BURKOV ✓

@burkov · Québec, Canada · joined 14 Jun 2009

Books: https://t.co/0EmPM3De9B & https://t.co/45NGbbXIzC App: https://t.co/n2jvMtYhVm PhD in AI, author of 📖 The Hundred-Page LMs Book & The Hundred-Page ML Book

58 554Followers

127Following

24 406Posts total

91.8KViews on collected posts

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BURKOV ✓@burkov7 Sep

@burkov The issue is that we expect it to know this. 1.7K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

BURKOV ✓@burkov7 Sep

The revolutionary doc2vec paper is now on @ChapterPal: https://t.co/4cb0RMCeRX This paper made the notion of a document/sentence embedding mainstream. And even if today doc2vec is no longer the SOTA algorithm, it has influenced everything we are taking for granted today. 1.3K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

BURKOV ✓@burkov7 Sep

@burkov You guys change your definition of agi constantly. 424 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

BURKOV ✓@burkov7 Sep

@burkov funny bar for agi, can it nail quadruped locomotion better than a physics engine from 2015 could 1.6K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

BURKOV ✓@burkov7 Sep

That what happens when your AI is primarily text-based. Try to verbally explain how a running animal must move. No, really, try it. 59.2K views · 242 likes · 9 reposts · 23 replies Open on X →

BURKOV ✓@burkov7 Sep

The paper addresses a core inefficiency in large language models: next-token prediction produces high-quality outputs but forces slow, sequential generation that wastes accelerator capacity and inflates latency and training cost, especially for long traces and concurrent agentic 1.4K views · 13 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

BURKOV ✓@burkov7 Sep

Test-time scaling improves language model performance on hard problems by allowing longer reasoning traces, yet full attention keeps every prior token in memory. This causes compute costs to grow linearly with length, plus problems such as distraction by irrelevant tokens, 2K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

BURKOV ✓@burkov22 May

As you know, last year I resigned from my full-time job and become a professional technical book writer. I have plans for The Hundred-Page Books about reinforcement learning, computer vision, diffusion models, and more. Not having a full-time job has put a significant strain on

24.2K views · 61 likes · 4 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 578this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.69%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.71%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 578	924	1.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.69%	3.62%	0.74×
Engagement rate	0.71%	1.52%	0.47×

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Engagement rate per post

0.31%22 May

1.36%7 Sep

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes70.5%361 in total

Reposts3.7%19 in total

Replies8.0%41 in total

Quotes0.6%3 in total

Bookmarks17.2%88 in total

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