Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive. But it isn’t for everyone, so…

A famous blockprint by Hokusai titled “Mount Fuji Seen from the Mountains of Totomi,” showing a crew of sawyers rip-sawing a timber into boards using maebiki ooga saws, one man on top a…

Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?

A fascinating interlude from James Kaplan's new book '3 Shades of Blue'

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Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

Cosine-similarity is the cosine of the angle between two vectors, or equivalently the dot product between their normalizations. A popular application is to quantify semantic similarity between...

The company failed 33 of 89 audits during an examination conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration after a panel blew off an Alaska Airlines jet in January.

The problem with too much consumption is that it can leave us feeling utterly empty inside. Ironically, it creates something: One big void. A small dose of creativity is good for us. It can help us become more present, less anxious, and much more fulfilled.…

Maybe Apple should stop pushing its luck.

Nature - Enabling code execution in the web browser, the multilanguage tool is powerful but complicated.

Recently, I mentioned how I refactored the script that kept my GitHub profile up-to-date. Since Geecon Prague, I’m also a happy owner of a Raspberry Pi: Guess what I won @GeeCON Prague? 😎 pic.twitter.com/b9dARUhfMd— Nicolas Frankel 🇺🇦🇬🇪 (@nicolas_frankel)…

We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's PaLM-2. Specifically, our...

Active shielding was first proposed in the '60s. We’re finally close to making it work.

With AI encroaching every open forum on the internet, the future of human discourse is bleak.

Bumblebees and chimpanzees can learn skills from their peers so complicated that they could never have mastered them on their own, an ability previously thought to be unique to humans, two studies said ...

Google announces Stealing Part of a Production Language Model

We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's PaLM-2. Specifically, our…