Yes, you should understand backprop (2016)
Yes you should understand backpropAndrej Karpathy7 min read·Dec 19, 2016–48ListenShareWhen we offered CS231n (Deep Learning class) at Stanford, we intentionally…
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Why your boss isn’t worried about AI – “can’t you just turn it off?”
(a note for technical folk)1 | read as pdf | Substack | LessWrong When it comes to understanding the dangers…
Examples are the best documentation
When I’m searching for docs, 95% of the time a single example would suffice. Yet, 95% of the time I…
Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code
An effect that’s being more and more widely reported is the increase in time it’s taking developers to modify or…
To AI or Not to AI
To AI or not to AI Sep 10, 2025 A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring…
Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again Sat 27 September 2025 The current discourse around AI progress and a supposed “bubble”…
You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you’re doing here
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Writing an operating system kernel from scratch
Follow @popovicu94 I recently implemented a minimal proof of concept time-sharing operating system kernel on RISC-V. In this post, I’ll…
SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious
I am responsible for approving SSL certificates for my company. I’ve developed a process over the past couple of years…