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Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,092 posts.
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Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat
My thesis on the AI-first society and the future of software
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Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop
Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainf*ck code results in an infinite loop, akin amost to a DDoS attack:
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I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task
I've been testing a simple prompt with different model and harness combinations to work out which one produces best results. I do this in /goal mode.
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Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims
A 2017 cartoon from this post. After the embargo update (Oct 25): Now that I have some answers from the people involved let me make a quick update: 1) I still find the paper unconvincing, specific…
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Generating faces of cats using Generative Adversarial Networks
I experimented with generating faces of cats using Generative adversarial networks (GAN). I wanted to try DCGAN, WGAN and WGAN-GP in low and higher resolutions. I used the CAT dataset (yes this is …
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"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
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Pico.js – A face-detection library in 200 lines of JavaScript (2018)
We introduce pico.js , a face-detection library written in JavaScript, and show how it works. Although similar projects already exist, our goal is to provide a smaller and computationally more efficient alternative.
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Learning to prove theorems via interacting with proof assistants
Learning to prove theorems via interacting with proof assistants Yang & Deng, ICML’19 Something a little different to end the week: deep learning meets theorem proving! It’s been a while …
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Understanding gradient descent
Gradient descent is a standard tool for optimizing complex functions iteratively within a computer program. Its goal is: given some arbitrary function, find a minumum. For some small subset of functions - those that are convex - there's just a single minumum which also happens to be global. For most realistic…
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Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia
use WASD + Mouse or tap on the screen to walk around :) Amulet of St. Michael in Kyiv, Ukraine (reconstructed with GaussianSplatting.jl, ~6M Gaussians)
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Diffusion models are evolutionary algorithms
Authors: Yanbo Zhang, Benedikt Hartl, Hananel Hazan, Michael Levin
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Hacking Diffusion into Qwen3 for the Arc Challenge
A deep dive into ongoing efforts adapting language models for diffusion-based ARC solving.
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Elasticsearch Based Image Search Using RGB Signatures
In my previous post , I described some experiments I was doing to reduce images to a Bag of Visual Words (BOVW) . My goal is to build a Con...
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Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly
wrenfold is a framework for converting symbolic mathematical expressions (written in Python) into generated numerical code in other languages (C++, Rust, Python). It aims to bridge the gap between prototyping of functions in expressive symbolic form, and performant production code. wrenfold is particularly relevant to…
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Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network Using Only NumPy
A simple walkthrough of deriving backpropagation for CNNs and implementing it from scratch in Python.
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Explaining RNNs without neural networks
This article explains how recurrent neural networks (RNN's) work without using the neural network metaphor. It uses a visually-focused data-transformation perspective to show how RNNs encode variable-length input vectors as fixed-length embeddings. Included are PyTorch implementation notebooks that use just linear…
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Why AI Sucks at Front End
How can it generate 3D worlds, videos, images and entire web pages, but still suck at front-end?
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AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties advocacy group, recently published a good article entitled “ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.” 1 It argues that providers within the internet “stack” should refrain from censoring traffic according to their own values. That…
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All You Need Is 4x 4090 GPUs to Train Your Own Model
How I built an ML rig for training LLMs locally, exploring hardware choices, setup tricks, and lessons learned along the way.
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Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)
With gptcommit, you no longer have to spend time writing your commit messages. Install gptcommit and let GPT-3 do the writing for you.
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GitHub Copilot: First Impressions
A glimpse of the upcoming paradigm shift in how we do development
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Tesla Project Dojo Overview
A couple of days back, Ganesh Venkataramanan, leader of the Tesla Dojo project, announced the Dojo machine learning training system. It’s an unusually network rich, power dense, and memory light design. I’ve summarized the architecture of the system below but I found three aspects of the system particularly…
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AI Nationalism
For the past 9 months I have been presenting versions of this talk to AI researchers, investors, politicians and policy makers. I felt it was time to share these ideas with a wider audience. Thanks to the Ditchley conference on Machine Learning in 2017 for giving me a fantastic platform to get ear
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Claude Composer
What happens when you ask Claude Code to compose music? Five experiments later: original songs, music videos, and a full album, all built from scratch.
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The Claude Code Framework Wars
How developers are experimenting with structure, orchestration, and standards to get more out of AI coding.
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Using machine learning to choose compression algorithms
30% less disk required compared to using the single best strategy
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Abstractions my Deep Learning word2vec model made
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