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Eli Bressert

@elibressert.com
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Nearly two decades of AI/ML and product experience at companies like Apple, Netflix, Stitch Fix, and Scenset. I love breaking down cutting-edge technologies into actionable products for the technically curious.

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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 21/07/2026
As someone who actively develops OSS, this trend of US frontier models not willing to help secure the OSS for the end user is deeply concerning. I'm resorting to open weight models like GLM 5.2 & Kimi K3 to ensure good quality security (hopefully) for the community.
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 01/07/2026
When LLMs use the em dash, it's almost painful to look at. Why do many of the models use them in excess?!? After extensive research, it looks like 2 things are happening in the fine tuning process: 1. Contamination 2. Amplification
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 04/03/2026
As a former astrophysicist, I'm constantly in agreement with this. "That star is somewhere between 500 to 1500 light years away" 😂
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 24/01/2025
Someone had some serious fun designing Modal's GPU Glossary: modal.com/gpu-glossary
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 23/01/2025
Yesterday, I presented a deep dive session on reasoning AI at @southparkcommons.bsky.social. We discussed at length @fchollet.bsky.social's paper on The Measure of Intelligence (2019). His work fostered the ARC-AGI benchmark challenge and is helping steer AI development towards general reasoning.
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 21/01/2025
DeepSeek's R1 model is impressive. What I find particularly interesting is the following charts. The bar chart shows how much better R1 is compared to other SOTA models and then even the 32b param model is nearly as good as the 70b param R1 model. Sources below
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 21/01/2025
This came in from Pete Skomoroch on Twitter which is essentially answers my questions: x.com/peteskomoroc... The 32b param model is very, very close to the performance of the 70b model and is generally better than 01-mini.
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 20/01/2025
Monday morning activity
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 20/01/2025
A new paper from Deepmind leverages genetic algorithms (search, specifically) + LLMs to get some very impressive results in planning tasks. It outperforms o1, Best-of-N, and similar methods of by a large margin. arxiv.org/abs/2501.09891
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 15/01/2025
Soaking up the rays
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 13/01/2025
I wonder how many times this default macOS feature makes people think they are losing their minds until they figure what is **really** going on.
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 12/01/2025
A great & very thoughtful post about "internet for the mind" in regards to how information access has and will change. wattenberger.com/thoughts/the... My fav line from it: "But how we choose to use these tools will shape not just our understanding of the world, but our place within it."
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 23/12/2024
Our cats must be related 😂
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 20/12/2024
Now we're talking! Researchers have developed and released Genesis, a very fast, capable universal physics engine where you can use natural language to render physics simulations. 100% Pythonic interface too. Release page: genesis-embodied-ai.github.io
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 09/12/2024
I love how David MacKay discusses visually how to best use his book on Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms. Doing visual representation of the Contents section for different use cases is the way to go. www.inference.org.uk/itprnn/book....
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 07/12/2024
1/2 Today the ARC-AGI team assessed the most capable intelligent AI models and shared a great summary. Despite the challenge being open for 5 years, no one has hit the 85% score on intelligence (hint GPT-4o scored at 5%). 2020: 20.6% 2021: 28.5% 2022: 31.4% 2023: 34.3% 2024: 55.5%
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 26/11/2024
You know that uv is going mainstream with Anthropic suggests to use it to install their latest update, MCP!
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 24/11/2024
Being more specific, at least a set of emojis like this.
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 22/11/2024
One of my favorite things to do when reading technical papers is mindmapping it with LLMs. It really helps at a high level understand how the author(s) present their work.
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 21/11/2024
Hello Jupyter Book 2.0
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 21/11/2024
Jupyter NB is truly indispensable. Seeing Jupyter Book's 2.0a evolution & the amazing features it sports is mind blowing. My three fav features are: MyST markdown (so, so good) Clean and beautiful PDF output New fast search capability blog.jupyterbook.org/posts/2024-1... (via @choldgraf.com)
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 21/11/2024
Good morning California 🌞🌈
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 19/11/2024
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 19/11/2024
There's a fun trend where folks are asking ChatGPT "Based on what you know about me, draw me a picture of what you think my current life looks like" One of my kids walked up and said, "yeah, that's 100% you" 😂
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Eli Bressert @elibressert.com · 16/11/2024
There's no such thing as a free lunch? uv proves otherwise. This Python package manager gives you: - 10x-1000x faster installs - Zero workflow changes - Cleaner environments 100% focus on your AI/ML Python dev work vs. package and environment management. open.substack.com/pub/elisalgo...
uv pip install ❤️
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