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Auto Research Engineer

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github.com 5mo ago

Nano agent: a minimalistic Python library for building AI agents using DAGs

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github.com 1y ago

Implementing DeepSeek R1's GRPO algorithm from scratch

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substack.com 1y ago

The LLM pre-training data wall

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github.com 1y ago

PodcastLM: An open-source AI podcast creator

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neuralblog.github.io 1y ago

Scaling up self-attention inference

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Scaling up self-attention inference

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safesecureai.org 1y ago

Letter from Professors Bengio, Hinton, Lessig, & Russell

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neuralblog.github.io 2y ago

Logit Prisms: Decomposing Transformer Outputs for Mechanistic Interpretability

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Exploring MLP neurons inside Llama3 model

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Self-reference is so cool

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github.com 4y ago

Pax: a PyTorch-like pytree module on top of Jax

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Google Colab Pro+ ($50/month)

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Prompting GTP-3 is like saying in your head

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GPT 9000 for Speech Signal

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repl.it 5y ago

Generative MNIST-RNN

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Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here’s Why [video]

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GPT-2: 6-Month Follow-Up

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Finding the Brain’s Compass

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Reinforcement learning: Fast and slow – Matthew Botvinick [video]

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All About That Bayes: Probability, Statistics [video]

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Ask HN: Is conciousness a hierarchical attention mechanism?

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Searching for Good Neural Networks with Neuroevolution

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Solving an Ancient Tablet's Mathematical Mystery [video]

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Germany accuses Vietnam of kidnapping asylum seeker in Berlin

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Astronomers have found 7 Earth-size planets circling a dwarf star (cached)

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Alto Restoration Part 13 – Tools Development Struggle

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Given more time, a Turing machine can solve more problems

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A Quantum Computing Cartoon by Scott Aaronson et al

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Can the brain do back-propagation? – Geoffrey Hinton [video]

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A Claude Code setup that implements ML papers from arxiv. Give it a paper, it orchestrates a team of AI agents to read the paper, plan the implementation, write the code, verify correctness, optimize performance, train, and compare results against the paper's claims.

The official document from Anthropic:

Fast mode is not a different model. It uses the same Opus 4.6 with a different API configuration that prioritizes speed over cost efficiency. You get identical quality and capabilities, just faster responses.

They failed to grasp the very fundamental point of batching, which is sharing model weights between requests. For more context, this wasn't just one person's mistake, several AI twitter personalities proposed this 'Claude Opus fast = small batching' hypothesis. What I find funny is how confident these AI influencers were, while the people who actually work on LLM serving at frontier labs said nothing. The people who genuinely understand this and work at frontier labs stay quiet. The rest is simply noise.

I do think Claude Code as a tool gave Anthropic some advantages over others. They have plan mode, todolist, askUserQuestion tools, hooks, etc., which greatly extend Opus's capabilities. Agree that others (Codex, Cursor) also quickly copy these features, but this is the nature of the race, and Anthropic has to keep innovating to maintain its edge over others

For one, these models should be able to understand the physical world via images, audio, and video. I do agree that current models are quite good at coding, but that's mainly because coding is entirely text-based and easily verifiable. It's not obvious that this capability will transfer to other domains that aren't text-based and aren't as easily verifiable.

Qwen3-Max-Thinking 6 months ago

I'm not familiar with these open-source models. My bias is that they're heavily benchmaxxing and not really helpful in practice. Can someone with a lot of experience using these, as well as Claude Opus 4.5 or Codex 5.2 models, confirm whether they're actually on the same level? Or are they not that useful in practice?

P.S. I realize Qwen3-Max-Thinking isn't actually an open-weight model (only accessible via API), but I'm still curious how it compares.

IIRC, the Claude Code creator mentioned that all the PRs are reviewed by humans, just like normal human PRs. So yes, humans still look at the code at the review stage. Though I still consider this to be level 3, but anyway, this is just a matter of definition.

Over the weekend, I wrote this small Python library to teach myself the core idea behind modern agentic systems. This kind of software sits at the core of Claude Code, Codex, etc. I wanted to see if I could build it from scratch, so this is mostly educational for me.

The result is a surprisingly simple piece of software. At its core are immutable DAGs, which keep the design simple and easy to reason about.

I also added a set of built-in tools that are inspired by Claude Code's built-in tools.

A bonus point: it can also capture Claude Code auth tokens, so you can use it with your Claude Code subscription. However, there is a chance that Anthropic will ban you if they detect this, so use it at your own risk.

P.S.: One additional point I also want to mention is that Claude Code (SDK) is closed-source, so I cannot modify it for my use case or fix its buggy UI on my own. This is one of the factors for why I'm creating this library.

only ~1/3 of sessions see at least a flicker.

...after many months, for such a visible bug, is such a crazy thing to say.

In case the above comes across as too hostile, to balance this, I would say thank you to the claude code team for such an amazing product!

I have a hypothesis: they haven't fixed this because they're using Claude Code to develop Claude Code. I'm a fan of Claude Code, but it isn't good enough to fix tricky issues like this. And because no one looks at the codebase themselves, they haven't been able to fix it after many months. Sometimes, all we need is an engineer to sit down for the weekend and fix the damn bug, not spin up 9 different Claude Agents prompted to fix itself.

Once the model is fully released, scientists will be able to adapt and fine-tune it on their own datasets to better tackle their unique research questions.

This is in the press release, so they are going to release the weights.

Author here: (1) We didn't remove the stddev term. (2) We use token-level loss (every token has the same weight), which is very similar to what Dr. GRPO does. However, we compute the mean gradient per token, while Dr. GRPO computes the sum. Typically, these are equivalent. However, since we're also doing gradient accumulation over micro-batches to reduce memory usage during training, this led to a bug in our implementation: it gives more weight to tokens in short sequences than to those in long sequences.

Interestingly, this is the same bug that most open-source LLM training frameworks (such as HF Trainer) had and only recently fixed.

In short, I'm working on a quick fix, after that, using sum or mean should yield equivalent results.

P.S. Fixed!

He plays an essential role as the model for NotebookLM. As Raiza Martin, the PM for NotebookLM, mentioned on a recent podcast, Steven is the product. The NotebookLM team essentially emulated his workflow, how he conducts research and compiles information on a particular topic.