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Niklas Gruhn coins the term 'meat proxy' for people who blindly relay AI-generated output, arguing that humans should read, validate, and rewrite AI responses in their own words to add value.
An article discussing obfuscation as a powerful cryptographic primitive, potentially the 'final boss' of cryptography due to its theoretical and practical challenges.
OpenRouter announces that four open-weight models are now powering real agentic pipelines, with a new blog post detailing why companies are choosing them as of June.
A tweet recommends the 2017 blog post 'Reality has a surprising amount of detail' by John Salvatier, arguing AI labs would benefit from its insights about the hidden complexity in real-world tasks.
A tweet shares a blog post discussing three methods for FP8 in LLM pretraining: per-tensor, blockwise, and MXFP8, focusing on how the scale is attached.
Lilian Weng's blog post provides a comprehensive overview of scaling laws in deep learning, covering their derivation, compute-optimal allocation, and the debate between Kaplan et al. and Chinchilla.
A tweet recommending Nathan Cantafio's blog post 'MLE is not intuitive', which discusses common misconceptions about Maximum Likelihood Estimation in an accessible way.
A blog post from 2015 that presents a hypothetical programming language where functions are colored red or blue, using this metaphor to critique the separation between synchronous and asynchronous functions in languages like JavaScript.
The author announces the launch of a long-form history of Visual Basic, with Chapter 1 covering the origins of BASIC and the development of VB 1.0.
A personal blog post reflecting on the challenges of finishing projects, abandoning yearly plans, and embracing a simple physical project stack.
Hillel Wayne shares Z3 scripts he wrote, discussing challenges with logical properties and the concept of 'chaff' from his upcoming book Logic for Programmers.