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.
- Ryo Lu on How to Make Something Great.
- 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!