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November 2024

Record yourself: working on my spoken French
🎙Give me a feedback loop and I'll dial down my Eastern-european accent
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Cloud vs local: where to put Space Invader mosaics?
👾 Where to put user data? There's the cloud way and the local way and what I really want is neither
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We never know what's good news
🐴 The night that Hash Code crashed, the runaway horse, good news vs bad news is not a useful question
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How to give feedback: a masterclass at a comedy club
🎤 Stand-up comedy floor gazing, pics don't lie, getting feedback in the style of Jay Gatsby
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October 2024

This is not reasoning: LLMs caught cheating at math test
LLMs and math puzzles, reasoning vs pattern-matching, smaller kiwis are still kiwis
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Rest in pieces: end-to-end vs modular deep learning
🚗 How do you program self-driving cars, end-to-end vs modular deep learning, neural networks are software systems
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Don't skip weeks
📝 "Never miss twice" is bad advice; "Given the smallest excuse, one will not work at all"; not feeding the gremlins.
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Feeling overwhelmed is not about having too much to do
💫 The magic button theory of overwhelm
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September 2024

You don't learn from being right
💫 Learning to climb one missed prediction at a time, training neural nets, postcard from Jakarta
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PDF to podcast: a new way to catch up on long-procrastinated reading
🔈Using NotebookLM "Audio overviews" to learn about transformers
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Hike planning in two takes: looking at o1 two-pass model
🍓 The long-hyped new model from OpenAI is out; the most interesting thing about it is the 2-pass output model; we ask for a hike suggestion and get a…
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