1. Learning Without Backpopagation (idlemachines.co.uk)
  2. The Mean Machine (chrysalisbyauke.substack.com)
  3. I’m curious. If I was an investor in 2026 I’m not sure I would invest in any companies that base itself on code. What’s the reality out there?

  4. Recently, I fine-tuned a small local model for 15 minutes on my own writing. In different instances it is able to have Pangram detect it as 100% human. What are your thoughts? Video: https://lnkd.in/p/dSwieQey

  5. Life After Death? (pudding.cool)
  6. Hey guys! Excited to show how we were able to get AI agents to read a hotel's live price and availabilities and even create the booking link to hand-off to the user. Get this, all working WITHOUT MCPs or connectors. All…

  7. Generally, whenever I do see frontier AI model's evaluation metrics on say Artificial Analysis. It gives out a benchmark on a set of questions (or tasks). But it never quite actually shows what tasks it fails at. I'm…

  8. Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure: How to do it and why it matters (coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure.github.io)
  9. Last few days it was loading at snails pace. Not 50x errors at every page. What is going on? No outage is shown, just "Partially degraded performance"