A Semi-Technical Primer on LLMs

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iandsilva4 · 12h ago

Like many here, I've been trying to understand the implications of AI and where all this may go. I quickly realized I needed to understand how the tech works first.

So, I set out to learn it and put it in writing. It was helpful for me, so I'm sharing in case it is for you too.

Los Alamos team finds a new path toward quantum machine learning (lanl.gov)

Scientists hit quantum computer error rate of 0.000015% – a world record (livescience.com)

Urgent financial help for OpenPrinting needed (ubuntu.social)

Geomorphometry of Antarctic Submarine Canyons (sciencedirect.com)

Machines Don't Have Will (parv.bearblog.dev)

Turn your pics into Spotify playlists (pictune.ai)

Apple Shift Turns India into Top Maker of US Smartphones (bloomberg.com)

Cascade: LLM-Powered JavaScript Deobfuscator (arxiv.org)

The first company to complete a successful lunar landing is going public (arstechnica.com)

Production Chat Agent with Kimi K2 and Milvus (milvus.io)

Bitcoin Crash Game (hustlebtc.com)

Ask HN: What is Lex Fridman's association with MIT?

Gren 25S: Easier interop, concurrent tasks and zero-install packages (gren-lang.org)

NYC's Urban Textscape (pudding.cool)

Show HN: Claude Intern – turn Jira tasks into working PRs (github.com)

Every American Is Bilingual (justevilenough.com)

That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief (blog.pipetogrep.org)

A Free Market for Eyeballs: Twitter as Regulatory Arbitrage (neelsomaniblog.com)

Show HN: StoxGPT – type "add RSI" and the indicator appears on the chart (stoxgpt.com)

A short audio playlet with an interpretation of simulation theory (livinginthefuture.rocks)

AI builds your knowlege map – an alternative to chat for deep understanding (proread.ai)

Yahoo Mail Drastically Cuts Down Free Storage from 1TB to 20GB (lowyat.net)

Daryl Davis convinces KKK members to walk away from hate (en.wikipedia.org)

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker (science.org)

Pull Requests Are a Poor Fit for Agentic AI (bauer.codes)

A Cosmic Mystery: Is China Building the Biggest Telescope? (wsj.com)

No More Erlang Manuals (blog.whenhen.com)

Show HN: Agentic Coding Tools – Directory for AI agents and vibe coders (aisnoop.org)

Contraction Hierarchies: HMC Clinic Project Recap (blog.appliedcomputing.io)

Israel's War Became Unjust (nytimes.com)

B-Complex Vitamins (domofutu.substack.com)

First TV Image of Mars was a pastel-by-numbers (directedplay.com)

An engineer's perspective: Why everything feels broken and what can we do (tushardadlani.com)

SmallThinker: A Family of Efficient LLMs Natively Trained for Local Deployment (arxiv.org)

Teenage Engineering TP-7 Field Recorder (teenage.engineering)

MetaCPAN's Traffic Crisis: An Eventual Success Story (perl.com)

The Math That Predicts Almost Anything [video] (youtube.com)

WP Cron Pixie v1.5.0 released: Front end switched from Elm to Gleam (ianmjones.com)

Zig Profiling on Apple Silicon (blog.bugsiki.dev)

Cyberattack on Russian airline causes the cancellation of more than 100 flights (politico.com)

Navy Set to Unplug Critical Hurricane Satellites This Week (michaelrlowry.substack.com)

voyage-context-3: Contextual Retrieval Without the LLM (blog.voyageai.com)

Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks (ifixit.com)

NASA worked around 48-year-old Voyager 1's corrupted storage 15B miles away (ecoportal.net)

Fintech dystopia (fintechdystopia.com)

Compressed Sensing (en.wikipedia.org)

Ask HN: How are you sharing Claude Code Sub Agents?

Walmart salary data revealed: How much it pays designers, software engineers (businessinsider.com)

Energy, decarb, geoengineering: interview with climate specialists (Ezra Klein) (youtube.com)

Can China be a defender of free trade (instituteofgeoeconomics.org)

A Semi-Technical Primer on LLMs

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