How Innovations Can Lead to Disaster
Great ideas sometimes have hidden “perks”
Technology
How LLMs are Benchmarked
LLMs are still not that good.
AI hype reality check
Ed goes hard again “I want to be really, really clear: we are nearly in May 2025, and I see no evidence that OpenAI even has a marketable agent product, let alone one that will make it three billion god… Read More »AI hype reality check
Why AI won’t Revolutionize Education
Veritasium goes deep on education.
New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)
Quick explainer of a new paper on how Claude “thinks”. As I suspected (and most of AI researchers knew) it is just next word generator, and it is bullshiting with all the explaining stuff on how it arrived on the… Read More »New Research Reveals How AI “Thinks” (It Doesn’t)
Balancing Coupling in Software Design
Do you know the difference between complicated and complex change? Listen to learn. [Software Engineering Radio – the podcast for professional software developers] SE Radio 662: Vlad Khononov on Balancing Coupling in Software Design #softwareEngineeringRadioThePodcastForProfessionalSoftwareDevelopers https://podcastaddict.com/software-engineering-radio-the-podcast-for-professional-software-developers/episode/195513019 via @PodcastAddict
Why Minecraft won
It is not only about Minecraft. It is about how disruption works in the market
Recommended Read: The good times in tech are over
“Tech companies definitely did not have to be profitable. In fact, they didn’t even need to make money – they just had to acquire users, or at least hype, to drive up the valuation of the company itself. In that environment, throwing… Read More »Recommended Read: The good times in tech are over
Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
“The role of transformers in inference was never the intent. It emerged as a byproduct of scaling, where high language diversity, hyperparameters tuned for variance, and autoregressive prediction started producing results that mimic reasoning. But they still are just a… Read More »Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
Recommended Read: Techno-Fascism Comes to America
“techno-fascist officials “acquire power by creating these supra-ministerial organs and agencies, subgroups within the bureaucracy that are unaccountable.”” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk