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Alexi Gladstone
Personal blog · alexiglad.github.io/blogai
Alexi Gladstone's personal blog at alexiglad.github.io covers ai. Since 2025, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers point to this ML research blog, written by the lead author, as a clearer explanation of Energy-Based Transformers than the linked video. Other posts relate to the author's ICML 2025 work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Alexi Gladstone's official website.
What Hacker News says?
I would read the blog post by the lead author instead of watching this video: https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2025/ebt/ Also, see: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1lu1ia0/r_...
Comment linking /blog/2025/ebt/
on “Energy-Based Transformers [video]”Submitted Energy-Based Transformers Are Scalable Learners and Thinkers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis feels extremely close in nature to being a generalisation of discrete distribution networks. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00036 Project page: https://discrete-distribution-networks.github.io/ Given that these were published at ICML 2025, at which the author was a top reviewer as per their own website https://alexiglad.github.io/ , I wonder how influenced they were to pursue this avenue of the back of it. T…
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on “Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses”Submitted Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Different Components of Intelligence as a story · 3 points
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