Linear Digressions

Katie Malone

Demystifying AI for the intelligently curious

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Monday · 21 sec
Back in Two Weeks
Back in Two Weeks by Katie Malone
October 5 · 29 min
Mechanistic Interpretability: How Researchers Try To See Inside Models
As AI systems grow more powerful, they grow harde…
September 28 · 30 min
LLM As A Judge
Labeled data is expensive, slow, and painfully ha…
September 21 · 29 min
The Impact of AI on Podcasting (Harvard Data Science Review Cross-Post)
Originally aired on the Harvard Data Science Revi…
September 14 · 32 min
Better Know A Benchmark: ExploitGym
When OpenAI's frontier models were caught hacking…
September 7 · 31 min
Constitutional AI
How do you teach a model the difference between h…
August 31 · 40 min
A Data-Driven Reality Check on AI in Business (Interview with Tom Davenport, Babson College)
Tom Davenport — the man who called data science "…
August 24 · 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…

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