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AI research engineer working on large language models. He writes the Ahead of AI newsletter and is the author of Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

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  Looped/recurrent-depth transformer architectures can improve model quality at a fixed compute budget when the model is large enough.

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  So, in short, we can say that using looped transformers can improve model quality at a fixed compute budget if the model is large enough.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Test-time scaling has gained a third axis of latent space reasoning iterations in looped transformers.

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  Seems like test time scaling has gained a 3rd axis: latent space reasoning iterations in looped transformers.

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Software engineer and writer; worked on Mapbox and built Placemark and Simple Statistics, and blogs at macwright.com.

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  Decentralized networks can be both principled and mainstream-popular without giving up usability.

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  It's exciting, and shows that you don't have to accept a bad set of tradeoffs to make tech that's both principled and popular.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  Neither running everything through the founder nor pushing decisions down is the better way to run a company; each only works if it fits that company’s own resources and values.

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  Either can work. Both have tradeoffs and implications. If you try to import either philosophy wholesale, it will break in unexpected ways; if you try to mix and match, it will probably be an unfettered nightmare.

  “Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmakingcharity.wtf

Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  Javascript: The Good Parts

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  Before this book I used to think that Javascript is "bad" or a "hacky" language. This book changed my perspective, understanding some tradeoffs and some remarkable strengths of this weakly typed language that is starting to take over the world. Note that this book is now dated

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Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.

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  Programming is fundamentally the practice of making tradeoffs about what matters and what doesn't.

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  Programming is the art of tradeoffs. You have to decide what matters and what does not.

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Writer of the blog Putanumonit and the newsletter Second Person, on rationality, dating and probability; based in New York.

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  Genuinely open-minded political thinking tends toward centrism or non-political issues, since ideological extremes mostly signal tribal loyalty or serve the power-hungry.

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  High rung thinking will almost always land on "centrist" position because it acknowledges tradeoffs, or on non-politicized positions because it's not beholden to supporting either of the two parties in a zero-sum game. It's not a coincidence that the political square is a triangle.

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Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

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  Living with a SEAL

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  The book was light and fun, but it makes a lot more sense if, like me, you first read Goggin's mega-bestselling memoir, Can't Hurt Me.

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Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google

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  If you're curious how Google built it's culture and the processes thanks to their extremely data & engineering driven nature, this is a great book. What held it back was being ~100 pages too long and Bock didn't always understand where what they did only fit at a $100Bn+, mega-profitable company. Still, the insights on the studies on their 50,000+ employees is well worth the read since so few of us can get similar statistical significance to apply to our teams.

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