Katherine Graham stood up to Nixon.

Jeff Bezos bows down to Trump.

Decline is a choice.

Genuinely wild that Deepseek trained r1 with a budget of 150 dollars

LoRA et al. enable personalised model generation and serving, which is crucial as finetuned models still outperform general ones in many tasks. However, serving a base model with many LoRAs is very inefficient! Now, there's a better way: enter Prompt Generation Networks, presented today #BMVC

Want to learn / teach RL? 

Check out new book draft:
Reinforcement Learning - Foundations
sites.google.com/view/rlfound...
W/ Shie Mannor & Yishay Mansour
This is a rigorous first course in RL, based on our teaching at TAU CS and Technion ECE.

D.C. United and Bournemouth have resumed talks concerning the possible winter transfer of center back Matai Akinmboni to the Premier League club, per sources. Sides have been apart on the fee. The 18-year-old homegrown recently returned from U.S. U-20 camp in Spain.

I'm launching a new website: sdk.blue - a list of all libraries/SDKs for building things on #ATProto, grouped by language 🙂

If I forgot anything important, or you have an ATProto/Bluesky library that you think would be a good fit there (or if I should remove anything), please send me a PR :) #atdev

By popular request, here's how to add Bluesky replies as your blog's comment section!

This requires some technical know-how for now, but I'm hoping that we see some no-code solutions for this pop up soon, like Ghost or Wordpress plugins.

emilyliu.me/blog/comments

Not my first post here, but an introduction: I work on applied AI, with a focus on making fashion smarter and more creative. Computer vision, data engineering, and whatever it takes to solve real-world problems. Bringing research and industry together.

Simulating human behavior with AI agents promises a testbed for policy and the social sciences. We interviewed 1,000 people for two hours each to create generative agents of them. These agents replicate their source individuals’ attitudes and behaviors. 🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2411.10109

🌶️(?) take: Agents are somehow hot right because people realized that LLM output can be interpreted as a DSL which directs side effects in the world (e.g. tool calls) rather than just returning text in a chat/autocomplete sense. What are the open challenges? A 🧵... [1/11]

NeurIPS high school projects are out!

blog.neurips.cc/2024/11/18/a...

"I remember when the phantom Kamala ad hit me. It drew me in with a photo of Vice-President Harris and a positive and appealing summary of her policies. Then the ad exposed me, to a policy that I would not like – and which the candidate did not in fact advocate."
snyder.substack.com/p/the-phanto...

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

Built a simple GitHub tool for my team that reviews Python PRs using GPT-4o-mini. Each review costs about $0.01 and gives 1-2 solid suggestions, saving us far more in future bug fixes! #CodeReview #Python #AI