Very interesting if confirmed “Multiple large, high-quality randomized studies are finding that guaranteed income transfers do not appear to produce sustained improvements in mental health, stress levels, physical health, child development outcomes or employment. Treated participants do work a little… Read More »Giving people money helped less than I thought it would
Nice series on reverse proxy concept, tools, history and challenges https://startwithawhy.com/reverseproxy/2024/01/15/ReverseProxy-Deep-Dive.html
Nice quick explanation of hard to grasp concepts “An interesting thing about gradients is that when you calculate them for a specific point, they give a vector that points in the direction of the biggest increase in the function, or… Read More »Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My!
Do you also have this feeling? Especially nowadays? “Do you really think that, given the highly-sensitive nature of international diplomacy, the US government — or any sane government, for that matter — would be willing to hand over his role… Read More »I’m tired of stupid people treating me like I’m an idiot
Iná doba, ale veľmi podobná “Poslední slovo komunismu je vládnout a nikoli zachraňovat; jeho velikým heslem je moc a nikoli pomoc. Chudoba, hlad, nezaměstnanost nejsou mu nesnesitelnou bolestí a hanbou, nýbrž rezervou temných sil, kvasící hromadou zuřivosti a odporu. “Tím… Read More »Karel Čapek – Proč nejsem komunistou?
Can AI and drones really change war? “These firms thrive on the premise that innovation alone can overcome structural limits, when in reality, producing meaningful combat power at scale requires far more than clever engineering and lean startups. It requires… Read More »The Drone and AI Delusion
Great short story “YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE THAT IS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEXITIES OF CREATION VIA A LANGUAGE THAT EVOLVED IN ORDER TO TELL ONE ANOTHER WHERE THE RIPE FRUIT WAS?” https://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html
Looking forward to this book ““History is best told as a story of organised crime,” Kemp says. “It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.”” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse
Nice addition to this “LLMs often display a striking absence of common sense as they struggle to relate words to the real world.” https://mindmatters.ai/2025/01/some-lessons-from-deepseek-compared-with-other-chatbots/
They could not possibly be. It’s not how they were designed. “having read a trillion chess games, LLMs, specifically, have not learned that to make legal moves, you need to know where the pieces are on the board. Why would… Read More »LLMs Aren’t World Models