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The most important lesson in Machine Learning
Most applied machine learning research looks beautiful in the paper, but fails spectacularly in real-life. They all fall prey to the same mistake: the…
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How to Train your Chatbot - Update #1
The first application is here!
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Graphs and their drawings
Where graph theory and geometry meet, beauty and challenge arise
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Let's build our own ChatGPT
Build your own chat with an LLM application in just 56 lines of code and 15 minutes.
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The Science of Computation - Update #4
Updates on the book's content plus two special offers.
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But what is Artificial Intelligence anyway?
The no-BS introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence you didn't know you wanted.
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How to Train your Chatbot
Announcing my upcoming practical handbook on using LLMs to build all sorts of cool stuff
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Why reliable AI requires a paradigm shift
Hallucinations are the fundamental barrier for the widespread use of AI, and they won't be solved anytime soon.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Graphs - Update #3
Chapter 1 is free to read online! Plus a draft of a new chapter for insiders.
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The Lurker's Labyrinth
Chapter 1 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Graphs
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The Science of Computation - Update #3
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March 2024

Why Alignment is the Hardest Problem in AI
And probably the hardest engineering problem we've ever faced.
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