
TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image.
Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
Solving the decision...
smol party: Hello Wololo!
Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
22nd May 2023
Founder to founder, Shawn and I swap stories and thoughts on building a startup
Jaz's Blog
Speeding up Postgres Queries by 200x with Analyze
I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a...
20th May 2023
I’ve been working on a growing series of services that archive, analyze, and represent data from a social network.
Part of this process involves archiving every post on a social network, running Computer Vision models on every image posted to the network, and running sentiment...
Eugene Yan
Open-LLMs - A list of LLMs for Commercial Use
It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
7th May 2023
It started with a question that had no clear answer, and led to eight PRs from the community.
fast.ai
Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment...
4th May 2023
Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.
One Useful Thing
It is starting to get strange.
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
2nd May 2023
Let's talk about ChatGPT with Code Interpreter & Microsoft Copilot
Jaz's Blog
How to use ChatGPT to Write Good Code Faster
There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of...
19th Apr 2023
There’s been a lot of hype about Large Language Models (LLMs) lately with lots of cool examples of people using tools like ChatGPT to draft Python scripts, Go code, and all sorts of other useful things.
Okay, so how do I use ChatGPT effectively?
How do I Use ChatGPT...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Polacy walczą o „cyfrowego Oskara”
17th Apr 2023
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went.
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
14th Apr 2023
Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: First 3 Months in Review
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS...
10th Apr 2023
At the end of 2022 I stopped contracting at Help Scout to focus full time on Preceden, a SaaS timeline maker tool that I had been running mostly as a side project since 2010. It’s April now so I figured I’d share an update on how things are going. My periodic Friday updates cover...
Eugene Yan
Experimenting with LLMs to Research, Reflect, and Plan
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
9th Apr 2023
Also, shortcomings in document retrieval and how to overcome them with search & recsys techniques.
David Rozado...
The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon
The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
6th Apr 2023
The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide
One Useful Thing
Thinking companion, companion for thinking
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
5th Apr 2023
Some simple ways to use AI to break you out of biases
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
4th Apr 2023
We’ve released our new course with over 30 hours of video content.
Full Width 
Shortcuts 
Sign Up 
Log In 
Articles 
Reading List 