49

Is There a Difference Between Calculation and Computation?

4 months ago

from Win Vector LLC in AI

Recently I’ve been producing (for my own amusement) example Curta calculations. One motivation was arguing if a proposed solution method for Dudeney’s...

20

Bridging the Efficiency Gap Between FromStr and String

4 months ago

from Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings in AI

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...

46

The Cybernetic Teammate

4 months ago

from One Useful Thing in AI

Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience

52

Video Friday: Meet Mech, a Superhumanoid Robot

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

46

ML for SWEs 3: AI Can't Be copyrighted, Don't Fall for Misinformation, and Stay Safe Online

4 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 3-21-25

13

ML for SWEs 3: AI Can't Be Copyrighted, Don't Fall for Misinformation, and Stay Safe Online

4 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 3-21-25

35

AI Roundup 110: Siri stumbles

4 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

March 21, 2025.

40

They Took MY Job?

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

No, they didn’t.

43

Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

And they knew perfectly well what they were doing

42

AI #108: Straight Line on a Graph

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

The x-axis of the graph is time.

44

Engineers should state the obvious

4 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

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…

21

AI Analysis of The JFK Files

4 months ago

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk in AI

Notes From the Desk: No. 42 - 2025.03.19

53

Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

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...

43

The Self-Made AI Engineer

4 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

From writing about ChatGPT to becoming a professional AI engineer.

39

Going Nova

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

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...

44

If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here

4 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

How to get started and make the best use of Society's Backend

14

If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here

4 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

How to get started and make the best use of Machine Learning for Software Engineers

38

OpenAI #11: America Action Plan

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are

39

drop that meet link

4 months ago

from Solving the decision problem in AI

just keep talking

45

Think of a number: an update

4 months ago

from Xena in AI

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...

40

The good times in tech are over

4 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

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…

36

Changing Forecasts for Python Questions on Stack Overflow

4 months ago

from Win Vector LLC in AI

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...

49

ML for SWEs #2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code

4 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25

13

ML for SWEs 2: Wtf is MCP, Manus, and Why You Should Still Learn to Code

4 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 3-14-25

48

Video Friday: Exploring Phobos

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

35

Hype, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, the podcasters who love him — and how the New York Times’ commentary on AI has degenerated into industry cheerleading

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Real journalists do due diligence

39

AI Roundup 109: Manus

4 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

Manus Late last week, a new Chinese AI debuted to massive buzz: Manus, a general-purpose AI agent.

35

On MAIM and Superintelligence Strategy

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Dan Hendrycks, Eric Schmidt and Alexandr Wang released an extensive paper titled Superintelligence Strategy. There is also an op-ed in Time that...

21

AI Still Failing At Simple Tasks

4 months ago

from Mind Prison: Notes From the Desk in AI

Notes From the Desk: No. 41 - 2025.03.13

41

Is GitHub Lying Here?

4 months ago

from Win Vector LLC in AI

My partners and I keep getting this spam-like email. I figured it was just a forgery. However, I went on my own to our organization’s GitHub...

36

AI #107: The Misplaced Hype Machine

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

The most hyped event of the week, by far, was the Manus Marketing Madness. Manus wasn’t entirely hype, but there was very little there there in that...

45

Kyiv Start-Up Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming could turn the tide in the war against Russia. They...

37

AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man

4 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

Guess who won?

53

With Gemini Robotics, Google Aims for Smarter Robots

4 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI companies are introducing AI agents that can take care...

38

The Most Forbidden Technique

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

The Most Forbidden Technique is training an AI using interpretability techniques.

37

What Mattered in GenAI in 2024

4 months ago

from Weighty Thoughts in AI

Despite the Noise, The Big Narratives from January are Still the Big Narratives

39

Response to Scott Alexander on Imprisonment

4 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

Back in November 2024, Scott Alexander asked: Do longer prison sentences reduce crime?

42

Speaking things into existence

5 months ago

from One Useful Thing in AI

Expertise in a vibe-filled world of work

43

Don’t think of a basketball player, or search engines don’t even support “not”

5 months ago

from Win Vector LLC in AI

In my opinion we have been accepting poor interfaces and results from search engines for quite a while. This may be a small part of why the newer...

39

The Manus Marketing Madness

5 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

While at core there is ‘not much to see,’ it is, in two ways, a sign of things to come.

35

Urgent warning: Black Mirror has entered the United States, with AI as its handmaiden

5 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

AI as a smoke screen to cover for authoritarian actions

55

Worm-like Robots Install Power Lines Underground

5 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

After January’s Southern California wildfires, the question of burying energy infrastructure to prevent future fires has gained renewed urgency in the...

43

Nobel Prizes and The AI Hype Hall of Fame

5 months ago

from Marcus on AI in AI

GPT-5 may not be here, but just wait til you see the new round of hype

23

Mantra Gajatri po polsku

5 months ago

from Piotr Migdał's Blog in AI

Mantra Gajatri tłumaczona na polski w poetyce "Ciebie Boga Wysławiamy" - przez GPT 4.5.

58

Model Context Protocol explained as simply as possible

5 months ago

from seangoedecke.com RSS feed in AI

Three months ago, Anthropic released “the Model Context Protocol”, or MCP. In the last few weeks, interest in it seems to have really picked…

34

Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think

5 months ago

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25

14

ML for SWEs 1: Apple Pushing Their AI Back Isn't as Bad as You Think

5 months ago

from Machine Learning for Software Engineers in AI

Machine learning for software engineers 3-7-25

57

Video Friday: Atlas in the Lab

5 months ago

from IEEE Spectrum in AI

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar...

38

AI Roundup 108: Vibecoding

5 months ago

from Artificial Ignorance in AI

March 7, 2025.

35

Childhood and Education #9: School is Hell

5 months ago

from Don't Worry About the Vase in AI

This complication of tales from the world of school isn’t all negative.