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🤖 Mostly Harmless AI
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The Four Fallacies of Modern AI
And Why Believing in Them Hinders Progress
Sep 10
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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AI is Nothing New, Here's the Full History
Rewrite of the first chapter of Mostly Harmless AI with lots of updates
Aug 10
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Artificial Intelligence for Creative Professionals
Chapter 10 of Mostly Harmless AI
Aug 7
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Using AI to Augment, Not Automate Your Writing
Implementing the CODER Framework with AI
Aug 5
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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🧠 The Science of Computation
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The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
A very opinionated short list.
Feb 10
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Power of Abstraction
Or how to think like a Computer Scientist.
Nov 18, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Why everyone should learn to code
Oct 25, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Missing Introduction to Formal Language Theory
A new series on the foundations of Computer Science and the science behind Compilers
Jul 16, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
24
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The Hardest Problem
The most important theoretical question in Computer Science asks about the existence of truly hard problems, that can't be solved efficiently regardless…
Jan 25, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Answer to All Questions
How the quest to answer all mathematical questions became the origin story for a new science.
Jan 23, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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💻 Coding for Nerds
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How I Built the Database of my Dreams
And how you can use it to build AI apps 100x faster
Sep 20
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Simplifying Configuration Management in Pure Python
Feb 21
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Building a Perplexity AI clone
Combining RAG with Google Search to build a bot that knows about everything.
May 18, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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How to Train your Chatbot - The PDF Bot
The second lesson in our journey to master LLMs.
May 3, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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✒️ Essays
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The Era of AI is Here
How Artificial Intelligence is becoming the mediator of all human interactions, and why that is so scary
Aug 29
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Forget AGI, Let's Aim for General-Purpose AI Instead
A level-headed alternative to the grand narrative of Silicon Valley
Jul 9
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Teaching the Mostly Harmless Way - Part I
Principles, practices, and tools I use in all my teaching endeavors.
Nov 10, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
32
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The Techno-Pragmatist Manifesto
A level-headed response to techno-pessimists and techno-optimists.
Dec 28, 2023
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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💡 Philosophy
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Is Science the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? - Part I
Exploring the intricate world of scientific theory and practice.
Aug 14, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
27
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Are brains and computers alike?
Exploring the boldest of all theories of mind.
Jul 29, 2024
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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What is Truth?
Can linguistics, mathematics, and logic tell us anything about it?
Sep 1, 2023
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
,
Andrew Smith
, and
Daniel Valdés
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Can Machines Think?
What Alan Turing's seminal paper Computer Machinery and Intelligence tells us about the nature of thinking.
Jul 10, 2023
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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And Why Believing in Them Hinders Progress
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The Era of AI is Here
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AI is Nothing New, Here's the Full History
Rewrite of the first chapter of Mostly Harmless AI with lots of updates
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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