Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,091 posts.
Update (April 14): On the suggestion of my TA Justin Yirka, I gave GPT-4 problem 2 from the final exam, along with its own answers and my and Justin’s grading comments, and asked it whether i…
Electric self-driving cars will save millions of lives and significantly accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy, but only…
Good evening and thank you all for coming. I want to use my time tonight to warn the world about an unprecedented danger that’s threatening the very survival of open societies. Last year when I stood before you I spent most of my time analyzing the nefarious role of the IT monopolies. This is what […]
It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. – Yogi Berra
I’m beginning to suspect that one of the most common misconceptions about LLMs such as ChatGPT involves how “training” works. A common complaint I see about these tools is that …
last week at NeurIPS’24, one extremely salient thing was the anxiety and frustration felt and expressed by late-year PhD students and postdocs who were confused by the job market that looks and feels so much different from what they expected perhaps when they were applying for PhD programs five or so years ago. and…
I really want an AI assistant: a Large Language Model powered chatbot that can answer questions and perform actions for me based on access to my private data and tools. …
How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I'm doing to keep my hands dirty.
Weekly essays on biology, philosophy and other topics.
By Aaron Gokaslan* and Vanya Cohen*
Spoiler alert: the answer is maybe! Although, my inclusion of the word “actually” betrays my bias. Vector databases are having their day right now. Three different vector DB companies have raised money on valuations up to $700 million (paywall link). Surprisingly, their rise in popularity is not for their “original”…
One of the most pervasive mistakes I see people using with large language model tools like ChatGPT is trying to use them as a search engine. As with other LLM …
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DeepSeek released a new model yesterday: DeepSeek-OCR, a 6.6GB model fine-tuned specifically for OCR. They released it as model weights that run using PyTorch and CUDA. I got it running …
I hope the media will look into this
Suppose that we sample a large number N N N of independent random functions f i : R → R f_i \colon \R \to \R f i : R → R from a certain distribution F \Fc F and propose to solve a regression problem by choosing a linear combination f ˉ = ∑ i λ i f i . \bar{f} = \sum_i \lambda_i f_i. f ˉ = i ∑ λ i f i . For…
A look inside Copilot’s network traffic, harness, memory, and how context is becoming the product.
Ryan Marcus, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.
So you know the Bayes rule. How does it relate to machine learning? It can be quite difficult to grasp how the puzzle pieces fit together - we know …
GM’s Cruise aims to turn self-driving into a billion-dollar business.
What the accidental Claude Code source code leak tells us about the real value of code, product market fit, and why integration is what actually makes software great.
Google A/I suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for all of Big Tech; that means the real battle will be between incumbents and Big Tech on one side, and open source on the other.
Last Updated: June 17, 2026What impact is AI having on the job market? Everyone has an opinion, but…
Its modern version (the reverse mode of automatic differentiation) was first published in 1970 by Seppo Linnainmaa
After a few weeks away from AI, I see my usage wasn't always productive or healthy.
It was clear when Ouster started developing the OS-1 three years ago that deep learning research for cameras was outpacing lidar research…
If you’ve been following my articles up to now, you’ll begin to perceive, what’s apparent to many advanced practitioners of Deep Learning…
