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“A complete walkthrough of how large language models like ChatGPT are built — from raw internet text to a conversational assistant. Based on Andrej Karpathy’s technical deep dive. Built from Andrej Karpathy’s “Intro to Large Language Models” lecture — all facts, figures, and framings traced back to that source. Interactive visualizations built with AI assistance. …
There are 7 new articles and 6 new columns in the April 2026 issue of LLRX. YIKES! The Bluebook’s Generative AI Is Flawed – Book Review by Prof. Jessica R. Gunder Book Review – How To AI: Cut Through The Hype. Master The Basics. Transform Your Work – In the current publishing cycle, books about AI are …
The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Secret to Success Is Monotasking. “Here’s the frightening part: We gravitate to a customary level of interruption. If you are disrupted by notifications all day, every day, then even if those external triggers magically disappear, you will unconsciously start interrupting yourself to maintain the rhythm of distraction you’re used to. …
The Guardian: “Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own. Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 2, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
The Atlantic Gift Article: “…And these days, we’re struggling. Gloria Mark is a psychologist at UC Irvine who studies what, exactly, workers in a knowledge economy do all day. Early in her career, she shadowed office workers with a stopwatch and logged all of their activity. Mark and her co-author found that the typical worker …
Via LLRX – YIKES! The Bluebook’s Generative AI Is Flawed – Despite its unpopularity and the availability of other citation manuals, The Bluebook remains widely used at many law schools to teach legal citation format to law students, and it is relied on by law reviews and courts. The twenty-second edition of The Bluebook was …
The Verge – no paywall: “In the days that followed the US and Israel’s joint military strike on Iran on Saturday, floods of images and videos that supposedly document the war have appeared online. Some are old or depict unrelated conflicts, are made or manipulated with AI, and in some cases, are actually taken from …
For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the Index has never been so …
The Evolving News Landscape: Comparing media habits and trust between teens and adults is the latest study from the Media Insight Project, a collaboration of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the American Press Institute, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the Local News Network at the University …
MakeUseOf: “Your ISP can see everything you do online. Every site, search, and click is diligently logged by the company that provides your internet connection, logging your online presence. Maybe it’s for analysis, but maybe it’s waiting to be sold to the highest bidder at a later date. The good news is that you don’t …
EpochAI: “80% of US adults who report using Claude in the previous week live in households earning $100,000 or more a year, compared to 37% of Meta AI users. Nationally, about 50% of US adults fall in this income bracket. Among Meta AI users, 32% live in households earning less than $50,000, compared to 7% …
