Kenrick’s evolutionary reconstruction of Maslow’s hierarchy, and how digital services exploit our evolved motivational systems.

Why can’t you resist that midnight snack during a diet? Two independent processing systems live inside your head: one that calculates and one that feels. A look at Pacini & Epstein’s 1999 study on the Rational-Experiential Inventory.

Uri Alon reads the living cell the way an engineer reads a circuit, and his whole course, lectures, notes, and exercises, is free. Where to get it, to open this series.

The story of making neural networks smaller and faster (number formats, quantization, pruning, and so on) is now serialized on the company blog. Here is where to go.

One man argued that language was a matter of reward and habit, and lost famously. Half a century later, the machines that talk to us are trained with exactly that: reward.

Leveraging what the LLM already knows. An experiment extracting document relevance signals from Attention Maps to rerank sentences, along with a survey of related papers.

Reading the Framework paper, final part. Whose shoulders this paper stands on, and how its approach differs from the lines of work before it.

Reading the Framework paper, part 6. What the framework secured and what it did not: the wall called MLP, and the follow-up research this paper announces.

Reading the Framework paper, part 5. With two layers, heads compose with heads: Q-, K-, and V-composition, and the paper’s biggest discovery, the mechanism of the induction head.

Reading the Framework paper, part 4. Fully expanding a one-attention-layer model into paths: skip-trigrams, copying heads and positive eigenvalues, and the characteristic bugs the factored structure produces.