Stories by ronfriedhaber

A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method [pdf]

Peter Thiel on "Back to the Future" (2011) [video]

Digital Cash Payoff (2001)

Measuring the Trustworthiness of Open-Source-Derived Models

Avoiding the babbling-idiot failure in a time-triggered communication system

What to Expect When You're Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)

The $15 Servo Rabbit Hole: STS3215 Servo Hacking

How VoltDB Works

Arbel: Building the Impossible RISC-V CPU

Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models

BoolCodec: Variable-Length Space-Efficient Sequence of Booleans

DB-Engines Ranking

We Need a New Science of Progress (2019)

Popcorn: Democratized Fast Kernel Dispatching

OpenAI o1 System Card (2024)

Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park [video]

Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning

RL Environments Explained: How AI Agents Learn Real-World Work [video]

Autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine [video]

Composer 2 Technical Report

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