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Weekly Backend #7: 39 Resources and Updates GPT-4o, Google I/O, Fugaku LLM, Prep for Machine Learning Interviews, and more
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Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
a year ago
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Weekly Backend #6: 59 Resources and Updates, AI is Taking Off in Medicine Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically,...
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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically, Apple is bringing their AI chips to data centers, StackOverflow partners with OpenAI, and more
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If You Understand Bananas, You Can Understand Machine Learning A simplified high-level overview of primary machine learning algorithms for anyone to understand
a year ago
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Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
a year ago
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Know Your Benchmarks How the Chatbot Arena leaderboard for LLMs works and why it’s important to understand
10 months ago
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Why Rust Isn't Killing C++ And a consideration for choosing a language
10 months ago
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No One Should Be GPU Poor For everyone to have access to AGI, everyone must also have access to the compute to use it
9 months ago
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I Beat Newsletter Fatigue With AI And why direct forms of communication will always be super valuable
a year ago
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What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
9 months ago
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The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
7 months ago
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What Apple Intelligence Means for You "We think you're gonna LOVE it"
8 months ago
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Things Everyone Should Understand About the Stanford AI Index Report And my notes on why they’re important
10 months ago
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Why Software Engineers Need to Understand Machine Learning And how ML helps software engineers in their daily work
8 months ago
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Alignment: Understanding the Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity within Machine Learning A glimpse into the biggest challenge in the world of AI, why it matters to you, and why it's worth...
a year ago
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Why Machine Learning Terminology is So Confusing And definitions for the most important terms you should know
a year ago
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Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
9 months ago
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The Unfortunate Truth Regarding AI Regulation And the impact it'll have for decades to come
8 months ago
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Run Your Own Race What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
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Devin Has Exposed a Major Issue with Software Engineering And isn't that we're all going to lose our jobs
11 months ago
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Machine Learning Infrastructure: The Bridge Between Software Engineering and AI What makes machine learning infra so important and why I find it so interesting
a year ago
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Clarifying DEI What makes DEI important and where it fails
a year ago
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Why Machine Learning Technical Debt is Especially Bad And effective ways to mitigate it
11 months ago
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Why Gemini's Struggles Aren't Straightforward And an overview of LLM security issues
11 months ago
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The Fastest Way to Get Up to Speed on Machine Learning Fundamentals for Free Announcing the ML Road Map-Turbo
8 months ago
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OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
9 months ago
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer And other practical guides to understand machine learning
a year ago
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Updates to Society's Backend New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and...
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New benefits for paid subscribers, support Society's Backend for just $1/mo, a referral program, and more
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Weekly Backend #4: 62 Total Resources Apple’s LLM OpenELM, GPT-4-Turbo, Phi-3, Grok-1.5 Vision, and more
10 months ago
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Positioning Myself: The Greatest Piece of Career Advice I've Ever Received And how it changed my personal life too
a year ago
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Call of Duty has a data science problem A lesson in why data science matters and what makes it so complex
a month ago
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OpenAI's Strawberry May Enhance AI Reasoning, Optimization of Vision Language Models, Info on... Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
7 months ago
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Would You Build the Manhattan Project in the UAE? Thoughts on AI national security threats
8 months ago
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The Metrics Machine Learning Engineers Care About That Modelers Don't And a brief overview of TPUs in Google data centers
11 months ago
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LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
7 months ago
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Mastering the Art of Documentation Documentation is really just glorified dog sitting
a year ago
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Why Machine Learning Systems Misbehave And what makes them so difficult to work with
7 months ago
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OpenAI's o1, Model Merging, California Approves AI Regulation, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-17
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases...
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The fastest way to get up to speed on ML fundamentals, Meta releases new models, NVIDIA releases open models, Google generates audio for video, and more
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Open Models Catching Up, SearchGPT Release, Deepfake Victims Protected by Regulation, and More Weekly updates and resources 7/29/24
6 months ago
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The State of AI in China Is China winning the race to AGI?
7 months ago
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Godmother of AI Warns Against Regulation, Apple Intelligence System Prompts, Faster and Cheaper AI,... Machine learning resources and updates 8/12/2024
6 months ago
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What Makes Machine Learning so Hard for Software Engineers How decades of learning a mindset makes adapting difficult
6 months ago
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How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
6 months ago
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 7/8/24 Everything I've been reading
7 months ago
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One Year of Society's Backend The lessons I've learned along the way
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Meta's New Segmentation Model, A New Open-Source Image Generation Model, Apple Intelligence Model... Machine learning resources and updates 8/5/2024
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Google AI Essentials, A New LLM Benchmark, Washington's AI Task Force, and More [Top 10 ML Resource... Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and...
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates Below are the top 10 machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I share more frequent ML updates on X so don’t forget to follow me there. Support Society's Backend for just $1/mo
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Always Be Networking The things you should know about effective networking
a year ago
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Founder Mode, How AI Impacts Education, Diffusion Models As Real-Time Game Engines, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-03
5 months ago
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Backend Biweekly #3: 97 Updates and Resources Huge Nvidia Updates, Gemini Hackathon for Money, and more
10 months ago
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The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
5 months ago
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JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning What JAX is and its potential applications
8 months ago
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Discussions around OpenAI's o1, Superhuman AI, When AI Should Be An App, and More Discussions from the past week: 09/16/2024
5 months ago
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Backend Biweekly #2: 112 Total Updates and Resources Details on Metas training clusters, analysis of ML competitions in 2023, AI's impact on water...
11 months ago
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Should You Get a PhD? The one good reason to do a PhD and two others that fall flat
4 months ago
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Pelosi opposes SB 1047, New LLM Training Paradigms, Prompt Caching to Save 90% of API Costs, and... Machine learning resources and updates 8/19/2024
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New Evals for Better Models, AI Research Papers Made Easier to Understand, Train Your Own Flux LoRA,... Machine learning highlights and resources 9-23-24
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1000+ AI Agents Make a Civilization, xAI Creates the Largest Supercomputer in 4 Months, Possible AI... Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-09
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AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
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AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24] Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank...
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Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank you for supporting Society's Backend! Don't forget to also follow me on X. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
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AI Reading List 2: Mathematical Limitations of LLMs, A SQL Roadmap for Data Science, and... Society's Backend Reading List 10-14-2024
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve...
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Below are all machine learning resources and updates from the past week you don't want to miss. I’ve decided to try out separating paid/free updates. I’m constantly trying new ways to make information consumption easier for you while working within the confines of the platforms...
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Top 10 Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/14/2024 A new AI employee, a four hour video on recreating GPT-2, meritocracy at Scale, and more
8 months ago
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Weekly Backend #5: 55 Resources The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful...
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The inner workings of transformers, Machine Learning Q and AI, machine learning classifies harmful viruses, and more
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AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
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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...
11 months ago
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MatMul-free Machine Learning Can Improve Efficiency, Excellent Foundational Learning Resources, SSMs... The top 10 most important updates of last week: 7/8/24
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A Technical Perspective: Has Google Search Gotten Worse? Providing a technical perspective for a more educated assessment of a complaint I hear quite...
4 months ago
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MASSIVE New Model Releases from Google, OpenAI, and Meta Change the AI Landscape Society's Backend Reading List 12-16-2024
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You Are What You Eat: Digital Edition Why who you follow is more important than who follows you
a year ago
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Chinese AI is Less Expensive, What it's Like to Work in AI, an Evaluation Framework for Voice... Society's Backend Reading List 11-18-2024
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All Machine Learning Resources and Updates 06/21/2024 Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss....
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Below are the machine learning resources and updates from the past few days you don't want to miss. If you want all the ML updates from X, follow me there. Mamba + Sliding Window Attention = SAMBA with Efficient Unlimited... China runs to be one of top global players in AI model...
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An Overview of Text Summarization Methods from Simple to Complex We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color...
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We went through a bit of a rebrand. Let me know what you think about Society’s Backend’s new color scheme and logo! :) - Logan I've been researching text summarization methods for a project I'm working on. Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLMs have become a go-to...
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AI Reading List 3: Meta's Self-Taught Evaluator, AI for Cancer Diagnosis, and a Technical... Society's Backend Reading List 10-21-2024
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Google Leads New AI Releases, OpenAI Gives First Glimpse of AGI with o3, AI Policy Will Be... Society's Backend Reading List 12-23-2024
2 months ago
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Taking the AI to Consumers The Google Pixel 8 Pro is a much bigger deal than you think
a year ago
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Allen AI and DeepSeek are Taking Off, Professional Advice for Working in AI, Agentic Web Design, and... Society's Backend Reading List 12-2-2024
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Why everyone loves Spider-Man Lessons anyone can learn from our friendly neighborhood web-crawler
a year ago
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What it's Like to Work in AI and Advice from 10 AI Professionals I asked 10 AI professionals 4 questions about their work in AI and the qualifications required for...
3 months ago
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Side Projects to Get a Job in ML, a Survey of Small Language Models, How to Build ML Pipelines, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-11-2024
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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
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Digitizing Smell, Automatic Prompt Optimization, Targeted AI Regulation, an Intro to AI Agents, and... Society's Backend Reading List 11-04-2024
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Meet Devansh: Lessons Learned While Building a Community of 193,000 Subscribers Content creation and networking lessons from a wildly successful freelance tech writer
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LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
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Resources to Get a Job in ML, Post-Transformer Architectures, What's in Store for 2025, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-30-2024
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Ask Stupid Questions I’m convinced that after having a fourth or fifth child exhaustion kicks in and a person’s long-term...
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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...
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Anti-Social Media How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
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How our technology habituates the paradoxical relationship between social media and social isolation
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I Enjoy Technical Interviews and You Can Too A simple change in mindset that completely changed the way I interview
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A Privacy Review: TikTok You should stick to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts
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The Problem with American Emergency Alerts In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be...
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In a world of self-driving cars and human-like chatbots, shouldn't the best technologies would be used for life-saving applications?
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Stop Obsessing Over the Product and Start Thinking About the Bigger Picture The actual takeaways from the iPhone 15 event
a year ago
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A Privacy Review: Google I read Google's privacy policy for you
a year ago
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Coming soon! Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts...
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Weekly publications to teach you about the technology that governs our society and how it impacts you. Coming in August!
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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
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How to Know if Your Data is Being Used Maliciously The information you should know about a company before gifting them your data
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A Fundamental Overview of Machine Learning Experimentation [Part 1] And how it differs from the software development you're familiar with
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3 Key Principles for AI at Scale [Part 2] The key to how large AI companies outcompete
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Artificial Intelligence: A New Paradigm Emerges A realistic perspective of the advantages and pitfalls of artificial intelligence
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5 Highlights From Society's Backend in 2024 The top 5 articles and resources
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The Slow, Painful Death of the Free Content Creator It's happening as you read this
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Multimodal Biometric Authentication, Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2024, 5 Common Mistakes to... Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
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The Attention Thief: Machine Learning as a Monetization Weapon How your greatest asset is silently stolen by technology every day
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Open AI beats OpenAI, Understand Scaling Laws, Commerce in the Age of AI Agents, and More Society's Backend Reading List 01-24-2025
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Why Medical AI is Garbage, Realistic Perspectives on DeepSeek Models, Understanding Reasoning... An AI engineer's must-reads for 1/31/25
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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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Understanding Reasoning LLMs, How AI Companies Get Around Regulation, Understanding AI Engineering,... Must-reads for 2-6-25
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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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AI Job Pulse: Companies Make Finding AI Jobs Really Difficult AI engineering and related jobs 02-18-25
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Reasoning is here to stay AI Engineering resources 02-21-25
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