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Michael Wolfrath
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Mathematician & Computer Scientist | Enterprise & Solution Architect | AI Strategist | Technologist in love w/ algorithms, graphs, concepts and strategy
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We are excited to announce that ebooks can now be purchased directly from sup.org! As a special introductory offer, we’re happy to give a 50% discount on all direct ebook purchases made during the month of July

More information about our ebooks can be found here:
www.sup.org/ebooks
July 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Get ready everyone.....counting down until tomorrow😳😳
January 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course
The BBC deepfaked Agatha Christie to teach a writing course
“In Agatha’s very own words.”
buff.ly
April 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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“Mickey 17” has Robert Pattinson playing the latest addition to the movie world of expendable doppelgängers created to perform all sorts of dangerous and unpleasant tasks humans would rather not do. Here are five notables from an admittedly fringe genre.
Like ‘Mickey 17?’ Watch These Movies About Clones Next.
Mickey is the latest addition to the world of expendable doppelgängers created to perform all sorts of dangerous and unpleasant tasks humans would rather not do.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Japan is doubling down on anime and manga to boost its soft power, a reboot of the ‘Cool Japan’ initiative.
Japan’s Hottest Export Is About to Be Its Cool
In a reboot of the ‘Cool Japan’ initiative, the nation is using anime and manga to boost its soft power.
www.bloomberg.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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📚 How good are language models at utilising contexts in RAG scenarios?
We release 🧙🏽‍♀️DRUID to facilitate studies of context usage in real-world scenarios.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.17031

w/ @saravera.bsky.social, H.Yu, @rnv.bsky.social, C.Lioma, M.Maistro, @apepa.bsky.social and @iaugenstein.bsky.social ⭐️
A Reality Check on Context Utilisation for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps address the limitations of the parametric knowledge embedded within a language model (LM). However, investigations of how LMs utilise retrieved information o...
arxiv.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5
OpenAI lays out plans for GPT-5
Before GPT-5, OpenAI will ship GPT-4.5.
buff.ly
February 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Just saying ….
February 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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CUDA Programming Course – High-Performance Computing with GPUs

A new course by Elliot Arledge and freeCodeCamp for learning CUDA focuses on the foundation of CUDA:

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=86FA...

#AI #CUDA #MachineLearning #DataScience #DeepLearning
CUDA Programming Course – High-Performance Computing with GPUs
YouTube video by freeCodeCamp.org
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy
(3 hours 31 minutes)

Audience: General audience deep dive into LLM AI

Covers:
1. pretraining
2. supervised finetuning
3. reinforcement learning

Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTG...
Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT
YouTube video by Andrej Karpathy
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Ketchup On Walls Alert: HIGH
February 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test
Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei claims DeepSeek generated sensitive bioweapons data in a safety test it ran. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
tcrn.ch
February 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Michelin-starred omakase restaurant will open a bar in this Art Deco jewel
Michelin-starred omakase restaurant will open a bar in this Art Deco jewel
The team behind The Shota will offer simple food with Japanese influences at 140 New Montgomery St.
sfstandard.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Sam Altman believes OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source
Sam Altman believes OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in a wide-ranging Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI the company finds itself in a bit of a precarious position. It’s…
tcrn.ch
January 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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a16z has venture scouts scattered across Europe
a16z has venture scouts scattered across Europe
Despite news that Andreessen Horowitz closed its London crypto-focused office, the VC reportedly still has dozens of scouts in Europe looking for startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
tcrn.ch
January 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
Microsoft makes DeepSeek’s R1 model available on Azure AI and GitHub
Microsoft moves quick to make R1 available broadly.
buff.ly
January 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Whether you’re worried about a new iPhone or the Apple smartphone you’ve had for ages, activating Stolen Device Protection can limit what thieves can access.
How to Use Stolen Device Protection on Apple’s iPhone
Whether you’re worried about a new iPhone or the Apple smartphone you’ve had for ages, activating Stolen Device Protection can limit what thieves can access.
buff.ly
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The company said Monday it was temporarily limiting new sign-ups due to “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services.
Chinese AI App DeepSeek Soars in Popularity, Startling Rivals
The company said Monday it was temporarily limiting new sign ups due to “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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DeepSeek app sitting at number 1 overall in the US Iphone App Store is not on my bingo card and is the biggest sign yet that the ChatGPT moat can maybe be cracked.
January 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Masayoshi Son has made and lost tens of billions of dollars in his rollercoaster career. A new book charts the tech entrepreneur’s quest for glory and acceptance.
Masayoshi Son’s Biggest Gamble Yet May Finally Secure His Legacy
In Gambling Man, Lionel Barber charts the Softbank founder’s rollercoaster career and his persistent quest for acceptance.
www.bloomberg.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Free course on Agents by Hugging Face. We just added a chapter to smol course on agents. Naturally, using smolagents! The course cover these topics:

- Code agents
- Retrieval agents
- Custom functional

If you're building agent applications, this course should help.
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
- Stephen Hawking
January 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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You can now install the latest Python 3.14 alpha with uv
January 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Don't become like me, a starter pack enthusiast degenerate.

🔵🌏 This single product feature has turned me into a Bluesky evangelist.

🚨 I want to merge with the "niche".

Discover your niche:

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Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky
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December 4, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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November 17, 2023 at 1:31 PM