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AI Responses May Include Mistakes
The other day I wanted to look up a specific IBM PS/2 model, a circa 1992 PS/2 Server system. So I punched the model into Google, and got this:
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 674 posts.
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Softmax forever, or why I like softmax
[UPDATE: Feb 8 2025] my amazing colleague Max Shen noticed a sign mistake in my derivation of the partial derivative of the log-harmonic function below.
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The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'
Don't let AI erode your focus.
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Coping with dumb LLMs using classic ML
Taking the output of many dumb LLM search relevance judges and feeding the output to a decision tree to improve precision
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AI Angst
My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this…
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I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype
I truly and passionately hate hype. From the fakeness of it to the sheer stupidity it represents, but perhaps most of all, because of the devastating consequence it often results in.
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Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?
On my podcast this week, I took a closer look at OpenAI’s new video generation model, Sora 2, which can turn simple text descriptions into ... Read more
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Hacking the Humane AI Pin
On February 18, 2025, Humane announced it would be shutting down all services for the always online Humane Ai Pin in ten days, following a sale to HP . I had been vaguely aware of the Ai Pin, definitely more so than the average tech person, as I have a close friend who was one of the earliest adopters and eventually…
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Remarks on AI from NZ
Last week I participated in a panel discussion on AI as part of a private event in New Zealand.
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Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark
Google released Gemini 3 Pro today. Here’s the announcement from Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, and Koray Kavukcuoglu, their developer blog announcement from Logan Kilpatrick, the Gemini 3 Pro Model Card, …
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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.
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Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?
The bitter lesson says general methods and compute win. But compute is a constraint, and human-crafted logic often ships cheaper and sooner.
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Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
Ever wanted to check on your portfolio and trade some stocks directly with Claude? Well you’re in luck.
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Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website
Adventures using AI agents, especially Claude Code, and MCP Servers
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I got the highest score on ARC-AGI again swapping Python for English
Using Multi-Agent Collaboration with Evolutionary Test-Time Compute
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Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer
Coding Tools Are Just One Front in AI’s Supply Chain Wars
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Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground?
Can a model trained on satellite data really find brambles on the ground? We put a new model to the test with a field trip around Cambridge. The results...
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Tim Bray on Grokipedia
Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia . Here are early impressions.
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Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?
Lately I’ve heard a lot of stories of AI accidentally deleting entire codebases or wiping production databases . But in my case it was the other way around. I removed some working code and the LLM helped me to recover it.
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Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs
In AI circles, a “centaur” describes a certain kind of machine/human collaboration, in which “decision-support” systems (which the field loves to call “AI”s) are paired with human beings for results that draw upon the strengths of each, such as when a human chess master and a chess-playing computer program collaborate…
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Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL
Spend enough time looking at Python programs and packages for machine learning, and you'll notice that the "JIT decorator" pattern is pretty popular. For example, this JAX snippet:
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AI Ethics is being narrowed on purpose, like privacy was
A few days ago, OpenAI released an open-source language model for the first time in a very long time. It had been promised for a while, but the deadline kept being pushed for “safety” concerns.
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AGI Is Still 30 Years Away – Ege Erdil and Tamay Besiroglu
The economy will literally double every year afterwards
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Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
For a while now I’ve been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once—firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in …
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From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms
From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms What is attention? In any autoregressive model, the prediction of the future tokens is based on some preceding context …
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AI Is Making Developers Dumb
LLMs are making software engineers dumber.
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AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder
AI tools were supposed to free up our time—but they’re increasing our cognitive load and making us less productive. Here’s what’s really happening (and how to use them without burning out).
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The effects of algorithms on the public discourse
Big Tech broke the internet, and this old man’s got a few things to say about it.
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