Linear Digressions

Katie Malone

Demystifying AI for the intelligently curious

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Monday · 29 min
Understanding AI Text Watermarking
Anthropic just announced they're baking invisible…
August 17 · 23 min
Better Know a Benchmark: Humanity's Last Exam
Humanity's Last Exam was designed with a bold pre…
August 10 · 33 min
A Scientific Deep Dive into Overconfident LLMs: Interview with Kaitlyn Zhou (Cornell)
When a language model tells you it's absolutely c…
August 3 · 25 min
Reasoning Models: When LLMs Went Beyond Fancy Autocomplete
Reasoning models don't just answer your question …
July 27 · 23 min
Distillation, or, How to Steal a Model
This week we’re covering model distillation: the …
July 20 · 41 min
Invisible LLM Failures and AI Fluency with Chris Potts (Stanford)
What happens when a Stanford linguistics professo…
July 13 · 25 sec
Still summer break: back next week
Still summer break: back next week by Katie Malone
July 6 · 36 sec
Summer break: back soon
Summer break: back soon by Katie Malone
June 28 · 37 min
Interviewing the Linear Digressions Agents (The Agents Season, Episode 11)
After a five-year hiatus, the podcast that burned…
June 22 · 24 min
Agent Economics (The Agents Season, Episode 10)
What if building more highways made your commute …
June 15 · 25 min
Agent Trust, Oversight and Control (The Agents Season, Episode 9)
Capabilities get all the attention when it comes …
June 8 · 28 min
Many Agents, Many Problems (The Agents Season, Episode 8)
Whether you work best solo or thrive in a team, y…
June 1 · 31 min
How Do You Evaluate An AI Agent? (The Agents Season, Episode 7)
Knowing when an AI agent has failed sounds straig…
May 25 · 32 min
AI Agent Failure Modes (The Agents Season, Episode 6)
Despite what the marketing hype might suggest, AI…
May 18 · 24 min
Agentic Planning (The Agents Season, Episode 5)
When tackling a complex, multi-step task, even th…
May 10 · 24 min
Memory Management for AI Agents (The Agents Season, Episode 4)
Context windows are powerful — but finite, and su…
May 4 · 19 min
Lost in the Middle (The Agents Season, Episode 3)
Just like a memorable talk lives or dies by its o…
April 27 · 23 min
ReAct and Tool Usage (The Agents Season, Episode 2)
Before 2022, there was a wall between AI and the …
April 20 · 19 min
What's an AI Agent? And Why's That Hard to Define? (The Agents Season, Episode 1)
AI agents are having a moment — and unpacking the…
April 13 · 24 min
Unfaithful Chain of Thought
What's actually happening when an LLM "thinks out…

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