if you value intelligence above all other human qualities, you’re gonna have a bad time

We spent months following Brad Smith - aka Bradford G Smith (Brad) - on his before and after journey with a Neuralink implant. Elon Musk even popped by in this exclusive short film

Here's my 6 hour conversation with DHH, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family,

Not a month goes by where I don't remind myself of this fundamental truth: There is no speed limit. It doesn't just apply to learning, but also to doing. Everything can be done faster, if you judo the problems, and decide to see it through. sive.rs/kimo

A conversation with Demis Hassabis on world models (genie 3), deep think, the need for better evals (game arena), and our progress towards AGI.

One of the worst pieces of advice I’ve heard given to young people is “It’s better to be a big fish in a small pond.” Change that shit to “Always move to bigger ponds. Be the smallest fish but work the hardest.”

We should strive, as a species, to evolve to get rid of teeth. We could also potentially get smarter if we find an alternative way to intake calories without chewing, so it's a win-win.

Diamonds with rough cuts would not change the fact that they are still diamonds. Fool’s gold with shine would not change the fact that it is not real gold. Things can be rough but high potential, or shiny but slop.

Important point from Deep Learning with Python...

Join Anthropic interpretability researchers Joshua Batson, Emmanuel Ameisen, and Jack Lindsey as they discuss looking into the mind of an AI model - and why it matters:

intelligence is the universe evolving to more efficiently explore the state space of what’s possible - we live in the most interesting of times & places

Backend development is a challenging yet rewarding field. If I had to start over again, these are the 7 steps I would take: ↓

I am (slowly) re-reading the Tolkien legendarium (of which Lord of the Rings is a small part). The whole body of work is so incredible and there's nothing else like it... it dilutes other worlds of fiction. Wait - your story doesn't have a comprehensive history/mythology spanning

Top AI Papers of The Week (August 11-17): - DINOv3 - M3-Agent - Illusion of Progress - TRImodal Brain Encoder - Efficient Architectures for LLMs - Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning - GPT-5 for Multimodal Medical Reasoning Read on for more:

Discipline, Hardworking, and Risk Taking are the foundation of a great civilization.

This is a fantastic, inspiring message from Neuralink's 5th participant, RJ Tanner. RJ became paralyzed from the neck down after a motorcycle crash in 2021. In April earlier this year, he became Miller Medicine's first patient implanted with a Neuralink.

Be curious so that you would want to know more. Be foolish so that you would work hard. Be hungry so that you would not stop.

The representer theorem is fundamental in ML - it states that for a broad class of optimization problems, the optimal solution can always be expressed as a linear combination of certain (kernel) functions of the training data. Why is it useful & where did it originate? 1/5

Today we're putting out an update to the JAX TPU book, this time on GPUs. How do GPUs work, especially compared to TPUs? How are they networked? And how does this affect LLM training? 1/n

Today, we're joined by Jack Parker-Holder and Shlomi Fruchter, researchers at Google DeepMind, to discuss the recent release of Genie 3, a model capable of generating “playable” virtual worlds. We dig into the evolution of the Genie project and review the current model’s scaled-up