2025-07-09
A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom....
A Masterclass on Status, Power, & the Economy with Tressie McMillan Cottom. I’ve only started listening to this podcast, but it’s so good already and I’ve heard only great things...
The Earth's Rotation Is About to Spin Up So Much That Tomorrow Will Be Much Shorter Than Today
Planetary Tailspin The Earth's rotation is about to accelerate significantly. According to scientists, July 9, July 22, and August 5 of this year will be some of the shortest days...
Another live service shooter comes to a premature end: Steel Hunters, the mech game that launched into early access in April, is closing in October
Wargaming's mech shooter made a splashy debut at the 2024 Game Awards, but players just weren't interested.
2025-07-08
This competitive Blue Prince speedrun from SGDQ 2025 is the pinnacle of human athleticism
This is the Olympics, to me.
For the next 2 weeks Destiny 2 is completely free to play, even the stuff you normally have to pay for
There's also a big sale on Steam right now.
‘Let It Wag!’ and the Limits of Machine Learning on Rare Concepts
The "Let It Wag!" benchmark tests AI models on rare, long-tailed concepts and finds consistent underperformance in both classification and image generation tasks, exposing fundamental weaknesses in current pretraining datasets...
AI Training Data Has a Long-Tail Problem
This study reveals five key insights about concept frequency in AI pretraining datasets, including long-tailed distributions, image-text misalignment, and cross-dataset correlations that reflect the biases inherent in internet-sourced data. Findings...
AI Models Trained on Synthetic Data Still Follow Concept Frequency Trends
Concept frequency remains a reliable predictor of zero-shot performance, even after controlling for sample similarity and using synthetic datasets for pretraining.
Analyzing the Impact of Pretraining Frequency on Zero-Shot Performance in Multimodal Models
This study finds a consistent log-linear relationship between how often concepts appear in pretraining data and the zero-shot performance of multimodal AI models across tasks like classification, retrieval, and image...
How AI Models Count and Match Concepts in Images and Text
This article explains how researchers identify and measure concept frequencies across text captions and images in AI pretraining datasets. Using NLP tools and image tagging models like RAM++, they extract...
What 300GB of AI Research Reveals About the True Limits of “Zero-Shot” Intelligence
Despite claims of zero-shot generalization, multimodal models like CLIP and Stable Diffusion show sample inefficiency—requiring exponentially more data to learn rare concepts. A new benchmark, Let It Wag!, reveals the...
Why Do Some Language Models Fake Alignment While Others Don't?
Published on July 8, 2025 9:49 PM GMTLast year, Redwood and Anthropic found a setting where Claude 3 Opus and 3.5 Sonnet fake alignment to preserve their harmlessness values. We...
Grok is “Improved” According to Elon, But It's Raising More Concerns Now Than Ever
Elon Musk announced that his AI chatbot Grok has gotten a major upgrade. Users began testing Grok with questions on politics, media, and pop culture. The answers quickly got attention,...
Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned? Examining the evidence that...
Did Shakespeare Write Hamlet While He Was Stoned? Examining the evidence that the Bard smoked weed and that he was aware of its effect on his creativity. 💬 Join the...
The Sounds of a Dying Glacier Might Make You Cry
From trippy mushroom synths to the stressed-out "pops" of thirsty plants, recording the music of nature has long been fascinating and moving. A new recording of a melting glacier in...
John Wick Hex and Tron Catalyst dev Mike Bithell thinks licensed games have evolved past 'lunchbox tie-ins' because 'the people who played licensed games are now bosses in the companies that are licensing IP'
"We're not just, 'I'll put something on a shelf so the Gran can buy it for the kid who likes the movie.'"
AI Shorts
Turn ideas, long videos, or raw footage into viral shorts Discussion | Link
Rewiser
Design your financial flow Discussion | Link
Beyond the Prototype: 15 Hard-Earned Lessons to Ship Production-Ready AI Agents
The 15 Principles of AI Agents Development: From foundational architecture to production control. This guide covers four key principles to help you create a rock-solid foundation.
ChatGPT kept directing people to use a non-existent feature on Soundslice…so the...
ChatGPT kept directing people to use a non-existent feature on Soundslice…so the team built it. “To my knowledge, this is the first case of a company developing a feature because...
Welcome to Postreads
Discover and follow the best content from across the web, all in one place. Create an account to start building your personalized feed today and never miss out on great reads.
Support Postreads
Enjoying the service? Help me keep it running and improve it further by buying me a coffee!
Buy me a coffeeContent Timeline
24,777 articles since 2008
Trending Now
Top 5 clicked items this week out of 859 added this week
Freshly added
New feeds to discover
