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Kevin Patrick Murphy

@sirbayes

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. Interested in Bayesian Machine Learning.

beautiful work on (self) distilling diffusion / flow models!

We've cleaned up the story big time on flow maps. Check out @nmboffi's slick repo implementing all the many ways to go about them, and stay tuned for a bigger release 🤠 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18825 flow-maps.github.io



Bob Carpenter, who is the main dev for @mcmc_stan, finally gets "Jax-pilled" :) statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/03/its… With cheap (even free) GPUs on Google Colab and Lightning AI studio, it is now easy to get 10x-100x speedups for HMC, and more if you switch to SVI.


I agree with @karpathy 's take here. The interview between @RichardSSutton and @dwarkesh_sp was interesting, but I think at times there was a communication gap due to some misunderstandings. I would say that the current LLM training setup is very similar to the classic…

Finally had a chance to listen through this pod with Sutton, which was interesting and amusing. As background, Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson" has become a bit of biblical text in frontier LLM circles. Researchers routinely talk about and ask whether this or that approach or idea…



This interview is worth watching, even if you don't like Tucker Carlson...

Sam Altman on God, Elon and the mysterious death of his former employee. (0:00) Is AI Alive? Is It Lying to Us? (3:37) Does Sam Altman Believe in God? (6:37) What Is Morally Right and Wrong According to ChatGPT? (19:08) ChatGPT Users Committing Suicide (27:21) Will Altman Allow…



This literally made me LOL!

> be Google in 2017 > small team drops “Attention Is All You Need” on arXiv > execs nod politely, go back to selling ads for socks > let Transformer gather dust for 5 yrs like a vintage Beanie Baby > be Noam Shazeer, OG wizard > quits, builds AI-boyfriend app…

zephyr_z9's tweet image. > be Google in 2017
> small team drops “Attention Is All You Need” on arXiv
> execs nod politely, go back to selling ads for socks
> let Transformer gather dust for 5 yrs like a vintage Beanie Baby
> be Noam Shazeer, OG wizard
> quits, builds AI-boyfriend app…


I like that they are upfront about the many risks here , in addition to obvious benefits. Safety, privacy and reliability - on top of raw performance - sells well. It’s the Apple model for LLMs (ironically not done by Apple….)

We’ve developed Claude for Chrome, where Claude works directly in your browser and takes actions on your behalf. We’re releasing it at first as a research preview to 1,000 users, so we can gather real-world insights on how it’s used.



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