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BURKOV

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BURKOV

@burkov

Books: theLMbook.com & theMLbook.com App: ChapterPal.com PhD in AI, author of 📖 The Hundred-Page LMs Book & The Hundred-Page ML Book

Québec, Canada

Joined June 2009

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@burkov
May 22
As you know, last year I resigned from my full-time job and become a professional technical book writer. I have plans for The Hundred-Page Books about reinforcement learning, computer vision, diffusion models, and more. Not having a full-time job has put a significant strain on
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Aug 25, 2024
I wouldn't go to France if I was the Toyota CEO.
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Nov 11, 2025
A math professor noticed his kitchen sink at home was leaking. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day, tightened a couple of nuts, and the sink worked perfectly again. The professor was delighted. But when, a minute later, the plumber handed him the bill, he was
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Oct 8, 2024
How couples met (1930-2024)
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May 1, 2024
Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar used to travel 80 kilometers every week from the Yerkes Observatory to the University of Chicago, where he taught a course attended by only two students. When asked why he spent his time this way, the professor replied
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@burkov
Feb 28, 2025
If it weren’t for DeepSeek, they would still be feeding us incremental improvements on benchmarks by increasing by 1 percentage point one after another for 5 more years. Now they had to reveal all they had and give it for free. DeepSeek saved us 5 years. Thank you, @deepseek_ai.
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Nov 1, 2024
This is the system prompt for Apple Intelligence. Turns out Apple's prompt engineers are as clueless about how LLM work as all the others.
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@burkov
Aug 2, 2024
Intel is firing 15% of its personnel. The biggest chip manufacturer knows something about the future of computing.
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@burkov
Feb 9, 2025
Note to myself: 24 months aren't enough for the planet to understand that a machine learning model can only generate information it was trained on.
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@burkov
Oct 10, 2025
Indeed. My book on language models is available in dark mode, and it looks gorgeous.
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Oct 10, 2025
startup idea: dark theme books
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Sep 9, 2021
To say "machine learning is just statistics" is as stupid as saying that physics is just mathematics.
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May 29, 2025
Smart people at Google created infinite storage for the world's photos to train models on them. Then a mediocre guy came to power and decided to save on hard drives.
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Aug 8, 2025
Zuck realized OpenAI didn't have any edge all that time while he just spent $100B luring Altman's AI researchers.
GIF
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@burkov
Jul 28, 2024
Python consumes 76 times more energy and is 72 times slower than C. haslab.github.io/SAFER/scp21.pdf
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