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30 years that shook AI.
Vision Transformers Need Registers.
Kaiming He presenting the most cited paper of the century.
The most cited paper of the century.
The next Welch Labs book is ready for preorder!
How LLMs became robot brains
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What do you want to know about world models?
Death to the em dash.
How the world’s smartest robot brain works – Physical Intelligence Pi0 VLA
The most significant moment in modern robotics.
The most cited paper of the century is a brilliant hack
Can LLMs make significant new discoveries?
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Computer vision models no longer need labels.
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Imaginary Numbers are Real.
The Future of AI Is Absolutely Incredible (Spencer Huang)
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DeepSeek Solved AI’s Memory Problem
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I Never Thought I’d See This Happen
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Claude Fable AI Is Much Stranger Than The Headlines Suggest
The Man Who Built New York Without Winning a Single Vote - Robert Caro
Which AI is the best liar?
The man who handed out LBJ’s money - Robert Caro
How Robert Moses Destroyed His Enemies - Robert Caro
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How Japan Accidentally Helped Kill the Tsar - Sarah Paine
Why Old Buildings Are More Beautiful Than New Ones - Robert Caro
What Robert Caro learned about power after studying it for 50 years
How did tiny Japan beat Russia? - Sarah Paine
What Robert Caro’s books taught me about power
Why COVID Was Impossible to Contain - Kyle Harper
The Scientific Revolution Happened in a Filthy City - Kyle Harper
Why the US Kept Hirohito Alive - Sarah Paine
Why Hunter-Gatherers Lost to Farmers - Kyle Harper
Why transistors stopped being flat
The Dream Chocolate That Stopped Being Real (Joscha Bach)
Simulated Water Can't Make You Wet (Joscha Bach)
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Why Consciousness Might Not Be Hard At All (Joscha Bach)
We're the Ones Having the Debate (Jeremy Avigad)
When It Doesn't Matter That It's Slop (Paul Lessard)
Nobody Had Actually Read It (Kevin Buzzard)
The Annals Published It. It Wasn't True. - Kevin Buzzard
Colour Theory Has Politics - Paul Lessard
Correct Isn't Enough. I Want the Reason. - Paul Lessard #podcast #science
The Trojan Horse in AI-Written Mathematics
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AI Coding Is a Slot Machine: Loss Disguised as a Win | Jeremy Howard
What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar
Life as it could be | Akarsh Kumar on Artificial Life
Game of Thrones: Turing Edition | Akarsh Kumar on Core War
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The Programming Language That Referees Mathematics — Leo de Moura
Why Deep Learning Failed on Tables for a Decade - Frank Hutter
‘We may release models we can’t control’: Amodei, Altman … and Gemini Carbon
AI Labs Warn Race Makes Breach ‘Inevitable’
OpenAI Security: Controlling Models is Now ‘Hell’
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GPT 6 Astra, so good even OpenAI are worried
Sam Altman :‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models Start to [Mis]Train Themselves
AI is getting a little out of control
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A Model Explosion: GPT 5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5 and Meta Muse Rewrite the Rules
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New Claude Opus 4.8: 15 Things You May’ve Missed
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AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory | Lex Fridman Podcast #503
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DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501
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The Sphere Intersection Puzzle
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The last IMO problem AI could not solve
The jumping pegs puzzle
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100 random chords, how many intersections?
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Robot Chonk Cleans the Floor
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Effective Doomerism
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