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Prompt Engineering Won’t Fix Your Architecture
1+ hour, 3+ min ago (389+ words) Every few years, our industry rediscovers an old truth and pretends it's new. Suddenly, people who shipped a single CRUD app in 2019 are tweeting things like: No. The problem is still your system. Prompt engineering is not a silver bullet....
Is the Transformer Dead? DeepMind Bets on an Alternative Path to AGI
2+ hour, 18+ min ago (1355+ words) "Catastrophic forgetting," a specter that has haunted the AI community for decades, may be completely resolved this time. In the past year, the rapid progress of AI is no exaggeration. Just the achievements of Google DeepMind in one year are…...
The most important goal, amid the rise of AI, is to have a human intelligence research lab, to bear the custody of human intelligence.
4+ hour, 13+ min ago (536+ words) The Consumer Technology Association is holding the (CES) Consumer Electronics Show 2026 in Las Vegas, from January 6 " 9, with AI as the dominant theme. But if AI is accelerating, what becomes of human intelligence? Who, on earth, has custody of human intelligence?...
Running Llama 3 Locally with Apple MLX: A Guide to Unified Memory
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (543+ words) For years, running large AI models meant paying for cloud GPUs or worrying about data privacy. That has changed. Running LLMs locally on your own hardware solves three specific problems: latency, privacy, and cost. You don't need an internet connection,…...
Relationship Evaluation Form, redux
6+ hour, 43+ min ago (241+ words) Back in 2001 I made a Relationship Evaluation Form" as a PDF you could print and fill out for your ex. Now it's updated it with 100% more web-interactivity!The Relationship Evaluation Form started as an in-joke with friends in Iceland, following…...
Local teachers lead statewide effort to improve math instruction and student outcomes
7+ hour, 2+ min ago (217+ words) MERCER COUNTY, W.Va . (WVVA) - Mercer County Public Schools is highlighting two local educators who are helping strengthen math instruction across the state as Math Teacher Leaders in the Mountaineer Mathematics Master Teachers program (M3T). Jessica Thomas of Bluefield High School and…...
Bayesian Transformers Achieve Diverse Intelligence with Sampling from a Single Model
7+ hour, 24+ min ago (734+ words) Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system that mimics the "wisdom of crowds" by generating diverse yet consistent responses from a single set of core parameters, leading to improved performance and more varied outputs in tasks such as text…...
Diffusion Language Models Achieve Optimal Parallel Sampling with Polynomial-Length Chains
7+ hour, 45+ min ago (706+ words) Researchers demonstrate that diffusion language models, enhanced with techniques allowing modification of generated text, can efficiently mimic any parallel sampling method with optimal speed and memory usage, theoretically establishing their potential as the fastest way to generate text. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-07T111635.620.jpg Diffusion…...
Multi-bandit Best Arm Identification Achieves Efficient Partner Selection for Sequential Support Network Learning
7+ hour, 51+ min ago (648+ words) Researchers have developed a new method for efficiently identifying the most helpful collaborators in complex tasks, such as machine learning and distributed computing, by leveraging shared information and improving the speed with which optimal teams can be assembled. https://quantumzeitgeist.com/wp-content/uploads/Image_fx-2026-01-07T111525.065.jpg Identifying…...
Let’s Build a Deep Learning Library from Scratch Using NumPy (Part 2: Autograd)
8+ hour, 19+ min ago (564+ words) Welcome back! In Part 1, we built the foundation of our deep learning library babygrad: Now, it's time to implement automatic differentiation, the core of deep learning. This is what allows libraries like PyTorch to compute gradients automatically so we can…...