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Thanks Olivier! Very kind. Cool technical insights. I agree 100% that learning ecoregions is too difficult. I believe that AI will help us to simulate ecosystems, just like physics…

I'm a Visiting Scientist at UC Berkeley focusing on AI for ecology. Always great to see fellow technologists in this space! For the past few years I've maintained a free open sourc…

You are wrong. Text tokens are high-dimensional vectors, not 8 bits per character. Every token has a deep embedding, e.g. 1024 float values per text token. DeepSeek-OCR proved 10x+…

For anyone in AI, this reads like someone starting a new company called Google

Very very warm nostalgic fuzzy feelings here

I've been using Google Workspace for over a decade. Historically, after removing a user from your organization, it was always easy to migrate their data (e.g. Google Drive folders)…

Once upon a time, the "stupid hazing ritual" made sense. Now it means company is stupid.

One could use any number of LLMs on real-world problems. Why are we still interviewing like its 1999?

I happen to have a background at this interface as well, as the founder of DeepEarth and Ecodash.ai. I can tell you that I would greatly value such experience in collaboration, alt…

Just shared this myself. Very lovely!

Thanks for reporting these metrics and drawing the conclusion of an underlying breakthrough in search. In his Nobel Prize winning speech, Demis Hassabis ends by discussing how he s…

All of this read and written on a smartphone. Reversion to the past is not preparation for the future.

Very cool! The training objective is clever. The 50+ filters at Ecodash.ai for 90,000 plants came from a custom RAG model on top of 800,000 raw web pages. Because LLM’s are expensi…

I’m glad Ilya starts the talk with a photo of Quoc Le, who was the lead author of a 2012 paper on scaling neural nets that inspired me to go into deep learning at the time. His com…

Math comes from brains.

Obviously the article is challenging the view — scientific or not — that mitochondria are not living. Side note: previously I was funded by NSF and NASA to study such questions fro…

Restricted Boltzmann Machines were a huge revolution in the field, warranting a publication in Science in 2006. If you want to know what the field looks like back then, here it is:…