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How big are our embeddings now and why?
Embedding sizes and architectures have changed remarkably over the past 5 years
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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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How the Winning Tron Bot Works
[ Update 8/2/2011 : you can play against a dumbed-down Javascript version of the bot here .]
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An Open Course on LLMs, Led by Practitioners
A free survey course on LLMs, taught by practitioners.
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Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
SemiAnalysis published something of a bombshell leaked document this morning: Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”. The source of the document is vague: The text below is …
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I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
In the last two weeks I spent over a dozen hours playing poker, primarily online at pokerstarsmi.com, and live at a local casino. You can view the last 1,000 hands I played here: https://poker.rchase.com I spent at least as much time reviewing my hands with
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The AI Demand Bubble
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It's $70 a year, $18 a quarter, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 10,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic
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Using A.I. to decode communication of sperm whales
David Gruber wants to know what sperm whales are saying. He thinks it might actually be possible.
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My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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What Happened to Piracy? Copyright Enforcement Fades as AI Giants Rise
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." -Balzac
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Three-eyed forehead in Stable Diffusion
Computers, Machine Learning and non-machine learning
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If you'd built a "tool" that stupid, why would you advertise the fact?
A few days ago I got a sensationally stupid email from one of those websites that most of us probably have a subscription to, but which I will not give the oxygen of publicity by linking to[1]. The…
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Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts
Back in high school, I remember receiving an email for a study guide from a friend. Instead of the PDF coming attached, it was a link to a site called Dropbox.
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Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (1987)
Neural Network on a Commodore 64
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Understanding the limits of large language models
Reading level: No programming knowledge required, but trying ChatGPT first is advised.
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A Gentle Introduction to Backpropagation
A gentle introduction to backpropagation, a method of programming neural networks
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The Perilous World of Machine Learning for Fun and Profit
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AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
I’ve been thinking about why AI feels like such a destabilizing force for society, and it isn’t just the threat of even greater…
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Altman's Ambition
Sam Altman is not playing around.
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I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year
My wife and I have been looking for an app to track things like habits, hobbies, and when we last did certain chores.To be honest there are probably hundreds of different habit trackers on the App Store. Next to todo list apps they are supposed to be the easiest apps to create so it is not really that surprising there…
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The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over
The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.
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Tailwind and slop apps
Tailwind is great. It's a quick way to style a webpage and offers incredible flexibility. The problem is, despite Tailwind being incredibly customisable I can instantly tell when a site is using Tailwind. It has a certain look and feel that is hard to shake. A few years ago this "look and feel" was fresh and classy…
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OpenAI's Woke Catechism
How a Few Activists Made ChatGPT Deny Basic Science
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One Dataset. No Warning. Google Took Everything. You're Not Safe Either
I’m an independent developer who built Punge, an on-device NSFW image detection app. The idea was simple: give people tools to manage…
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My experience trying to write human-sounding articles using Claude AI
You can use AI tools like Claude to help you write full-length content. By going paragraph-by-paragraph, you can direct the AI while seemingly maintaining your own voice and ideas. However, despite my attempts to use AI with writing, I’ve found that it’s harder to pull off than I thought. I can get close, but due to…
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On Device Learning
Before asking the question, how do I build AGI, you first must ask the question, what would I recognize as AGI?
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Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Forests
It’s very common for machine learning practitioners to have favorite algorithms. It’s a bit irrational, since no algorithm strictly…