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A dumb reason computer vision apps aren’t working: Exif Orientation
I’ve written about lots of computer vision and machine learning projects like object recognition systems and face recognition projects. I…
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 3,090 posts.
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Plan mode is dead
Earlier this year, I believed planning was going to become the most important part of building software with AI.
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We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning
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Agents need control flow, not more prompts
Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve eve...
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Infinite AI Array
making new string and list classes that call gpt3 under the hood so you can access elements beyond the final one. no more index errors!
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OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the …
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …
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How does Shazam work? (2022)
Your phone's ability to identify any song it listens to is pure technological magic. In this article, I'll show you how one of the most popular apps, Shazam , does it. The founders of Shazam released a paper in 2003 documenting how it works, and I have been working on an implementation of that paper, abracadabra .
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LLM Architecture Gallery
A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections.
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Death by AI
One man's struggle with his mortality.
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Every app that adds AI looks like this
and just like that - poof! - we scammed you into thinking this shit was cool // S1E3
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Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden
AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.
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Cruise
There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line. This has just happened to Cruise, which is run by my friend...
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Breaking the 4Chan CAPTCHA
In this blog post, I will talk about my successful experiment in machine learning using TensorFlow to automate solving the 4Chan CAPTCHA.
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Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
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The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
A recipe for reasoning LLMs
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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …
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AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems.
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I wish GPT4 had never happened
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
What’s the strongest model I can train on my MacBook Pro in five minutes? I’ll give the answer upfront: the best 5-minute model I could train was a ~1.8M-param…
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Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Last week, Dan Blanchard, the maintainer of chardet—a Python library for detecting text encodings used by roughly 130 million projects a month— released a new…
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I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.
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Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.
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Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT
Accessing Wolfram|Alpha's computational knowledge with ChatGPT--an ideal combination of precise computation with human-like expression of ideas. Stephen Wolfram explains how.
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Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now
AISI’s tests of Mythos suggest a new security economy: to harden a system you must spend more tokens finding exploits than attackers do.
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Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solution to binary addition
While training small neural networks to perform binary addition, a surprising solution emerged that allows the network to solve the problem very effectively. This post explores the mechanism behind that solution and how it relates to analog electronics.