The Enchippening(sarahconstantin.substack.com)

54 points by apsec112 2 years ago | 25 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)(rickmanelius.com)

973 points by mooreds 2 months ago | 588 comments

A Substack newsletter post by Rick Manelius about the "AI;DR" acronym as a way to ignore walls of AI-generated text, crediting a tweet by @seclilc.

Why do we get earworms?(theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com)

30 points by lentoutcry 1 year ago | 39 comments

WTH Is Cerebrolysin, Actually?(moreisdifferent.blog)

75 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 43 comments

How smart do you have to be to get a degree?(cremieux.xyz)

58 points by noch 2 years ago | 65 comments

Where's the "Intelligence Explosion"?(noahpinion.blog)

27 points by anon373839 27 days ago | 8 comments

A Noahpinion guest essay by Ramez Naam offering a skeptical take on recursive self-improvement and the idea of an AI intelligence explosion.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Deep Learning Is Applied Topology(theahura.substack.com)

473 points by theahura 1 year ago | 176 comments

A Substack essay from 12 Grams of Carbon arguing that deep learning is applied topology, explaining how neural networks transform data lying on manifolds.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Neural networks are clean(already-clean.goodfire.com)

768 points by themgt 11 days ago | 300 comments

An informal research essay by Nick Cammarata at Goodfire arguing polysemanticity stems from fixable issues, not superposition, making neurons interpretable at scale.

Questions for Believers in AI Consciousness(endsdontjustifythemeans.com)

22 points by cobbzilla 20 days ago | 29 comments

A Substack essay by Rebecca Lowe posing six philosophical questions, in a choose-your-own-adventure format, for people who believe AI systems are conscious.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.