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At the AIE Miami event, @dexhorthy quoted the Z/L continuum, which @swyx and @altryne noted is catching on among AI engineers.

swyx praised his team's livestream production quality and noted that hundreds of people were tuning in live.

The inaugural postmarketOS Conference will be held September 25-27, 2026 at RWTH Aachen University in Germany, featuring presentations, workshops, and discussions on postmarketOS and Linux Mobile development. The Call for Proposals is open until June 30th, and attendance is free but requires advance registration.

PyCon US 2026 is coming to Long Beach, California (May 13-19) with new dedicated AI and Security tracks. The AI track features talks on AI-assisted development, LLMs on laptops, voice agents, and Python async patterns for AI applications.

A social media comment expressing satisfaction with adoption of Codex while warning against potential rate limiting or model degradation.

TasteIt is a food-focused social network platform designed to help people connect and meet over shared culinary interests.

Andrej Karpathy observes that GitHub Gist comments are notably higher quality than comments on other platforms, with more constructive discussion and less AI-generated content, and speculates on the reasons why.

OpenAI launches a $50 million fund to support nonprofit and community organizations, informed by the independent OpenAI Nonprofit Commission report, focusing on AI applications in education, healthcare, economic opportunity, and community organizing.

OpenAI announces the completion of its 2021 Scholars mentorship program, where nine participants completed six-month projects mentored by leading OpenAI researchers, exploring topics including AI safety, generative modeling, and scaling laws.

OpenAI Scholars 2019 program concludes with eight scholars completing final projects showcased at Demo Day, demonstrating how professionals from various fields can transition into machine learning through education and mentorship.

OpenAI announces its 2019 class of eight Scholars selected from 550 applicants, bringing diverse expertise from literature, philosophy, biology, and other fields to apply toward AI research projects in reinforcement learning and NLP.

OpenAI held its first Spinning Up in Deep RL Workshop on February 2, engaging ~90 in-person participants and ~300 livestream viewers to provide education in deep RL, robotics, and AI safety through talks, mentorship, and hands-on projects.

OpenAI announces the completion of its first Scholars cohort program, with eight participants completing final projects and a Demo Day scheduled for September 20th to showcase their work and discuss their ML futures.

OpenAI announces its first cohort of Scholars in 2018, a program to help experienced software developers transition into machine learning practitioners through self-directed learning.

OpenAI hosted its first hackathon on March 3rd with 100 AI community members, resulting in dozens of projects spanning safety, healthcare, reinforcement learning, and creative applications. The event featured diverse participants from high schoolers to industry practitioners and emphasized gender balance and inclusive representation.

OpenAI releases 'Requests for Research 2.0,' a new batch of seven unsolved research problems encountered during their work, ranging from LSTM training exercises to distributed RL parameter averaging and transfer learning between Atari games. The initiative invites the broader research community to tackle these challenges.

OpenAI hosted the first self-organizing conference on machine learning (SOCML) with over 150 AI practitioners, focusing on peer-to-peer learning and serendipitous interactions rather than traditional keynote-driven formats. The event successfully facilitated cross-disciplinary conversations and generated new research ideas across robotics, neuroscience, and AI diversity.

OpenAI is hosting the first Machine Learning Unconference on October 7-8, 2016 in San Francisco, an experimental participant-driven gathering focused on networking and discussion rather than traditional conference presentations. The free event welcomes ML researchers, PhD students, and industry scientists, with special support for underrepresented groups in machine learning.

The Zo Computer Challenge invites developers to submit creative and unconventional website ideas with a prize pool exceeding $10K, with submissions due by April 22nd.