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OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile...
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Back when the OpenAI board attempted and failed to fire Sam Altman, we faced a highly hostile information environment.
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In defense of ruthless managers There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are...
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There are two kinds of engineering manager: empathetic and ruthless. I think ruthless managers are underrated for a few reasons. Empathetic…
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I'm Leaving Sentry Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years...
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Every ending marks a new beginning, and today, is the beginning of a new chapter for me. Ten years ago I took a leap into the unknown, today I take another. After a decade of working on Sentry I move on to start something new. Sentry has been more than just a job, it has been a...
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No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation When Language Models Learn to See and Create
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Mind Prison: Notes...
Studio Ghibli - AI's Latest Art Crisis Notes From the Desk: No. 43 - 2025.03.28
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The Tiniest Flying Robot Soars Thanks to Magnets A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less...
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A new prototype is laying claim to the title of smallest, lightest untethered flying robot. At less than a centimeter in wingspan, the wirelessly powered robot is currently very limited in how far it can travel away from the magnetic fields that drive its flight. However, the...
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ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o... Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
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ML for SWEs 4: Waymo is the Perfect Example of ML Engineering, Gemini 2.5 Pro is #1, and GPT-4o... Machine learning for software engineers 3-28-25
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Watch this 3D-Printed Robot Escape Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome...
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Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos 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...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 111: Gemini 2.5 Pro March 28, 2025.
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Gemini 2.5 is the New SoTA Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is America’s next top large language model.
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Marcus on AI
Unwoven How the CoreWeave IPO may be the beginning of the end
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Tactical work in the age of layoffs In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life...
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In the glory days of the 2010s, tech companies were very invested in their employees’ work-life balance. Those glory days are over…
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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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Rust Any Part 3: Finally we have Upcasts Three years ago I shared the As-Any Hack on this blog. That hack is a way to get upcasting to...
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Three years ago I shared the As-Any Hack on this blog. That hack is a way to get upcasting to supertraits working on stable Rust. To refresh your memory, the goal was to make something like this work: #[derive(Debug)] struct AnyBox(Box<dyn DebugAny>); trait DebugAny: Any +...
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...
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Bridging the Efficiency Gap Between FromStr and String Sometimes in Rust, you need to convert a string into a value of a specific type (for example,...
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Sometimes in Rust, you need to convert a string into a value of a specific type (for example, converting a string to an integer). For this, the standard library provides the rather useful FromStr trait. In short, FromStr can convert from a &str into a value of any...
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The Cybernetic Teammate Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
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Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
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...
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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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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…
Mind Prison: Notes...
AI Analysis of The JFK Files Notes From the Desk: No. 42 - 2025.03.19
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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.’
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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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If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here How to get started and make the best use of Machine Learning for Software Engineers
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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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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…
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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...
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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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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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