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Building SQLite with a small swarm
Yes, for a supported subset of SQL. To establish a baseline, I integrated the SQLLogicTest suite.
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The most popular blog posts about ai & machine learning on Hacker News. 6,334 posts.
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Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
I’m tired of this phrase and this simple way of thinking about tools. This blog post is a wandering train of thought on the topic of what tools are and why it matters to be even slightly more mature in how we think about them.
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What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
MirrorCode is Epoch AI's benchmark for long-horizon coding: AI can reimplement entire programs end-to-end, with no access to the original source code.
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Generative AI and The Future of Work
Unexpected ways generative AI will change how you work forever
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TikTok’s Secret Sauce
What made TikTok such a success? A commonly given reason is that the app’s advanced AI is really good at figuring out what you want to watch. Many people say TikTok knows them better than they know themselves. Some users think of the algorithm as a divine force that guides them.
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OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback
We’re planning to release our first open language model since GPT‑2 in the coming months. We’re excited to collaborate with developers, researchers, and the broader community to gather inputs and make this model as useful as possible.
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Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but Not Pokemon?
Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but not Pokemon? By now, you’ve probably heard of bots playing video games at superhuman levels. These bots can be programmed explicitly, reacting to set inputs with …
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A new AI game: Give me ideas for crimes to do
Less than a week ago OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT on the world, and it kicked off what feels like a seismic shift in many people’s understand of the capabilities of large …
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Maintaining large-scale AI capacity at Meta
Meta is currently operating many data centers with GPU training clusters across the world. Our data centers are the backbone of our operations, meticulously designed to support the scaling demands …
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Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen
JavaScript, math, maps, etc
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Motion Stills – Create Looping GIFs from Live Photos
Posted by Ken Conley and Matthias Grundmann, Machine PerceptionToday we are releasing Motion Stills, an iOS app from Google Research that acts as a...
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Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
Reverse Engineering Reality
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Release of Fugaku-LLM – a large language model trained on supercomputer Fugaku
Release of “Fugaku-LLM” – a large language model trained on the supercomputer “Fugaku”
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"Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People", 7 Years Later
In the post about GPT-4V, I mentioned the paper “Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People” (https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.00289) by Brenden Lake, Tomer Ullman, Joshua Tenenbaum, and Samuel Gershman.
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Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings
I tested thirteen models and found that their drafting is approaching professional levels.
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The International 2018: Results
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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A polynomial autoencoder beats PCA on transformer embeddings
A closed-form autoencoder: PCA encoder + quadratic Ridge decoder. On FiQA it gives 4× compression of mxbai-embed-large-v1 at -0.88 p.p. NDCG@10, +1.34 p.p. over PCA. No SGD, no neural networks.
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Using GPT-3 for plain language incident root cause from logs
Skylar Advisor combines real-time observability data, rich operational context, and customer-owned knowledge to deliver explainable AI guidance for IT operations.
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We decreased our LLM costs with Opus
We switched to a frontier model and our costs went down. Here's the architecture that made it possible.
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Building an IBM Watson-powered AI Chatbot in 50 lines of code
Developing a speech-to-text bot using IBM’s Supercomputer.
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Understanding LSTM Networks (2015)
Humans don’t start their thinking from scratch every second. As you read this essay, you understand each word based on your understanding of previous words. You don’t throw everything away and start thinking from scratch again. Your thoughts have persistence.
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Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene
Continuing our Gaussian splatting development series, Director of Technology Sam Birley breaks down how we bypassed GPU Scene instance caps, implemented PlayCanvas Streamed SOG LODs, and managed GPU memory budgets for production-ready photogrammetry… bringing us to a point where the renderer has fin
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VideoPrism: A foundational visual encoder for video understanding
Posted by Long Zhao, Senior Research Scientist, and Ting Liu, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research An astounding number of videos are av...