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A program that guesses which key you'll press next, and is right far more often than chance. Play it, then read exactly how it works.

How QuEra used an AI agent to relock quantum computer lasers in seconds and tune them to 5x lower noise, all within safety bounds.

Reflections on using Grok Bot for a week, exploring its potential and challenges as a solo entrepreneur.

I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. Some of it is on VHS.

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key?

The internet and AI haven't killed the classroom. Instead, they’ve changed what university buildings can and should be used for.

Sammy's Blog Table of Contents 1. I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI BOT traffic 2. Using LLMs to Make the Emacs Web Browser Great Again 3. If technology got better, why did everything get worse? 4. Deft version 0.2.0 5. How much LLMs is too much LLMs? 6. Building Chess in ab...

Exploring practical ways to make your game more legible to AI agents and how to make agentic iteration faster.

There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative...

Here's a question we see, especially from AI skeptics: if AI coding is so great, shouldn't we be seeing more new, good software by now? Here are some answ...

The OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit.

In the late 80s, I spent an embarrassing number of hours hunched over my ZX Spectrum, typing in Sinclair BASIC programs and rudimentary assembler routines copied from magazines, trying to re-create the Amiga crack intros I’d seen round at a friend’s house. Obviously, they never came even slightly cl...

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Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one. “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are the headline speaker at the conference - l...

I continue to hear this claim made regularly that “nobody knows how large language models work,” and I want to put this claim to rest finally.

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

What happened?Some time ago I realized that I'm part of this stupid rat race, and I no longer wish to participate. Also, I watched The More Boring You Are, the More Impressive You’ll Become - The Paradox of Boredom last night.P.S. If you need to relax, why not visit the Koi Pond?Companies are trying...

There is a popular idea that substantial wealth belongs mainly to entrepreneurs. We celebrate founders, investors and business owners so loudly that a career person can begin to believe that employ…

The most effective way to nerd snipe a roboticist is to present them with a controversial definition of a "robot"

The Etruscan language isn't undeciphered: the alphabet is Greek and the sounds are secure. It's untranslated: no close relatives, and a corpus of epitaphs.