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Weighty Thoughts
AI in Hedge Funds and High Finance Talking about the future of AI in finance with Alex Campbell
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #100: Meet the New Boss Break time is over, it would seem, now that the new administration is in town.
7 months ago
Marcus on AI
Hot take on an AI catfight Yesterday OpenAI announced a huge infrastructure project, partly framed as pushing the U.S.
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On DeepSeek's r1 r1 from DeepSeek is here, the first serious challenge to OpenAI’s o1.
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
R1 is reasoning for the masses Why everyone's focused on DeepSeek's new R1 model - and what it means for AI geopolitics.
7 months ago
Strange Loop Canon
What would a world with AGI look like?
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Sleep, Diet, Exercise and GLP-1 Drugs As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are...
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As always, some people need practical advice, and we can’t agree on how any of this works and we are all different and our motivations are different, so figuring out the best things to do is difficult.
IEEE Spectrum
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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Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality data that can be fed into...
Marcus on AI
The 2023 White House Executive Order on AI has Been Rescinded See here.
7 months ago
Solving the decision...
The unfortunate truth of software for technologists It's all about the money, baby
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Monthly Roundup #26: January 2025 Some points of order before we begin the monthly:
7 months ago
Xena
Think of a number. My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is...
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My feed was recently clogged up with news articles reporting that Sam Altman thinks that AGI is here, or will be here next year, or whatever. I will refrain from giving even more air to this nonsense by linking to … Continue reading →
Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent! Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
7 months ago
Win Vector LLC
Hat Color Puzzles Introduction Theoretical computer scientists tend to love a class of problems I call “hat color”...
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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...
AI Tidbits: AI...
Rewiring the Internet: Commerce in the Age of AI Agents How commerce, payments, and marketing should evolve for an agent-mediated internet
7 months ago
Weighty Thoughts
My Book's Pre-Sale is Live! Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
7 months ago
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Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand....
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If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things…
Armin Ronacher's...
Automatic Server Reloading in Rust on Change: What is listenfd/systemfd? When I developed Werkzeug (and later Flask), the most important part of the developer experience for...
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When I developed Werkzeug (and later Flask), the most important part of the developer experience for me was enabling fast, automatic reloading. Werkzeug (and with it Flask), this is achieved by using two procsses at all times. The parent process holds on to the file...
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Thinking clearly about software You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback...
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You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback loop of writing and running code is so…
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It? The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
7 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade 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 101: Strange bedfellows January 17, 2025.
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Meta Pivots on Content Moderation There’s going to be some changes made.
7 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Multimodal Biometric Authentication, Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2024, 5 Common Mistakes to... Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
AI #99: Farewell to Biden The fun, as it were, is presumably about to begin.
7 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Call of Duty has a data science problem A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
7 months ago
Marcus on AI
“LLMs amplify existing security risks and introduce new ones” also: “the work of securing AI systems will never be complete”
7 months ago
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Giving pushback to leadership Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re...
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Saying no to leadership is sometimes necessary when you’re at the helm of a project. Whether they’re proposing a timeline that can’t be…
Marcus on AI
AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux The contrast couldn’t be starker
7 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
The greatest movies never made A look into the world of AI-generated movie trailer slop.
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
On the OpenAI Economic Blueprint Table of Contents
7 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
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...
Don't Worry About...
NYC Congestion Pricing: Early Days People have to pay $9 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
7 months ago
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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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Don’t be a JIRA ticket zombie! I think a common experience among ambitious juniors - certainly I did this once - is to get frustrated at the…
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Don't use cosine similarity carelessly Cosine similarity - the duct tape of AI. Convenient but often misused. Let's find out how to use it...
7 months ago
Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence” The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
7 months ago
Don't Worry About...
Zvi's 2024 In Movies Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the...
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Now that I am tracking all the movies I watch via Letterboxd, it seems worthwhile to go over the results at the end of the year, and look for lessons, patterns and highlights.
Society's Backend:...
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and... Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
The impeccable logic of Sam Altman From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further...
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From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
Matt Mazur
2024 Year in Review At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
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At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Arms on Vacuums 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 100: CES January 10, 2025.
8 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
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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Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
8 months ago
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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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For the last ten years I’ve worked for American tech companies as an Australian based in Australia. First I worked in a satellite office for…
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates Guest Post in AI Supremacy
8 months ago
Marcus on AI
AGI isn’t coming in 2025 — and GPT-5 may well not emerge this year, either. Much was quietly revealed yesterday
8 months ago
Win Vector LLC
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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As I’ve written about before, what defines a strong engineer is the ability to do tasks that weaker engineers can’t, even with near…
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025 And a review of last year's predictions.
8 months ago