So... how does AI work anyway? @ishananand.bsky.social demystifies LLM internals for web devs using a real LLM implemented entirely in vanilla JS that runs in the browser. No Ph.D. needed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=clqB... Subscribe to get notified when we ship more videos from #CascadiaJS 2025! 📺

Ishan Anand (@ishananand.bsky.social‬) is coming to #CascadiaJS to demystify LLM internals for web developers using a real LLM implemented entirely in vanilla JavaScript that runs in the browser. No Ph.D. needed! 🤓

Ishan Anand (@ishananand.bsky.social‬) is coming to #CascadiaJS to demystify LLM internals for web developers using a real LLM implemented entirely in vanilla JavaScript that runs in the browser. No Ph.D. needed! 🤓 #JavaScript #LLMs

Why R1-Zero is more important than DeepSeek R1: spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/arrrzero-why...

Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need is finally building out a blog. spreadsheets-are-all-you-need.ai/flops-demyst... is the very first post: A deep dive on AI's most fundamental metric.

If you're a Product Manager in the Seattle area, checkout the ProductTank Seattle event "AI in Action" on March 20th. Eric Jensen and I will be demystifying how LLMs work and how to use them to increase your productivity in daily product management tasks. www.meetup.com/producttank-...

This might be my best AI video yet but it's also my biggest FLOP: - The difference between FLOP, FLOPS, & FLOPs in AI - Crack open GPT-2 (using spreadsheets-are-all-you-need) to count every FLOP - Analyze DeepSeek's viral $5.3M training cost claim youtu.be/T3JiBtHHTMU

This is wonderful! @ishananand.bsky.social gave a full masterclass on the Latent Space podcast - go watch it! I took his full LLM course on Maven, and it was one of the best I've attended. Congrats, Ishan and Swyx! 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHfj...

Recently, I had the opportunity to talk at the LatentSpace paper club about OpenAI's GPT-2 model. As I describe in the video, GPT-2 was important in the evolution of models leading to GPT-3 & ChatGPT. Thanks @swyx.io and the paper club for having me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHfj...

Ishan @ishananand.bsky.social provides a fantastic introduction to Deepseek and what sets this model apart in its construction. Understanding the fundamentals pays off! youtu.be/DE6WpzsSvgU

Earlier this week I had a great discussion with Anthony Campolo on his podcast. We covered AI, DeepSeek and building an LLM entirely in vanilla JavaScript! Check it out at www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y28...

Just typed out 'Wait' in a reply & now I can't help thinking 'am I just an LLM reasoning model??' Might be consuming a bit too much info about these over the past week XD

ArrrZero: Why DeepSeek R1 is less important than R1-Zero. While everyone's talking about DeepSeek R1, the real game-changer is R1-Zero. In this video I cover how this model went straight from base model to reasoning chatbot in one giant leap. youtu.be/DE6WpzsSvgU

It appears DeepSeek may have sparked an unexpected surge in interest running AI models locally (see graph of Google Trends for Ollama, a tool for running models locally, below).

Yesterday I had the chance to explain how LLMs work on the JavaScript Jabber podcast. We discussed my JavaScript implementation of GPT2 but also touched on DeepSeek, AI, RAG and more. Thx @cmaxw.bsky.social, AJ O'Neal, Steve Edwards & @danshappir.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n94c...

RAG - Retrieval Augmented Generation in a nutshell:

Today's mood:

We all engage in motivated reasoning from time to time. Looking back at my predictions for 2024, I definitely did that on a couple of them hurting my overall grade. If you're curious, check out how I graded my predictions. remotesynthesis.com/blog/reviewi...

Would you listen to this podcast? An experiment in using NotebookLM to do a daily summary of Y Combinator's HackerNews. youtu.be/AL2Jk2y26ho

When I ported Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need (an Excel implementation of GPT-2) to the web, I knew the first place to showcase it had to be AI Tinkerers — where the journey of the original began. Last month, I had the privilege of debuting it there. Here's the quick video. youtu.be/Csp198KCgGI

Here’s a process for New Year’s Resolutions that works no matter how audacious your goals: 1️⃣ Write out your New Year’s Resolutions. 2️⃣ For each resolution, ask how AI can help you accomplish the goal. 3️⃣ 365 days from now, write out the same list as in Step 1. 😂

Three under-the-radar AI trends to watch in 2025 Here are three critical but less-discussed trends that could shape the AI landscape next year:

An LLM is made of just approx. 500 lines of code and 100+ billions of raw numbers (parameters). These AI models are closer to giant number-crunching machines than traditional if-then-else software. One of my favorite talks of 2024 by @ishananand.bsky.social 👏 youtu.be/NamKkerrlnQ

Are you a web developer curious about how AI/ML and LLMs actually work? Check out this talk I gave yesterday at CFE that walks you through a real LLM entirely in JavaScript. You can even debug it using browser DevTools! Link in the comments.

Happening at the top of the hour!

I very much regret my decision of 40 minutes ago to let Windows update as I was turning off my laptop and heading for home.

When you’re building with AI, the most important model is the one in your head, not your code. A strong mental model helps you build more effectively. In this video, I demo four techniques using Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need to sharpen your mental model of LLM mechanics.

Are you web developer curious about how LLMs actually work under the hood? Then mark your calendar for Dec 19th! I'll be speaking at CFE and taking the audience inside the brain of an LLM using the new, JavaScript edition of Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need! Link in the comments.

🚨 Attention Spreadsheets-are-all-you-need fans! 🚨 I've ported my Excel-based GPT-2 implementation entirely to the browser. Link in the comments.

To adapt a classic joke, there are only two hard problems in AI: raising enough money for endless compute and naming things. Here’s a clip of two hosts discussing one AI model, but the screenshot shows a different (yet similarly named) one.

Did Star Wars just get its first Large Language Model jailbreak scene? 🤖✨

My AI class teaching LLM architecture using the humble spreadsheet is trending on Maven's Data & Engineering track! Maybe spreadsheets really are all you need... P.S. Good news for last-minute signups. Maven has extended their promotion one more day. Link below.

Last Tuesday, a once-in-a-decade "bomb cyclone" storm swept through the Seattle area. While the city was relatively unscathed, our town and some surrounding suburbs were hit hard.

Codium & Perplexity are the only 2 AI tools asked about in last year’ #StackOverflow survey that actually saw increased use in 2024. GitHub Copilot, WolframAlpha and Tabine declined significantly. thenewstack.io/salary-press...

An overlooked benefit of the MVP is that it tests the founder as well the idea itself: "The real thing you do while you validate the idea is that you validate your ability to explain the pain and the solution." (from youtu.be/IcYkI6lyVXw?...)

man goes to the Abstract Singleton Factory. asks for one of everything

As the guy who implemented GPT2 in Excel, I might be biased but seems like there's been a recent rash of "Excel is forever" trending articles in the last month: benn.substack.com/p/is-excel-i... www.economist.com/business/202... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Finally a practical use case for my unproductive addiction to domain names.

Last year, in an attempt to escape from Twitter, I tried Mastodon, but the UX didn't click for me. Then a Bluesky invite showed up. It was the Twitter clone I was looking for. I started crossposting as a hedge, I even started sending invites of my own. I was all in. Then I went back to Twitter.

OpenAI officially entered the search game yesterday. Worth noting that 15% of Google searches are new, a stat that cuts both ways. It may hint at a potentially underserved market of very personalized queries, or the volume of work to keep up-to-date on shifting terminology.

Cue the obligatory "there are only 2 hard problems in computer science" joke. Gentle reminder from via today's Money Stuff newsletter that computers can make mistakes without AI. Source Article: www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...

Ok. Finally joining on Halloween of all days. May be late to the party but at least I did it with (a little bit) of style.