@chicago.at When is the next meetup folks?

checking in at @chicago.at - June 2026 [w6jttmpb] #chicagoat

Folks in privacy engineering and related fields, it's PEPR time again -- submit talk proposals about topics related to designing, building, and understanding products and systems which foster privacy and respect. I'm looking forward to seeing your talks! www.usenix.org/conference/p...

PEPR '26

The 2026 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR '26) will take place on June 1–2, 2026. PEPR is focused on designing and building products and systems with privacy and res...

usenix.org

It was incredibly sweet to see Hinton teach @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social some deep learning! youtu.be/jrK3PsD3APk?...

AI: What Could Go Wrong? with Geoffrey Hinton | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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My latest @theconversation.com article on Google's new "AI mode" and the issues with vertical integration 👇🏼 theconversation.com/google-is-go...

Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech

Google’s approach could harm competition and creativity, and make the AI industry even less transparent.

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Some great reporting work here!

Chi Hack Night@chihacknight.org · 2y ago

Join us in person or online tonight to hear from Cecilia Reyes, Senior Reporter at @businessinsider.com! She’ll discuss her investigation into illegal evictions or lockouts. Doors open at Tech Nexus at 6pm, livestream starts around 6:35pm CT. chihacknight.org/events/2025/...

You guys, look, we are headed towards the trough of disillusionment [1] [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner...

Gartner hype cycle - Wikipedia

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nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social · 2y ago

Scraped all the world’s information just to assume people in India can’t afford a Windows license

IMO, the best moment of Ilya Sutskever’s insightful talk at NeurIPS was his answer to this question towards the end: youtu.be/1yvBqasHLZs?...

Ilya Sutskever: "Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks: what a decade"

YouTube video by seremot

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@reckless.bsky.social did a revealing interview of Mustafa Suleyman for Decoder: 1. His vagueness about the MS<–>OAI partnership hangs ominously, like a Chekhov’s gun. 2. His answer on how he makes decisions makes me think that he has never given the idea of "how to decide" any thought, ever.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on what the industry is getting wrong about AGI

The head of Microsoft’s AI division on competing with Google and how to define superintelligence.

theverge.com

Has anyone tried one of their "boxes"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aqM...

Tenstorrent's Keller: We're in an AI Hype Cycle

YouTube video by Bloomberg Technology

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I am thankful that you decided to execute towards your vision! Happy Thanksgiving to you and the team at Bluesky!

Jay 🦋@jay.bsky.team · 2y ago

I’m thankful for everyone using Bluesky, everyone building on atproto, everyone listening to our message and sharing our dream of a better social media ecosystem that puts people first. We’re going to do this together — thanks for joining us on this journey!

Essay suggests LLM training is hitting a scaling wall —diminishing returns from bigger models or more data. Remedy: train models to reason step-by-step, trading training compute for inference compute. But the remedy might not be all that is promised: aidanmclaughlin.notion.site/reasoners-pr...

Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.

A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

aidanmclaughlin.notion.site

Created a Build in Public starter pack. 🎉 If you're an indie hacker building in public, feel free to join: 👉 Share your project below 🧡Like this post for the algo push 🔄 Repost this for visibility go.bsky.app/PvitcMe

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory

Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

blueskydirectory.com

Chicagoland.

Fun is a stretch but I know I’m lucky and I know people are counting on me

Time to build intelligent systems, I guess.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered... 1. Small AI models often perform better in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture. Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Meta to put ads on Threads in 2025: www.reuters.com/technology/m... Quote: Meanwhile, Meta does not expect Threads to be "a meaningful driver of 2025 revenue," CFO Susan Li said on a post-earnings call in October. Then, why do it? Why not experiment with an alternative business for a change?

If you are in tech, this might help you find your people! github.com/stevendborre...

GitHub - stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs: A list of tech-related Bluesky starter packs

A list of tech-related Bluesky starter packs. Contribute to stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The goal is to follow as many starter packs as my heart desires! Thanks to folks who make them!

Just started reading the Kleppmann paper [1] decided to try this place out. [1] arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239