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The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
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The Insurmountable Problem of Formal Reasoning in LLMs
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Why reliable AI requires a paradigm shift
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Artificial Neural Networks Are Nothing Like Brains
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The Computist Journal
The Computist Journal
Educational articles, essays, and tutorials on Computer Science research, practice, and education.
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🤖 Mostly Harmless AI
Explaining the potential and limitations of AI for everyone.
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Introductory posts about algorithms, data structures, concepts, paradigms, and other CS stuff, always for a general audience.
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The Most Beautiful Algorithms Ever Designed
A very opinionated short list.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Power of Abstraction
Or how to think like a Computer Scientist.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Why everyone should learn to code
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Missing Introduction to Formal Language Theory
A new series on the foundations of Computer Science and the science behind Compilers
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Hardest Problem
The most important theoretical question in Computer Science asks about the existence of truly hard problems, that can't be solved efficiently regardless…
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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The Answer to All Questions
How the quest to answer all mathematical questions became the origin story for a new science.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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AI-Driven Storytelling with Multi-Agent LLMs - Part II
Second part of the summaries of ongoing research with LLMs at the University of Havana
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AI-Driven Storytelling with Multi-Agent LLMs - Part I
Results of an Ongoing Research in the AI Group at the University of Havana
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Franco Hernández Piloto
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Towards Reliable, Consistent, and Safe LLM-based Agents
My vision for building LLM agents that, I promise you, is not the usual deal.
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Alejandro Piad Morffis
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Building an AI Agent from Scratch
An upcoming series in The Computist Journal.
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Understanding Large Language Models
What is a LLM, how do you build one, and what can you do with it.
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The Shapes of Uncertainty
A Philosophical Introduction to (Some) Probability Distributions
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