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“I dealt with you know I wrote this essay Machines of Loving Grace a and one of the key questions it asked I mean it was focused on what are all the positive applications of AI”
“Aiden is one of the co-authors of a of a paper called attention is all you need”
“this time we talk a lot about his paper titled on the measure of intelligence that discusses how we might define and measure general intelligence in our computing machinery”
“The Adolescence of Technology _Blog post by Dario Amodei_ https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology”
“You and a bunch of co-authors wrote um a blog post titled AI 2027, which is a very compelling read, and we're going to cover some of it, but I'm sure there's there are details there that we're not goi…”
“And of course I I reference the bitter lesson all the time as one of the deep fundamental insights to the kind of broader effort of everything that goes on here”
“Jim is interested in building generally capable autonomous agents and he recently published mind Dojo a massively multiscale benchmarking seite built on Minecraft which was an outstanding paper n we'r…”
“THERE'S A WHOLE BLOG POST THAT YOUR VIEWERS CAN READ IF THEY WANT MORE DETAILS.”
“I started reading around whether anyone had done it there was this seminal paper in 2012 called on the naturalness of software”
“download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning at netswuite.com/cognitive.”
“We propose GMM-Anchored JEPA...Code is made available at https://github.com/gioannides/clustering-anchored-jepa.”
“We provide theoretical justification and experiments on video-based world models, where our resulting planner outperforms existing planning algorithms like the cross-entropy method (CEM) and vanilla g…”
“A closer look at the MET-PREVENT trial and what its null results reveal about aging interventions and trial design. Full article linked below.”
“We introduce Rectified Distribution Matching Regularization (RDMReg), a sliced two-sample distribution-matching loss that aligns representations to a Rectified Generalized Gaussian (RGG) distribution.…”
“This new Nature paper (using old models) illustrates the point of my latest Substack post on AI interfaces. AI did a good job diagnosing medical issues, but when users had to interact with chatbots th…”
“My post: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-dispatch-and-the-power-of”
“Finally, we urge all vulnerable cryptocurrency communities to join the ongoing migration to PQC without delay.”
“If you're familiar with [neural scaling laws](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361), you can consider this challenge a form of L(N) optimization, where the objective is to optimize the lowest loss given a…”
“I think the thing that captivated me I don't know if you felt this way it was the only white paper that I read end to end where I thought this is one of the most elegantly written pieces of non-techni…”
“I just would really recommend the essay that Jack mentioned earlier by Dario um Machines of loveing Grace um I think it is probably the best positive Vision out there there's really not much literatur…”
“It is based on [LoRA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685), a training paradigm where most weights are frozen and only 1-2% of additional weights in the form of low-rank matrix perturbations are trained.”
“so there's this one work last year that I collaborated with Stanford co-authors the paper is called metamorph so it was accepted to iar and this work is about how can we learn a policy that controls n…”
“And I read the 1950 paper by Alan Turring where he talks about the Turing test. By the way, how many people know what the Turing test is?”
“If we go all the way back to 2016 you know before I even worked at openai when I was at Google I wrote a paper called with some colleagues some of whom are now anthropic co-founders concrete problems …”
“We present Marconi, the first system that supports efficient prefix caching with Hybrid LLMs.”
“And if that wasn't enough, he also co-founded Google's AI research project, Google Brain, and was one of the earliest pioneers of a new neural network architecture called Transformers. Not sure that o…”
“Despite strong performance on vision-language tasks, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with mathematical problem-solving, with both open-source and state-of-the-art models falling shor…”
“I came across this blog that um one of the former YC Partners Daniel gross wrote but it was like How to Build the Next Google”
“One story that a lot of people should know is that if you ask yourself what is the paper in all of science that has gathered the largest number of citations over the last 10 years, that paper was publ…”
“In this work, we ask the question: "Do visual self-supervised approaches lag behind CLIP due to the lack of language supervision, or differences in the training data?" We study this question by traini…”
“This paper explores a self-supervised approach that combines internet-scale video data with a small amount of interaction data (robot trajectories), to develop models capable of understanding, predict…”
“The Urgency of Interpretability _Blog post by Dario Amodei_”
“It's fun to describe quantum teleportation in terms of particles that move both forward and backward in time. And it's more than just fun: the intuition derived from that description can guide us to n…”
“This paper rethinks the key building block for conferencing infrastructures -- selective forwarding units (SFUs)... we present Scallop, an SDN-inspired SFU that decouples video-conferencing applicatio…”
“This architecture is called joint emitting predictive architecture jpa and that's what I've been kind of focusing my efforts over the last several years.”
“GPUs, CPUs, and. . . NICs: Rethinking the Network's Role in Serving Complex AI Pipelines”
“In this work, we systematically evaluate RL and control-based methods on a suite of navigation tasks...planning with a latent dynamics model proves to be a strong approach for handling suboptimal offl…”
“I'm eager to speak with you specifically about this recent essay you wrote on AI and uh so you obviously many people have read this and you are a voice that many people value on this topic among other…”
“# Cobordism, spin structures, and profinite completions”
“# Aragog: Just-in-Time Model Routing for Scalable Serving of Agentic Workflows”
“Encouraging news. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts-congress.html”
“There's a paper that's not too old by David Silver, Rich Sutton is a co-author um Donap and a bunch of other people whose title is um reward is enough.”
“https://theconversation.com/us-experiencing-largest-measles-outbreak-since-2000-5-essential-reads-on-the-risks-what-to-do-and-whats-coming-next-275164”
“Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework”
“We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition.”
“_Blog post by Google DeepMind_ https://deepmind.google/blog/protecting-people-from-harmful-manipulation”
“More on our approach to the Model Spec: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-the-model-spec/”
“Yes: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/”
“You should read the red team report: https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/”
“have you see this paper? https://llm-attacks.org”
“It’s Called Silicon Sampling, and It’s Going to Ruin Public Opinion Polling https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/ai-polling.html”
“We prove that, in various tasks, quantum machines can learn from exponentially fewer experiments than those required in conventional experiments.”
“In this work, we propose a new type of architecture for quantum generative adversarial networks (entangling quantum GAN, EQ-GAN) that overcomes some limitations of previously proposed quantum GANs.”
“I was reading a paper the the Princeton swe paper um where their coding agents can now solve 12.5% of GitHub issues versus I think 3.8% um when it was just rag”
“6 Takeaways From Trump’s News Conference on Iran https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/us/politics/trump-iran-news-conference.html?smid=tw-share”
“I'm going to quickly summarize, but do read this article. It's not that long and uh it's going to be an important one.”
“And then the last one is how does all of that come together to something that a lot of people really want to use it. And that's a combination of you know the utility of all the subplatforms essentiall…”
“Dr. Lichtenstein says the process for making these new guidelines was to dispense with politics and stick to the evidence. Well, I think there's no agenda behind these guidelines that they're evidence…”
“I encourage you to check it out. We will link it in the show notes.”
“For more insights on the survey, check that out at the information.com.”
“you mentioned later in this wired article that you stumbled upon the single algorithm Theory popularized by Jeff Hawkins”
“the prevailing opinion was that human intelligence derived from thousands of simple agents working in concert this is what mit's Marvin Minsky called The Society of mind”
“there's also a recipe Pioneer by one of my friends Eric Bron and his collaborators sanit called a task-based analysis of jobs that I found to be very useful”
“The Hatsugai-Kohmoto model thus emerges as a minimal, exactly solvable platform for interaction-mediated non-reciprocal many-body dynamics.”
“New post: Endnotes on 2020: Crypto and Beyond”
“# Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture _Blog post by Yann LeCun_”
“Thanks, Ingrid Fadelli, for this nice article about our recently published paper with @RobertHuangHY and @MSoleimanifar. The paper describes a surprisingly simple protocol for verifying that a many-qu…”
“This one: https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.12.3845”
“# Suppressing quantum errors by scaling a surface code logical qubit _ArXiv paper co-authored by Hartmut Neven_”
“This was all the way back in 2017 when we created this paper called the “Unsupervised Sentiment Neuron.””
“Wrote about how to help young men, many of whom are failing 👉 https://www.profgalloway.com/boys-to-men/”
“I still remember that year kind of the thrill when I read like a freshly big Alex net paper just like out of nurs right and I really appreciated its Simplicity and minimalism”
“Today's really good. The real topic, what we'll be discussing, America is rewriting its relationship with news. So we are thrilled to have Pew Research join the show. I've been using their research si…”
“I've discussed supply chain attacks, specifically in the context of the Node.js package manager, NPM ecosystem, in this 2022 update.”
“VentureBeat has a very good article explaining what happened to Axios.”
“I'm very excited about FMA and more generally Foundation models for robotics at the beginning we briefly touch on this statement that the history of AI is a history of unification before alexnet 2012”
“From: https://t.co/a5VGTQk18L”
“There's there's another blog post that um perhaps you know about called the intelligence curse. Yes. Um which uh goes over some of this ground as well which which I recommend people look up.”
“That's Julia Minson, professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, co-author of the HBR article, A Smarter Way to Disagree, and author of the new book, How to Disagree.”
“See also my posts: * https://t.co/cezOk1ilHy”
“* https://t.co/wCjLcUoyxY”
“The Federal Reserve put out a paper, CalShe and the rise of macro markets. Maybe you can dive into that because that seems right at the sweet spot of where you came from and where you're from.”
“The other thing that I'll say that is kind of interesting about the Fed paper is three months prior to the Fed releasing this paper, Kalshi Research released a paper. It was our first paper, and it wa…”
“* https://t.co/LTMrsxFeuS”
“you know we published it in physical review letters and it got a lot of attention and I think we had a little article in Scientific American that was very proud of”
“There are still likely a few weeks before the company files publicly, but PitchBook recently put out a great report looking at the business and its valuation. I want to bring on PitchBook's Franco Gra…”
“this essay called Keep Your Identity Small, I think, by by Paul Graham is his name.”
“The other research work that I want to highlight is a work from Stanford called the Stanford Smallville where they instantiate 25 agents in like little world and have them kind of interact with with…”
“yosha bju had a very interesting paper on this in the 2000s using neural Nets to do this actually it was probably one of the first anyway”
“unless you are not paying attention to anything in Quantum there was a huge research paper that IBM came out with it was published in nature can you talk a little bit about the significance when I rea…”
“In this work, we introduce CSA-Graphs, a privacy-preserving structural dataset.”
“It is called Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities.”
“Amanda mole wrote this great piece and Bloomberg highly recommend checking that out.”
“# Self-Supervised Learning of Split Invariant Equivariant Representations”
“I hope you read our paper when it's on archive soon”
“This repository contains the environments in our paper: > [SECANT: Self-Expert Cloning for Zero-Shot Generalization of Visual Policies](https://linxifan.github.io/secant-site/)”
“I do think it's it's potentially The Next Step there's uh there's this idea that'll give you a link to learn more about that yeah yeah I think read the S4 the S4 paper”
“I really enjoyed the New Yorker profile by Josh Rothman who I've worked with in the past”
“How to become a supermanager with AI: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-become-a-supermanager-with”
“How custom GPTs can make you a better manager | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product at Whoop): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDMkkOC-EhI”
“Academic papers ARE recommendations if someone is telling the reader to read them (type=paper).”
“# Need is All You Need: Homeostatic Neural Networks Adapt to Concept Shift”
“To address these limitations, we propose COMLLM, a generative framework that enables foresighted decision-making in MEC systems.”
“In this work, we derive the non-Markovian dynamics between TLS and qubits during a SWAP-like two-qubit gate and the associated average gate fidelity for frequency-tunable Transmon qubits. This gate de…”
“Answering the question of existence of efficient quantum algorithms for NP-hard problems require deep theoretical understanding of the properties of the low-energy eigenstates and long-time coherent d…”
“I just published "Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad": https://t.co/LTMrsxFeuS”
“We introduce TensorFlow Quantum (TFQ), an open source library for the rapid prototyping of hybrid quantum-classical models for classical or quantum data.”
“We present a quantum kernel method for high-dimensional data analysis using Google's universal quantum processor, Sycamore.”
“A combination of self-aggrandizement and elitism has convinced American universities that our services are worth indebting generations of young people, and now risking becoming agents of spread. #nome…”
“As the search continues for useful applications of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices, variational simulations of fermionic systems remain one of the most promising directions. Here, we perform …”
“Here we explore which heuristic quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization might be most practical to try out on a small fault-tolerant quantum computer.”
“# Resolving catastrophic error bursts from cosmic rays in large arrays of superconducting qubits”
“you can check out the paper that Michael Nielson had about this idea”
“New blog post on coordination, collusion, decentralization and forking: https://t.co/8aB7T9NsjT”
“In this work, we develop intuitive constructions for a large class of these algorithms based on connections to simple dynamics of quantum systems, quantum walks, and classical continuous relaxations.”
“Given a quantum circuit, a quantum computer can sample the output distribution exponentially faster in the number of bits than classical computers. A similar exponential separation has yet to be estab…”
“So you recently posted a paper, "STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning."”
“The use of quantum computing for machine learning is among the most exciting prospective applications of quantum technologies.”
“and i'd recommend you go to uh on vitalik.ca i have this article called a quadratic payments a primer and highly recommended it's kind of at least my attempt so far and explaining the intuition behind…”
“i'd recommend the casper ffg paper”
“Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition - please cite this paper if you use the VGG models in your work.”
“Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition - please cite this paper if you use the ResNet model in your work.”
“Rethinking the Inception Architecture for Computer Vision - please cite this paper if you use the Inception v3 model in your work.”
“# A hierarchical loss and its problems when classifying non-hierarchically”
“New monster post: my own current perspective on the recent debates around techno-optimism, AI risks, and ways to avoid extreme centralization in the 21st century. https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…”
“In this whitepaper, we introduce the Snake Optimizer for efficiently and quickly solving such optimization problems by leveraging concepts in artificial intelligence, dynamic programming, and graph op…”
“# Focus beyond quadratic speedups for error-corrected quantum advantage”
“you had a really good post on your blog saying endnotes on 2020 and it was about a lot more than just crypto”
“Here, by measuring the time-dependent evolution and fluctuation of out-of-time-order correlators, we experimentally investigate the dynamics of quantum scrambling on a 53-qubit quantum processor. We e…”
“In this paper, we report the design and characterization of a prototype cryogenic CMOS integrated circuit that has been optimized for the control of transmon qubits. The circuit has been integrated in…”
“# Implicit Rank-Minimizing Autoencoder”
“_ArXiv paper co-authored by Hartmut Neven_”
“We demonstrate the application of the Google Sycamore superconducting qubit quantum processor to combinatorial optimization problems with the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA).”
“We propose a quantum algorithm for inferring the molecular nuclear spin Hamiltonian from time-resolved measurements of spin-spin correlators, which can be obtained via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)…”
“you know for me i've read the alan turing 1950 paper computing machinery and intelligence paper back before i knew how to code and i remember reading it you know it lays out the turing test but then i…”
“Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising variational learning paradigm with applications to near-term quantum processors, however they still face some significant challenges.”
“This is an updated version of supplementary information to accompany "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor", an article published in the October 24, 2019 issue of Nature. T…”
“Summary of changes since arXiv:1910.11333v1 (submitted 23 Oct 2019)”
“# GLoMo: Unsupervisedly Learned Relational tGraphs as Transferable Representations”
“We introduce a fermion-to-qubit mapping defined on ternary trees, where any single Majorana operator on an $n$-mode fermionic system is mapped to a multi-qubit Pauli operator acting nontrivially on $\…”
“First of all, Center for Humane Technology, my nonprofit, has a solutions report that's coming out around the time of the film. It's a PDF. It has, I think, seven major solutions. I want everybody to …”
“Here we report on experimental observations of relaxation in such simulations, measured on up to 1440 qubits with microsecond resolution. By initializing the system in a state with topological obstruc…”
“Here, we simulate the dynamics of the one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model using 16 qubits on a digital superconducting quantum processor. We observe separations in the spreading velocities of charge a…”
“well I read papers that's what people should be writing uh generally science papers uh that's where the knowledge is and I will that's where the knowledge will likely remain”
“# Do Robots powered by a Quantum Processor have the Freedom to swerve? _ArXiv paper co-authored by Hartmut Neven_”
“# A quantum algorithm for training wide and deep classical neural networks _ArXiv paper co-authored by Hartmut Neven_”
“Quantum many-body systems display rich phase structure in their low-temperature equilibrium states. However, much of nature is not in thermal equilibrium.”
“Here, we describe a protocol for using a fault-tolerant quantum computer to calculate stopping power from a first-quantized representation of the electrons and projectile. Our approach builds upon the…”
“These posts from 2016-17 basically advocating for someone to build Uniswap.”
“# Optimizing quantum gates towards the scale of logical qubits”
“If you find the work useful in your research, please cite the DeepTraffic paper”
“We introduce Personalized RewardBench, a novel benchmark designed to rigorously assess reward models' capacity to model personalized preferences.”
“_Blog post by Yann LeCun_”
“# Sampling diverse near-optimal solutions via algorithmic quantum annealing”
“Here, we introduce a quantum-inspired family of nonlocal Nonequilibrium Monte Carlo (NMC) algorithms by developing an adaptive gradient-free strategy that can efficiently learn key instance-wise geome…”
“author of the Hill algorithm for linear systems”
“he's actually the author of the first paper on, on, on barren plateaus.”
“there are some, you know, we've recently studied quantum convolutional neural networks, and it looks like this might be an interesting useful architecture in the NISQ era”
“at one point i read alan turing's 1950 paper called computing machinery and intelligence which is the turing test paper”
“Here my friend Jens Eisert and I assess the current status and the challenges ahead.”
“and if that sounds interesting to you you may be interested in the abstraction and reasoning corpus which is a kind of intelligence test that's meant to be used by humans and machines that i released …”
“Here we give classical sampling algorithms with better total variation distance and Kullback-Leibler divergence than these experiments and a computational cost quadratic in the number of modes.”
“We observe that the comment of [1, arXiv:2302.07897] is consistent with [2] on key points: i) the microscopic mechanism of the experimentally observed teleportation is size winding and ii) the system …”
“# On the duality between contrastive and non-contrastive self-supervised learning _Blog post by Yann LeCun_”
“Yann LeCun on a vision to make AI systems learn and reason like animals and humans”
“Formation of robust bound states of interacting microwave photons”
“# Noise-resilient Edge Modes on a Chain of Superconducting Qubits _ArXiv paper co-authored by Hartmut Neven_”
“Active Self-Supervised Learning: A Few Low-Cost Relationships Are All You Need”
“The paper that blew my mind was InstructGPT, because it pointed out that you can take the pretrained model, which is autocomplete, and if you just fine-tune it on text that looks like conversations, t…”
“one example of this is that there was a few papers came out of Cornell over the last few months like one of them was they published this after good financial cryptography 2016 workshop that they were …”
“# Augmented Language Models: a Survey _Blog post by Yann LeCun_”
“# The SSL Interplay: Augmentations, Inductive Bias, and Generalization”
“Best of AI Curation Vol. 3, covers: No-gradient architecture, LLM tool making and mastery (3 papers!), RLHF without RL, an uncensored LLM, an open course, and more. Deep dive with me: 🧵”
“Best of AI Curation Vol. 3, covers: No-gradient architecture, LLM tool making and mastery (3 papers!), RLHF without RL, an uncensored LLM, an open course, and more. Deep dive with me: 🧵”
“Best of AI Curation Vol. 3, covers: No-gradient architecture, LLM tool making and mastery (3 papers!), RLHF without RL, an uncensored LLM, an open course, and more. Deep dive with me: 🧵”
“Best of AI Curation Vol. 3, covers: No-gradient architecture, LLM tool making and mastery (3 papers!), RLHF without RL, an uncensored LLM, an open course, and more. Deep dive with me: 🧵”
“this is a a paper that Jake Browning who's a philosopher and and and and I published in the noima magazine which is a philosophy magazine about the fact that a system that is purely”
“# VICRegL: Self-Supervised Learning of Local Visual Features”
“We released a new error correcting code it's a new low density parity check code that we actually call the gross code This new code requires orders and magnitude fewer cubits than the surface code and…”
“I wrote about the argument that this week’s AI regulations represent ‘regulatory capture’ and make the case that if even Elon Musk is asking the government to do something, we have every right to mand…”
“I read the readings of the works of like Ray Kurt and felt like there was something there and that AI was really going to go somewhere”
“# Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Video”
“Here is a detailed explanation of the account takeover hack that happened on this account this week. https://avc.xyz/anatomy-of-a-twitterx-account-takeover-hack”
“# Visualizing Dynamics of Charges and Strings in (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theories”
“In this work, we identify representation collapse in the model's intermediate layers as a key factor limiting their reasoning capabilities. To address this, we propose Sequential Variance-Covariance R…”
“In Ref. [1], Bravyi et al. found examples of Bivariate Bicycle (BB) codes with similar logical performance to the surface code but with an improved encoding rate.”
“# Observation of disorder-free localization using a (2+1)D lattice gauge theory on a quantum processor”
“in 1969 uh F fets from University of Washington published this beautiful paper called oper and conditioning of cortical unit activity where he was able to record a single unit neuron from a monkey and…”
“If you still think AGI is sci-fi or too far away to matter, consider checking out [https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk](https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk) and who disagree with y…”
“# JEPA as a Neural Tokenizer: Learning Robust Speech Representations with Density Adaptive Attention”
“from a theoretical complexity point of view I actually find this great uh this paper by Scott Aronson actually established the hardness of this problem”
“this is a famous paper by Ed far look at optimization where you can come up with circuits that will be uh potentially useful for these problems”
“There's another Super popular paper that you author call koala cognitive architectures for language agents”
“In this work, we propose Visual-Predictive Instruction Tuning (VPiT) - a simple and effective extension to visual instruction tuning that enables a pretrained LLM to quickly morph into an unified auto…”
“Okay, Scott Aronson has a beautiful sorry beautiful paper that can show random circuits are actually hard to simulate.”
“when people thought Trump was a clown and he was just a clown that's all he was so I wrote a blog post someone remember it it was called clown genius so I reframed him as somebody who was a showan and…”
“this term I heard come out of this paper Alpha codium it basically achieves state-of-the-art kind of like coding performance not necessarily through better models or better prompting strategies but th…”
“This paper presents METIS, the first RAG system that jointly schedules queries and adapts the key RAG configurations of each query, such as the number of retrieved text chunks and synthesis methods, i…”
“If you haven't read the GDP eval paper from open AI, it is an interesting paper.”
“We introduce a Navigation World Model (NWM), a controllable video generation model that predicts future visual observations based on past observations and navigation actions.”