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54 from 28 May 2023 to 27 Jun 2026
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2026 1

  1. I care about human writing

2025 2

  1. Deep research at Off Avignon
  2. 12 years at Google

2024 34

  1. Hash Code: AI from DeepMind beats top human programmers
  2. Fake teachers out there
  3. Working on my spoken French with voice recognition AI
  4. How to give feedback
  5. Rest in pieces: end-to-end vs modular deep learning
  6. Don't skip weeks
  7. Feeling overwhelmed
  8. Prompt injection is not about segmentation
  9. The distractible LLM: prompt injection explained
  10. Connecting the dots: cross-referencing Steinbeck's diary with Atomic Habits using NotebookLM
  11. "Yes, and..." is not the point: what I learned about improv in a corn field retreat
  12. We need a better copy-paste for the LLM era
  13. 20 times denser: making my own festival program page for Off Avignon
  14. Theater curation: screening a festival program 484 pages thick
  15. The search for tiles
  16. Everything all at once
  17. Watch it learn: a neural network training on Shakespeare
  18. Speak to me in Shakespeare: building a tiny language model
  19. One year of writing every week
  20. No more forms: LLM interface for calendar events
  21. FTBL is not football: decoding Invader locations
  22. Off the rails: "Talk to me, human" and the scriptless dialogue
  23. Squeezing more points from the Titanic dataset
  24. Top of the cake: a neural net for Titanic predictions in under 1 hour
  25. Be more lucky
  26. Gatsby in the haystack: LLM Inception
  27. Tuned for safety: climbing Mt Fuji in winter
  28. Future, tense: the downside of a dopaminergic mind
  29. The simplest ML model: reading my own handwriting
  30. Basic ideas are forever, everything else is tweaks
  31. Seeing like a neural network: chihuahua or blueberry muffin
  32. Seeing like a machine: finding the edge of Space Invader
  33. Hidden features: how movie recommendation systems work
  34. Simple lasts longer: making a map stateful using scotch tape and Web Storage API

2023 17

  1. Read fewer books, feel better about it
  2. Magical, but not magic: peeking inside a neural network
  3. Time is the thing: AI-powered, occasionally incorrect calendar events
  4. The language superpower: running out of wine is not an emergency
  5. Paint it black: mapping Space Invader mosaics in Paris
  6. Learning from disaster: what happened to James Kelly
  7. Dispatch from Kyiv
  8. Space Invaders: Teaching a neural network to recognize street art
  9. Can it handle time?
  10. Plot twists: the rejected thesis of Kurt Vonnegut meets GPT-4
  11. Captain Cliché, AI that only responds in platitudes
  12. Are we living in a simulation?
  13. Chelsea Hotel and the cartography of Leonard Cohen
  14. LLM vs 1500 theater shows
  15. Track less, live more: a case against life-logging
  16. Flood Forecasting at Vivatech
  17. Writing, inspiration and Steinbeck's hangover