In our previous tutorial, we built an AI agent capable of answering queries by surfing the web. However, when building agents for longer-running tasks, two critical concepts come into play: persistence and streaming. Persistence allows you to save the state of an agent at any…
Aidan Bench attempts to measure in LLMs. - aidanmclaughlin/AidanBench
o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly difficult one to evaluate—we now need to decide if a prompt is best run using GPT-4o, o1, o3-mini …
357 votes, 272 comments. 1.1M subscribers in the Jazz community. Reddit's home for all things related to Jazz. Currently private to protest reddit's…
In this article, I'll take you through a list of 80+ hands-on Data Science projects you should try to learn everything in Data Science.
In the dry and fiery deserts of Central Asia, among the mythical sites of both the first human and the end of all days, I found evidence that life restores itself even on the bleakest edge of ecological apocalypse.
It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy products, they buy roadmaps. No one wants to go to
Logos are no longer the sole defining element of a brand, as dynamic branding, AI personalization, and social media dominance challenge their relevance. While still valuable as anchors of identity, logos must evolve into adaptable, integrated tools to thrive in today’s fluid and…
By 2030, leading AI labs will need data centers so massive they will require the power equivalent of some of America’s largest cities. Will they be able to find it?
Seneca pointed out that people tend to be reflexively stingy with their money, but almost comically wasteful with their time. There are at least two ways to take this. One is that Seneca thought he used his time better than you and I do, and maybe he did. Another interpretation…
How a Key-Value (KV) cache reduces Transformer inference time by trading memory for computation
Our paper, Beyond Human Intervention: Algorithmic Collusion through Multi-Agent Learning Strategies, with Suzie Grondin and Philipp Ratz is now available online Collusion in market pricing is a concept associated with human actions to raise market prices through artificially…
NEXT POST: Part II of my thoughts on TikTok, on how the app design is informed by its algorithm and vice versa in a virtuous circle.
The field of artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, with increasing efforts to develop more capable and efficient language models. However, scaling these models comes with challenges, particularly regarding computational resources and the complexity of training. The…
The unusual timing of the Qwen 2.5-Max's release points to the pressure DeepSeek's meteoric rise in the past three weeks has placed on overseas rivals and domestic competition.
How do you bring the African Diaspora to the Grammys?Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento's contrasting tones make a perfect team on Milton + esperanza, a collection of covers, duets, and original songs that have earned the pair a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album…
Pixel-level dose correction improves the quality of masks written by multi-beam.
How did retro sounds, dance moves, and vintage suits come to dominate before suddenly disappearing?
Did you know some people can’t see images in their minds? It’s a real issue—and it has a name: aphantasia.
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Learn how to get started building a robust continuous deployment pipeline in GitLab. Follow these step-by-step instructions, practical examples, and best practices.
Often our outcomes will be categorical in nature, but they will also have an order to them. These are sometimes known as ordinal outcomes. Some very common examples of this include ratings of some...
Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs
Jazz OTD: Two masterpieces for today's Jazz OTD. First, Joe Henderson recorded his landmark septet album "Mode For Joe" on January 27, 1966 with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter, and Joe Chambers. Perfect hard bop leaning ever so slightly…
Heroku can quickly get expensive. Dig into this article to learn some concrete strategies to reduce your Heroku bill!
An interesting twist in my recent usage of SQLite was the fact that I noticed my research scripts and the database intertwine more. SQLite is unique in that it really lives in-process, unlike standalone database servers. There is a feature to that which does not get used very…
A recipe for reasoning LLMs
For a hot minute, gray was everywhere. Not just a little bit here and there—gray dominated. Gray walls, gray furniture, gray kitchen cabinets, gray exteriors. It was the unofficial uniform of home design in the 2010s, with its cold yet "modern" vibe signaling minimalism…
AI has entered an era of the rise of competitive and groundbreaking large language models and multimodal models. The development has two sides, one with open source and the other being propriety models. DeepSeek-R1, an open-source AI model developed by DeepSeek-AI, a Chinese…
The board game has seen a surge in popularity in recent years. Now a championship-deciding referee’s decision threatens its growth.
Johann Rehberger snagged a copy of the [ChatGPT Operator](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/23/introducing-operator/) system prompt. As usual, the system prompt doubles as better written documentation than any of the official sources. It asks users …
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Developers have tricks to stop artificial intelligence from making things up, but large language models are still struggling to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
It hasn’t been easy sourcing smokers, big cuts of meat, and properly seasoned wood in Chiang Mai, but Davis Campbell, and his fiancée, Rotjana, do just that for their Dinky’s BBQ.
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Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
In this article, I'll take you through a list of 50+ AI & ML projects solved & explained with Python that you should try.
Longtime Slashdot readers smooth wombat and AmiMoJo shares a fusion energy breakthrough from China. Charming Science reports: China's "artificial sun," officially known as the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in fusion…
This article covers 12 influential AI research papers of 2024, ranging from mixture-of-experts models to new LLM scaling laws for precision..
New release of my [LLM](https://llm.datasette.io/) CLI tool and Python library. A bunch of accumulated fixes and features since the start of December, most notably: - Support for OpenAI's [o1 model](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models#o1) …
Novel combinations show promise for different applications.
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.
An interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about Stargate, DeepSeek, and where the margins and moats will come with models.
Barnes & Noble had invested significantly in revitalizing its physical stores, and it wasn't ready to make the e-commerce jump.
The Harpies appear throughout Greek mythology as part-human and part-bird mythological beasts that conjure feelings of dread and disgust in their victims.
A pioneering new treatment promises to tackle a wider range of cancers, with fewer side-effects than conventional radiotherapy. It also takes less than a second.
To celebrate Rafael Araujo's talent and vision, I have curated a selection of his most stunning illustrations, showcasing the elegance and intricacy of his work.
Engineers at the Naval Research Lab launched a spy satellite program called Parcae and revolutionized signals intelligence at the height of the Cold War. The program relied on computers to sift through intelligence data, providing a technological edge at a pivotal moment in the…