Rakesh Kumar
@curious-cat-163.bsky.social
It was incredibly sweet to see Hinton teach @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social some deep learning!
youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...
youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...
AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It was incredibly sweet to see Hinton teach @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social some deep learning!
youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...
youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...
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My latest @theconversation.com article on Google's new "AI mode" and the issues with vertical integration 👇🏼
theconversation.com/google-is-go...
theconversation.com/google-is-go...
Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech
Google’s approach could harm competition and creativity, and make the AI industry even less transparent.
theconversation.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
My latest @theconversation.com article on Google's new "AI mode" and the issues with vertical integration 👇🏼
theconversation.com/google-is-go...
theconversation.com/google-is-go...
Some great reporting work here!
Join us in person or online tonight to hear from Cecilia Reyes, Senior Reporter at @businessinsider.com! She’ll discuss her investigation into illegal evictions or lockouts. Doors open at Tech Nexus at 6pm, livestream starts around 6:35pm CT. chihacknight.org/events/2025/...
In-person and Online: Illegal evictions in Chicago - Chi Hack Night
An eviction with no notice is extraordinarily disruptive, straining budgets with unplanned expenses, risking job loss for adults and missing school for kids. Yet lockout complaints to Chicago police h...
chihacknight.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Some great reporting work here!
You guys, look, we are headed towards the trough of disillusionment [1]
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...
December 28, 2024 at 4:05 PM
You guys, look, we are headed towards the trough of disillusionment [1]
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...
[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...
IMO, the best moment of Ilya Sutskever’s insightful talk at NeurIPS was his answer to this question towards the end:
youtu.be/1yvBqasHLZs?...
Ilya Sutskever: "Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks: what a decade"
YouTube video by seremot
youtu.be
December 14, 2024 at 6:41 PM
IMO, the best moment of Ilya Sutskever’s insightful talk at NeurIPS was his answer to this question towards the end:
youtu.be/1yvBqasHLZs?...
@reckless.bsky.social did a revealing interview of Mustafa Suleyman for Decoder:
1. His vagueness about the MS<–>OAI partnership hangs ominously, like a Chekhov’s gun.
2. His answer on how he makes decisions makes me think that he has never given the idea of "how to decide" any thought, ever.
1. His vagueness about the MS<–>OAI partnership hangs ominously, like a Chekhov’s gun.
2. His answer on how he makes decisions makes me think that he has never given the idea of "how to decide" any thought, ever.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on what the industry is getting wrong about AGI
The head of Microsoft’s AI division on competing with Google and how to define superintelligence.
www.theverge.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:58 PM
@reckless.bsky.social did a revealing interview of Mustafa Suleyman for Decoder:
1. His vagueness about the MS<–>OAI partnership hangs ominously, like a Chekhov’s gun.
2. His answer on how he makes decisions makes me think that he has never given the idea of "how to decide" any thought, ever.
1. His vagueness about the MS<–>OAI partnership hangs ominously, like a Chekhov’s gun.
2. His answer on how he makes decisions makes me think that he has never given the idea of "how to decide" any thought, ever.
Tenstorrent's Keller: We're in an AI Hype Cycle
YouTube video by Bloomberg Technology
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:33 PM
I am thankful that you decided to execute towards your vision!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and the team at Bluesky!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and the team at Bluesky!
I’m thankful for everyone using Bluesky, everyone building on atproto, everyone listening to our message and sharing our dream of a better social media ecosystem that puts people first. We’re going to do this together — thanks for joining us on this journey!
November 29, 2024 at 6:41 PM
I am thankful that you decided to execute towards your vision!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and the team at Bluesky!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and the team at Bluesky!
Essay suggests LLM training is hitting a scaling wall —diminishing returns from bigger models or more data.
Remedy: train models to reason step-by-step, trading training compute for inference compute.
But the remedy might not be all that is promised:
aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/reasoners-pr...
Remedy: train models to reason step-by-step, trading training compute for inference compute.
But the remedy might not be all that is promised:
aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/reasoners-pr...
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
aidanmclaughlin.notion.site
November 26, 2024 at 10:41 PM
Essay suggests LLM training is hitting a scaling wall —diminishing returns from bigger models or more data.
Remedy: train models to reason step-by-step, trading training compute for inference compute.
But the remedy might not be all that is promised:
aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/reasoners-pr...
Remedy: train models to reason step-by-step, trading training compute for inference compute.
But the remedy might not be all that is promised:
aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/reasoners-pr...
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Created a Build in Public starter pack. 🎉
If you're an indie hacker building in public, feel free to join:
👉 Share your project below
🧡Like this post for the algo push
🔄 Repost this for visibility
go.bsky.app/PvitcMe
If you're an indie hacker building in public, feel free to join:
👉 Share your project below
🧡Like this post for the algo push
🔄 Repost this for visibility
go.bsky.app/PvitcMe
November 20, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Created a Build in Public starter pack. 🎉
If you're an indie hacker building in public, feel free to join:
👉 Share your project below
🧡Like this post for the algo push
🔄 Repost this for visibility
go.bsky.app/PvitcMe
If you're an indie hacker building in public, feel free to join:
👉 Share your project below
🧡Like this post for the algo push
🔄 Repost this for visibility
go.bsky.app/PvitcMe
Reposted by Rakesh Kumar
Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory
Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky
blueskydirectory.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Fun is a stretch but I know I’m lucky and I know people are counting on me
November 21, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Fun is a stretch but I know I’m lucky and I know people are counting on me
Time to build intelligent systems, I guess.
Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered...
1. Small AI models often perform better in context.
2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.
Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
1. Small AI models often perform better in context.
2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.
Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160
Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI
With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Time to build intelligent systems, I guess.
Meta to put ads on Threads in 2025:
www.reuters.com/technology/m...
Quote:
Meanwhile, Meta does not expect Threads to be "a meaningful driver of 2025 revenue," CFO Susan Li said on a post-earnings call in October.
Then, why do it? Why not experiment with an alternative business for a change?
www.reuters.com/technology/m...
Quote:
Meanwhile, Meta does not expect Threads to be "a meaningful driver of 2025 revenue," CFO Susan Li said on a post-earnings call in October.
Then, why do it? Why not experiment with an alternative business for a change?
November 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Meta to put ads on Threads in 2025:
www.reuters.com/technology/m...
Quote:
Meanwhile, Meta does not expect Threads to be "a meaningful driver of 2025 revenue," CFO Susan Li said on a post-earnings call in October.
Then, why do it? Why not experiment with an alternative business for a change?
www.reuters.com/technology/m...
Quote:
Meanwhile, Meta does not expect Threads to be "a meaningful driver of 2025 revenue," CFO Susan Li said on a post-earnings call in October.
Then, why do it? Why not experiment with an alternative business for a change?
The goal is to follow as many starter packs as my heart desires!
Thanks to folks who make them!
Thanks to folks who make them!
November 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM
The goal is to follow as many starter packs as my heart desires!
Thanks to folks who make them!
Thanks to folks who make them!
Just started reading the Kleppmann paper [1] decided to try this place out.
[1] arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239
[1] arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239
arxiv.org
April 28, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Just started reading the Kleppmann paper [1] decided to try this place out.
[1] arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239
[1] arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239