Gradient Descending Through Brinespace(slimemoldtimemold.com)

37 points by voisin 2 years ago | 4 comments

Lady Tasting Brine(slimemoldtimemold.com)

33 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 25 comments

Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common(evanjones.ca)

279 points by ingve 3 years ago | 236 comments

The contrarian physics podcast subculture(timothynguyen.org)

158 points by Emerson1 1 year ago | 184 comments

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem(quantamagazine.org)

201 points by sashank_1509 3 years ago | 80 comments

LLMs and Self-Referentiality(scottaaronson.blog)

52 points by mavdol04 1 month ago | 50 comments

How we lost communication to entertainment(ploum.net)

651 points by 8organicbits 10 months ago | 365 comments

Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

A Reddit bot drove me insane(posthuman.blog)

486 points by erhmmmm 1 year ago | 239 comments

A blog post recounting the author's encounter with a human-seeming Reddit post that turned out to be a bot, reflecting on AI slop online.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

What AI-Native Looks Like(fagnerbrack.com)

14 points by fagnerbrack 1 month ago | 7 comments

A blog post by Fagner Brack on Medium describing what an AI-native approach to software development with stable infrastructure looks like.