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I Don’t Want a Learning Dashboard for My Child
Often debates about education are framed as non-tech versus AI approaches, but too often, AI ed tech just magnifies the same failures of traditional school.
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Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding
Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of highly complex AI-generated code, often with the intention that the code will not be read by…
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How To Use AI for the Ancient Art of Close Reading
Close reading is a technique for careful analysis of a piece of writing, paying close attention to the exact language, structure, and content of the…
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Stop Saying Boredom is Good for Kids
Chronic boredom is harmful to adults, causing stress, disengagement, and poor well-being. Academic researchers have shown that boredom in the workplace can be just as…
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A Guide to Solveit Features
Large language models make it remarkably easy to generate code. Ask ChatGPT or Claude to build an application, and you’ll receive hundreds of lines of…
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Build to Last
Note from Jeremy: We’re teaching a course starting Nov 3rd on how to build towards software mastery and craftsmanship whilst leveraging AI effectively. Have a…
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Let’s Build the GPT Tokenizer: A Complete Guide to Tokenization in LLMs
18 months ago, Andrej Karpathy set a challenge : “Can you take my 2h13m tokenizer video and translate the video into the format of a…
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How to Solve it With Code course now available
tl/dr: This is a copy of a one-off email I sent to all fast.ai forum users, with a long-overdue update. I had planned to send…
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fasttransform: Reversible Pipelines Made Simple
Introducing fasttransform, a Python library that makes data transformations reversible and extensible through the power of multiple dispatch.
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What AI can tell us about microscope slides
This article was originally posted on rachel.fast.ai , where Rachel has been writing about her journey as an AI researcher returning to school for immunology.
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A New Chapter for fast.ai: How To Solve It With Code
Update from Jeremy 11 months later : This was so popular it sold out within 24 hours of me posting this. We’ve got a page…
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In defense of screen time
My daughter is constantly creating– her passions include making art, writing fiction, coding interactive games, and composing music. Yet, I regularly see news articles and…
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A new old kind of R&D lab
Jeremy Howard (founding CEO, previously co-founder of Kaggle and fast.ai) and Eric Ries (founding director, previously creator of Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange)…
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Can LLMs learn from a single example?
Summary: recently while fine-tuning a large language model (LLM) on multiple-choice science exam questions, we observed some highly unusual training loss curves. In particular, it…
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The real risk of AI is how it concentrates power
Friends with no previous interest in AI ethics have begun asking me questions in the wake of the release of ChatGPT4, Bard, and Bing Chat.…
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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment
Proposals for stringent AI model licensing and surveillance will likely be ineffective or counterproductive, concentrating power in unsustainable ways, and potentially rolling back the societal…
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Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?
This article is the result of a collaboration between philosopher Seth Lazar , AI impacts researcher Arvind Narayanan , and fast.ai’s Jeremy Howard. At fast.ai…
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Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades
I remember the first time I used the v1.0 of Visual Basic. Back then, it was a program for DOS. Before it, writing programs was…
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From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion
Today we’re releasing our new course, From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion , which is part 2 of Practical Deep Learning for Coders .
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GPT 4 and the Uncharted Territories of Language
“ The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. ” — Ludwig Wittgenstein