A few things I liked reading this week.

  • A few things I liked reading this week.
    • Amelia Wattenberger's LLM fish eyes.
      • It does track to me that LLMs will be an ingredient that allows new kinds of UX to become possible that wasn't possible before.
      • The ability to generate high-quality summaries of prose at different layers of distillation for ~free seems like a big unlock!
    • Anthropic's practical guide to agents is excellent.
      • Grounded, clarifying, direct, insightful.
    • Scaling Test Time Compute from HuggingFace.
      • Great overview of the techniques underlying models like o1 and how effective they are in practice.
      • Beautiful, insightful, and generative.
      • "We can call this the "Rice Knuckle Rule" Rule: what people are actually doing is following their experience and their complex personal judgement, while claiming to be following a vivid rule-of-knuckle everyone else does."
    • Michael Lapadula, an incredibly insightful engineer, has a new external blog.[aod]
      • He was my favorite internal blog at my last job, and I'm so excited that he'll be publishing similar thoughts externally now!

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