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The Bitter Lesson

Richard Sutton

"The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin."

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Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches

Ethan Rosenthal

Preparing a peanut butter and banana sandwich has never been more geeky.

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Recommendations

Simon Hørup Eskildsen

Cool explanation of computational aspects of recommendations avoiding to "get lost in the weeds of linear algebra".

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