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Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social · Apr 5

Seems likely that at some point AI will make it much easier to hack critical infrastructure, create bioweapons, etc etc. Many argue that if so, a hardcore nonproliferation strategy is our only option.

Rising Tide launch week post 3/3 is on why I disagree 🧵

helentoner.substack.com/p/nonprolife...

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Dmytro Mishkin @ducha-aiki.bsky.social · Mar 12

Explaining Human Preferences via Metrics for Structured 3D Reconstruction

@jacklangerman.bsky.social Denys Rozumnyi, Yuzhong Huang, @ducha-aiki.bsky.social

tl;dr: we asked 3D modelers to rank wireframe reconstructions & compared it to ranking by metrics. Observations🧵
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arxiv.org/abs/2503.08208

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Carlo Lepelaars @carlolepelaars.bsky.social · Mar 18

Struggling with Python `re`? regex is a superset of re with additional functionality and more thorough Unicode support. It is very powerful and still kind of an open secret. When I saw
@howard.fm explain this I just had to write about it!

Today I Learned:
carlo.ai/til/regex-se...

regex.search - Carlo Lepelaars

Using regex.search for simple string parsing. `regex` is a superset of `re` with additional functionality and more thorough Unicode support.

carlo.ai

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · Mar 9

Currently reading a study about influenza aerosol transmission, published in 2020 and shows more RNA copies (log scale) in fine aerosol fraction.

In 2020…

and we still haven’t sorted out air safety in hospitals, and we are still whinging about flu being such a big problem (which it is).

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Matt Wright @honed.co · Feb 14

This is fascinating, so LLMs.txt is essentially a hybrid of a sitemap and schemas, accepted by a fair few AI chatbots. You can reference all manor of information about you and your brand in there - to improve AI interpretations. towardsdatascience.com/llms-txt-414...

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · Feb 9

This may be a professional bias of someone who was originally trained to study philosophy, but when my friends tell me a thing, I generally try listen to them respectfully and carefully.

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Etienne Posthumus @epoz.org · Feb 7

Late last year I converted some of my projects to fastht.ml - and have been doing all new projects with it.

My productivity and enjoyment has increased significantly. An absolute joy to use. Thousand thanks to @howard.fm et al for the fantastic tooling.

FastHTML

Modern web applications in pure Python

fastht.ml

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · Feb 5

Yeah it basically killed it. Lots of folks have told me rather apologetically that they couldn’t deal with all the hate here so gave up on it.

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · Feb 2

I have to admit that except for the occasional cross-posting, not sure I’ll keep very active on here. There was a big opportunity to migrate the core AI/ML community that was unfortunately squandered with all this hf dataset backlash.

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Srihari Thyagarajan @haleshot.bsky.social · Jan 27

Thanks to @howard.fm for the llms.txt initiative! For context: (Analogy) -> llms.txt is like robots.txt; helps LLMs to provide information by using a website at inference time.

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · Jan 24

Demis Hassabis, James Manyika, and I wrote up an overview of the AI research work & advances across Google in 2024 (Gemini, NotebookLM, robotics, ML for science, & advances in responsible AI+more). 🎊

Given it a read or paste it into NotebookLM to listen, if you prefer!

blog.google/technology/a...

2024: A year of extraordinary progress and advancement in AI

As we move into 2025, we’re looking back at the astonishing progress in AI in 2024.

blog.google

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America's Lounge Singer @krang.bsky.social · Jan 22

no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck YOUR feelings”. MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

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Root Beer Sandwich @genadoesthings.bsky.social · Jan 19

I would like a small non-lethal but painful electrical shock to come through the keyboard of anyone who uses the phrase “do better.”

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · Jan 8

Welcome to my filter bubble! ;)

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · Jan 7

Yeah my feed is nearly exclusively AI research content, which I like.

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · Jan 5

Getting myself set up here. I found the Sky Follower Bridge Chrome plugin pretty helpful (thanks @kawamataryo.bsky.social!)

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store

Easily transfer your following users and list members from X to Bluesky.

chromewebstore.google.com

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Mat Miller @matdmiller.bsky.social · Jan 1

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Tired of complex cloud hosting and the recurring bills that come with it? Host locally on hardware you already own and access anywhere with a browser. It's simpler than you think!

Learn how in my latest post. 🔗👇

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Dec 26

General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really?

I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 25

No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

College students caught between professors' AI bans and employers' growing demand for AI skills

Research shows 75% of workers now use artificial intelligence on the job, yet many universities still classify its use as cheating.

www.phillyvoice.com

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · Dec 24

A new paper dropped from DeepMind: Deliberation in Latent Space via Differentiable Cache Augmentation

The trouble is, it's not very readable. I tried making a thread here, but it got far too long, so it's a blog now:

timkellogg.me/blog/2024/12...

Explainer: Latent Space Experts - Tim Kellogg

timkellogg.me

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · Dec 24

Thanks for checking it out Simon :)

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · Dec 24

Wrote up my notes on ModernBERT, the brand new modern alternative to 2018-era BERT released by @benjaminwarner.dev and @howard.fm and team simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/24/...

Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

[BERT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BERT_(language_model)) was an early language model released by Google in October 2018. Unlike modern LLMs it wasn't designed for generating text. BERT was trained ...

simonwillison.net

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Carlo Lepelaars @carlolepelaars.bsky.social · Dec 22

Are you a Python programmer interested in Quantum Computing? This blog post provides a crossover. Using
@howard.fm's "fastcore" library for quantum.

I explain what fastcore is, how its Transform functionality works and dive into the quantum use case. (1/2)

carlo.ai/posts/fastco...

Carlo Lepelaars - Personal website

Hi, nice to meet you! I'm Carlo Lepelaars and I enjoy exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI), Mathematics, Quantum Computing, Investing and Music.

carlo.ai

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Benjamin Warner @benjaminwarner.dev · Dec 22

This week we released ModernBERT, the first encoder to reach SOTA on most common benchmarks across language understanding, retrieval, and code, while running twice as fast as DeBERTaV3 on short context and three times faster than NomicBERT & GTE on long context.

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · Dec 21

Both!

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Miriam @miriamboosh.bsky.social · Dec 20

Good morning. Let me check if I’ve got this right.
- Juni created a bot that shows what Aaron (head of trust and safety) likes
- His likes are public information
- Aaron likes a porn post
- Trust and safety ban the bot and creator in 16 minutes
- Creator appeals and ban is upheld

What's our head of T&S doing? @whats-aaron-doing.bsky.social
+ Follow
Aaron liked:
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• Changed Handle
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@tiktokgirls.bsky.social • 14h
THER PROFILES
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#nfsw #adultcontent #fetish #model #onlyfans #petite #xxx #contentcreator #censored #18+ #pov #sexy #tiktokhot #tiktok #tiktok18+

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