2026-04-09
A friendly library for working with PDFs
A Rust chess library with the aim to be as feature-rich as possible
open-arms-mini: cheap human like teleoperation device that supports human in the loop corrections
Having too many transformers is a problem because we don't have enough transformers
Ok so first of the three biographies: I am Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy. Provocative title, amazing book about a child actress who was pushed into the profession by an overbearing mother. Powerful book, strong recommendation esp for parents. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Gla... 1/N 🧵
Fun fact: I have rediscovered reading. I have read more books in the past 1.5 years than I have in the past 25. When I was young, I quite liked reading.. I never read that much but, say ~2-3 books a year. When I started University, the first year wasn't bad but after that my head was too full.
1. dont fall for anti open model fearmongering, but 2. acknowledge that AI capabilities are proceeding fast, and eventually there may be a reason to be more careful with open weight models I don't think Mythos is that trigger, but I'm not 100% confident www.interconnects.ai/p/claude-myt...
My book, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, is wrapping up and going into final production (copyediting, making pretty, formatting, etc.). Shipping to you in 1-2 months! It's a wonderful project to create a foundation of knowledge for the research communities that I love and operate in.
Directionally, I agree with this piece, but it's important to note that this is the first blip in a long, slow transition towards a more hybrid model of open and closed models. www.chinatalk.media/p/chinas-ai-...
"It is not about whether AI will help itself to your job. It is about whether the people who make AI are helping themselves to your country."
Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained becaus Cassandra (famously) was right. It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
I used to believe this and then I saw the budget requested for a traditional chemistry grant.
Another dance around fears of open-source.