Rich Sutton’s bitter lesson of AI
This morning I read Alberto Romeo’s article Grok 3: Another Win For The Bitter Lesson. I wasn’t clear on what exactly the bitter lesson was, so I followed the link to Romeo’s previous article GPT-4: The Bitterer Lesson, which lead to Rich Sutton’s original article The Bitter Lesson. Sutton opens
Read moreResearch roadmap update, February 2025
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Read moreMultiplication tables and Latin squares
The multiplication table of a finite group forms a Latin square. You form the multiplication table of a finite group just as you would the multiplication tables from your childhood: list the elements along the top and side of a grid and fill in each square with the products. In
Read moreWBIT #4: Using GIS to understand the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
How a theater major became a fullstack engineer building software to manage climate change.
Read moreThe Buenos Aires constant
The Buenos Aires constant is 2.92005097731613… What’s so special about this number? Let’s see when we use it to initialize the following Python script. s = 2.920050977316134 for _ in range(1, 11): i = int(s) print(i) s = i*(1 + s - i) What does this print? 2, 3, 5,
Read moreWhy is it so hard for companies to protect your privacy?
Minh Nguyen, VP of Engineering at Transcend, joins Ryan for a conversation about the complexities of privacy and consent in tech, from the challenges organizations face in managing data privacy to the importance of consent management tools to the evolving landscape of privacy regulations.
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