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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...
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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.
6 months ago
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Monthly Roundup #27: February 2025 I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the...
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I have been debating how to cover the non-AI aspects of the Trump administration, including the various machinations of DOGE.
Mind Prison: Notes...
Why LLMs Don't Ask For Calculators? Notes From the Desk: No. 37 - 2025.02.15
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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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The Mask Comes Off: A Trio of Tales This post covers three recent shenanigans involving OpenAI.
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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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Mind Prison: Notes...
2025 Important Updated Perspectives on AI Notes From the Desk: No. 36 - 2025.02.13
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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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Don't Worry About...
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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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
7 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
How Will AI Impact Law Firms? An interview with Devansh from Artificial Intelligence Made Simple
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Armin Ronacher's...
Seeking Purity The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also...
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The concept of purity — historically a guiding principle in social and moral contexts — is also found in passionate, technical discussions. By that I mean that purity in technology translates into adherence to a set of strict principles, whether it be functional programming,...
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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Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
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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…
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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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The baseline scenario as AI becomes AGI becomes ASI (artificial superintelligence), if nothing more dramatic goes wrong first and even we successfully ‘solve alignment’ of AI to a given user and developer, is the ‘gradual’ disempowerment of humanity by AIs, as we voluntarily...
Marcus on AI
Google, 2001: Don’t Be Evil Google, 2025: Fuck It
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Weighty Thoughts
AI Winters and The Third Wave of Today A sneak preview from my upcoming book "What You Need To Know About AI"
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Marcus on AI
ChatGPT in Shambles After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist
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After two years of massive investment and endless hype, GPT’s reliability problems persist
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We're in Deep Research The latest addition to OpenAI’s Pro offerings is their version of Deep Research.
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How I use LLMs as a staff engineer Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re...
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Software engineers are deeply split on the subject of large language models. Many believe they’re the most transformative technology to ever…
Armin Ronacher's...
Fat Rand: How Many Lines Do You Need To Generate A Random Number? I recently wrote about dependencies in Rust. The feedback, both within and outside the Rust...
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I recently wrote about dependencies in Rust. The feedback, both within and outside the Rust community, was very different. A lot of people, particularly some of those I greatly admire expressed support. The Rust community, on the other hand, was very dismissive on on Reddit...
Marcus on AI
Deep Research, Deep Bullshit, and the potential (model) collapse of science Sam Altman’s hype might just bite us all in the behind
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o3-mini Early Days and the OpenAI AMA New model, new hype cycle, who dis?
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