Neural network training makes beautiful fractals(sohl-dickstein.github.io)

264 points by telotortium 2 years ago | 54 comments

AES-GCM and breaking it on nonce reuse(frereit.de)

125 points by _tk_ 2 years ago | 53 comments

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs(mvakde.github.io)

578 points by porridgeraisin 1 month ago | 149 comments

Personal blog post describing a small transformer trained from scratch in 1.5 hours on an RTX 5090 that scores 44% on ARC-AGI-1 for 67 cents.

Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025(arcprize.org)

163 points by gkamradt 1 year ago | 74 comments

Implementing neural networks on the "3 cent" 8-bit microcontroller(cpldcpu.wordpress.com)

141 points by cpldcpu 2 years ago | 19 comments

Cache-Conscious Data Layout in Rust: Field Zoning, False Sharing, 128-Byte Rule(debasishg.github.io)

31 points by eigenBasis 3 months ago | 20 comments

The Mathocalypse(scottaaronson.blog)

361 points by 6bitquant 18 days ago | 380 comments

Scott Aaronson blog post reacting to OpenAI releasing hundreds of AI-generated math results, including a claimed proof of Khot's Unique Games Conjecture.

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.

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.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

Why Math Dumped OpenAI(raymyers.org)

11 points by xeonmc 9 days ago | 0 comments

A blog post by Ray Myers arguing why the mathematics community moved away from OpenAI.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.