Burkov's True Positive Weekly #184: LLMs Can Natively Read & Write Neural Network Weights
burkov · x · 2026-11-06
Andriy Burkov published issue #184 of his ad-free AI newsletter True Positive Weekly. Highlights:
- LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights
- How to ask an LLM for confidence
- A curated list of articles from data teams building analytics agents
- Five months of treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
- "You could have invented transformers from memory"
- When causal ML models beat LM/GLM/GBM
- Research: multi-token prediction done right; PixelCraft, a multi-agent system for high-fidelity visual reasoning on structured images
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