The best place for the latest information isn't tech blogs in my opinion. It's the stable diffusion and local llama subreddits. If you are looking to learn about everything on a fundamental level you need to check out Andrej Karpathy on YouTube. There other some other notable mentions in other people's comments.
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Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
#12Being a coder, I find these resources extremely useful:
Github blog: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/ Cursor blog: https://www.cursor.com/blog
Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
#13Simon's blog is fragmented because it's, well, a blog. It would be hard to find a better source to "keep updated on things AI" though. He does do longer summary articles sometimes, but mostly he's keeping up with things in real time. The search and tagging systems on his blog work well, too. I suggest you stick his RSS feed in your feed reader, and follow along that way.
Swyx also has a lot of stuff keeping up to date at https://www.latent.space/, including the Latent Space podcast, although tbh I haven't listened to more than one or two episodes.
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#14As I was building up my understanding/intuition for the internals of transformers + attention, I found 3Blue1Brown's series of videos (specifically on attention) to be super helpful.
This has been good for me, but it is more foundation than what is the latest.
https://www.mattprd.com/p/openai-cofounder-27-papers-read-kn...
Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
#15Read through this making flashcards as you to: https://eugeneyan.com/writing/llm-patterns/
Then spin up a RAG-enhanced chatbot using pgvector on your favourite subject, and keep improving it when you learn about cool techniques
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#16YT channels:
- https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official - https://www.youtube.com/@DaveShap - https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers/videos
Then newsletter AI supremacy
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#17I don't think it's a good idea to kepp up to date at a daily/weekly cadence, unless you somehow directly get paid for it. It's like checking stocks daily, it doesn't lead to good investment decisions. It's better to do it more batchy, like once every 6-12 months or so.
How do you do that? Once you're out of the loop for half a year, it becomes harder to know what's important and what's not, I think.
Every release is novel. Once something has been around for a while and is still being referenced, you know it’s worth learning.
Waiting 3-6 months to take a deep dive is a good pattern to prevent investing your time in dead-end routes.
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#18Reproduce nanogpt.
Then find a small dataset and see if you can start getting close to some of the reported benchmark numbers with similar architectures.
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#19checkout ollama. it lets you run open models on your own hardware. it also provides an easy to use rest api similar to openai's
Re: Ask HN: Recommendation for a SWE looking to get up to speed with latest on AI
#20Build a tool on top of the LLM layer for a specific use case. That'll get you up to speed. You haven't missed much.