Burkov's weekly: 94% of UK students use AI for assessed work, CUDA Rust, e-means
burkov · x · 2026-11-13
Andriy Burkov published True Positive Weekly #185. Highlights:
- UK Student Generative AI Survey 2026: 94% of students use AI for assessed work;
- Hugging Face's ultimate guide to multi-harness RL;
- Nvidia introduces CUDA Rust with two tracks for writing GPU kernels;
- Uber on scaling AI in legal with its redlining agent;
- Tools: AVA, an AI-native visual analytics framework for agents; UMAP 0.6 with major speed and scale improvements;
- Research: e-means outperforming k-means in one-tenth the epochs;
- Models: Clef, Cloudflare's open-source decision model family.
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