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38 from 26 May 2011 to 1 Oct 2026
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2026 5

  1. Frontier AI models are a few months ahead of open-source laptop-sized models
  2. Welcome In, now showing in the Epistemologies Of Slop show in San Francisco
  3. An LLM that talks in acrostics
  4. Visualizing tiny LLMs, in parameter golf
  5. Driving coding agents for hours, using test-driven dev

2025 1

  1. DSPy on a Pi: Cheap Prompt Optimization with GEPA and Qwen3

2024 4

  1. Running Stable Diffusion in under 400MB in the browser in under half a second
  2. Diffusion Local Time, extra-large and extra-small, at CVPR
  3. Diffusion Local Time, a timepiece made of generative AI art, at Art Hack Day
  4. Diffusion Local Time: Stable Diffusion running on a Raspberry Pi as an AI Art Timepiece

2023 2

  1. Stable Diffusion Clock
  2. Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline

2022 1

  1. Tironiculum—Automatic Speech Recognition for Latin

2021 2

  1. Dactyloglyphomancy uses crypto for divination
  2. Ancient Greece Papyrus priced as if copy paper made of gold

2020 16

  1. 2020 NeurIPS Saturday
  2. 2020 NeurIPS Friday
  3. 2020 NeurIPS Thursday
  4. 2020 NeurIPS Wednesday
  5. 2020 NeurIPS Tuesday
  6. 2020 NeurIPS Monday
  7. Audre Lorde vs Ayn Rand—fine tuning GPT-2 and steering generation via GeDi on small data
  8. GPT-3 output as collaborator in numerous human rights violations
  9. Visualizing how to unlearn phrases with negative learning rates
  10. Human numbers 100k, a dataset of integers written out in American English
  11. BAN CARS via image segmentation and augmented reality—fast.ai lesson 3
  12. Image classification via transfer learning—fast.ai lesson 1 and 2
  13. Selfie2Waifu Out of Distribution Results—Bob the Drag Queen, Trixie Mattel, Rambo, the Incredible Hunk, and Arnold Schwarzenegger
  14. Lyttle Lytton Plus GPT2—Continuing on atrocious beginnings to novels
  15. Light pollution as topography
  16. Mapping a million new sister cities

2019 4

  1. Queer Representation in StyleGAN
  2. Mining Your Ps and Qs (less and less): 2010 and 2019
  3. Let's Encrypt makes certs for almost 30% of web domains! RC4/3DES/TLS 1.0 are still used! Certs for hundreds of years! Analyzing hundreds of millions of SSL handshakes
  4. Handshaking the Web: hundreds of millions of SSL connections

2014 1

  1. Fifth gym day back

2011 2

  1. Vandalism, second chances, and bots
  2. Who Writes Wikipedia? An information-theoretic analysis of anonymity and vandalism in user-generated content