Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)(gregorygundersen.com)

50 points by fuzzythinker 1 month ago | 31 comments

New UNESCO report warns that Generative AI threatens Holocaust memory(unesco.org)

28 points by t0bia_s 2 years ago | 34 comments

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more(jessewaites.com)

173 points by piratebroadcast 17 days ago | 88 comments

Blog post describing how the author used AI to search 400 years of historical records, surfacing a forgotten meteorite report, lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcanic eruptions.

From XML to JSON to CBOR(cborbook.com)

73 points by GarethX 1 year ago | 73 comments

You could have invented transformers from memory(alexwang.ai)

602 points by speckx 9 days ago | 133 comments

Blog post by Alex Wang explaining transformer layers (MLPs, gated MLPs, self-attention) as associative memory stores, with code and an interactive app.

Multifaceted: The linguistic echo chambers of LLMs(blog.j11y.io)

104 points by cdme 2 years ago | 60 comments

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video](youtube.com)

1382 points by sandslash 1 year ago | 757 comments

YouTube video from Y Combinator of Andrej Karpathy's talk "Software Is Changing (Again)" about how AI and LLMs are reshaping software.

New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?(jsdate.wtf)

363 points by OuterVale 1 year ago | 213 comments

An interactive quiz by samwho testing knowledge of JavaScript's Date class parsing quirks, verified on Node.js 24.4.0.

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?(tim.blog)

380 points by imakwana 4 months ago | 431 comments

Tim Ferriss blog post examining whether AI has hurt how-to nonfiction book sales, using industry trends and his own sales data.

Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics(anukari.com)

465 points by humbledrone 1 year ago | 111 comments

Product homepage for Anukari, a software synthesizer and effects processor built on an interactive GPU-driven 3D physics simulation, now in beta.

Alan Kay's answer to “Did the ENIAC have a BIOS”?(quora.com)

176 points by midnightfish 28 days ago | 61 comments

A Quora answer by Alan Kay to the question of whether the ENIAC computer had a BIOS; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript(github.com)

390 points by ykhli 3 years ago | 102 comments

GitHub repository for AI-town, a deployable TypeScript starter kit for building a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize, backed by Convex.