My mental model of the AI race 🔗
I left a loose end the other day when I said that AI is about intent and context. That was when I said "what’s context at inference time is valuable t [...]
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Context plumbing 🔗
These past few weeks I’ve been deep in code and doing what I think about as context plumbing. I’ve been building an AI system and that’s what it feels [...]
Spinning up a new thing: Inanimate 🔗
I’m spinning up something new with a buddy and you can guess what it is by what I’ve been writing about recently. Big picture, there are two visions f [...]
3 books with Samuel Arbesman 🔗
I had a look to see when I first mentioned Samuel Arbesman here. It was 2011: the average size of scientific discoveries is getting smaller. Anyway I’ [...]
Oedipus is about the act of figuring out what Oedipus is about 🔗
Ok spoilers ahead. But Oedipus Rex a.k.a. Oedipus Tyrannus by Sophocles is almost 2,500 years old at this point so it’s fair game imo. The Oedipus sto [...]
Filtered for wobbly tables and other facts 🔗
1. When you sit with friends at a wobbly table, The Wobbly Table Theorem (Department of Mathematics, Harvard University). 2. David Ogilvy changed adve [...]
Some wholesome media 🔗
I’m on my hols. Some recommendations. Watch The Ballad of Wallis Island. Charming, poignant comedy about a washed-up folk musician and loss. By Tim Ke [...]
I love the smell of autopoiesis in the morning 🔗
I belatedly joined the 3D printer club and got myself a brand new Bambu P1S. (Days before the next-gen P2S was released it turns out, but I got the P1 [...]