Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Someone just reminded me of this lecture I gave in 2009 that described the evolution of Google Search from 1999 to 2009. People who are interested in how our search systems work might find this interesting.
It touches on disk-based serving systems, in-memory indices, compression schemes for inverted indices, latency... See more
Jeff Deanx.comThe @JeffDean & @NoamShazeer episode.
We talk about 25 years at Google, from PageRank to MapReduce to the Transformer to MoEs to AlphaChip – and soon to ASI.
My favorite part was Jeff's vision for AGI as one giant MoE that is grown in bits and pieces over time like a forest, rather than... See more
Dwarkesh Patelx.comTrends – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – May 2025 – BOND
The document analyzes rapid growth and transformative trends in artificial intelligence, highlighting unprecedented user adoption, technological advances, global competition, enterprise AI integration, and associated benefits and risks shaping the future.
bondcap.com
oh wow, @JeffDean dropping incredibles amounts of lore on Gemini 1.5 Pro and 2.0 Flash this morning. the references alone can fill up the @latentspacepod paper club for a year
(this is only part of the "everything we do better than you at google" talk, he is talking about ai chip design now cc @stevenglinert)
Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
The report investigates the true decentralization of blockchains, highlighting various forms of centralization, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, and the implications for security and immutability in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
blog.trailofbits.comA Chemical Progression
An exploration of the discovery and history of the atom, including the theories and experiments that led to its understanding in chemistry.
gregbrockman.comJeff Dean and Noam Shazeer are among the godfathers of modern AI at Google. Most interesting ideas from the recent Dwarkesh podcast:
1. If AI can automate chip design and a "million automated researchers" can generate novel model architectures, AI development might continue to accelerate... See more
Deedyx.com