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Letta
Making machines that learn. Create stateful agents that remember everything, learn continuously, and improve themselves over time.

Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning – Miriam Posner
Every year, I spend some time introducing students to the mechanics of machine learning with neural nets. I definitely don’t go into great depth; I usually only have one class for this. But I try to unpack at least some of the major concepts, so that ML isn’t quite such a black box.
How to do hard things
A fully general system for learning to do things you currently find difficult, only somewhat tongue-in-cheek.

How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
People often ask me how to use AI. Here's an overview with lots of links.

How to Make Yourself Into a Learning Machine
Shopify’s Director of Production Engineering explains how reading broadly helps him get to the bottom of things

On AI as model organism for human learning
I've a pretty taste for paradox

machines will never understand language
I thought language was too complicated for machines to understand, until I got sick. a lifelong, meandering journey of parsing, learning, and fixing my broken body.
The brain in the machine: How AI could help explain how we think | IBM
Scientists are using large AI models to predict patterns of brain activity at scale, a development that researchers say is pushing neuroscience toward a new kind of digital imaging.

On Learning to Ride Your Brain
Your brain is already a bicycle, AI is a motorcycle, a regular computer is power tools

Machine god metaphors eat your brain
There are other ways of thinking about AI

How to learn things at 1000x the speed
Throughout my schooling and career, I’ve impressed people over and over again with how quickly I pick up things, especially hard things. For instance, exactly 4y ago I did my first ever interview, got
Think First, AI Second
Three principles for keeping your cognitive edge while leveraging AI's capabilities

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | Substack
I write about interesting new developments in AI. Click to read AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans, by Melanie Mitchell, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI [Digital Download] — Welch Labs
The Welch Labs Illustrated Guide to AI offers unique perspectives on artificial intelligence through hands-on exploration and richly detailed graphics that give readers a visceral understanding of how AI actually works. From the fundamental perceptron to cutting-edge AI video generation, each chapte

Why I believe current AI models can really think and understand - Part 2 of 3
Why computers can in principle produce thinking and understanding
