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      <title>I moved from network training to deployment optimization and am starting to think that was a right decision</title>
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      <description>TL;DR: this is just a thought dump about how I moved from network training to deployment and why I am making peace with (maybe) not getting back to model training, nothing too interesting.  I used...</description>
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      <title>Looking to collaborate</title>
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      <description>Anyone in the biomedical and ai/ml research space?  I’m looking to connect and collaborate on research projects.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:48:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Do ICLR guidelines allow to upload papers under review to LLM chats?</title>
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      <description>I know AI use must be disclosed, and I&apos;m fine with it.  However, I&apos;m being careful on not using LLMs to actually check my review (more than prose-wise) and see if it catches something important in...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:52:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Conference papers are cooked!</title>
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      <description>Got three papers to review for ICLR and five for AAMAS, and believe me the quality of these papers is insanely bad.  I would even refrain from accepting them to a workshop, let alone be main venues.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:12:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Anyone else get brain lag from overly-condensed AI-speak?</title>
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      <description>We’ve all had the experience of coming across a phrase like “quiet single-source substitute” which just barely makes sense in the context of the conversation but takes way too much effort to...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:52:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’</title>
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      <description>Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:37:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Beating Warcraft III’s insane AI with self-play reinforcement learning on one desktop</title>
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      <description>Submitted by /u/ToraxXx [link] [comments].</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:34:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot</title>
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      <description>Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way.  Marvin told Philadelphia&apos;s ABC13 &quot;I know...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:28:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>TempoPFN: Synthetic Pre-training of Linear RNNs for Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting</title>
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      <description>Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 TLDR: The paper presents a library of synthetic time series generators and augmentations to train time series foundation models, in their case a DeltaProduct based linear...</description>
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      <title>Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce</title>
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      <description>The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character. AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Proof Before Reuse: showing agents only what later sessions reproduced keeps a poisoned skill out of procedural memory</title>
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      <description>Small case study on poisoning in agent procedural memory, with all data released.  Setup: a coding agent learns skills from sessions whose tests passed.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:14:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ICLR 2027: Reciprocal reviewer with 0 paper assignments—should I be concerned?</title>
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      <description>Hi, I was wondering if any other reciprocal reviewers still haven&apos;t received paper assignments for ICLR 2027.  I haven&apos;t been assigned any papers to review yet and am a bit confused.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:24:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Thoughts on a B2B machine learning software business?</title>
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      <description>I&apos;m considering building customizable ML software for businesses, mainly focused on data classification and anomaly detection.  The idea is to develop a reusable ML framework that can be adapted...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:41:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>asmsense: 228k stripped x86-64 functions with source-aware labels, and a map of the data we still lack.</title>
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      <description>Asmsense is a dataset and a small model (Qwen3-8B + LoRA) for naming and describing functions in stripped binaries.  I compiled permissively licensed C projects myself, so every function has its...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:49:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>GPT-2 KV cache from scratch: correctness, latency, and memory measurements</title>
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      <description>I built GPT-2 small and a KV cache in PyTorch as a learning project, then compared the mathematical savings with measured latency and memory.  I have published the implementation and a detailed...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:23:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Built a search engine for debugging which is not a wrapper</title>
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      <description>TLDR: I built a search engine that reads a bug report (or lets you define it) and points to the exact file (93%) and to the exact function (79. 4%) you need to fix.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 05:18:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What is wrong with AI writing - ICLR edition</title>
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      <description>I&apos;m sure many of us are slogging through impenetrable AI writing as we finish ICLR reviewing.  I&apos;ll try to create an anonymized version from a paper I&apos;m reviewing, though it&apos;s hard to match Claude...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:40:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns</title>
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      <description>A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.</description>
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      <title>Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings</title>
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      <description>The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:21:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>17 AIs, 7,700 hands of poker: frontier vs cheap vs local vs Jev</title>
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      <description>Submitted by /u/Civil-Demand555 [link] [comments].</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:41:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says</title>
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      <description>Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider.  Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:48:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>EMNLP main presentation</title>
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      <description>Hello everyone, I am presenting at EMNLP Main this year, but I just got the underline link, and under my presentations, it says no presentations yet, so I cannot check my time, but I have seen...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:45:33 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites</title>
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      <description>After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI.  Specifically, the following language...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:04:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>EpochGo: Local-first multi-agent AutoML engine using offline Ollama LLMs and deterministic Scikit-Learn pipelines</title>
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      <description>Hello r/MachineLearning , I wanted to share EpochGo , an open-source, local-first AutoML system built to tackle two major bottlenecks in applied machine learning: 1.  Cloud API inference costs and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:48:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Learn what&apos;s inside AI Agent Interactively in 3D</title>
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      <description>Try it here: https://aiengineeringfromscratch.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 14:22:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Websites are closing their doors to AI agents</title>
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      <description>Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI.  OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Go to neurIPS just for a workshop.</title>
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      <description>Hi, I just finished my masters and got a neurIPS workshop acception.  Unfortunately the lab I did it with do not want to fund neither the registration nor flights and accommodation.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:56:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is is worth staying after the main conference if I don&apos;t have workshop registration? (NeurIPS)</title>
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      <description>Basically the title.  Due to the nonsensical situation of NeurIPS being fully sold out before the results were even released, I couldn&apos;t get workshop registration (my paper is in the main track,...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:17:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Makes me think how many submissions are just better than this one by quietly removing that line...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 04:43:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A simulated fruit fly brain learns to drive. I turned the training into a 24/7 racing league with Elo, seasons and family dynasties</title>
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      <description>For the past 4 weeks I’ve been training models of the Drosophila brain to control a car in a drag racing simulator.  To make the training watchable, I turned it into a racing league and stream it...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:09:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says</title>
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      <description>Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost.  Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:22:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>[Research] 2,788 tokens/s on a single RTX 5090 with a diffusion LLM — Introducing ORL (fully open source)</title>
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      <description>Hey r/MachineLearning !  We&apos;re excited to share ORL (On-Policy Residual Learning) , our new research on making diffusion language models (dLLMs) significantly faster without sacrificing generation...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:03:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base</title>
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      <description>With ia. i, a conversational interface, and the IARA governance platform, Itaú is applying its AI First strategy to customers and employees — in one of Brazil’s most regulated sectors.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>my rust framework trains nanoGPT with the exact same bits as pytorch. worth continuing?</title>
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      <description>Hey, CS student here.  for the past few days I&apos;ve been building DenseCore, a small deep learning framework in rust with a pytorch-like python API.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:49:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity</title>
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      <description>The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:52:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Crashing out after ICLR desk rejection: &quot;content exceeds the 9-page limit.&quot;</title>
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      <description>Half of one sentence in my paper trails onto page 10...  This must have happened after a small edit and recompile of the pdf on resubmission?</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:50:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it</title>
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      <description>The story &quot;Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it&quot; marks a notable strategic development across the global artificial intelligence landscape.  Originally...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet</title>
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      <description>The announcement &quot;A Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet&quot; highlights another pivotal evolution in OpenAI&apos;s frontier model and API ecosystem.  Originally...</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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