learning with yacine

Pretrained LLMs Are Surrounded by Task Experts feat Yulu Gan from MIT

discussion with the great Yulu Gan about the shape of pre-training weights distribution

Aug 12 • Yacine Mahdid

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July 2026

How to Measure Frontier LLM? with Florian Brand from Prime Intellect

all around great presentation by florian of the subject and very pragmatic

Jul 29 • Yacine Mahdid

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1:54:36

How to Learn in the AI Age? with Ludwig & Lazarz

this interview was 50% optimism and 50% nihilism absolutely fantastic pragmatic balance from those lads.

Jul 21 • Yacine Mahdid

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2:07:21

How to Learn AI in 2026? (from a Stanford AI Researcher)

we've interviewed mandy lu a stanford AI researcher who've worked in every corner of the industry (google, apple, nvidia, academic research etc.).

Jul 13 • Yacine Mahdid

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May 2026

Why DAGs Are Taking Over Auto-Research (w/ the Founders of Paradigma)

DAG + auto-research just work

May 25 • Yacine Mahdid

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April 2026

Why Self-Distillation Is Taking Over LLM Post-Training (w/ the Researchers Behind It)

very pumped for this one shout out to Jonas Hübotter (ETH Zurich) and Idan Shenfeld (MIT) for blessing us with their knowledge

Apr 28 • Yacine Mahdid

5

1:31:19

The Science of Learning Math (and Anything Else) with Justin Skycak

you gonna have to take a whole day off for this one guys it's 3h wide with knowledge

Apr 15 • Yacine Mahdid

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3:18:00

November 2025

within the chrysalis of prime intellect

Meditation at the prime intellect office on the shapes of artificial intelligence to come.

Nov 24, 2025 • Yacine Mahdid

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how to stop having FOMO as a curious engineer: hold a thread

little worthless advice to learn passionately without boxing yourself

Nov 11, 2025 • Yacine Mahdid

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September 2025

Hierarchical Reasoning Model assembly manual for toddlers

fun time for the whole family.

Sep 9, 2025 • Yacine Mahdid

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August 2025

get your A in college and stop wasting your life

it's not complicated.

Aug 25, 2025 • Yacine Mahdid

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how to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method

you need to sit for this one for 48h

Aug 20, 2025 • Yacine Mahdid

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